Join Dr. Claudia Welch and Rosemary Gladstar for a live midsummer conversation in Estonia exploring Ayurveda, Western herbalism, medicinal plant protection, and the living relationship between humans and plants. Hosted by Kaja Keil and held in English, this public event includes a free-form question round. ...
Sunday, April 19 · 12:00–1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Find your time zone at World Time Buddy) Anyone and everyone is warmly invited to and gifted this Aunties’ Story Circle , hosted by Dr. Welch and participants of Menopause Chronicles: For nearly two years, participants in Menopause Chronicles have been gathering to explore...
Day and night, count the rosary of your breath and stay put wherever you are. --Lalla What happens when your identity dissolves? When your body stops cooperating? When death comes close enough to whisper? In this deeply intimate and wide-ranging conversation, Cate Stillman sits down with longtime colleague and...
A mid-year Menopause Chronicles gathering with Dr. Welch to revisit hormone teachings and open space for shared stories. July 1, 6–7:30pm ET. ...
On June 3, Tammi Sweet joins Dr. Claudia Welch and Menopause Chronicles participants to explore why sleep shifts in midlife—and what truly supports rest. ...
Dr. Diana Zuckerman joins Dr. Claudia Welch and Menopause Chronicles participants for a nuanced look at the evolving science and policy of hormone therapy in menopause. ...
What scans miss—and what getting off the floor can tell us By Dr. Claudia Welch Many of us are told we don’t need a bone density scan until we turn 65. That’s the standard guideline for women without obvious risk factors. Just wait, the system says. Then,...
Join Dr. Welch and the Menopause Chronicles community as we welcome Mirabai Bush for a wise, soulful conversation on aging, service, and feminine grace. ...
These baked beans can be comforting, warming and tasty. With the addition of iron and mineral rich jaggery (gur) or blackstrap molasses, they are a support for blood-building--especially helpful during recovery from anemia or blood loss. Both sweeteners contain absorbable non-heme iron and have been...
By Dr. Claudia Welch The Landscape of Discomfort The personal, physical, emotional, mental and global health challenges of our time are monumental. We live in a world where external conditions are increasingly turbulent, and the heaviness of collective suffering weighs heavily on many. There are many medicines we...
Explore the afternoon-to-evening arc as a lens on the later stages of life. With rāga, rhythm, and reflection, we’ll explore the potential healing of timing plus music. ...
Explore the dawn-to-midday arc as a lens on the first half of life. With music, rhythm, and reflection, we’ll look at how perception heals. ...
Summary In this community Q&A session for Menopause Chronicles and the Women’s Health and Hormones courses, participants gathered to explore practical, grounded approaches to health concerns during perimenopause and menopause. A significant portion of the conversation focused on the current fixation with high-protein diets during this...
When someone dies, the rearrangement of reality that follows can reach far beyond the absence of that person. It can alter the way family members relate to each other, as old dynamics collapse and new ones form. Since it’s often difficult—sometimes nearly impossible—to function practically...
Marta Shedletsky returns to Menopause Chronicles to guide a therapeutic yoga practice for bone health and menopause support—building on her August session....
Alexandra Pope joins Dr. Welch and Menopause Chronicles to explore the liberating potential of menopause as a time of awakening and empowerment....
A surprise guest joins us June 4! Diana Beach brings decades of wisdom to this session on honesty, mortality, and the unexpected turns of life after menopause....
By Dr. Claudia Welch; Originally posted September 1, 2010. Republished with light edits. He who constantly examines how his day and night are passing and adopts the right way only, will never become a victim of sorrow. — Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam, Sūtrasthāna II.47 What does my fork have to...
[vc_video link='https://youtu.be/u0qbwKWUCuw?si=pgvRQPNFMgoW70Ad'] Jack Stafford of www.podsongs.com interviews guests for his podcast and then writes a song inspired by the conversation. Here he interviews Dr. Welch, who delves into the holistic health benefits of Ayurveda, focusing on stress relief, pregnancy nourishment, and balancing modern life with ancient wisdom....
In this podcast episode of Her Daily Rhythm, with Natalie Smyth, Dr. Welch explores the interconnectedness of stress, hormonal balance, and personal growth from Western and Eastern medicinal perspectives, highlighting the impact of belief systems and stress on health with guest Dr Claudia Welch. The conversation...
[audio mp3="https://drclaudiawelch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AvantiCWMenopause.mp3"][/audio] In this podcast episode, Dr. Avanti Kumar Singh engages Dr. Claudia Welch in an insightful discussion about menopause from an Ayurvedic perspective. Dr. Welch elaborates on menopause as a significant life transition, comparing it to the four stages of life, emphasizing its spiritual, emotional,...
Alert husband Jim recently noticed a report on a study exploring the link between menopause and longevity. The study shows that the evolution of menopause in toothed whales is strikingly similar to the evolution of menopause in humans. Menopause in both species came about through the...
Drs. Welch and Vignesh Devraj meet on Dr. Devraj's podcast to share a conversation on various topics including: their individual understanding of the past and the future of Ayurveda the importance of satsaṅga the power of saṅkalpa (intention) the dying arts of Indian culture how...
Dr. Mala Kapadia, Director, Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Anaadi Foundation, Palani, Tamil Nadu, Bharat joins Drs. Claudia Welch & Ramkumar--and the Vedic Threads community to discuss the following: The pandemic era has created, unveiled and exacerbated mental health concerns that persist. It has been a strong wake-up...
Saṅkalpa translates as, “intention” or, “determination”. Ayurveda physician Dr. Vignesh Devraj ji plans to join Drs. Claudia Welch & Ramkumar and the Vedic Threads community for the first May session to explore the role of saṅkalpa in medicine—from the patient’s experience as well as the doctor’s. This can...
Dr. Robert Svoboda & Dr. Claudia Welch address the following questions, in the above video: The relationship between the mahāguṇas (sattva, rajas and tamas) and the doṣas What is the cause of rakta in mūtravāhasrotas? Depending on your prakṛti, which is the doṣa most likely...
Dr. Welch joins other Kripalu presenters to explore Ayurveda, the emotions, mind--from how it all works to what we can do to support health in these areas...
[vc_video link='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg2z2lx4Bv8'] Dr. Welch talks with Aparna Sridhar of Indica in Jan, 2024 about how she got connected with India, the value of contextual learning, the medicine of subtraction and the role slavery played in our current never-is-enough culture, which is contributing to our stress and...
Professor of Sanskrit & Classical Indian Religions Fred Smith, joins Dr. Ramkumar & Dr. Welch to talk about "itihāsa" or, "history". Itihāsa also is used to specifically refer to the two monumentally influential epic poems of ancient India: the Mahābhāratam and the Rāmāyaṇa. The...
In this session, we addressed the following two questions: I have heard ...
by Dr. Claudia Welch Personal Experience When I was 19, I went to live in Benares, India to study Ayurveda… I thought. It was a year-long program through the University of Wisconsin, and the heftiest program requirement was to write a 100+ page research paper. I planned...
Simran Lal joins Drs. Ramkumar & Welch in this Vedic Threads session to talk about bhāva and bhāvana. One could say that bhāva and bhāvana is what makes this world go round. Everything in this manifested world begins with a thought; Everything is a manifestation of our intentions. Bhāva is one’s inner world...
In these two sessions, Drs. Ramkumar & Welch are joined by Kapila Venu ji, a practitioner of Kutiyattam (“Koodiyattam”), – one of the oldest living theatre traditions in the world. She has studied multiple Indian art and dance and theater forms, including Mohiniyattam dance. Kapila...
The word varṇa is commonly translates as, “caste” --a translation that does not do justice to the context in which it was originally used in Vedic scriptures. While today we understand that this concept can be understood to be inherited by birth and used by one...
If you have felt stressed, you have experienced a health and hormonal imbalance. Dr. Welch joins Dr. MC's Self-Care Cabaret Podcast to cover a lot of ground, from maintaining hormone health, healing from an imbalance, accessing your true essence, and getting to the root of what...
Whether you turn this into burgers or a loaf, either are delicious to eat alone, with a bun with condiments, broken up and added to spaghetti sauce or added to other dishes in creative ways. They are nice on a plate, with a side of...
In Indian wisdom traditions, the words for, “mind” (manas) and, “heart” (hṛdayam) seem interchangeable in certain contexts. And sometimes not. What are the differences and connections between the two? Why is this important or meaningful? Is the heart concurrently a physical, mental and energetic organ?...
Schedule and registration for these two 1.5 hour Live Online Sessions 13 & 14 (06 & 20 Apr, 2023) here: Vedic Threads: Satsangam's Online Membership Course with Drs. Ramkumar & Claudia Included in a traditional list of the 64, “arts” (kalās) of India we find, handicrafts,...
A Live Satsangam LLC Event Identifying, Navigating & Resolving Emotional Disequilibrium Through the Lens of Daivavyapāśraya (Treatment of Spiritual Maladies) With Josh Schrei of The Emerald podcast, Fred Smith, Ramkumar & Claudia Welch Yoga with Scott Blossom & Vedic Astrology with Emily Glaser While in the west we may consider...
https://vimeo.com/806130993/a4d4981d0e Note: below the summary are some subsequent personal sharings from participants that viewed this session after it had been recorded. In this session, we addressed the following topics: The migration of endometrial cells (as far as the nose!). What's happening, why might that happen? Why is...
Dr. Robert Svoboda & Dr. Claudia Welch address the following questions in this order, in the above video: Question 1: My question crosses many different courses' material and is somewhat personal. My Jyotish moon is Sagittarius, and my Sade Sati will be ending at the end...
Featuring Shantala Sriramaiah, Nina Rao and Dr. Shubham Kulkarni Yoga with Rose Baudin & Scott Blossom Special guests Dr. Robert Svoboda, Dr. Ramkumar, Dr. Claudia Welch, and others Organized by Punarnava Trust and Hosted by Vaidyagrama Sound, in the form of drumming, chanting, recitation, repetition of mantra, singing, instrumental...
रागादिरोगान् सततानुषक्तानशेषकायप्रसृतानशेषान् औत्सुक्यमोहारतिदान् जघान योऽपूर्ववैद्याय नमोस्तुतस्मैः Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam:I:1 rāgādi-rogān satatānuṣaktān-aśeṣa-kāya-prasṛtān-aśeṣān autsukya-mohāratidān jaghāna yo’pūrva-vaidyāya namo’stu-tasmai //1// Obeisance be unto that unique and rare (incomparable) physician [that’d be God] who has completely eliminated limitless diseases that are closely associated with and spreading all over the body and mind, perpetually causing...
ऋ॒तं च॑ स॒त्यं चा॒भी॑द्धा॒त्तप॒सोऽध्य॑जायत ṛtaṃ ca satyaṃ cābhīddhāt tapaso 'dhy ajāyata Truth was born and the order of truth from the kindled fire of energy of consciousness. Rig Veda 10.190.1 I’ve been reflecting on the relationship between the Sanskrit words, “satyam” and, “ṛta” or, “ṛtam.” Satyam: The Chandogya Upanishad tells us...
This weekend is only for students at the Mahatma School of Ayurveda at the Ayurveda Center of Vermont, but it gives you a taste of what's covered in case you might want to join their (excellent) program. Dr. Welch plans to explore: Ayurvedic Perspectives of the...
In this 2022 conversation, Colleen Quinn, founder of LabAroma has a conversation with Dr. Welch about the philosophy of hormones, what led her to study them, how ideas in Eastern medicine apply to women's health and hormonal balance in today's day to day environment, the...
This event is organized by the National Ayurveda Medical Association (NAMA) and is for their members only. I recognize it is odd to have something with, "Inclusion" in the title be exclusively for NAMA members, but I am also appreciative that they are offering this...
In this conversation, Fanny Olsson of The Cyclic Sadhana Podcast & Dr. Welch discuss the following: The role of dharma and the relationship between dharma and sādhana What brought Dr. Welch to Eastern medicine How Eastern medicine can help us understand women's hormones How Dr....
In this call: · We talk about how decreasing progesterone (from 35 onwards) affects the mind · We discuss the roles of vāta, pitta and kapha in the menstrual cycle and trying to describe estrogen or progesterone in terms of doṣas. · We share some of our own experiences of where...