Embrace the healing power of touch. Touch is fundamental to health and wellbeing. The air principle relates to the parasympathetic nervous system. As much as your body get stimulated through therapeutic touch or massage, we need to get in conscious healing touch with our energetical or mental aspect of being. 

Recall for a moment the scent of the earth after the first spring rain, the aroma of a homemade meal at your grandmother’s house or the fragrance of a new born baby. Our sense of smell connects us directly with our emotions, memories and instincts. Through a process known as neuro-associative conditioning, we can link a healing response to the experience of particular smell.

Taste is perhaps the most immediately gratifying sense, and the one that can get us into the most trouble. The paradox of taste is that it also can be a powerful healing tool. Feelings, like food come in a variety of flavors. Rasa, the Ayurvedic word for taste, also means emotion or mood. Only when we have the experience of all six tastes, we do feel completely satisfied after a meal.

The images that enter through our eyes have a profound effect on our body, mind, and emotions. We can improve our wellbeing and enhance our living working environments through the creative use of color. While gazing at a beautiful sunset, we generate soothing, pleasurable chemicals. Since the age of the cavemen and cavewomen, symbols and visual patterns have had a powerful effect on the mind.

Sound can be used to create harmony and coherence within our body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Music is a universal healing language and has profound influence on our mind and body. Uplifting music enlivens us when we are feeling lethargic or depressed, while gentle melodies soothe us when we are feeling anxious. We will explore how different form of music can be healing, relaxing and beneficial in all circumstances.