Do you eat to live or live to eat? Many of us live hectic and fragmented lives and have lost our perspective on the essential role of healthy and mindful eating has on our wellbeing. There is no need to sacrifice your health for the sake of being skinny. If you know that going on another diet isn’t the solution, come nurture yourself for just 10 days at Nirvana Wellness Retreat and invite changes that will continue to unfold long after you return home. Cleanse, de-toxify, repair your body from the inside out and learn new strategies to dealing with this common challenge. It's the secret to staying vigorous and full of life. It’s do-able, ultra-effective and it can improve the overall quality of your life in so many ways. You’re going to look and feel better both inside and out.

 

• Learn why diets and skipping meals don’t work and how to naturally lose weight and keep it off

• Develop healthy life skills and learn tips on how to maintain a healthy weight and a healthy life

• Understand the importance of metabolism and nutrition for healthy weight management

• Understand the role of healthy self esteem and experience a healthy body image

• Explore your stress and weight issues in a caring and supportive environment

• Learn the best strategies for your personal goals and lifestyle

• Leave feeling rejuvenated, motivated and full of hope.

• Aim to look good i.e. healthy and juicy, not emaciated and drained.

 

• Weight loss 

• Relieves pain, chronic and acute

• Releases stress and its effects

• Increases the circulation of blood and lymph

• Boosts the immune system

• Relaxes tight muscles

• Relieves headaches and migraines

• Eases and balances the digestive system

• Eases anxiety and depression

• Balances hormones

• Increases energy, stamina and wellbeing

 

Stress? Weight? Constipation and bloating? Discomfort, poor self esteem, fatigue? Unhealthy eating and lifestyle habits? You can break free. And the best part is, you can experience this life giving power and these great benefits in just 10 days. 

 

These ten days are going to drastically improve your overall health and wellbeing, super-charge your sex life and have you looking and feeling better almost overnight! And that’s without drastic diets or vigorous exercise routines and without the use of dangerous drugs or prescription medications. Even better, these potent gifts from Mother Nature could make many of the medicines you’re currently taking obsolete. Nirvana Healthy Living Integrative Anti-Diet Weight Loss program will help you to make the lifestyle changes you need. And current research confirms that lifestyle is one of the most important factors influencing health.

 

Come to Nirvana Wellness Retreat and learn how to create a healthy lifestyle by actually living one. 

 

Led by an expert faculty, you’ll take part in an exceptional immersion program that includes experiential workshops, meditation, calming yoga and fun fitness classes to increase your capacity to burn calories and enjoy the process, health, stress and life management talks, ayurvedic education and nutritional guidance and three healthy, gourmet, weight loss meals a day. Most importantly, you’ll take home the tools to continue these practices every day of your life.  

 

Nirvana’s integrative weight loss program offers a comprehensive curriculum that supports a healthy, long term weight-reduction process. The way to permanently lose weight and get healthier is more than just dieting. You will learn how to shift into a natural, balanced relationship with your body to love your life. 

 

for a lifetime of sustainable solutions. Here’s what you can expect:

i. Initial. 

ii. Follow up for personalised dietary and lifestyle advice

iii. Follow up every 3 months.

 

Restore your digestive health naturally.  The principles are based on:

i. Increasing and enjoying warm, cooked, vegetarian and easy to digest foods. The traditional diet for an Ayurvedic cleanse includes plain basmati rice and yellow mung dal (lentils) or kitchari, steamed vegetables and rice, vegetable soup and oatmeal. Eat a healthy amount of sunflower oil or glee (clarified butter) to balance vata and pitta. Add herbs and spices that aid digestion and elimination, such as fresh ginger root, black pepper, a squeeze of lime, a pinch of salt.

ii. Reducing or removing: raw foods, frozen foods, cold foods, dairy products, animal products (meat, fish, eggs) and stimulants (alcohol, tobacco, chocolate and coffee) from the diet. 

 

Harmonising Ayurvedic herbal wisdom, modern nutritional science, natural foods, supplements and individual herbs that can help maintain vital energy and achieve wellbeing during weightloss.

 

In a study published in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the Mayo Clinic study showed Far Infrared Heat Therapy:

• Significantly lowers your blood pressure
• Helps you lose weight faster
• Significantly increases your blood flow and circulation
• Lowers your cholesterol
• And lowers your triglycerides (too much of this is linked with coronary artery disease)

 The Mayo Clinic study suggests that Far Infrared Heat Therapy even lowers your rish of getting arteriosclerosis! And that you can get all these benefits without diets, exercise or months of treatments - Not that those aren't god for you! we should all ear right and exercise. But most of us could use a little help too.

 

You just can't get the same fast and dramatic improvement of your circulation from regular heat (they fail to penetrate deep enough to provide lasting relief or promote healing) as a Far Infrared Heating Bed can deliver. Additionally Infrared Heating beds do not produce electro magnetic frequencies.

Address the impact that stress is having on your life. 

i. Learn to meditate and watch your life improve.

ii. Practice yoga nidra, deep relaxation

iii. Practice pranayama, yoga breathing.

iv. Walk in nature.

v. Follow the Shanti Yoga stretching and detox program.

 

• get honest about who you are and why you treat yourself the way you do.

 

Craft a meaningful, passionate, healthy life for midlife and beyond. 

 

 

 

The practices of yoga include asanas (postures), gentle stretching, together with practices in breath work and relaxation. Yoga stimulates specific points in the body which release endorphins, natural hormones which have a calming effect on the centres of the brain that relate to eating and send you messages that you have been elegantly satisfied. This decreases cravings and makes it easier to deal with and manage the stresses that cause overeating. Endorphins also affect the digestive and endocrine glands to help rebalance the organ systems. The calming benefits of Yoga decrease the irritability associated with weight loss. Yoga is an effective adjunct therapy for the treatment of weight control.

 

Ayurveda, the science of life and health and the sister discipline of yoga, is more than a Vedic science that heals. It is a 5000 year old philosophy and way of life that was developed to perfection when human beings existed in harmony with the natural world. Ayurveda recognises the body's innate ability to heal itself and regain balance through the most natural, nontoxic and noninvasive methods. 

A complete and formal Ayurvedic cleanse is called panchakarma, which is done under the supervision of a trained Ayurvedic practitioner. The foundation of an Ayurvedic cleanse is a simple diet that helps remove the impurities that build when we are taking in more than we can process, and renews your body on all levels. The biggest benefit is their ability to transform your weak, exploitable, immune system into an indestructible healthy, functioning lifeforce. Ayurvedic vegetarian weightloss meals provide a simple solution. The body can focus its energy on processing and releasing the impurities that have build up, and simultaneously new impurities don't build because you don't consume un healthy or difficult to digest food. Ayurvedic lifestyle education helps you understand your own personal constitution and manage your cravings (for sweets, fat, alcohol etc.). Ayurvedic herbs stimulate the brain’s sensory systems, your digestive and metabolic fire, and assist your elimination. 

Ayurvedic massage is used in effective ways to help you lose weight. There are two vital sensory systems in the brain that control our eating habits. The feeding center is responsible for the feeling of hunger. The satiety center is responsible for the feeling of fullness. If the feeding center is overactive, you may always feel hungry; and if the satiety center is under active, you may not feel full so easily. Massage can help by increasing blood circulation and metabolic rate, thereby enabling your system to work more efficiently in digesting your food and eliminating its wastes.

 

Weight loss massage is a program of visceral (abdominal) massage and marma (energy points) pressure which is used to help clear the system of metabolic waste and encourage circulation. This improves digestion which can help you be successful in your weight loss program. Stimulation is not applied directly into the brain's areas but into corresponding meridian points on the arms, legs and abdomen which then affect the feeding centre in the brain. Stimulation at these points over a period of about 3 weeks can significantly reduce body weight. The effects are enhanced by combining it with weight loss herbal therapy and yoga.

 

Ayurvedic relaxation massage is a valuable adjunct therapy used in conjunction with yoga and herbs to maximise weight loss effects. A special weight loss herbal lotion from India is applied during the massage to effectively increase blood flow to the abdominal fat, increase the metabolism and assist in fat breakdown.  Massage has a number of other benefits that can directly influence your ability to control or lose weight: 

 

- Massage improves the circulation and the supply of nutrition to the muscles, and increases tissue metabolism, which helps the muscles to grow and burn more calories, thereby reducing fat.

 

- Massage directly aids in fat loss by bursting the fat capsule within the subcutaneous tissues, allowing the fat to exude and become digested.

 

- Massage helps prevent and heal injuries and shortens the recovery time needed between your exercise workouts. This means you can safely have more workouts over a given period of time, giving you the opportunity to burn more total calories in your effort to achieve your individual weight loss goals.

 

The number of Ayurveda treatments necessary depends on your goals for losing weight and your commitment to keeping the weight off. Usually, a full course consists of a 60-minute treatment every day for the first three days, followed by treatments every other day for a full course of 10 treatments. For the average person who wants to lose between ten to fifteen pounds, this is sufficient to help you reach and maintain your goal. Due to individual differences, weight loss results may vary.

  

Special opening offer: Try a 60 minute introductory massage combination session with yoga for $95, and receive a $15 discount on the purchase of any 10-session weight loss package.