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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Acharya Shunya: An Infinity Mindset and its Implications for Your Health

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Acharya Shunya is a renowned expert in Ayurvedic lifestyle medicine and the founder of Vedika Global, a school of Ayurvedic study based in California. With Sounds True, she has released the new book Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom: A Complete Prescription to Optimize Your Health, Prevent Disease, and Live with Vitality and Joy. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks to Shunya about the Ayurvedic legacy she teaches and embodies—including its baseline concepts, history, and modern attitudes. Tami and Shunya also talk about Ayurveda's repudiation of the concept of health as a commodity. Finally, Shunya discusses the universality of Vedic teachings and how an "infinity mindset" is a necessary cure for the foundational problem of hopelessness. (69 minutes)

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

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learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.

0:14.3

At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves

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as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

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offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to insights at the edge. Today my guest is Acharya Shunya.

0:45.0

Shunya is an expert in Ayurveda lifestyle medicine and has established

0:51.6

Vedaka Global, the award-winning school of Ayurveda and Vedic studies in Emryville, California.

0:59.0

She is also the current president of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine and

1:05.1

advisor to the Association of Ayurvedic Professions of North America.

1:11.0

Which sounds true, Shenya has written a new book called Ayerveda Lifestyle Wisdom, a complete prescription

1:19.3

to optimize your health, prevent disease, and live with vitality and joy.

1:25.0

In this episode of Insights at the Edge,

1:28.0

Shinya and I spoke about the misconception that health is a commodity,

1:32.0

and instead the Ayurvedic view that we cultivate

1:36.4

our health by aligning with the rhythms of nature through living an iurvedic

1:42.0

lifestyle we also talked about the through living and Ayurvedic lifestyle.

1:43.0

We also talked about the wisdom of the ancient Rieshies

1:47.0

and the universality of the Vedic teachings,

1:51.0

as well as the portability and adaptability to different places and

1:56.1

cultures. Finally we talked about how hopelessness is a disease that precedes all symptoms.

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