Jim Montrose

Ayurvedic Counseling, Yoga, Rebirthing, Meditation, Healthy Cooking

Balance, the Art of Living

21 Day Balance 2

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11 April 2020 Day 16 (Balance 2) – Food to Balance
Welcome to Day 16 (Balance 2) – Eat well; increase wellness, feel centered, and healthy when you eat for life.
“If you eat living food, the same will quicken you, but if you kill your food, the dead food will kill you also. For life comes only from life, and from death comes always death.”
Essene Gospel of Peace
You are what you eat. In modern times this reminds us to focus on living foods that renew and revitalize the body and avoid dead foods that accelerate aging and increase entropy (disorder). Dr. Rivene has always taught patients to eat “Love” foods, those alive with life force, and avoid “Fear” foods, foods devoid of life. Eliminate canned, frozen, preserved foods, micro-waved, old, and highly processed foods preferring fresh fruits, nut, grains, and vegetable in season, and freshly prepared foods as close to nature as possible.
Alive (love based foods)* Dead (fear based foods)
Fresh in season and local fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legume, Living water (from fresh squeezed juice consumed after squeezing) Canned, bottled, frozen, preserved, micro-waved, processed, meat, artificially flavor, sodas, candies, etc.
Freshly prepared foods leftovers
Eat from the rainbow of colors to insure a range of anti-oxidants and micro-nutrients.
Eat the Colors of the Rainbow
Red: Tomatoes, watermelon, radicchio, peppers, red grapes, beets, red cabbage, strawberries, currants
Orange/yellow: Squash, carrots, peppers, sweet potato (yam), pumpkin, papaya, mango, peach, nectarine
Green: Spinach, Swiss chard, green figs, broccoli, kale, peas, avocado, greens, cabbage, watercress, rocket
Purple/blue: Plums, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, eggplant w/ skin
To fit the needs of your body’s constitution (dosha) eat all six tastes sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent at meals (join our Happy Foods (link) class in May to learn more or sprinkle your food with your dosha churna (link) available at the office).
Eat all six tastes to balance your body
Sweet, salty, and sour to tonify in moderation, excess lowers metabolism. Rice, squash, celery, sea weed, lemon, fermented foods, etc.
Pungent, bitter, and astringent to reduce inflammation and increase metabolism. Radishes, peppers, spinach, greens, lentils, lettuce, mustard greens and powder, ginger, etc.

Practice this for 21 days to see the effects first hand. Continue the practices from previous days for the entire program to fully experience the benefits.
Take Away (Balance 2): Eat real living food (like nature provides) in all colors, and the six tastes for abundant balanced life force.
Enjoy your Balance,
Dr. Zaida Rivene, D.C.
www.drzaidarivine.co.za
083 290 1283
and Jim Montrose, Ayurvedic counselor

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Balance, the Art of Living

21 Day Balance 1

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10 April 2020 Day 15 (Balance 1) – Poise: A first step.
Welcome to Day 15 (Balance 1) – Making friends with still, being in meditation.
Welcome to day 15, the beginning of week three, in this week we focus on Balance of Work, Play, and Rest the final journey of our 21 day program of cleaning, purging, and balance.
Balance is the masterful blending of rest, work and play. Rest is a vital part of well-being, longevity, health, and vitality. Play with childlike curiosity, openness, and wonder helps us maintain a youthful mind and a flexible consciousness to renew and reverse aging. It helps you recapture the value of fullness, aliveness, joy and just being (your-self).
Balance begins by putting yourself first and meeting your needs especially for self-care so you have the energy for work, play and helping others. Many in our society have this backward and try to help others without taking care of themselves first. The result of this is a person with low energy, burn-out and often misalignment, a state where they cannot help others.
To really balance yourself, care for yourself by resting in the sacred space of silent connection in centered calm. In meditation at a deep level (preferably in silence) you seek out the silent inner stillness without the overstimulation of our octane fueled lifestyle and constant entertainment and stimulation. Retreat to the stillness and the quiet that lays within gives us a window on our infinite nature and pure potentiality.
Find a comfortable place where you will not be disturbed for 15 minutes or so. Sit comfortably on the floor or in a chair with your back straight (avoid leaning back on the wall or the back of the chair if you can sit comfortably without out external support). Set a timer for 1, 5, 10, 15 minutes, start slowly and gradually increase the time as you become comfortable with it. Close your eyes and observe. Let your thoughts and images gently pass through your mind without following them or engaging in them. Start to focus on the breath into your lungs; feeling it come in through your nostrils, down into your lungs and back up and out.
Next, move the focus to the triangle from the point between your eyes down to the corners of your mouth. Sense the breath entering the nostrils, flowing over the lips, inside the nose, down the trachea, to the lungs and then return reversing its way along the same path.
Deliberately slow and lengthen the breath when it feels OK, take a moment of silence and stillness between the in and out breath and vice versa. Again do the holds with the breath in a rhythm that causes ease in your breath. Continue breathing and know that whatever you observe is ideal. Let go, just relax into the stillness and witness whatever comes. If the mind is busy don’t worry, continue to observe the breath from equanimity (non-reaction). Make friends and let it bath you in its calm stillness. Continue until your timer rings. Adjust the time you sit slowly and as your practice deepens you will be able to sit longer and enjoy the quiet.
Practice this for 21 days to see the effects first hand. Continue the practices from previous days for the entire program to fully experience the benefits.
Take Away (Balance 1): In the stillness inside me is a calming peace that is always accessible.
Enjoy your Balance,
Dr. Zaida Rivene, D.C.
www.drzaidarivine.co.za
083 290 1283
and Jim Montrose, Ayurvedic counselor
www.drzaidarivene.co.za/jimmontrose
071 959 0786
P.S. Check out the website (www.drzaidarivene. co.za) for other articles and resources on practices, words, inspired living, health, chakra meditation, Ayurveda and other topics.
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Purge

21 Day Purge 7

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9 April 2020 Day 14 (Purge 7) – Letting Go: Review and handle incompletes
Welcome to Day 14 (Purge 7) – Letting Go – Staying in present moment, the only moment we can affect.
Our purging activities in the physical, mental and emotional realms are paying off. As you clear the clutter the silent pull of unfinished projects and experiences diminishes and you feel a lightness of being, more energy, focus, and freedom. You become more in the present moment and distractions disappear. Review the effectiveness list in purge 1 and finish or schedule what remains.
Make purging clutter fun. I love to purge take one room or area at a time, organize it, and discard things in a box at the door until you are satisfied. Move on to the next room or area and continue. Sort the item as you discard them into the box for the trash, selling, giving to friends, or donating. Keep this up on a regular basis (monthly or quarterly) to feel the lightness of being and freedom it creates.
Apply the joy test. Doing only what brings you joy can greatly increase the pleasure and effectiveness of what you do. See if you can remove a job or task you do not enjoy totally or delegate it to someone else.
Is it time to eliminate something from your “To Do” lists; or take action on something you have wanted to do for awhile? Maybe this is the time to shine the light of truthfulness on that part of your life and change it now. Be courageous and consider relationships (start the one you want, move out of the one that no longer suits), careers (change jobs or even careers to a totally different one if it calls), throw out a close relatives gifts you don’t like (even if you don’t want to disappoint them), those old papers and projects you are holding on to for when you have time and never get to, etc.
Practice this until you clear the clutter and feel the effects first hand. Continue the practices from previous days for the entire program to fully experience the benefits.
Take Away (Purge 7): Reclaim your passion and energy by releasing incompletes and resistance.
Enjoy your Cleanse,

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Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counseling

What is involved –With a 7000 year history it is probably the oldest medical system in use. It has had an extensive history of interaction and influence with Chinese medicine and was a major influence on Greek, Arabic and Western systems of medicine.

Ayurveda is not just a system of medicine but a science of life quality enhancement that is designed to enhance well-being, longevity, happiness, energy, and freedom. It is a complete system of living physically, mentally and spiritually and truly nourishes the whole organism for optimal health and greatest use of our faculties.

Who can Benefit– It can benefit everyone and prescribes complete and comprehensive health regimens from birth to old age. It is tailored to meet your needs by determining your own unique body constitution. Knowing your constitution and becoming aware of your natural health urges you will learn to balance and live in harmony with your own nature.

Services – Constitution Analysis, Ayurvedic Exam (learn your constitution, current imbalances, nature and receive your treatment plan), Lifestyle recommendations, Herbal Recommendations, Ayurvedic Treatments, Training and Ayurvedic education, Diet Planning and cooking for your constitution.

Make an appointment – call now 071-9595-0786 or email: jimmontrose@redroanranch.co.za

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Rebirthing

rebirthingWhat it is – A modern day innovation on centuries old Pranayama breathing techniques designed to purify and resolve emotional blocks and traumas that interfere with a persons natural ease and health.

How you will benefit – Leonard Orr the developer of modern rebirthing says that everyone has birth trauma and usually many other types of trauma. He goes on to say without the successful resolution of this trauma and removal from the physical body it inhibits one’s full execution of life. Rebirthing is a very effective way to cleanse the body and remove the traumas from the physical body and mental patterns. It is a simple breathing technique that everyone can learn, usually within ten sessions, and continue on their own.

Ridding yourself of the nine traumas – Leonard Orr, developer of Rebirthing, has identified nine traumas that people commonly have and are effectively resolved using the Rebirthing breath technique:

Birth trauma,  Personal Lie, Repression of Feminine, Past Lives (tribal trauma), Parental Disapproval,

Death (unconscious) Urge,  School trauma, Religious trauma

Make an appointment – Schedule a session or a package of ten treatments now call now 071-9595-0786 or email: jimmontrose@redroanranch.co.za

Yoga Therapy and Life extension/ease

yogaAyurvedic  Yoga – Yoga and Ayurveda are twin sciences of the Vedas and work together to help the individual to obtain optimal health and longevity in order to fulfil their unique purpose in life. Ayurvedic yoga acknowledges the unique needs of the individual’s body constitution in designing the proper yoga routines for her/his nature and phase of life. It also offers unique cleansing, purification, breathing, meditation and associated processes to assist in maintaining wellness, ease and life extension.

How you can benefit—The proper ayurvedic yoga routine and/or therapies can help you live a more fulfilled, physically at ease and rewarding life.

Programs and appointments – Private consultations are offered for physical and health challenges leading  to a specific program designed for your need. I offer classes and seminars from time to time for learning about this in a group situation.

Call 071-9595-0786 or email: jimmontrose@redroanranch.co.za for appointment, schedule and information.

Rejuvenation

untitled-jpg4Ayurveda and Rejuvenation – Ayurveda has had a long term focus on extending life so an individual can achieve their purpose in life. Through a number of herbal rasayanas (tonic formulas), meditation, detoxifying methods, fasting from sensory inputs and other techniques as well as life style selection coupled with modern techniques and procedures we can reverse the aging process and live healthy and vibrant lives for 120-140 years.

What it can do for you – Learn simple strategies and seasonal tune-ups that can keep you younger, energetic and alert.

Who should consider it – Anyone who wants to get the most out of life and feel alive, energized and young.

The Program –  The Art of Rejuvenation has been offered as an 8 week program consisting of 3 hours of lecture and daily homework and experiential learning  during the week. It is available from time to time and may be offered as a 3 day seminar or as a private consultation.

Register or private consultations – Call now 071-9595-0786 or email: jimmontrose@redroanranch.co.za

Meditation

untitled-jpg5Meditation – Meditation is Yoga for the mind and has many forms that can be tailored to an individual’s needs and provide great health benefits. Meditation helps everyone gain more balance, perspective and calm from a psychological point of view. Physiologically medical doctors studying this eons old system have identified a relaxation response that  meditators produce that not only reduces the markers of modern day stress and mental agitation but improves the immune system, helps circulation, maintains brain functioning, helps irritable bowel syndrome, reduces high blood pressure and insomnia. In short this ancient science is a potent elixir to maintain health and enjoyment.

How you can benefit—Developing a meditation practice gives you the tools to maintain your perspective, reduce stress and create broader and deeper awareness and enjoyment in your own life and it particularly useful in dealing with dis-ease.

Programs and appointments – Private consultations and group classes are offered. Also check our blog for meditation hints and articles. Retreat patients are offered meditation and breathing instruction as part of their program. Check out our Classes and seminars for learning about this in a group situation.  Call 071-9595-0786 or email: jimmontrose@redroanranch.co.za for appointment, schedule and information.

Healthy Cooking and Nutrition

untitled-jpg8Private and Group Instruction – I offer private and group instruction on the following cooking systems and nutritional programs:

Ayurvedic cooking – learn some of the secrets of using food as your medicine in the ancient ayurvedic system of eating for your constitution.

Gerson Therapeutic diet and Cooking – Learn to cook with low temperature, no oil and no salt to create tasty and healthy rejuvenating meals for people on the Gerson program or people who want to create to maintain life at high levels.

Gourmet Vegetarian and Real Food Cooking – Give up the damaging processed foods and toxic food choices of modern eating with Real foods cooked to retain nutrients and reduce the toxic loads of our modern industrialized food network.  Learn the secrets of great tasting gourmet foods from around the world.

Call now 071-9595-0786 or email: jimmontrose@redroanranch.co.za

Jim Montrose

Jim Montrose

MSEE, MBA, Ayurvedic Counselor, Vegetarian Chef, Rebirther, Yoga Therapy and Black Belt Karate.

Director and manager of the Red Roan Ranch retreat programs. “I love to help our patients develop clarity on their healing/rejuvenating journey and help them create life skills that allow them to fully own their unique abilities to make a difference in their families and the world.”

Jim trained with the leading US Ayurvedic master, Dr. David Frawley in Ayurvedic self-care and rejuvenation. He has also had coursework and training from Dr. Chopra, Dr. Lad, Mukunda Stiles and other top teachers and Yoga masters. With a strong interest in nutrition and healthy cooking for over forty six years, Jim has written two cookbooks on Healthy Vegetarian cooking and Raw Food Preparation. He has a strong interest in Ethnic cooking from around the world and is a master at Gerson Cooking and Real Plant Based Foods and cooking. “ I love introducing people to tasty and filling vegetarian foods.” Trained by Leonard Orr, the founder of Rebirthing, he can help you breathe new life into your body and release the nine traumas.

In an earlier incarnation, Jim cofounded Chipcom Corporation and introduced broadband Ethernet and Fibre Optic Ethernet to the vibrant 1990’s computer networking environment. When Chipcom went public, Jim explored his artistic and health side developing courses in vegetarian cooking and learned Jazz Piano.

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Make an appointment – Schedule a constitution analysis or ayurvedic exam and get started now!  call 071-9595-0786 or email: jimmontrose@redroanranch.co.za

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