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[post_content] => Everyone has a passion. Whether it is a passion for art, for health, for beauty, family, the environment, every person has that one thing that is a driving force in their life and that they can always rely on to bring them joy. For me, my passion is education.
Growing up I hated school, although what child didn’t? It was long, boring, and I would much rather be outside playing with my friends or playing video games than sitting at a desk listening to old people go on and on about things I didn’t care about. That attitude started to change once I was in high school. The classes got more difficult, the responsibilities were greater, and deciding what I wanted to do with my life was slow becoming a reality – since college was just a short distance in the future. I developed a love of theatre, music, and story-telling while I was in high school. Never the doing part of any of it, but the learning about the history, the theory, and the possibilities each offered.
College is where I truly found my passion for learning. I went to RIT in Rochester, NY – and I could never make up my mind about what to study…not because nothing fit me…but because there was so much that interested me and so many possibilities. I settled on a major in International Hospitality and Service Management, which is how I eventually found myself in the spa industry, but that was never enough to tie me over. Throughout my four years at RIT, I studied marketing, business organization, psychology, human resources, food preparation, Italian history, public policy, the list goes on and on. While I was in college I also learned how to sew, paint, and decorate not to mention an slew of important social issues and techniques I learned from watching and learning from the people around me.
After I graduated, I felt like there was so much left to learn…but no way to really learn it. Which is why, just 9 months after graduation, I am going to begin going to the Aveda Institute of Portland to learn esthetics. There is nothing greater to me than deeply learning about a topic that interests me, this topic being skincare. Since I started in the spa industry, skincare has been my primary focus and I couldn’t be more excited to learn all about it!
Needless to say, my education will not end once my time at Aveda is finished. If there is one thing I know that makes me feel joy and fulfillment…it is learning.
-Kevin G. (Retail and Marketing Director - Portland Locations)
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This year, Americans are projected to spend $18.9 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts, which just goes to show you what a powerful force Love is. Because, more than anything else, Love is about presents. Indeed, from the time of cave people, archeologists have found fossils of heart shaped boxes filled with an assortment of the most delectable bits of mammoth meat.
But, seriously, that $18.9 billion figure is a fact. Has Valentine’s Day gone the way of Christmas – a virtuous sentiment that’s turned in a shopping frenzy? I know enough people who already hate Valentine’s Day because they’re single, and they feel like the world is rubbing it in their faces. The last thing they need is this crazy degree of over-the-top spending to fan the flames of their irritation.
Well, I’m here to fight for the true spirit of Valentine’s Day. Or, what I want to be the true spirit of Valentine’s Day – a celebration of Love in all its forms. Not just the edible underwear kind. A celebration of real Love doesn’t leave anyone out and it doesn’t cost a penny. And if it rubs anything in your face, consider yourself lucky.
As I alluded to in my last article, I had an especially introspective period about 15 years ago, during which I tapped into my unconscious and discovered some deep truths and fears. I had the sense that what I was unearthing wasn’t unique to me, but common to all of humankind. Carl Jung called this realm the collective unconscious, and he described it as a facet of our consciousness that is shared by everyone.
What I found here were some very basic fears: the fear of loving, the fear of being loved, and the fear of the loss of love. It all comes down to the last one, doesn’t it? When we think of what humans fear the most, death often comes to mind, but much of what scares us about death is the idea of the loss of love: losing everything we love about the world and our life, losing everyone’s love for us, and for those we love to lose us and our love for them.
It’s all an expression of the sad belief that Love is a capricious and conditional thing, and that humans are sort of in control of it. But this belief and the resulting fear we have around Love, which so squelches our experience and expression of it, results mainly from one central, subconscious confusion – that approval is Love. Approval is a crappy substitute for Love, though.
There’s a distinct difference between wanting and getting approval versus wanting and experiencing Love. See if you can bring to mind someone whose approval you want (maybe even your own), and then let just let yourself feel, in your body, what it’s like to want someone’s approval. It’s an unresolved sort of feeling, like we might not be altogether okay if we don’t get something that only they can give. For me, it’s an unpleasant yearning feeling. A subservient feeling.
When we tune in to this feeling – wanting the world to approve of us – it’s clear that following it isn’t going to serve our highest potential or make us feel truly satisfied. Even if we succeed at getting lots and lots of approval, it doesn’t quench the want of approval.
So, why do you think we’re going to spend $18.9 billion on Valentine’s Day presents? I’d guess that it has a bit more to do with approval than with Love. But, don’t let me stop you from getting flowers for someone special. I like calla lilies, by the way. Preferably a mix of white and colored ones, and maybe a massage as well.
However, just remember that Love cares nothing for flowers – at least not more than it does for anything else. Every one of us has the ability to consciously experience Love at will, to allow Love into all parts of ourselves, to withhold no Love from ourselves or others, and to actively Love every part of life. This makes approval a paltry goal in comparison. And this, my friends, is a devotion that’s worthy of a holiday.
Love the One You’re With,
Dr. Peter Borten
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The body of one who uses oil massage regularly does not become affected much even if subjected to accidental injuries, or strenuous work. By using oil massage daily, a person is endowed with pleasant touch, trimmed body parts and becomes strong, charming and least affected by old age.
Charaka Samhita Vol. 1, V: 88-89
What is Abhyanga?
In Sankrit, the ancient, vibrational, written and sometimes spoken language from India,
abhy means to rub and
anga means limb, so together they make up the word massage. Abyangha is an anointing of the body with warm oil often infused with healing herbs and balancing essential oils.
In the West we are beginning to catch on to the importance of massage from a wellness and preventative health standpoint.
In Ayurveda the healing aspects of Abyangha include relaxation of the muscles and calming of the nervous system as well as attention being paid to many subtle healing aspects that make it a holistic healing modality.
The act of anointing the body with warm, herbal oil is called
snehana. The Sanskrit word
sneha means oil and love. The benefits of regular
snehana invite the same qualities as being deeply loved, loving yourself and loving another: strength, stability, openness and warmth.
In the Charak Samhita, another ancient Ayurvedic text, abyangha in the form of
snehana is said to be like a pot smeared with oil and the impurities of
vata,
pitta, and
kapha cannot stick to it. In the same way, if the body is properly oiled with abyangha daily, impurities cannot penetrate and disease cannot develop.
The benefits of Abhyanga to different parts of the body are outlined in the Charaka Samhita as follows:
Abyangha for the head: nourishes the hair, soothes the sense organs, provides for sound sleep, increases cheerfulness and happiness, and can relieve or prevent headaches, premature graying or balding of the hair.
Abyangha for the body: nourishes the body, firms, nourishes and smoothes the skin, particularly beneficial for Vata disturbances, strengthens the body’s tolerance, increases longevity, prevents invasion by Vata, imparts firmness and strength to the limbs (body)
Abyangha for the feet: nourishes the skin, prevents dryness/cracking of the soles of the feet, relieves fatigue and numbness of the feet, provides strength and firmness, pacifies Vata, supports clarity of vision, and improves tone and blood flow.
More benefits of Abhyanga as stated by the ancient Ayurvedic text, Astanga Hridaya:
- Improves Sleep
- Promotes sturdiness of the body
- Promotes longevity
- Nourishes the body
- Promotes better eyesight
- Prevents and corrects affliction of the nervous system
- Overcomes fatigue
- Prevents and corrects the aging process
- Detoxification of the body
-Chrissy (Lead Trainer NW Thurman)
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Growing up I hated school, although what child didn’t? It was long, boring, and I would much rather be outside playing with my friends or playing video games than sitting at a desk listening to old people go on and on about things I didn’t care about. That attitude started to change once I was in high school. The classes got more difficult, the responsibilities were greater, and deciding what I wanted to do with my life was slow becoming a reality – since college was just a short distance in the future. I developed a love of theatre, music, and story-telling while I was in high school. Never the doing part of any of it, but the learning about the history, the theory, and the possibilities each offered.
College is where I truly found my passion for learning. I went to RIT in Rochester, NY – and I could never make up my mind about what to study…not because nothing fit me…but because there was so much that interested me and so many possibilities. I settled on a major in International Hospitality and Service Management, which is how I eventually found myself in the spa industry, but that was never enough to tie me over. Throughout my four years at RIT, I studied marketing, business organization, psychology, human resources, food preparation, Italian history, public policy, the list goes on and on. While I was in college I also learned how to sew, paint, and decorate not to mention an slew of important social issues and techniques I learned from watching and learning from the people around me.
After I graduated, I felt like there was so much left to learn…but no way to really learn it. Which is why, just 9 months after graduation, I am going to begin going to the Aveda Institute of Portland to learn esthetics. There is nothing greater to me than deeply learning about a topic that interests me, this topic being skincare. Since I started in the spa industry, skincare has been my primary focus and I couldn’t be more excited to learn all about it!
Needless to say, my education will not end once my time at Aveda is finished. If there is one thing I know that makes me feel joy and fulfillment…it is learning.
-Kevin G. (Retail and Marketing Director - Portland Locations)
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