Prudence Bruns PhD will be conducting a 10 Hour Maharishi Ayurveda Weekend Workshop on October 27 and 28 at Sofitco Studios in Blue Mountain Beach. The cost of the course is $175 per person. This course provides the profound principles and practical knowledge of how to promote good health through understanding individual body type, proper diet, exercise programs, personalized daily and seasonal routines along with other preventative and treatment modalities. The course objectives will be to teach the fundamentals of Ayurvedic health so that the course participants may apply these principles and this knowledge creating complete and holistic health for themselves and all those that may be a part of their lives. This course introduces basic concepts, principles and methods used in Ayurveda.
The course will include hands on experience such as learning the rudiments of self pulse-examination and oil massage as well as how to diagnose and implement treatments for individual body constitutions including specific dietary and nutritional foods, herbal supplements, exercise programs, personalized daily and seasonal routines along with other preventative and treatment modalities. The course will culminate in the development of a personalized program or plan of action and in the creation of an Ayurvedic meal produced from proper knowledge of the combination of foods. Special attention will be paid throughout the course to the original Sanskrit textual sources. Participants will receive 10 Hour Alliance CEUs.
Participants can register for the course online at www.nwfloridatmprogram.com.
About Ayurveda:
Ayurveda is a 5,000 year old traditional science (Vedic Science) that was designed to bring the body back into balance in order to heal itself from ailments. It is the traditional healing system of Ancient India.
About Prudence:
Prudence followed an early interest in meditation and yoga in 1966 at the age of 18 when she started Transcendental Meditation®. In 1966-67, she studied with Swami Satchidananda to be a yoga instructor, eventually opening and running the Integral Yoga Institute in Boston. In 1968, she went to India to study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and was made a teacher of Transcendental Meditation®. It was at this course that she met the Beatles and they wrote the song “Dear Prudence” about her. After marrying and while raising a family, she began working in film as Art Department Coordinator for Woody Allen, and as a producer with artists such as Andy Kaufman, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel, award winning directors Bruce Beresford and Alan Bridges and Tony award winning writer Hugh Leonard. She is best known for originating and developing the feature film Widow’s Peak, starring her sister, Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright and Natasha Richardson. She received co-producing credit. While continuing to teach Transcendental Meditation® over the many years, Prudence’s interest in yoga never wavered. After raising 3 children, she returned to school receiving her PhD in South Asian Studies, Sanskrit, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. She has published her memoir, Dear Prudence: The Story Behind the Song, a book on Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis along with articles on South Asian studies, world religion, Ayurvedic medicine and healthy living for academic journals and magazines. She has presented at numerous conferences such as at Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Hawaii, University of California at Berkeley and taught courses at UC Berkeley and Rutgers University. She and her husband live in Seagrove Beach and have three children and four grandchildren.
About Sofitco Studios:
Sofitco Studios is a fitness studio in Blue Mountain Beach offering a range of unique classes for men and women in a non-intimidating atmosphere. More information at www.sofitcostudios.com
