Sacred Stone’s Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist E-Book

280-Page Beautifully Illustrated Instructional 8 X 11 (PDF) E-Book (downloadable)

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ABS E-Book Description:  Our ABS© E-Book  was designed to instruct readers how to use the ancient wisdom of Ayurvedic healing principles and touch therapy systems to help remedy the stress of today’s world. Readers will learn the foundations of medical Ayurveda, how to access and classify pain, find specific pain remedies, specific applications of oils, poultices, thermo and hydrotherapy, healing muds/pastes, marma pressure points, herbal potions and the anointing of other therapeutic substances on the body.  Readers will learn how to harmonize bodywork modalities with the seasons, doshic diet and routine protocols, using neutral, safe and innocuous oils, energy medicine, intuitive awakening of the soul’s innate healing gifts, therapeutic applications and pastes as well as be able to demonstrate proficiency using hands-on techniques. The material in this manual is rooted in the ancient healing modalities of ‘pancha karma’, a Sanskrit word referring to India’s ancient purification and rejuvenation system. Readers will uncover modified, yet sacred and powerful versions of this ancient system. The scope of practice that this impressed upon the reader is geared for the “general” population, where the disease process has not advanced past the 4^th stage. Clinical pancha karma should be performed with or by a doctor and is a very medically effective, time-proven approach that transforms the human physiology.

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest hers/his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease” — Thomas Edison

This E-Book is not designed for diagnostics, pulse analysis or the replacement of the allopathic medical profession, but instead, designed for harmonious integration into all indigenous and traditional medical systems.

Our ABS E-Book is a compilation of many classroom handouts, slides, articles and classroom unpublished books with material that may not be found anywhere else. We seamlessly and coherently merged all this data to create this very comprehensive, unique text based on true Ayurvedic theories and experience from many licensed massage therapy instructors with extensive training and history, many of whom trained with some of the worlds Ayurveda’s leading experts and doctors.

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“Health is equilibrium of the dhatus. Health is happiness, disease is unhappiness.”
Charaka Samhita Su 9/3

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Members of the Board of Directors . . . 6
Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist Program Course Descriptions . . . 7
Sacred Stone Academy for Metaphysics and Ayurveda’s Philosophy (SAMA) . . . 12
The 10 Ethical Ways of Living . . . 12
Developing Sattva . . . 13
May Our Learning Be Luminous . . . 14
History of Ayurveda . . . 15
What is Ayurveda? . . . 16
5 Great Elements . . . 17
The Three Doshas . . . 17
Gunas . . . 18
Seven Ayurvedic Constitutions . . . 19
8 Ways to Go Out of Balance . . . 20
Types, Symptoms, Examples of Dosha Imbalance . . . 21
Ayurvedic Protocols by Quality and by Dosha . . . 23
Dosha Pain Classification . . . 29
Ayurvedic Dietary Guidelines . . . 30
Dosha Pacifying Food List . . . 33
How to Support Optimal Digestion . . . 34
How to Eat . . . 3
Should We Taste Our Vitamins? . . . 38
Ayurvedic Rhythms and Cycle of Nature . . . 39
Dhatus . . . 40
Sattva Rajas Tamas . . . 41
Dosha Charts . . . 42
Daily Routine . . . 45
Taking Care of the Healer . . . 46
Ayurvedic Oil Massage Benefits . . . 49
Classification of Massage Oils . . . 51
Medicinal Oils . . . 55
Castor Oil . . . 55
Self Massage . . . 59
Four Pillars of Life . . . 60
Prana, Tejas, Ojas . . . 61
Pranayama . . . 62
Yoga Mean Union . . . 66
Eight Fields of Living . . . 67
The Eight Great Paths to Liberation . . . 68
Different types of Ayurvedic Bodywork . . . 69
Pancha Karma . . . 69
Kitchadi Recipe . . . 72
What are Chakras? . . . 73
Chakra Activation Technique . . .76
Chakra Challenges . . . 77
Vayus . . . 78
Mudras . . . 79
Tongue Diagnosis . . . 80
Tongue Diagnosis Diagram . . . 82
Sample Client Profile Form . . . 83
Charaka’s Life Tonics . . . 85
Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine Merge . . . 87
Emotions and Sounds of the Internal Organs . . . 88
Planetary Mantras . . . 89
Yantratecture . . . 90
Koshas . . . 91
Hair and Scalp Care . . . 93
The Nails . . . 93
Reading the Lips . . . 94
What are your Feet telling you? . . . 95
The Hands and Feet . . . 95
Ayurvedic Constitution Questionnaire (Prakruti) . . . 97
Dosha Questionnaire (Vikruti) . . . 98
Abhyanga: To Rub the Limbs with Oil . . . 101
Terminal Clearance . . . 102
The Abhyanga Sequence . . . 103
Tandem Marma-Abhyanga Therapy . . . 106
Facial Analysis . . . 108
Facial Analysis Key . . . 109
Nasya Therapy . . . 110
Karna Purana . . . 113
Marmani Therapy . . . 115
Fibromyalgia . . . 119
Diagrams of Marma Points . . . 120
Marma Chikitsa . . . 128
Shila Abhyanga . . . 129
Sacred Geology 101 . . . 131
Dosha-genic Stone Principles . . . 138
Luminous Gemstone Therapy . . . 141
Quantum-Touch . . . 147
Shakti Factor . . . 148
Five Sacred A’s . . . 150
Helpful Tidbits for Stone Therapists . . . 151
Precautionary Guidelines . . . 153
Chakra Stone Activation Technique . . . 155
Sacred Stone Facial Therapy . . . 157
Getting Started . . . 159
Stones You Will Need for Sacred Stone Facial Therapy . . . 161
Use and Maintenance of Heating Unit and Stones . . . 165
Arrangement of Stones in the heating Unit . . . 167
Benefits of Laying Stones Directly on the Skin Stone Applications . . . 168
Stone Protocol: Eye Area . . . 171
Toe Stone Application . . . 172
Benefits of castor oil when applied to the feet . . . 172
Favorite, Easy Moves . . . 173
Contrast Thermal Stone Therapy . . . 175
Sacred Stone Facial Sequence . . . 176
Controversial Topical Ingredients . . . 179
Quick guide to help determine predominant skin type . . . 184
Skin Care and Ayurveda . . . 184
Skin Rasayanas; Herbal Energetics: The wisdom of Ayurvedic beauty! . . 185
Raw Honey on the Skin for Beauty & Healing . . . 190
Marketing Tips . . . 192
Sample Client Profile Intake Form . . . 193
Ayurvedic Beautiful Breast Balm . . . 194
Sacred Stone’s Ayurvedic Anti-Cellulite Massage Oil Recipe and Tips . . . 195
Essential Oils . . . 196
Floral Waters: Hydrolats . . . 198
Hydrosols . . . 198
Neem Oil to the Rescue . . . 200
Rockaroma: Ayurvedic Aromatherapy . . . 201
Rakta Moksha Stone Technique (Gua Sha) . . . 204
Stones as Restorative Props . . . 206
Leave No Stone Unturned! Stone Techniques . . . 206
Favorite, Easy Moves . . . 209
Sacred Stone Sequence . . . 212
Resonant Frequency . . . 218
Swedhana Therapy . . . 220
Swedhana Therapy Sequence . . . 224
Udvartnana (Herbal Paste Massage) . . . 227
Pinda Swedana . . . 228
Garshana . . . 232
Kati Basti . . . 235
Cupping . . . 243
Moxibustion . . . 243
Meridian Therapy . . . 246
Shirodhara Therapy . . . 256
The Shirodhara Sequence . . . 260
Shirodhara and Copper . . . 264
Sacred Stone’s Shirodhara Equipment . . . 265
Ayurvedic Terminology . . . 267
Self-Exam . . . 268
Product Resources . . . 275
Acknowledgements . . . 277
Suggested Reading . . . 279