Hi everyone. Arundati here and welcome to episode 82 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. Before we get into

today's conversation, I wanted to quickly take a moment here just to remind you that my teaching

yoga to beginner's course is now live. I've moved the dates to June and I would love for you to come

and explore this training

and really take a deep look at how to teach yoga to beginners effectively.

Okay, again, all those details are at mindful yogateachers.com forward slash beginners YTT.

That's mindful yoga teachers.com forward slash beginners YTT. On the show today, I have Ismat Dhala Natani,

who is the founder of the Center for Ayurveda and Indian Systems of Healing. She has been doing this

since 2002 with the intention of bringing the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to Western communities.

She's developed educational programs, materials and teaching tools that blend the timeless

knowledge of yoga and Ayurveda with the current concepts of health and well-being.

And most importantly, she's one of her missions is to make Ayurveda accessible and relevant to modern day.

And she lives in Canada, so modern day Canadians.

Ismatt's commitment to natural medicine has spent almost three decades and across three continents.

She shares a little bit of her story and how she got to doing what she does on the podcast.

She's a health practitioner. She's an

academician, an international speaker, healer, researcher and practitioner of Nadi Vigian,

which is the ancient art and science of the nerves. I'm very happy that she came on the podcast

to talk about what we call the Marma nadi and essentially marma chikitsa

and she calls it a bridge between yoga and Ayurveda and how it is about the pranic body

and deals with the pranic body. I will let her give you more clarity into this conversation.

We do get into the nadis. We get into the nardies. We get into the

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