Ayurvedic Herbal Body Oiling to Balance your Dosha
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, you'll learn:
- The physical, mental, and emotional benefits of Abhyanga
- The three doshas and their defining characteristics
- Traditional techniques for practicing Abhyanga
- How to select the right herb and oil to balance your dosha
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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The Plant Path is a window into the world of herbal medicine. With perspectives gleaned from traditional Western herbalism, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Alchemy, Medical Astrology, and traditional cultures from around the world, The Plant Path provides unique insights, skills and strategies for the practice of true holistic herbalism. From clinical to spiritual perspectives, we don't just focus on what herbs are "good for," but rather who they are as intelligent beings, and how we can work with them to heal us physically and consciously evolve.
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ABOUT WHITNEY
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Whitney Popham is an herbal practitioner and the co-founder of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Unity. Her calling to plant medicine began from a deep passion for activism and a vision for creating healing and positive change in the world. She has devoted her life to that vision by being a humble vessel for the plants to touch people's lives and bring more healing and beauty into the world.
Through her own health challenges and struggles, she experienced the profound healing gifts of plant medicines and then committed her life to helping others reach vibrant levels of health. She specializes in digestive health in her clinical practice through working with herbal medicine, nutrition and lifestyle coaching. Her true gift is in listening to the plants through intuition and vision, which she uses to help her clients with healing on the emotional, psychological, spiritual, as well as physical levels of health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the plant path, your window into the world of herbal medicine, with Saja and Whitney Popham, founders of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, this is Whitney from the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:29.6 | And today I'm excited about sharing something with you that is one of my personal self-care practices |
| 0:35.6 | and something that is super easy and incredibly |
| 0:39.4 | luxurious and also really rejuvenative that you can be doing at home too. So what I'm |
| 0:45.4 | going to be sharing about today is called Abyanga, which is an Ayurvedic practice of oil massage. |
| 0:52.5 | So it's a self-oil massage. And I don't know about you, but, you know, |
| 0:57.0 | sometimes when you think of, you know, doing things to better your health, it might seem like |
| 1:02.0 | maybe a little bit of a chore or something that's like, okay, I got to do this and I got to add this on. |
| 1:07.0 | But this, I guarantee you, is a practice that you are going to absolutely fall in love with. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's a little bit of a different way to take herbal medicine, not through a tea or a capsule or a tincture, |
| 1:17.6 | but something that you're actually putting the herbs topically all over your skin and absorbing them through your skin. |
| 1:24.6 | And so before I get super deep into the therapeutics of self-oil massage, |
| 1:33.3 | and also the, I'm going to also give you a few tips on some different herbs that you can use |
| 1:40.3 | for balancing the different dosha's or constitutions. So for different body types, I'm going to give you some specific remedies that I love to make herbal oils with. |
| 1:52.0 | But before I dive into that, I just wanted to read this to you, which is a little quote from the Vagabata, which is about Abiyanga here, which is, and these are, |
| 2:06.5 | Ayurveda is really awesome. I love Ayurveda because it's, you know, thousands and thousands |
| 2:11.6 | of years old, so there's so much depth and history behind it. And to have just wisdom like this that is intact and passed on for that long is just really |
| 2:23.2 | rich and such a really beneficial, beautiful thing to me. |
| 2:28.1 | So I just want to read this from one of the old texts, which is that oil massage should |
| 2:32.5 | be used daily to ward off old age, exhaustion, |
| 2:36.3 | and disease of Wata. |
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