131: Ayurvedic Master Dylan Smith on Finding Your Dharma and Pursuing Your Calling

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Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Today’s guest, Dylan Smith, started his first Ayurvedic practice from his bedroom at his parent’s house at the tender age of 19! He has now become an expert at using Ayurvedic techniques to treat stress, fatigue, digestive problems, back strains, and many others. Giving up his pursuit of a degree in architecture, Dylan traveled to India to take advantage of the free accommodation that came with staying with his mom and ended up leaving Southeast Asia with so much more than he bargained for!&n...

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0:23.6	I was having this thought of I don't really want to go back to architecture and maybe I'll become a yoga teacher because I was into that yoga which I learned but yeah I wasn't even thinking about yoga teacher yet until talented and unique that one thing and couple that with how you can serve humanity and
0:27.7	that's it and then like okay I'm definitely not doing architecture because it doesn't resonate, it doesn't feel that
0:34.2	fulfilling and that much purpose for me.
0:37.4	And I did know, then I was like, I'm going to be a yoga teacher, my current girlfriend
0:41.8	at the time, who I was spending a lot of time with her family.
0:45.1	They were kind of like pretty high class family.
0:47.9	They were both lawyers and she was in law school and as soon as I started mentioning like, oh, I'm going to leave.
0:53.3	They're like, oh, really?
0:54.6	Like, you can't leave university?
0:56.9	My parents weren't as much like that.
0:58.4	My mom a little bit had a little bit of fear.
1:01.2	But my father was very passive and like like very supportive of any choice I made and it was very calm. But yeah I read that and I and I expressed it to the doctors and they just yeah I felt strong about it and then they said come learn with us you know we'll teach you and I didn't think much about it.
1:17.8	It wasn't even such a click it wasn't like a bing moment it wasn't like that it was just like sure I'll do it and he's
1:25.7	go start reading this book and come here and then that to the Light Watkins show where I interview
1:39.4	ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their
1:45.2	path, their purpose, or their mission.
1:48.0	And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact the lives of many others who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed them in action or who've directly benefited from their work.
2:00.0	Today I'm in conversation with a gentleman by the name of Dylan Smith.
2:05.0	I actually met Dylan many, many years ago when he was just in high school, and since then
2:10.1	Dylan has become a world-renowned Areu-Vatic practitioner.
2:14.8	Areu-Veda is the ancient Indian form of health care using mostly natural herbs and remedies
2:20.7	to heal the body, and it often takes one years of study with one's teacher
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