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EMPOWER YOUR BODY TYPE
Know your “dosha” aka your body type and how to balance your energy. You can optimize your health and wellbeing by understanding your mind/body type. Gain peak performance and energy by optimizing your lifestyle, diet, and exercise to keep yourself balanced and feeling great. Get empowered with Ayurveda.
IMMUNE BUILDING: A Holistic & Natural Approach
Gain a basic understanding the philosophy behind eastern medicine. Use this holistic philosophy based upon our natural rhythms and being to create a plan for your health evolution.
AYURVEDIC COOKING FOR AUTUMN with Debbie Helfeld
Seasonal transitions can be challenging for our bodies. As we move from summer season (Pitta) to fall (Vata), we want to insure that we eat well to stay healthy. You will receive dietary tips and advice on good foods and spices to consume during this time and into the fall. We will prepare a delicious and nourishing meal to support us: a dal dish, vegetable dish and a rice dish.
Debbie has a Masters Degree in Public Health (MPH), is a Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor and a Yoga Teacher, RYT-500. She has been teaching yoga for over 15 years and has a Certification in Yoga for Osteoporosis. As an Ayurvedic Health Counselor she provides private consultations on diet, lifestyle and stress management, incorporating yoga, pranayama and meditation. She also conducts workshops on Ayurveda for interested groups and teacher trainees. One of her passions is cooking delicious and nourishing food, and she specializes in leading Ayurvedic Indian Vegetarian Cooking Workshops.
FLOW INTO FALL: A Virtual Ayurvedic Lifestyle Workshop
Find flow as you transition through fall with healthy tips from yoga’s sister science of health, healing and longevity – Ayurveda. Feeling ungrounded with cold extremities, dry skin, anxiety, gas/constipation, and light sleep? Want to get into feeling more grounded and balanced? Together we will discover how to alleviate these ailments and harmonize with the natural rhythms of the universe to cultivate balance, a healthy immune system, and live greatly. Get downloadable tip sheets, fall recipes, vata balancing yoga practices, and natural remedies for common fall ailments.
PAMPER PARTY
Pamper yourself with an Ayurvedic massage in the comfort of your home. Enjoy stress relief, radiant skin, better circulation and this effective and natural anti-aging method. Cultivate the healing power of your hands with this practice and then wind down with a guided relaxation exercise, yoga nidra.
SPICE AS MEDICINE
A virtual workshop that teaches you how to use the spices in your kitchen cabinet as medicine! Learn the qualities of herbal staples in your cabinet and how to become your own medicine man/woman/being.
THE CONSCIOUS KITCHEN
The kitchen is the hub of the home. You may find that your family and/or peers gravitate towards your kitchen on a regular basis. The Vedas teach us that the kitchen is extremely influential to the consciousness of the organisms it supports. When we cook with awareness and love we can nourish the holistic wellbeing of our loved ones. In this FREE virtual workshop we will come to a deeper understanding of how to transform our kitchen into a conscious kitchen so that we can balance our physiology, emotions, and mind.
The Conscious Kitchen Part 2
Get some tips and tricks to make cooking a breeze. Together we will go over kitchen basics to get your kitchen streamlined so you can reduce wasting time, money, and food. Learn how to prepare foods that support a more balanced and healthy version of you!
SPRING FORWARD: Ayurvedic Lifestyle Workshop
Boost your vitality this spring with healthy tips from yoga’s sister science of health, healing and longevity – Ayurveda. Feeling sluggish, heavy, congested, full of mucus, bloated, frustrated? Want to get into feeling lighter, mobile, and refreshed? Together we will discover how to alleviate these ailments and harmonize with the natural rhythms of the universe to cultivate balance, a healthy immune system, and live greatly. Get downloadable tip sheets, spring recipes, a kapha balancing practices, and remedies for common spring ailments.
PANDEMIC PANTRY MAKEOVER WITH GRACEFULLY HOLISTIC
· Cleaning out the junk in your pantry
· My easy method to read ingredient labels to ensure your food is safe and nutritious
· How to stock your pantry
· How to store and organize your pantry items
BEAT THE HEAT: DIET AND LIFESTYLE TIPS FOR BALANCE IN SUMMER
Feeling hot headed, frustrated, competitive, angry? Got some inflammation, rosacea, acid reflux and more? Perhaps it’s time to find a little balance to help you stay cool, calm, and collected through summer. Together we will discover how to alleviate these ailments and harmonize with the natural rhythms of the universe to cultivate balance, a healthy immune system, and live greatly. Get downloadable tip sheets, summer recipes, pitta balancing practices, and remedies for common summer imbalances.
CONSCIOUS RELATIONSHIPS
Cultivate conscious relationships that inspire you to be your highest and greatest self. In this virtual workshop you will get some tips on communicating your truth, setting boundaries, and how to keep yourself inspired in relationships. Learn how to manifest more intimacy and love in your life!
DO YOUR DHARMA
Get clear on your purpose and develop your path for your next phase of growth. Align your actions based on the understanding of your Truth and deepest driving desires and more importantly, develop a plan to bring your Truth into the world. You were born with certain dreams, desires, and interests and they are there to guide you on the journey. Discover the Truth of who you are and live your highest and greatest potential.
Post Holiday Reset Intermittent Fasting Challenge
Intermittent fasting (IF) is currently one of the world’s most popular health and fitness trends. People are using it to lose weight, improve their health and simplify their lifestyles. Many studies show that it can have powerful effects on your body and brain and may even help you live longer. This is the ultimate beginner’s guide to intermittent fasting for your body type. Jump in to a 5 day challenge with Suzanne starting 1/2/21.
AGING GRACEFULLY
Age gracefully with Healthy Habits for Longevity. Learn the pillars of a strong and vibrant immune system and how to stay centered within your Truth as you enter the afternoon of life. Get some tips to put them it into action for 2022.
Yoga Book Group: Love without Conditions
Join Suzanne for inspiring discussions on Paul Ferrini’s book, “Love Without Conditions”. Each week we will read two-three chapters on our own, meet virtually, and discuss. There will be some lecture on yoga philosophy to keep everyone in the loop; but overall, this is an opportunity to communicate, to share our lives, and learn how to skillfully apply the tools of yoga to create a joyful life. Dates: 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/22, 12/29.
Sleep School: Manage Sleep Troubles and Insomnia with Yoga, Ayurveda, and Yoga Nidra
Ground down with a gentle yoga sequence and enter into the practice of yoga nidra, enlightened sleep. This practice is perfect for those that have sleep challenges, those that are feeling overwhelm/stress, those that want to tap into expanded consciousness, or those that simply want to pamper themselves. Receive tips/videos/exercises each week in your inbox to help with insomnia as you tap into this practice to support deeply nourishing, and luxurious rest.
Love Your Guts: Healing a Gassy, Bloated Gut
In this workshop, you will learn several important techniques to soothe a bloated and gassy gut. There are accessible things you can do to experience more ease and flow in your digestion and elimination. Leave with a toolbox of techniques and recipes to heal the gas you are ready to pass!
Self Care: Winter
Boost your immunity this winter with healthy tips from yoga’s sister science of health, healing and longevity – Ayurveda. In this workshop we will take an in-depth look into the qualities of Winter and how we can balance our constitutions during this time. In winter, you may notice changes such as dry skin, trouble eliminating, cold extremities, anxiety, and more…learn how to curb these symptoms and those that follow in spring by balancing out these cold, dry qualities in the body.
Harmonize with the natural rhythms of the universe and cultivate balance, a healthy immune system, and live greatly. Get downloadable tip sheets, yoga classes, winter recipes, and home remedies for winter ailments.
YOGA NIDRA SERIES
Dive deep into relaxation with easy gentle yoga and yoga nidra. Clear the mind and tap into boundless, spacious awareness. This practice is great for stress reduction, slowing down, cultivating balance, healing, and tapping into the Truth of your being.
UNION WITH THE KOSHAS:
Shift your Lifestyle to Experience Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Wellbeing
Find union and harmony by healing the spiritual, pscyhological, and physical levels of your being using the koshas model from yoga science. For optimal healing and Self Realization it is important to acknowledge all koshas (layers) of who we are. We can do this by shifting our habits around diet, sleep, exercise, cleansing, meditation, and more all with the intention of service to the our Spirit/Soul.
FREEDOM FROM THE BONDAGE OF KARMA PHILOSOPHY SERIES
Join Suzanne for inspiring discussions on “Freedom from the Bondage of Karma”. This philosophy series is inspired by Swami Rama’s books and lectures. This is an opportunity to communicate, to share our lives, and learn how to skillfully apply the tools of yoga to burn karmas, expand consciousness, and create a joyful life.
Suggested Reading: Freedom from the Bondage of Karma by Swami Rama
Dates: Thursdays 2/24-3/17, 7-8:15pm
PAMPER PARTY
Pamper yourself with an Ayurvedic massage in the comfort of your home: enjoy stress relief, radiant skin, better circulation, and this effective and natural anti-aging method. Cultivate the healing power of your hands with this practice and then wind down with a guided relaxation exercise, yoga nidra.
Self Care: Spring
In this workshop we will take an in-depth look into the qualities of Spring and how we can balance our bodies and minds during this time. In spring, you may notice changes such as stuffy nose, rashes on the body, itching in the throat, headaches, chest and nasal congestion, asthma, allergies and more…learn how to curb these symptoms and those that follow in summer by balancing out the elements in your body.
Get downloadable tip sheets, yoga classes, spring recipes, and home remedies for spring ailments. Practice seasonal living for optimal health and wellbeing.
CONSCIOUS COOKING FOR SPRING WITH DEBBIE HELFELD
MEAL PLANNING AND COOKING FOR A HEALTHY SPRING: As we prepare for the spring in our yards and living spaces we also want to plan for healthy eating in the new season. Whereas in winter we ate more fat and heavy food, in the spring we eat lighter foods and more that are pungent, bitter and astringent. In this class we will prepare a spring vegetable dish together and talk about nourishing and delicious foods and spices for the Kapha season. We will review a sample menu, and you will receive a few additional recipes to try on your own.”
THE HEALING POWER OF SEASONAL LIVING WITH NC ARBORETUM
As the winter snow and ice melts, the earth becomes heavy with moisture, ripe for growth and a fresh, clean start. Spring is emerging. The qualities of this season can shift our physiology and mind in a variety of ways affecting our digestion, circulation, skin, thought processes, emotions, and more. Common spring ailments include a variety of allergy symptoms like congestion, runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, sinus congestion and headaches.
People can also experience slow sluggish digestion, feelings of lethargy, stiff muscles, arterial plaque build up, and hay fever. Feelings of lethargy, yearning, depression, and attachment can also arise. Learn ways to to adapt your diet and lifestyle to the spring season and reduce the tendencies for toxic buildup of the winter months. This series is offered online via livestream with Suzanne offering a number of value-added resources, such as recipes and tip sheets to support your learning, a Spice as Medicine ebook, and an optional in-person meeting at the close of the series to help support the integration of these practices into your life.
Class 1: Diet and Lifestyle tips for Spring
Class 2: Spices Mixes, Herbal Teas, and Tonics for Spring
Class 3: Simple Techniques Anyone Can Do to help you Detoxify in Spring
Class 4: Awakening Self Healing through Intuitive Living
INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION
Learn how to meditate and create a sustained and effective practice. You will:
- Learn why and how meditation is helpful in stress reduction and overall wellbeing.
- Learn how to make skillful decisions with the awareness you develop through meditation.
- Learn how to develop a regular sitting practice and get started on your journey.
- Get a few recordings and tip sheets to guide you as you get started.
REFRESH CLEANSE
A 2-Week Virtual Cleansing Program designed to help you detoxify your body, mind, and senses. This cleanse is a deep dive into holistic self-care designed to help you experience great clarity, balance, and inner peace. Give yourself an at home retreat. Refresh.
With this cleanse you can…
- reduce cravings
- stabilize your mood and emotions
- reduce inflammation
- reduce allergies
- soothe asthma
- increase energy
- ease your digestion
- find optimal weight
- build immunity
Live meetings: Thursday 4/21, 4/28, 5/5
HEALING PMS AND SYMPTOMS OF MENOPAUSE
Get tips from Ayurveda to have a healthy cycle and menopause. Learn the causes of various imbalances that you have like pms, painful periods, fibroids, and heavy or intermittent period. Learn the causes of imbalances in menopause like hot flashes, insomnia, bone density issues, heart challenges, and more. Get simple tips to prevent and reduce the symptoms, balance out your hormones, and experience more ease.
MEDITATIVE MORNING PRACTICE
Meditate in place and with a sense of place with this new, free monthly meditation in the Arboretum gardens. Suzanne Martin leads this centering experience of quieting the body, mind and spirt with focused awareness to the breath and setting the intention for the day.
WILD, SACRED ROOTS
Deepen your spiritual practice with a weekend retreat that will awaken your wild, sacred Self. Tap into your essence as you root into the earth, make art, and awaken your intuition with our workshops. This retreat takes place in upstate New York. It is an exploration of your relationship with nature and how to cultivate the most alive version of you. The weekend includes a wild edibles walk and foraging, drawing as meditation, sacred fire ritual, yoga, kayaking, re-wilding workshops and time honoring the Divine, Sacred Earth.
LIVING YOGA & AYURVEDA
Learn how to make skillful decisions and develop healthy habits that will last you a lifetime using tools from yoga science and Ayurveda. These tools are time tested to help people get more energy, deeper rest, better digestion, improved immunity, and a more focused mind.
New Year, New You: A Vision Quest
In this livestream workshop we will do an all levels yoga practice to build Shakti (cosmic energy) and then some writing/contemplation exercises focused on reinventing ourselves through understanding where we are, honoring where we’ve been, and discovering how we can break free of old outdated habits and beliefs that hold us back from tapping into our highest and greatest potential. Together we will gain clarity around our deeper dreams and form personal mission statements that will drive us into the epicenter of our Dharmas and success for the New Year. If you’re asking yourself the questions, “Why am I here?” “What’s to be done?” “What’s my purpose?” then this workshop is for you. Uncover the Truth of who you are.
Yoga Book Group
Join Suzanne for inspiring discussions on Eknath Easwarn’s book, The Supreme Ambition. Each week we will read a section on our own, meet virtually, and discuss. There will be some lecture on yoga philosophy to keep everyone in the loop; but overall, this is an opportunity to communicate, to share our lives, and learn how to skillfully apply the tools of yoga to create a joyful life. Register online through Zoom. Suggested donation is $60 for the 4 weeks. Pay what you can through a link that will be emailed to you. Namaste.
The Gut Brain Connection
Livestream event with supplemental materials sent to your inbox. FREE
Ayurveda teaches us that “you are what you eat and don’t excrete.” Modern science has supported this theory by proving that our stomach is indeed, our second brain. Learn about the connection between your gut and your brain and how to better support a healthy gut to strengthen your immune function. A gentle and all levels yoga practice for better digestion will also be sent to your inbox.
YOGA CLASSES IN ASHEVILLE, NC
The perfect yoga practice to start your day. This class combines breath, awareness, and dynamic movement to support the integration and harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. Come home to your Self with mindfully constructed sequences and yogic themes that balance your energy and leave you feeling energized and centered for the day to come.
Healthwise
Attune your body, mind, and spirit with the wisdom of yoga and Ayurveda. Get more energy, deeper rest, better digestion, improved immunity, and a more focused mind by evolving your habits. Suzanne will guide you through a year long habit makeover to help you heal, thrive, and experience your highest and greatest potential.
1:1 PRIVATE YOGA SESSIONS
Book a 1:1 private session with a therapeutic approach. These sessions are great for those recovering from injuries, those that want to refine their practice, and/or those that are looking for a more curated experience to meet their bodies and minds where they are.
Suzanne is a master teacher in yoga, Ayurveda, and Spirituality. These classes are skillfully designed and customized for you. Suzanne does site visits in and around Asheville, NC or you can meet her at the Botanical Gardens, a nearby park, a studio in Biltmore Village, or the North Carolina Arboretum. Send an email with your contact info and details to book a private yoga session in Asheville, NC with Suzanne. Email: suzannemartinyoga@gmail.com to book.
Email: suzannemartinyoga@gmail.com to book
SPIRIT SESSIONS
Where A Conscious Community Gathers to Expand Their Awareness and…
- Meditate
- Discuss Vedic philosophy
- Expand Awareness
- Smile
YOGA CIRCLE
Access Suzanne’s livestream classes and online library of yoga classes. Classes in Hatha Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Meditation, and Yoga Nidra.
Holistic Coaching
- Spirituality
- Autoimmune issues
- Inflammation
- Digestion
- Ayurvedic Nutrition
- Exercise/yoga for your body type or injuries