Prajnaparadha | The Body’s Urges: the Unspoken Roots of Disease Part I
Everyday Ayurveda and Yoga at Hale PuleShow Notes
Feeling the urge to understand your body's deepest wisdom? Honor it. In this first episode of our two-part series on prajnaparadha (crimes against wisdom), we're getting open and candid about those "impolite" bodily functions we often suppress. Myra explores why these natural urges are your body's intelligence at work and how ignoring them hinders your health more than you think. Most of us aren't aware of the body's natural urges, let alone how often we suppress them. What society deems "p...
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