KALARI CHIKITSA PT

Namaste Friend,

First and foremost know that you are seen. That there are forces in this world that cares for you dearly and have created this practice of batle-craft and healing for you, and humans like you. The ancient art and science behind Kalari Chikitsa was brought forth by and for warriors and something deep inside of you ses itself in this context. Through this practice I hope people like you feel confirmed as fighters and feel cared for, because you are.

Now, I Erika, therapist and teacher of yoga, pray that you are well and ask of you only one thing, that you continue reading this only when you have time alone, when you can place yourself comfortable, somewhere calm and sweet, somewhere were your surroundings are of such nature that they ask to be savoured.

Is it that time now? Are you there? Yes. Then. Let me take you on the journey of the birth of Kalari Piuyatte.

In the early days, when man was left to live inside our first earthly battle, among sabel toothed tigers and poisonous plants, next to nutritious nuts and friendly fish. Back then a pattern of being was born. Imagine us, humans, on our ancient journey of trials and errors, through the rugged lands and untouched dense forests of the Stones age time (some 13 000 - 4 000 years b.c.). Can you fantom how a life in search of knowledge, knowledge essential to living, must have evolved?

Like Eve who bit the apple, our forefathers and ancient grandmothers learned how some healed and some hurt: plants, animals, environments, elements and movements. From these learnings curiosity awoke, the yearnings were fed and so we began to want even more and cast our ancient selves out of our known places. On to adventures among never seen mountains and unfamiliar faces, beyond the border of the known, outside of paradise. Because of this hope to understand more, because of the desire to understand differently and because of the calling to share what had already been →

passed down to us from the ‘universe’ we sought to unite with others.

These adventures, this life in learning, proved to be, and still is to this day, a most dangerous path.

On journey beyond the safe borders of the known, on paths within foreign lands and through encounters without prewritten playbooks, death was and is sometimes still, brought to us. Physical or in the shape of a darkened mind (mind can be caught for lifetimes if unlucky, within the dullness of our dark humanity, often because of not meant to be or unbalanced relations or general disfunction in body and in mind all and everything challenging is often caused by venturing to far or too fast into the unknown (it sound like it should be avoided but it’s not necessarily a bad thing)). Other paths brought and still today bring fruits. Deliciously fresh, life essential and juicy fruits. These fruits are the ripe tasty products of curiosity executed into unions (unions of knowledge, bodies, minds

and souls).

Then, as today, our zest of life, curiosity, and the fruit of this vigorous action, is pre-coded to surface with the willingness to venture and battle, in particular in the willingness to venture into or battle the unknown.

Then, as today, our zest of life, curiosity, and the fruit of this vigorous action, is pre-coded to surface with the willingness to venture and battle, in particular in the willingness to venture into or battle the unknown.

On our journeys to share and source new ways and unions:

○ Explorative moves (the behaviour our physical body and mind travel in while under the influence of curiosity) merged with the need to conquer and need to protect into the craft of warfare. (In Swedish the word craft or ‘kraft’ (as it spells) means power - a quite accurate description of this evolution ‘a divine warrior power’.)

○ Rituals (actions of reaching for comfort within something grander than what earth and man has to offer) birthed physical shields and perseverance.

○ And nutritional traditions (set ways of resting/restoreing as well as uniting or dividing for a specific nutritional purpose) evolved from mere life grifters (food and water etc.) to bringers of divine power, strength and healing (treatments, fermented herbs in oils, brews, pastes, dietary restrictions/directions and more).

It was within the products of these journeys: out of the battles and fights with living things, environments, elements and by the war within the body and mind (the battle of choices, beliefs and confidence) that Kalari Piyette was born. And it is until this day still how the spirit of Kalari awaken within every human, within the willingness to and the action of, battle.

Kalari means ‘a place of learning’, payatte means ‘to fight, exercise or to practice’ and Chikitsa means ‘treatment’.

The Chikitsa is a product out of all the pillars (Explorative moves, Rituals and Nutitional traditions) and was specifically designed:

○ To prepare the person who held the willingness to battle. The one who was eager to enter ‘the place of learning’ - to explore the world, the body, mind and even universe (through study or meditation).

○ To ignite the willingness to battle.

○ To heal and restore those who returned from battle. (Humans have always been and are still to this day , will be tomorrow, unavoidably touched by the rugged landscapes, experiences and unions / disruptions that are a product of living fully. These souls, you and me, are often in need of curiosity, re-membering and re-building. This treatment deliver this.

The treatment if you decide to proceed, will gift what you need. Through it you may feel your own true state (Kalari): whole, healed, strong, comfortable in the body and mind you’ve been

given. We will have an hour together where I, by working on your body with my feet (through ancient patterns, with traditional nutrients mixed into warm oil), walk you inwards. Here you’ll become the knower, the one who knows who you truly are, a warrior, much alike the one your gifter sees you as.

And it’s true, this treat has been bestowed upon you because he or she thinks you walk through life courageously, in the name of growing, learning and exploring. He/she admiringly se you go to battle every day and thinks you deserve the healing gifts only administered to true warriors.

Now it’s time, scan the cryptic little code you find in the same envelope this came in (use your phone camera) or klick your way into HEMMA STUDION on erikascerlando.se and klick yourself into the KALARI CHIKITSA PT booking section. No need to bring anything to you session I’ll se your gift card digitally connected to your name.

See you soon soul.

Warmly,
Erika S C Erlando