On today's podcast, Amy talks with Arun Deva, DASc, AYT, E-RYT(500). Arun is the founder of Arunachala Yoga & Ayurveda. Arun has the pleasure of serving both the National & State Ayurvedic Associations: NAMA & CAAM. Currently, he heads NAMA’s Committee on creating Standards for Ayurvedic Yoga Therapists. Arun teaches internationally, lectures at conferences, writes articles for different publications, has been featured on both radio and television, and has a clinic for consultations and various treatments including panchakarma and yoga therapy in Los Angeles/West Hollywood. He also teaches the Ayurveda and Yoga modules for many Teacher Training Programs around the world and is Director of Ayurveda at LMU’s YTRx Program.

Amy and Arun discuss Ãyurvedic Yoga Therapy, the relationship between ancient medicine and Allopathic medicine (modern medicine), Chanting and types of chants, Yoga and its benefits, Progress that has been made overtime in Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, and a lot more.

They talk about the following:

What led Arun to combine Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy
Arun’s background in Yoga and Ayurveda
The Relationship between Yoga and Ayurveda
The Relationship between Ancient medicine and Modern medicine
Healing tools in Ayurvedic yoga therapy and Arun’s favorite
Chanting, the steps to chanting, and how it's used
How Arun handles difficult situations or overwhelm
Slow breath based practice as the key to healing
Bhakti as the most important tool of Yoga
What Yoga & Yoga Therapy means to Arun

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