Annam : The Yoga of Food
Are you on the journey of discovering the Inner Presence? Is the foodie in you struggling to come to harmony in this process?
If you are shuttling between extreme food routines and wondering how to integrate it with your Inner journey, this course is for you!🍕🍇🍟🍉🍩
This lab aspires to understand our many selves behind food choices and make eating a conscious and joyous process together as a sangha. 🎭🌼
A 21 Day Online Practice Lab to Discover the Inner Presence Through Conscious Eating
Often, we impose ourselves to healthy restrictions while aspiring for holistic health. But, are we always happy with our new discipline? The child in us says otherwise. This lab, aspires to allow the foodie 😊 in us to express joyfully and harmonize in the Presence through conscious eating. We will hold a collective aspiration to:
1. Shifting from Effortful Mental Discipline to Effortless Flow of the Awareness : Getting in touch with Loving Presence, helps in a seamless transition into subtler nourishing routine🌸
2. Shifting from “Service to the Senses” to the “Service to the Spirit” : Discovering the limitations of the senses and moving to the boundlessness of the “Spirit”. Getting in touch with the spirit that Enjoys, rather than the ego that seeks to “Enjoy”.🌸
3. Bringing the “Spirit to the Senses” : Refinement of the Senses through infusing the spirit in the act of eating.🌸
- Duration
- 9 Sep - 30 Sep
- Sharing circle
- Friday, 8-9:30 PM
- Daily commitment
- 30 minutes
Join the Compassionate Journey of Annam - The Yoga of Food
Practice Lab for ₹2100
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Orientation and lighting the flame Connecting to the Presence in Physical
09/09/22 -
Week 1 Dear Body, How You Doin'? : Discovering the Presence Behind
10/07/22 - 15/09/22 -
Live session and Sharing circle Transforming mind and vital through loving awareness
16/09/22 -
Week 2 Deep practices : Refining the Mind and the Vital
17/09/22 - 22/09/22 -
Sharing circle Refining the Senses Towards Harmony
23/09/22 -
Week 3 Happy Meets Healthy : Understanding Nourishment and Food Choices Through Awareness
24/09/22 - 29/09/22 -
Live session Presentation by Participants and Insights to Take Forward
30/09/22
Sign Up Now if You Are
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Aspiring for a harmonious refinement of food choices
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🌸The enthusiastic seeker goes in for an ambitious discipline of Satvik lifestyle without connecting to the Inner Presence, which seem to cause intense rebound cravings.
🌸We aspire to transition into harmonious food routine through Inner Awareness and Love.
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Seeking to connect consciously to the Presence in the Physical
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🌼Most often, the sincere spiritual aspirant sees the body as impermanence and eat to survive, so that the sadhana goes on.
🌼If only we could connect to The Divine Presence in the physical, the journey will be rather a living joy, than a mechanical discipline.
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Aspiring to explore the different selves within and mother them
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Evolve. Action. Community.
Learn to Evolve by Practicing Together as a Community
Learning is better with Community
Annam Sharing Circle
Weekly sharing circle, a sacred sharing and listening space to express our challenges and insights from the previous week's learning will be also an orientation towards the theme of next week.
Holding Each Other Towards Consistency
With an utmost sincerity and heartfelt aspiration, completing the task of the day in a space held by Sangha is truly transformative. Hence, mandatory sangha calls, 1 with facilitator and 1 with sangha partner (30 mins each) every week are scheduled for all participants.
Learning by doing
Task of the Day In the Light of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo's works
Joyfully receive a very simple task of the day along with quotes and short notes by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo in context to the task. Deeply contemplating in the heart center on their words and beginning every task with deep sacredness is the key for our inner progress. Sangha calls with facilitators and sangha partners will be arranged to accelerate your consistency.
Guided Meditations Through Audio Notes
Simple guided meditations for conscious eating and connecting to the Presence in physical will deepen your relationship with food and body joyfully. These tasks are absolutely important and mandatory in this journey, since they shall determine the depth of our transformation.
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About Purnam
Purnam Centre for Integrality is a unit of Auroville Foundation, an Institution of Higher Education, Government of India, located in Auroville, which is a UNESCO supported international city in the making in Tamil Nadu, India, with the aim of realising human unity.
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Dr. Subhashree. S, MBBS
General Physician / Holistic Healing Companion
I am an allopathic doctor by profession, from Mumbai, India. My residency at college kindled questions in me, when suffering really didn't end with just medication. A deeper Truth to the Existence of life itself, unfolded for me with Integral yoga and Mother and Sri Aurobindo's works, on the true purpose of physical as an expression of the Divine. My journey inwards started with reversal of hypertension in my mother through conscious eating and Grace has been guiding ever since. I was a part of Savitri painting 5.0 aspired me to share the ways it unfolded and live my Inner Truth. 🤍 I built this practice lab "Annam - The Yoga Of Food" because the transition into a healthier food routine is what I deeply struggled with and learnt compassionate ways to transform the physical. This course is designed to bring us closer to the Presence in our physical that our transformation happens effortlessly when we hold our True aspiration. If you are a foodie aspiring to be healthy in even a small way or even if you are criticizing yourself a lot to give up attachments or aversions on food because of the aspiration for Truth, then this course is exactly for you.'🌼 -
Dr. Yogesh Mohan, MD (JIPMER)
Founder, Consciousness as medicine / Expert speaker
Dr. Yogesh holds post graduate degrees in Modern Medicine from JIPMER, Pondicherry and in management from ISB, Hyderabad.Dr. Yogesh is inspired by the vision of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. He has discovered deeper insights into the very nature of body, health and disease. He is the pioneer of Consciousness as Medicine, and has developed unique inner healing practices through his intuitive healing work.🌸Over the last twenty years, Dr. Yogesh has impacted the lives of thousands of people through his workshops, writings and healings. He is the author of several articles on Consciousness as Medicine published through the journal of Integral Health, NAMAH. -
Divyanshi Chugh
Journey Guide
Divyanshi Chugh was studying Social Policy at University of Oxford, when she decided to come to Pondicherry. Through an year of intense inner churning at Oxford, Divyanshi decided to forgo the prospect of pursuing further studies from Cambridge and instead came to India to dive into Indian spiritual wisdom. She studied Integral Yoga Psychology from the works of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo from Indian Psychology Institute. The course in Pondicherry was a deeply transformative journey for her. However, after the course, she felt like she was sitting on a goldmine but did not know how to apply it in the world. In 2016, searching for how one can apply integral knowledge in life, in a way that transforms oneself as well as the collective, she came to Auroville. Today, she is seeking to apply her learnings in Auroville, through building and facilitating higher educational learning programmes & projects, founded in integral yoga psychology. -
Smrati Humar
Journey guide
By profession, I am a software engineer for the last 9 years. During swadharma program with Purnam, I discovered that bringing joy & health through food is my soul's true calling. This Journey got deepened and became sacred when I connected with the works of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo during svadhayaya and Savitri Painting. Since then, I am on a beautiful journey, co-traveling with fellow seekers who want to learn spiritual experientially and live life from their deeper souls. 🌷In the past year, I have facilitated multiple online programs with Purnam like Sacred Cooking, The Light Body, Satvik Lifestyle, Dinacharya and the 21-day eat more vegetable challenge. I have a deep calling to bring joy through food, refine cooking & eating experience and lead a holistic lifestyle. Based on the roots of Indian spirituality, I see that Ayurveda is the foremost knowledge system when it comes to food and lifestyle. I want to weave integral yoga and Ayurveda into my life and be a fine instrument of the divine. If you too wish to learn and live ayurvedic lifestyle joyously and collectively, come join us in this beautiful journey !😊
Here's what people are saying!
Subhashree is someone who has a deep sense of devotion and sincerity in her. Her presence brings a purity and softness into any space she is a part of. She is multitalented and the way she gives herself to any work she takes up and her willingness to keep learning is something I truly appreciate.
THIS IS A HUGE GRATITUDE POST!!🎉🎉🎊This was one of the most exciting and enriching practice lab experiments that I got a chance to enroll myself in. This was the 'Culinary Arts' practice lab, facilitated by Smrati and organized by the Auroville.This practice lab was particularly invested in bringing in more sacredness and divinity in our food, eating habits and practices, and raising consciousness through food. This workshop comes practice lab brought in so much divinity, spirituality, and sacredness in my heart and soul that I had never heard before. It opened up pores in my heart and mind reclaiming that spirituality can be achieved through the most mundane and ordinary places of our kitchen and heart. The journey taught me mindfulness and beauty from within and in the moment.🌼This journey or I should rather say, life-altering experience had brought in more clarity, balance, and resilience in my life I am truly grateful and blessed to Smrati for holding such a lovely and sacred space for all without any inhibitions!🍜🍳🍿🍓🍝
Frequently Asked Questions
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The lab is designed in such a way that every task or live session is a piece of the greater picture that will add up to clarity. It will take 30 minutes everyday to complete the tasks and to go deep within yourself. The live sessions and two sangha calls are mandatory too. If you miss a task or a live session for an unavoidable emergency, feel free to connect always.
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We have put in a timing, considering the common work timings, daily routine of homemakers and students. But still, it will be great if you get in touch with us and write your difficulties.
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We are charging an affordable price and a cost that justifies the time and effort that goes into the sessions. It will be great if you join in whole heartedly when you are ready because the fee is non - refundable after the course begins. Genuine financial issues can be still considered.
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30 minutes everyday (which includes 2 sangha calls per week) and 90 minute live session every week. Sangha partners will be arranged and 2 tasks per week (1 with facilitator and 1 with co-participant) mandatory to be done together in a sangha call.
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Yes, of course. As we go deeper into the journey within and consistently transforming in Presence, we can see the possibility of a deeper harmony in health with proper medical guidance.
Get in Touch with Annam - The Yoga of Food Team
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