Conscious Conception

Embark on a transformative journey towards sacred parenthood with our “Conscious Conception: A Vedic Approach” course.

Every Sunday starting from September 22nd, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM IST, via Zoom.

In these 90-minute sessions, we weave together ancient Vedic wisdom and practical Ayurvedic techniques, guiding you to create the optimal environment for inviting an elevated soul into your family. Delve into the essential role of mental, physical, and spiritual health in conception, exploring:

• Meditation practices for spiritual preparation
• Ayurvedic nutrition for fertility enhancement
• Detoxification techniques for optimal health
• Sacred Vedic rituals for conscious conception

This unique course bridges timeless wisdom with modern needs, making it invaluable for:

• Couples embarking on the path to parenthood
• Wellness practitioners expanding their knowledge
• Individuals interested in the deeper aspects of bringing new life into the world
• Anyone seeking to support others on their conception journey
• Join us in this sacred exploration rooted in the timeless wisdom of Vedic traditions and Ayurveda.

*To enrol in the course, please scan the QR code provided to make your payment in INR. After completing the payment, send an email to info@thevediclife.com with your payment confirmation and the email address you used/want to sign up with. Once we verify your payment, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions for accessing the course.

• Herbs and supplements for menstrual regularity
• Identifying your most fertile days
• The impact of birth control pills
• Enhancing male reproductive health
• The sacred role of the father
• The cosmic connection: How celestial bodies influence human life
• The importance of timing in conception according to Jyotish
• Muhurta: the art of auspicious timing
• How conception timing can influence the child’s health, personality, and destiny
• Pre-conception rituals
• Practices to overcome negative karmic influences
• The significance of rituals in the Vedic tradition
• The importance of Samskaras: purificatory rites before and during conception
• Garbhadhana Samskara – the ritual of conception
• Meditation and prayers for inviting an elevated soul
• Invoking divine blessings for conception
• Creating a sattvic home atmosphere
• Practices to elevate consciousness
• Practices for developing trust in divine timing

Where this teaching comes from

The practices taught in this course are not modern inventions, and you do not have to take our word for that. Three primary sources sit underneath most of what we cover. All three are cited below so you can look them up and check them yourself.

The puṃsavana vow: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.18.45–56

The Bhāgavatam preserves an unusually detailed account of puṃsavana, an observance kept for a year through conception and pregnancy. Kaśyapa Muni sets out what the vow asks of the mother: not to harm any living creature, not to curse or speak untruth, not to keep company with the cruel-minded, never to give way to anger, to keep clean clothes and clean habits, to be careful about rest, and to worship her husband and meditate on him as present within her womb. See 6.18.47, 6.18.48, 6.18.51 and 6.18.54.

It is worth reading the whole passage rather than a summary of it, because the narrative carries its own warning. Diti undertook the vow out of a wish for revenge, and the story turns on precisely that. The tradition’s own telling makes the point that the observance is not a technique to be executed correctly. The state of mind behind it is the substance of it. The chapter can be read at Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.18.

The passage into embodied life: Chāndogya Upaniṣad 5.10.6

The Chāndogya’s teaching of the five fires traces the route by which a departing soul returns to embodied life. It becomes mist, then cloud, then rain, then falls to the earth and grows as rice, barley, sesame and beans, and so enters the food a parent eats. The verse closes yo yo hy annam atti yo retaḥ siñcati tad bhūya eva bhavati. This is the text that sits behind the tradition’s care about what parents eat and how they live in the months before conception. Read it at Chāndogya Upaniṣad 5.10.6.

How the tradition reads that passage: Brahma-sūtra 3.1.26–27

The Brahma-sūtra takes up the same Chāndogya passage and reasons about it closely. Sūtra 3.1.27, retaḥ-sig-yogo ’tha, states that the soul then comes into contact with the one who begets. In his Govinda Bhāṣya, Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa rules out a literal reading: the soul does not become the rain, or the grain, or the father, but comes into association with them, much as a passenger is associated with the vehicle carrying him. The next sūtra, yoṇeḥ śarīram, adds that the body itself comes from the womb.

A note on scope. These passages are given here as the textual background to a course in Vedic lifestyle education. They are not medical claims. Nothing in this course diagnoses or treats any condition, and nothing here promises an outcome in conception, fertility or pregnancy. Please keep your doctor or midwife in the picture.