The Vital Veda Podcast: Ayurveda | Holistic Health | Cosmic And Natural Law

In this podcast show we tend to interview people who are not only passionate and experts in their fields, but who are basically obsessed with what they do (in a healthy way), so much that they immerse themselves deep into their industry at all levels.Ian "Herbie" Hemphill is no exception.His enthusiasm and blissful nature is absolutely adorable. And his experiential expertise!!Ian is an Australian foodie legend.He and his family have been educating us about spices and herbs for over 50 years. 3 Generations of herbs and spice Hemphills.Ian Hemphill’s lifelong experience in the spice industry means we can gain the “inside story” into the ancient and stimulating spice industry.The Hemphill's hobby is also their passion, their business, and their livelihood.Herbie is also the author of multiple books on spices.Herbie & Liz wanted to achieve three main objectives for their business Herbies:To have the largest range of culinary herbs and spices in the Southern Hemisphere;To always search for the

There is a pandemic in today's world of high blood sugar and insulin resistance, thus, understanding diabetes, blood sugar/glucose and insulin is essential for EVERYONE, whether you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, where your'e pre-diabetic, or whether you are not even on the spectrum!For example, in USA, 1 in 3 people, that's 100 million people, are pre-diabetic! And the crazy thing? 90% of them don't even know it! and even worse, they think they are healthy and living a healthy diet.This episode with Drew helps you understand blood sugar, how to PREVENT the prevalent issue, as well as manage or even reverse some of these imbalances.ABOUT DREW HARRISBERGDrew is an exercise physiologist, sports scientist, diabetes educator, and most importantly, a happy and healthy guy thriving with type 1 diabetes. His instagram@drew.daily.dose inspires many.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSThe Diabetes Pandemic of TodayDrews Story - Diabetes creeping up - Drew falling asleep in an important job interview and wor

Transcend food fads and diets and adhere to the ultimate diet: Natures Diet.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS The Dubious Flexibility of Scientific LiteratureAnthropology: What Did Our Ancestors Eat? - Our ancestors have been cooking for almost 2 million years.In Ayurveda, the discussion isn’t so narrow as to one is bad and one is good.Many things are taken into account, including The Eight Factors Determining the Utility of FoodThe Importance of Agni (Transformation)Common cooking methods used to enhance the nutritional value of vegetables, increasing bio-accessibility of health-promoting constituents.Foods That Have A Higher Nutrient Value When CookedRaw Foods Are Cleansing - Perhaps a little to cleansing...Raw Food Will Cause Weight Loss, But You're Losing Healthy Tissues!Reported Benefit of Raw Food: More Energy - true but also false. Raw foods increase vata and catabolism. Raw foods can easily leave individuals depleted in the long run.The Raw Food Diet Has Never Been Time Tested - Historically the diets o

Ayurveda Healing at Its BestThe Raju family comes from a long line of distinguished vaidyas (ayurvedic physicians) going back for generations on both the mothers' and fathers' sides.The Raju Family have been healing with their supreme knowledge of Ayurveda for decades. Their Ayurvedic knowledge heritage is second to none.The three children of Dr J.R. Raju and his wife Devaki lead the way for the younger generation of Raju Vaidyas, with extensive consultation and teaching experience in India, Europe, and locations throughout the world. ​Two of those children are the guests in this episode:Dr. Harshan Vardhan Raju & Dr. Pavani Raju, who specialise in panchakarma, pulse diagnosis and sukhamarma therapy.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSDylan reveals his top 3 favourite episodes of the show so far.The current scarcity of authentic Vaidyas (Ayurvedic physicians) that carry an unbroken lineage of knowledge for many generations.The importance of purity of knowledge.Knowledge unfolding from chanting since knowl

IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSWhat is a Doula - They play a significant role assisting women through the psychosomatic experience of birth.Why every single woman should do a doula training. It is the primal role of woman. Assisting at births is an important rite for one’s womanhood, femininity and fulfilment.Obstetrician in latin = “to observe.” Are they only observing or doing too much?The Role of the Partner (Mostly Men) In BirthHave we placed to much expectations on male partners?Are men actually fit for the job of assisting a birthing experience? Let alone asked to be the primary! support person in an experience they have no knowledge of, what so ever!Traditionally, birth has always been womens business. Men should were not to go anywhere near that.It is ridiculous to send anyone in a birthing room without good education and preparation.C-Section PandemicCauses for increasing C-section rates.Why you want a vaginal delivery over C-section.How to make a beautiful birth no matter what unfolds such as C-section,

Jonni Pollard is the founder of 1 Giant Mind and is one of those people who absolutely radiates bliss and joy which permeates the hearts of any individual who comes into close proximity with him.Jonni has experienced the dynamics of anxiety in plentiful throughout his life, and has overcome a lot to now serve as a world-renowned meditation and wisdom teacher.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSExploring the infinite possibilities and capabilities of life and taking action.Jonni being seduced by the notion of being a recluse.How can I make whomever I come into contact with have the truest experience of themselves by virtue of them being in my presenceAnxiety - The charge of energy that doesn’t have a grounding. Like an electrical wire that doesn’t have a grounding. It is wild and can run anywhere and inappropriately fills lines of energy that don’t require or need to receive that charge. Misdirected energy.Forces of energy and electro-magnetic frequencies creating a distortion on our planet that invariably have an impac

In Defense of Sunlight: How the transition to indoor living created the epidemic of modern chronic disease.ABOUT MATT MARUCAMatt Maruca founded Ra Optics to make the world's finest blue light blocking glasses, and created The Light Diet, a diet that directly addresses the root of the modern chronic disease epidemic, mitochondrial dysfunction. Matt did this after having suffered from poor health and chronic fatigue at a young age due to technology overuse and an indoor lifestyle. He is now 20 years old and travels the world, studying and teaching about the relevance of light in human health.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSHow Matt became the youngest biohacker in the world and the prodigy of Dr. Jack Kruse.The Light Diet: Matts Prescription for Health - Going beyond just food and nutrition.Herodot: The First Man to Get an Idea about Vitamin D in 525 BC.Why did we loose our hair after evolving from apes? Perhaps so our skin could be a solar panel to assimilate sunlight.DHA – The Most Important Fat and how vegans

ABOUT YASHODA DEVI MAYashoda Devi Ma is the founder of 'The Subtle Mind' meditation + co-creative studio in Boulder, Co. Her primary focus is mind health through the vedic meditation technique, healing, vedic astrology + activating the subtle mind/body with the yogic technologies of sattva yoga. Her deepest passion is to create an empowered, peaceful mind, awaken one's heart and transform individuals in full value living elegantly. Yashoda teaches worldwide public + private retreats, yoga festivals, conferences, corporate speaking engagements, courses and workshops.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSYashoda’s StoryHaving many “births” in this lifetimeBeing adopted, searching for birth parents and re-uniting with her birth mother.Depression, suicideThe paradox of people looking like they got it all - good looks, money, famous, brought up in a good family, but feeling miserable on the inside.Ture FulfilmentYour life can change in any moment.Yashoda’s spontaneous introduction into Vedic Meditation (VM).Rap

Building Biology: How the Human Environment Affects Human Health.We take care of our biology and our human skin.But what about the skin that we reside in, that we live, work and sleep in!The skin of a building that most of us spend 20+ hours a day in!"In the last three decades we have significantly increased our exposure to man-made EMF one trillion times higher than when our grandparents were children.And that’s before 5G network has been turned on.What is about to happen has never been seen before."*Note there is a silent audio fault gap between 31:05 and 32:44. Then the podcast continues.*ABOUT NICOLE BIJLSMA:Healthy Home Expert, Nicole Bijlsma is a building biologist, bestselling author, PhD candidate and CEO of the Australian College of Environmental Studies which she established in 1999 to educate people about the health hazards in the built environment. Nicole has published in peer-reviewed journals, has written extensively for Body+Soul newspaper, is regularly consulted by the media to discu

The COOKWARE you use is a highly underestimated and integral part of your food and nutrition.Find out why most cookware is toxic and vulgarising the quality of your food and get an insight into the healthiest cookware on the planet and how to optimise your nutritional intake.DISCOUNT CODE for listeners of the Vital Veda Podcast for Miriams Earthern Cookware:mec10vitalvedaIN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSFood is one of the three pillars of health according to Ayurveda. Food nourishes your tissues and sustains life!You NEED to include the cook ware you are cooking in.The healthiest (clay) cookware on the planet!How our best Miriam Got into CookwareThe Epidemic of Diabetes in the World, Especially India and USADifferent Types of Materials of Cookware:TeflonNon-stick coatingsAluminiumStainless SteelIronCopperCeramicsThe Metal Ions/Chemicals Biological Reaction.Pure Clay Pots contains all the five elements (PanchaMaha bhutas) and are living entities.Pots finished with Colourless or Transparent GlazesWhere you can see the

Food addictions - even to foods that can be healthy.Quick highs - even to activities and substances that can be beneficial for the body.Compulsive behaviours - even if we thought they were "healthy."IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:How Myra got into Ayurveda and YogaGhee significantly helping Myra and being a catalyst in begining her jouney in Ayurveda. Significant teachers on Mryas path.The importance of being present in our own practices for our self and to help others.Establishing your self in Being and doing the work yourself before treating others and also before learning intellectually.Aspects in today’s society that need to be addressed by healers.Myras two biggest ways to make a difference in peoples lives.Addiction to excitement, adrenaline, crating negative drama.Sattva, Rajas and Tamas - the three mental gunas (qualities).Ways to increase Sattva (Purity)Substitute actions for addictions.Provide comfort in a different way.Food addictions.Metabolic issues of eating to often and snacking.Vata imba

Your attention is one of the greatest aspects of your self that you can gift to anyone.Use the nourishing quality of your attention to attend to, uplift and increase the high-end of anybody who you are interacting with.Where are you placing your attention?On the glorious future? or are you in the present now?Attention has a nourishing quality and someone who is a master of their art is a master of how they do it. In every life activityWhat is the state of consciousness of the individual doing the action? Not what is the action. It’s all about how you do it.It must not only be attention that you give, but intention laden attention. To see and feel and unify in others.You are creating everything that you experience depending on what you place your attention on.ABOUT THOM KNOLESThom Knoles is a Maharishi (or pre-eminent master-teacher) of Vedic Meditation (an effortless mental technique that allows one to experience fully-awake restful consciousness and its many physiological benefits). He has tens of thousands

FLUORIDE: One of the most pernicious toxins.But people don’t quite fully understand it and thus are confused which results in people not averting the dangers of fluoride.Learn the cold hard facts and science and understand the situation occurring in one of your life basics, your water supply!Fluoride is a sensitive and controversial topic, but it is also confusing for people because they hear so many different things.That is why we need to get definitive.We are not going to tell you what to do, what water to use.You have a right to know about the industrial systems that are providing society.Then, you can go ahead and make an INFORMED decision on what you, your community, your children, your animals - drink and bathe in.ABOUT MERILYN HAINESMerilyn is a co-founder of Queenslanders for Safe Water, a group which holds concerns about adverse health effects of water fluoridation and the issue that it is unethical mass medication.Merilyn is now retired, but worked for over 30 years as a medical laboratory scientist

WATER: One of the Foundational Elements of the Universe and The Basis of All LifeWhat ways can we utilise it to optimise our individual health and the collective wellness of humans on earth and deal with the world water crisis.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSAn overview of water on earthWe are 99% water including the molecules in our body.Water as the Matrix of Life and the Most Important Thing for Life on EarthThe Distribution of Water in the World - The bathing crisis.The Dignity, Comfort and Spirituality of WaterBathe The World InitiativeAlternating Between Hot and Cold Bathing as Therapy.The Cold Water Hokey Pokey: At Home Therapeutic Bathing Technique Benefits of Cold Showers/BathingThe Risks of Cold ShockThe Importance of Easing Gradually and Gently into Cold Water Immersion and How to Do ItHow Cold Showers Trained James Bond to Remain Cool and Calm in Hectic SituationsHow Water Came to EarthThe Fourth Phase of Water: The gel phase substance beyond solid, liquid and vapour.Extreme Wellness PracticesProfessor

Contraception: Become aware of the various methods out there and become educated about what each contraceptive method is actually doing to the body of yourself, your partner, your family member or friend.Check out the associated article, "Birth Control Guide: Become Educated & Aware of Your Options + The Birth Control Pill" for a more comprehensive birth control guide.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:What exactly is “The Pill” and how it works.Once you learn this, you may alter your choice of it.“The only pharmaceutical used on people without a health problem.”Other Hormonal Pharmaceutical Contraceptive Methods The history and the current trend of constantly changing the composition of the pill due to associated risks and incidents. The highly common trend of an inability to conceive after taking the pill.Potential side effects and diseases that are associated with The Pill.The pill as the first line of treatment for teenagers with hormonal symptoms like irregular cycles, period pain and acne.Even tho

Uplifting Christianity to the high dignity and essence of Jesus’ own and true teachings.See and experience the deeper and true meaning of these scriptures and teachings which are based on pure consciousness, enlightenment and transcendence.ABOUT KENNETH CHANDLERThrough careful scholarly detective work, Kenneth has showed the essence of Jesus’ teachings.Dr. Kenneth Chandler received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas where he specialised in philosophy of science and theory of knowledge.He has lectured at leading universities all over the globe on awakening the full potential of human consciousness.Dr. Chandler was raised in a strong Christian family. He did deny his Christian upbringing but instead discovered the deeper meaning of Jesus’ own teaching.Dr. Chandler’s discerning scholarly detective work brings to light an aspect of Jesus’ teaching that has been hidden for nearly two thousand years.He found that the true ground of validity of Jesus’ teaching is the universal experience of eternal pure consciousn

Medicinal Plants: from Himalayan Villages to the western marketplace.Astoundingly incorporating Ayurvedic herbs in common food and cosmetic products that you would have never imagined (think ice-cream, chewing gum, cosmetics).While I was in London this year, a friend told me I must Dr. Ketan Joshi, they call him “Willy Wonder” because of all his creations.I was blown away.Dr. Joshi comes from a scientific background, being one of the top food and drink scientists in the UK. He was a sceptic of natural medicine until he directly experienced the way of life and health in Himalayan villages, where no white man had been before.I hope you like stories because you will hear some beautiful tales of Ketan’s highly influential experiences he had in the isolated mountains of Himalayan villages. Quite mesmerising andsodamnexciting!If you’re a herbalist or you love growing your own food, growing your own medicine, a nature lover or love storytelling, you are going to love this episode.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:Ketan’s j

Throughout evolution, exposure to sunlight and the photosynthesis of vitamin D has been critically important for the evolution of land vertebrates. But all of a sudden in the past few decades, we have been burying the Sun from our lives while simultaneously increasing our exposure to artificial light. Could this be a foundational mistake for our health? Has the status quo's fear of the sun been blown out of proportion?Circadian medicine won the most recent Nobel Peace Prize saying that a resolution towards chronic disease is to live in-tune with our natural circadian rhythms. Simply, 'go back to nature' is now the prescription healing. Dylan and Laura will share how to work with the Sun to optimise your health and immune system, so you can re-establish this important and foundational human-Sun relationship.This recording is from a talk where Laura interviewed Dylan in Melbourne in September 2018.ABOUT LAURA POOLELaura Poole is a Vedic meditation teacher, speaker, writer and community builder. S

Quantum healing: The deeper reality of mind-body medicine and the influence of consciousness on our biology. Learn how to enliven this place within us for profound and even miraculous healings.How to create comfort for your body so that it can heal itself.Infertility: An epidemic that can certainly be conquered (simply).Join Royal Physician Dr. Doja Purkit as he shares many simple and practical techniques that you can easily integrate into your life.About Dr. Doja PurkitDoja Purkit is a leading expert in the field of Ayurvedic medicine and alternative medicine.He has been practicing from London for 20+ years and is head of the Ayurvedic department at the world-renowned London Hale Clinic.Doja's intimate and basic approach to individualised and personalised treatments make him a saviour for royalty, rock stars and celebrities that live harsh lifestyles.In This Episode We Discuss:How to create comfort for the human body to heal itself.Dr. Doja’s 3 influential factors for healing any problem.Doja's int

Are humans really the only highly evolved beings on this planet today?Perhaps consider broadening your horizon into more subtle realms of existence and study history a bit deeper than the status quo’s limited chronological compilations.In this episode I talk with Colonel William Leeds from the US military as he touches on a BUNCH of various events, conspiracies, esoteric ideas, all considering sentient beings other than our human selves.But it’s not just other sentient beings. We also explore history and historical events with a more holistic approach and with a wider lense than the close minded status quo ideology that we were taught in history class.By the way what we talk about is all very vedic.We touch on a lot of parallels with the Veda and since we only touch on this, I urge you to check out the show notes on where I write about these aspects in more detail. Go to vitalveda.com.au/learn/podcasts and click on this episode.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:UFO crashes and recovering alien bodies in which Bill w