Maintaining Good Digestion with Ayurveda - A Pillar of Good Health

According to Ayurveda, one of the main causes of all diseases is rooted in the impairment of the body's main ingredient principle called Agni, the fire of digestion. A faulty fire leads to improper functioning of the tissue fires and can lead to poor synthesis of tissues.

Visualize your digestion as a fire in the stomach; you need to provide the proper fuel and conditions so that it can burn optimally. If you dampen the fire or do not feed it, it will burn out. If you feed it too much or with the wrong fuel, it will burn too hot and be out of control.

When Agni (fire of digestion) is strong, we are free from symptoms such as:

  • Irregular appetite
  • Bloating
  • Loud or smelly gas
  • Constipation
  • Excessive burping
  • Intense and unbearable hunger
  • Abdominal cramping
  • Acidity
  • Heartburn
  • Nausea
  • Loose stool or diarrhea
  • Lack of appetite
  • Heaviness and/or sluggishness
  • Lethargy

Because some of these symptoms are so common, they are often considered normal; however, each and every symptom is a sign of imbalance occurring in the bodily system.

If we pay attention to these signs, we can correct the imbalance in the early stage before it begins the disease process, leading to more serious issues.


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Heidi Nordlund is the founder of Namaskar Healing™, LLC. She is a  NAMA certified Ayurvedic Doctor, Yoga Therapist, Tibetan Cranial Practitioner, Postpartum Specialist and Spiritual Healer who is available for private consultations and healing sessions in person or via phone.

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In 2010, Heidi graduated as certified Ayurveda Vaidya from Alandi Ayurveda Gurukula, Boulder, CO. Her thirst for deepening her knowledge lead her to continue her advanced studies at Alandi, and in 2012, she received her Bhishakgwara certificate.

Heidi has also graduated as Ayurvedic practitioner, Pancha Karma Therapist, Yoga Therapist and Ayurvedic Postpartum Specialist from the Rocky Mountain Institute for Yoga and Ayurveda, Boulder, CO, and has completed several intensives at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM.

Heidi's Ayurvedic teachers include Alakananda Ma, Dr. Bharat Vaidya, Vasant Lad, Dr. Sarita Shrestha, Dr. Sarasvati Buhrman, and Ysha Martha Oakes.

In 2008, Heidi earned her Tibetan Cranial Practitioner Certification after graduating from a rigorous apprenticeship under the guidance of Master Teacher Shar Lee.

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As a certified Yoga Teacher through Nepal's Sapta Yoga International (1998), and certified Yoga Therapist through the Rocky Mountain Institute for Yoga & Ayurveda (2006) and International Association of Yoga Therapists (2017), Heidi conducts private sessions, Yoga classes and workshops in Colorado, Arizona and Denmark.

Her teachings are enriched by formal academic training through Naropa University; her Bachelor of Arts Degree (2005) reflects her focus on Contemplative Psychology, Health and Healing, Sanskrit, and Hindu philosophies, practices and traditions.

Heidi continues to deepen and advance her spiritual connection through personal dedication to devotional practices as a Kriya Yoga initiate in the lineage of Paramahamsa Hariharananda and Paramahamsa Prajnanananda.

Heidi was born and raised in Denmark; she moved to the United States in 2002 to engage with enduring dedication in an ongoing deepening learning and application of spiritual healing disciplines. This led to her founding of Namaskar Healing in 2007.