Cate Stillman

Cate is an Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, and the founder/mastermind behind the Worldwide Association of Yoga Health Coaches. She trains yoga teachers and wellness experts how to accelerate the wellness path of their clients with 10 habits from Ayurveda, the ancient folk medicine from India and sister science of Yoga. Cate’s results-focused methods rely on merging Ayurvedic Medicine theory with modern behavioral science for increased energy, deeper rest, and a healthier diet in a quicker time. 

Cate’s been practicing as an Ayurvedic Practitioner and community wellness teacher since 2001 and has founded several Yoga and Wellness websites. 

To add on to this: 

• Cate is Certified as Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist and Pancha Karma Specialist since 2001 
• She is also a graduate of Dr. Vasant lad’s gurukula program in Pune, India in 2004 
• She has undergone panchakarma Intensive Training in Kerala, India 
• Cate is a certified Anusara Yoga teacher 
• She completed a 2 year Iyengar Yoga teacher training in 2001 

1. Part 1

• The inter-generational perspective of Ayurveda and Awake Living 
• How does energy work 
• How to know if you’re out of balance by the way you breathe 
• Getting centered on how energy works 
• TRINITY OF ENERGIES 
• Energy and auto-immune disorders 
• How can you use this energy and this knowledge to understand your unique constitution? 
• How they work in terms of the greater laws of nature in daily and seasonal routines 
• How to attune to your rhythms to slide the scale from unnecessary ageing to revitalization, rejuvenation, vitality and repair 
• The full spectrum from pre-conception to death 
• What is inter-generational wellness? 
• The outer eco-system and inner eco-system and their exchange 
• Developing a cooperative relationship with nature and ourselves 
• The different rites of passages of life 
• Understanding polarity 
• Enhancing our yoga, day to day living 

1.2 How Energy Works

• Chakras and the flow of energy 
• The Nadi’s or the channels of energies 
• Energy channels attuned to Kapha and Pitta- Ida and Pingala 
• What the location of weight deposition on your body tells about your personality 
• Factors behind feeling weighed down- the elements affecting your weight 
• Your body and the play of the 5 elements of air, water, earth, fire and space 
• The energies of Kapha, Pitta and Vata 
• Different zones of the face where different imbalances are indicated-what forehead issues, t-zone issues and jawline issues indicate 
• How energy works out of balance: when do you have too much water and earth, too much fire or too much air and space 
• Our Rhythms and cycles- what happens when we understand and follow the rhythms?

1.3 The Daily Rhythms  

• How the 3 Doshas work through the daily patterns 
• Dominant energies and different times of the day 
• How to organize your day according to energetic requirements? 
• How we are naturally attracted to eating at certain times 
• How, by sleeping and waking at the right time, we can facilitate the bodily function of repair 
• How, by eating at the right time we can facilitate the bodily function of Cleansing and transforming 

1.4 Habits of Yogis

• Choosing and sculpting your habits 
• Why you think something will or won't work for you 
• What your habits do to your identity 
• The 3 terms that will actually make you see the power you have over your life 
• Tantric understanding of the Gunas 
• Why staying up late at night is making you gain weight 

1.5 The Koshas 

• All parts of the ‘self’- the 5 different bodies 
• The different needs of the different bodies 
• Ways and practices to ‘feed’ each of your 5 bodies 
• Practicing 5-Body hygiene 
• We get energy from food- that’s true, but not the full story 
• Habits that will help you align with the Koshas 

1.6 Prakruti and Vikruti 

• The energies of Kapha/Pitta/Vata 
• Intrinsic abundance 
• When your constitution is your ‘Prakruti’ and when its your ‘Vikruti’ 
• Things that will sink your ship 
• The different workout for different purposes:
• To center, to cool and to energize 

2. Part 2

• The importance of the rites of passage 
• A look at stages of life from pre-conception to death 
• How we can optimize our own experience/journey through these stages as well as help others going through a stage of transition/preparing for a rite of passage 
• The early stage of life- Kapha, growth and cohesion 
• How growing is a process of dehydration 
• Navigating our geriatric phase/cares 
• How to alleviate imbalances in Pitta phase and elongate Vata time or ‘old age’ 
• How buildup of Doshas/imbalances creates a lot of negativity 
• HABITS AND IDENTITY VIS-À-VIS THE RITES OF PASSAGE 
• Shift of identity 
• Conscious conception 
• Ritualistic deaths- making death less scary 
• Subtle shifts of identity that happen around wellness and illness 
• Post-Partum: How the first 40/42 days = 42 years 
• How that which shows in the physical comes from the energetic 
• What are the things that make it harder for the family to thrive 
• Reaching the stage where your intuitive body directs your identity 
• What happens when we don’t follow rites of passage and get stuck to an identity? 
• What you can do to transition into the Vata/old age 
• The importance for teens to know about their biorhythms 
• Rites of passage around marriage 
• Why is it so important to go through rites of passage? 

2.2 What Yogis Eat  

• How can you consume life-force?
• Which are the foods with more life-force?
• Which are energetically dead/dumb foods- the S.A.D. diet- standard American diet 
• Natural ways of preserving food 
• When you’re borrowing energy from your organs 
• How to prepare food 
• Food for your constitution 
• ‘Nutrification’- where do you want to go with your beliefs and food? 
• Kitchen Sadhana- uplevelling of what and how we’re eating 
• Kitchen habits 
• Food: Fermentation, Dehydration, Raw vs Cooked Soups, Salads, Marinades, Animals 

2.3 Kids and Elders  

• The 3 places to find imbalances 
• What the Skin, Gut and Lungs can tell you 
• Tongue as the map of the entire Gastro-Intestinal tract 
• How to make mood issues dissipate 

2.4 Ayurveda On the Mat  

• The approach to exercise and yoga 
• Prana, Tejas, Ojas 
• Vata, Pitta and Kapha reducing yoga practices 
• Practices you should you do if:
• 1) you’ve been traveling a lot/there’s been trauma in your life
• 2) you need a lot of focus and intensity
• 3) your life is sedentary/there is weight gain 

2.5 Energy and Yoga Practice  

• Context for your yoga practice 
• The downward and upward flow of energy 
• Important tips to help you through your yoga practice 
• Energy dynamics of issues around lower back pain, issues around the heart etc. and how to balance it with yoga practice 

2.6 How to Heal - Sanctuary 

• Spanda + the law of increase 
• Our energy levels
• How to create your own healing space 
• Cleaning your physical space- architect better choices 
• A key link to the development of auto-immune diseases. 
• The healing diet 
• Disease and disease process 
• How do we return to the slow healing vibrations and emerge more deeply aligned and empowered 
• Learning subtle practices that will help you grow deeper, more intrinsic energy 
• How to tap into your own healing sanctuary 

3. Part 3

• The 3 Doshas
• Vata
• Pitta
• Kapha
• Agni and its 4 types
• Sama Agni: Balanced Agni
• Vishama Agni: Vata Agni
• Tikshna Agni: Pitta Agni
• Manda Agni: Kapha Agni
• Dhatus 
• Malas 

3.2 What Is Health? Part 2 

• The 3 main causes of disease from an Ayurvedic perspective: 
• Doshas and Subtle Doshas 

• Learn how to read your tongue and decipher signs of imbalance in your body

3.4 Your Chakras 

• First Chakra: Root Center 
• Second Chakra: Sacral 
• Third Chakra: Solar Plexus 
• Fourth Chakra: Heart 
• Fifth Chakra: Throat 
• Sixth Chakra: Third Eye 
• Seventh Chakra: Crown 

3.5 Why Yogis Detox  

• Vata Detox 
• Pitta Detox 
• Kapha Detox 
• Daily practices for your detox 
• A Breath of Fresh Air 
• Meditation 
• Silence 
• Media & Socializing 
• Make Your Space Sacred 

3.6 Spices As Medicine 

• Imbalances Fostered By Each Dosha 
• Spice as Medicine Decoder 
• Digging into Spice 
• Ginger 
• Fennel 
• Black Pepper 
• Cayenne 
• Cardamom 
• Turmeric 
• Vehicles for ingesting Herbs 
• Water 
• Fermented Liquids 
• Honey 
• Milk 
• Aloe