Come explore the intricate connections between our emotional states and the organs of the body - and how understanding these relationships can help improve our overall health and wellness.

From an Ayurvedic perspective, each emotion has an affinity with specific organs. For example, an emotion like grief will tend to lodge in the lungs, while anger will remain in the liver. As time goes on and these obstructions remain in their associated organs, pathologies can develop. A person experiencing deep seated, unprocessed grief may experience pathologies associated with the lungs such as tightness in the chest, cough, wheezing and asthma.

Join globally celebrated Ayurvedic physician and scholar Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, in this deep dive into how undigested or poorly processed emotions can lodge in specific organs - while exploring the pathologies and diseases that can manifest as a result.

You will come away with a deeper understanding of the connection between organs and emotions as well as with practical tools such as meditation, pranayama and herbs to cleanse and support these organs on a subtle level.

Topics we will cover in this webinar

Join Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, founder and director of The Ayurvedic Institute, to explore the intricate, fascinating, and beneficial knowledge of the relationship between our emotions and our organs - knowledge that can have a profound impact on our health and wellbeing.

Together with Vasant Lad we will explore:

• Which emotions are associated with specific organs in the body - such as the relationship between anger and the liver
• How our emotions have an influence on the biochemistry of the whole body through an exploration of hormones and neurotransmitters
• How specific emotional imbalances can manifest and crystalize in the associated organs to produce pathologies
• How to release emotions from organs through herbology and spiritual practices, such as meditation, mantra, pranayama as well as using Ayurvedic herbs

Vasant Lad regularly pauses during the webinar, offering the opportunity to ask questions. All our webinars include ample time at the end for a Q&A.

You have an interest in how subtle emotional and mental fields have an influence on the physical body, and want to gather insights and practices that support you in regulating these imbalances in yourself.

You are an Ayurvedic practitioner wanting to dive deeper into this topic with world-renowned Ayurvedic physician and scholar Vasant Lad as he shares his insights from over 4 decades of practical experience - in order to better assist your clients on their journeys of holistic healing.

You are a healthcare provider working with the body or the mind, looking to gain an Ayurvedic understanding of how emotions play a role in disease manifestation with supporting practices you can share with your patients or clients to help them process emotional experiences.

Experiencing Emotion: A Human Reality

Emotions are the natural responses of the human being to our daily interactions with our environment and relationships. They are the result of the encounter of the outer reality with the inner one, and particularly with our memories. Depending on whether our past memory was positive or negative, we may respond to the same situation with joy, happiness or sadness, anger or frustration. The nature of these emotions is to arise and flow through us unimpeded, just as tides ebb and flow. As emotions arise, we can pay them attention and listen to them in order to increase our self awareness and allow insight to unfold.

Crystallized emotion and toxins (Ama)

Modern life often does not equip us to watch our emotions in this way. Instead of listening and observing our emotions, we do not have the necessary tools to process them, and instead of the emotion flowing through us we end up being overcome with them, or suppressing them. By ‘controlling’ our emotions in this way, we block their natural movement and cause them to lodge, undigested into our connective tissue. Just as poorly digested food in our GI tract becomes Ama (toxins) and enters the deeper tissues, this mental/emotional Ama crystallizes and stays in the body, causing blockages of the subtle and physical channels.

Emotions and their affinity to doshas and organs

From an Ayurvedic perspective, each emotion has a doshic quality (as Vata, Pitta, or Kapha) and an affinity with specific organs in the body system. For example, an emotion like grief will tend to lodge in the lungs, while anger will remain in the liver. As time goes on and these obstructions remain in their associated organs, pathologies may develop. A person experiencing deep seated, unprocessed grief may experience pathologies associated with the lungs such as tightness in the chest, cough, wheezing and asthma.