Over time, through the nature of how we live in the modern world - busy, running from one thing to the next, over-indulging, eating processed and chemical-containing food, and stress - the health of the mind and body declines and we experience symptoms like:

• Acne, skin irritation and inflammation
• Low immunity, migraine, headaches, and fatigue
• Diarrhea, constipation, or irregular bowel movements
• Sleep and weight issues
• Digestive complaints, including gas and bloating and acid reflux
• Lack of mental clarity, fogginess, and depression
• Stress, overwhelm, and anxiety
• Poor quality, dull, or dry skin, hair and nails
• Stiff body, dry and cracking joints
• And just not feeling like you’re at your full potential in your body and mind

They are checkpoints to care for yourself no matter how busy you get. You’ll:

• Gently and naturally eliminate accumulated toxins and improve the quality of your body tissues through a digestive reset
• Improve your presence, clarity, calm and vital-energy through grounding and centering yoga practices
• Establish healthier diet and lifestyle patterns suited to the season that will reorient you to a path of amazing health and self-connection

Our 5-Day Spring Reset will:

Here’s How it Works

The Seasonal Mind-Body reset is live-online, and includes:

Digestive reset: Food is medicine, and the condition of agni (your digestive fire) lays the foundation for either health or disease. You’ll nurture and nourish the flame of your agni through fresh, whole, sattvic meals. With improved digestive function you’ll naturally detox and fuel a clear mind and abundant energy. Your vitality will build and you’ll begin to ‘glow’.

Yoga practices: The root cause of disease and suffering in both Ayurveda and Yoga is the imbalanced mind. In addition to helping restore your agni, the yoga practices will clear your pranic channels, awaken your higher consciousness, and connect you to your innermost essence and deepest truth. This brings the level of change you can experience during the reset much deeper than the digestive aspect alone.

Seasonal reorientation: One of the main causes of disease identified in Ayurveda is lack of seasonal alignment. Intentionally approaching your diet and lifestyle for the upcoming season is an important aspect of long term mind-body health.

Online Student Center

You’ll have access to an online student center from the time you register until two months after the program ends. The student center hosts:

• An orientation video with your lead guide Kelsey Brusnyk, Ayurveda health practitioner and teacher. The orientation will cover what to expect, how to prepare, and how to best support yourself throughout for optimum results.
• The link for each of the daily zoom sessions
• The replays of each session in the event that you cannot make it live
• A comment box where you can send us questions at any time through your preparation phase and the 5-day program
• A video on “How to Make Ghee” (it’s much simpler - and tastier! - than you might think!).
• A PDF booklet with all the information you need to prep for and walk through the reset!

Your PDF booklet includes:

• Welcome letter and more information about the Ayurveda approach to health and seasonal resets
• List of tools you’ll need for cooking and yoga. You’ll already have most of what you need for cooking and common household alternatives will be given if you don’t have easy access to the yoga props you’ll need.
• Food list with the  grains, beans, spices, oils, and vegetables that you’ll need to create your nourishing meals, as well as tea recipes to encourage a healthy gut and calmer, clearer mind. Most of the items will be available at local health food stores and standard grocery stores.  If you can’t find any items in store or online, we’ll list common alternatives that will work equally as well
• Schedule of live calls
• Recipes for three meals per day for the 5-day program, as well as supportive teas to encourage digestive health, toxin release, and mind-body balance

The 5-Day Program

The program is 5-days of intentional and restorative diet, lifestyle, and practices.

5-DAY DIET

You’ll cook fresh, whole food meals one to three times a day, depending on your schedule and what works best for you.

You’ll receive daily recipes for:

• Kunyi: a simple,delicious rice porridge breakfast
• Kitchari: Ayurveda’s classic digestive-system balancing meal that you’ll enjoy for lunch and dinner. Kitchari is nourishing and easy to digest rice and mung beans with spices and veggies in various combinations - as well as tasty and satisfying!
• Digestive and mind-body balancing teas

You’ll also receive healthy snack options and dairy and gluten free alternatives.

5-DAY LIFESTYLE

Sleep, routine, and simple yet powerful self-care essentials will help your body-mind system find its natural space of harmony

5-DAY GUIDANCE AND PRACTICES

Daily live sessions - one on each day of the program - will motivate, guide, and inspire you through healing yoga practices and Ayurvedic wisdom to balance and nurture the functional energies of your body and mind. The practices will help you move through the seasonal change with more lightness, energy, and self-connectedness and less susceptibility to seasonal allergies and imbalances, fogginess, and lack of clarity. Sessions are 45 mins + time for Q&A

Day 1: April 17 at 11a PT, 8p CET with Kelsey and Alesha: Opening yoga practice including mudra, mantra, breath, poses, and intention setting

Day 2: April 18 at 11a PT, 8p CET with Kelsey and Lucy: Pranayama and restorative yoga

Day 3: April 19 at 11a PT, 8p CET with Kelsey and Alesha: Guided meditation and self-connection

Day 4: April 20 at 11a PT, 8p CET with Kelsey: Seasonal alignment through diet, lifestyle, and self-care

Day 5: April 21 at 11a PT, 8p CET with Kelsey and Alesha: Closing yoga practice including mudra, mantra, breath, poses, and intention setting

Post-Program Guidance

You’ll receive suggestions for seasonal alignment in a PDF booklet, as well as tips to ease into a heavier, more typical diet after the 5-day reset, and 3 delicious Ayurveda meal recipes that will keep you feeling well and in harmony with the ‘melting’ nature of spring..

You’ll have access to all recordings for 2 months so that you can continue to utilize the yoga practices and Ayurveda education sessions to support your health and wellness through the season.

• 5 live-online sessions (recorded in case you can’t make it live!).
• A pre-recorded orientation video to watch at your convenience.
• A PDF booklet upon registration that includes all you’ll need to plan, prepare, and carry out your 5-day program.
• An instructional video on how to make ghee, Ayurveda’s premiere cooking oil.
• A PDF booklet after completion with delicious seasonal recipes, and how to orient your diet and lifestyle for a smooth and healthy season.

Why You’ll Love It

The Live Sessions

DAY 1 with Kelsey and Alesha

You will set your energy with mantra and mudra, center your mind-body system with breath and poses, and ground into your intentions for your 5-days of rebalance and rejuvenation

DAY 2 with Kelsey and Lucy

You will practice pranayama and yoga asana (poses) to calm and ground the nervous system and mind, support digestion, and restore and rejuvenate your cells and psyche at the deepest level.

DAY 3 with Kelsey

You will explore the qualities of the season, how those qualities affect the health of your mind-body system and how you can approach your diet and lifestyle to avoid accumulating digestive toxins and nervous system dysregulation while keeping your body, mind and heart feeling balanced and lively.

DAY 4 with Kelsey and Lucy

You will be guided through meditation and self-connection techniques to help ground your mind and body, move energetic stagnation and irritants out of your body, and replenish and restore your energy levels and nervous system on a subtle, yet powerful, level.

DAY 5 with Kelsey and Alesha

You will set intentions for the next phase of the year, center yourself with breath and poses, and finish the program with beautiful mantras and mudras to establish ease, strength, and courage as you move forward with your health and life.

Here’s everything you get when you sign up :

• PDF booklet that has everything you need to prepare for, and carry out, your 5-day reset, including tools, food list, and recipes
• Orientation recording that details the program structure and schedule, clarifies the meal plan, recipes and ingredients, and gets you organized and ready to optimize your 5-days
• Five live online sessions, one on each day of the program to support your mind-body recalibration as well as nurture your heart, inner connectedness, and spiritual connection, essentials to have richness in your mind-body health and in life overall. 
• PDF booklet that has guidance to move forward with intentional diet and lifestyle in realistic, simple, yet powerful ways so that you flow through the next season smoothly and in good health

•  Access to the program recordings for two months
• Delicious spring recipes to explore in your kitchen post-program and throughout the rest of the season!
• Option to upgrade to a personalized program with an Ayurveda health consultation that will provide you with specialized diet and lifestyle guidance unique to your health challenges and goals

Kelsey Brusnyk

Kelsey Brusnyk is an Ayurveda Health Practitioner, teacher of Ayurveda and Yoga, Ayurveda Director and Faculty at Bindu Institute of Learning, Student of Vedic astrology, and explorer of life.

Founder of Illumine Ayurveda and Yoga, Kelsey has been devotedly sharing the wisdom of the Vedas for over a decade. Her professional Ayurveda and yoga journey includes having developed, conducted, and taught at innumerable trainings including yoga teacher trainings, Ayurvedic chef trainings, and Ayurvedic treatment trainings, introductory to advanced Ayurveda programs and yoga and Ayurveda retreats in Hawaii, India, New Zealand, and Canada.

She has mentored many students through their professional Ayurveda studies and provides ongoing mentorship for counselors, teachers and practitioners. She currently teaches (in-person and online) Ayurveda and yoga programs, classes, and trainings, offers healing Ayurveda bodywork, and works privately and in groups to assist clients to live well, age well, and thrive - achieving their optimal state of health and wellness in body, mind and heart - through balanced living. She continues to provide the teachings of Ayurveda and yoga at yoga teacher trainings worldwide, and is Ayurveda Director and faculty member at Bindu Institute of Learning.

Kelsey is a perpetual student of life, and brings compassion, inspiration and ease to her teaching and consulting. Her authenticity, openness, enthusiasm and love of Ayurveda, Yoga and natural healing has inspired many to start, continue or deepen their paths to health, vitality, and living their inner truth. Find her on Instagram @kelsey.ayurvedayoga

Lucy McCarthy

Lucy McCarthy has completed over 1000 hours of training in a diverse array of traditions and styles, and extensively studied yogic philosophy, meditation, and pranayama. Lucy draws on all her vast Yoga experience and training to offer rich, wisdom-filled, full spectrum classes that are an expression of her huge passion for Yoga and deep desire to serve people on their healing journey. Lucy teaches mindful, breath and alignment based Anusara inspired flow classes.

Alesha Cumpton

 
My passion for yoga began in the late '90s when my first teacher sparked a flame that continues to evolve and grow. Yoga weaves itself in and out of my life presenting itself to me in different forms but always giving me exactly what I need at that time. From enhancing my business travels while immersed in my career in aerospace and industrial controls, to enabling a delicate balance while pursuing an intense MBA in Switzerland, to now igniting a passion that has unfolded in my journey as a yoga teacher.

I have been teaching yoga since 2009, and consider myself a lifelong student.

My yoga journey is perhaps not a typical one... The unlikely window of opportunity opened when faced with the economic crash of 2008. MBA fresh in hand, and little job prospects in sight, the unique gift of time bestowed itself.

I travelled to India to complete my yoga teacher training, which I started nearly 10 years prior, by studying one on one with Swami Dayanand. Swami taught me a more traditional yoga to complement my otherwise western practice, and I am certified 200 hours based on the Principles of the Bihar School of Yoga.

Since, I have continued my training with Restorative Yoga, Vinyasa Krama, and 4 Desires training with Mary Bruce, as well as Sequencing & Therapeutics with Ross Rayburn, Core Strength Vinyasa with Sadie Nardini, Seat of the Teacher Immersion training with Suzanne Faith, and intensives with Nico Luce, Noah Maze, Amir Jaan, Simon Park, and Tiffany Cruikshank. Along with many other notable teachers workshops, classes, and retreats in Europe and the US over the years.

Most recently, I completed my 300YTT with Suzanne Faith, Andrea Boni, and Anatomy of Movement focusing on Non-Dualist Tantra and Anusara in September of 2019.