Jaisri Lambert RPP, Certified Ayurveda Practitioner

Jaisri is one of the first western women to become fully educated in Ayurveda, the world’s oldest holistic health science. She is also the creator of ‘Turiya Therapy’, a touch-healing science based in Ayurvedic acupressure and Sankhya philosophy. Trained mainly by Vaidya Vasant D. Lad, one of the foremost Ayurvedic physicians in the world today, in the complete art and science of Ayurvedic medicine, Vaidya Vasant. D. Lad provided the name “Turiya Therapy”, to describe her powerful still point healing science. She is considered to be at the top of her field and is a much sought-after speaker and teacher in Ayurveda and Turiya Therapy, especially in the US & Canada. Jaisri has been practicing and teaching natural therapies since 1983, when she became certified in Polarity Therapy. She translated the Polarity Therapy textbooks of Dr. Randolph Stone, D.O., N.D., D.C., into oral French in 1984-5. She founded the West coast Polarity School in 1986 and later the East-West Polarity School in 1992. In 1986, she met internationally recognized author, Robert E. Svoboda, B.A.M.S., who introduced her to the parent science of Polarity Therapy, Ayurvedic Medicine. In 1989, she met Vaidya Vasant D. Lad, M.A.Sc., master teacher of Ayurveda, who accepted her for an apprenticeship that lasted twelve years. Jaisri teaches Ayurveda: Mind/Body healing at The Institute of Holistic Nutrition Vancouver campus.

  • AMB 02 Ayurveda: Mind/Body Healing

    Ayurveda: Mind/Body Healing Unique to IHN, Ayurveda is the science by which life in its totality is understood – the traditional natural medicine of India, dating back over five thousand years as it describes the diet, medicines, and behaviors that are beneficial or harmful for life and consciousness. It classifies all the factors of our lives in an organic energetic language that reflects the entire living biosphere around us. According to this philosophy, there are three primary life forces, called doshas, in the body – Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, which are the manifestations of the Great Elements of air, fire, and water. When out of balance, they are the causative factors in the diseased process. If we eat and behave in ways that support both our constitution and our environment, we are likely to stay clean, clear, and healthy. Students will be taught and evaluated on constitutional balance through an in-depth assessment of body systems and dietary recommendations according to dosha (physical) and gunas (spiritual). Learning Outcomes: • Develop customized protocols using Ayurvedic assessment tools such as tongue analysis, tonification, purification, and detoxification • Explain the classifications of disease (innate, exogenous, and psychic) that arise when the body is not in balance • Describe how each of the six tastes of sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent are manifestations of 2 of the 5 elements – earth, air, water, fire, and ether – and have a symbiotic relationship with the foods we eat • Learn to properties of healing Ayurvedic herbs such as Triphala, Aloe Gel, and Trikatu • Assess how the accumulation of Ama when there is a disruption in the metabolic force of Agni Ayurveda teaches students how to embody the Ayurvedic lifestyle through the daily incorporation of meditation, yoga, and breathwork. Practitioners recommend general dietary plans to rebalance constitution based on dosha type and specific detoxification diets such as Palliation Therapy and Pancha Karma which stabilize digestion through deep tissue cleansings.