3 Pillars of Ayurvedic Exercise | John Douillard's LifeSpa

Описание: 3 Pillars of Ayurvedic Exercise | John Douillard's LifeSpa

Recently, I competed in a sprint triathlon with my family here in Colorado. With only a couple of weeks to train for this event, we incorporated a few Ayurvedic training techniques and successfully used them for this triathlon.

Originally, my 24-year-old daughter and 18-year-old son were going to join me for this sprint triathlon. As it turned out, my son injured his shoulder in a soccer tournament before the race, so just Devaki (my daughter who teaches the yoga portions on my DVDs) did it with me.

We challenged the Ayurvedic principles detailed below pretty intensely—as we only trained for two weeks for this triathlon. Granted, it was only a 525-yard swim, 10-mile bike ride, and a 3.1-mile run.

The race sounded easy, but we should have been concerned by the name: The Lookout Mountain Triathlon.

Any triathlon with the word “mountain” in the title should tip you off to a day running and riding up and down the side of a mountain. Around 2 weeks of nose breathing training and no real mountain training pushed me to my limits—I did a lot more huffing and puffing than planned!

That said, Devaki did fantastic with a first place finish in her age group, and I took 4th place in mine.

The key Ayurvedic exercise strategies we used included Nose Breathing, Fox Running, and Chasing the Rabbit.

Read on and watch the 3-part video training to learn more about each strategy in detail.

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0:00 Pillar #1: Nose Breathing
6:01 Pillar #2: Fox Running
15:03 Pillar #3: Chasing the Rabbit

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