Welcome to Season 1

(waves lapping) Welcome to Season One. I'm Scott Blossom, and my background is in Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine. I have a clinical practice in Berkeley, California, and I had about a 25-year hatha yoga practice, and so my episodes will really be focused on ways that we cultivate our life force, our prana. And so I'll be drawing from my training in Ayurvedic medicine as well as the practice of yoga, and the teaching of some yoga sequences. And Ayurveda and yoga very much have a nexus around the subject of prana, and both have unique and complementary ways to help someone to promote wellness on both a physiological as well as a psychological level by balancing your prana.

And I'm really happy to be exploring subjects as varied as morning routine to travel tips, and where I'll be giving in all of those segments, I'll be giving tips that are both Ayurvedic in orientation as well as yogic in orientation. And I'm really, really thankful to have my Ayurvedic mentor and teacher, Dr. Robert Svoboda to join me. Thank you. Thank you. I'll be focusing on prana, what it is, what it does, how you can become more aware of your own prana and how it circulates in your system.

And also Pratyahara, which means taking those sense organs that we have that are always pointing themselves outward and learning how to bring themselves back in. And, quite possibly, doing a little exercise to facilitate that activity. Great. We hope you enjoy it.