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Want Dylan and/or Sole to appear at your event as a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator or panellist?
Want Dylan and/or Sole to appear at your event as a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator or panellist?
In addition to guest lecturing at Ayurvedic colleges and educating the public worldwide via podcasts, blogs and social media, Dylan & Sole run workshops and lectures about holistic health across the globe in various environments such as corporate offices, yoga studios, festivals, conferences, schools and wellness retreats.
They can also feature on your wellness retreat by offering treatments, consultations and/or knowledge sessions to enhance the overall retreat experience.
Join Dylan Smith for an immersive introduction to Ayurveda, the “Science of Life.” Discover how this ancient healing system helps to awaken the body’s innate memory of perfect health—a state every individual possesses. When this memory is restored, disease naturally dissolves.
Rooted in the Vedic sciences, Ayurveda is often called “the mother of all medicine,” offering timeless, universal principles based on the laws of nature. Its wisdom transcends culture, climate, and circumstance, making it adaptable to every stage of life.
In this talk, you will learn practical and profound Ayurvedic techniques to incorporate into your daily routine through diet, rituals, and lifestyle practices. Explore how aligning with nature’s rhythms can optimise your body’s bio-rhythms, enhance well-being, reduce suffering, and help you radiate health, happiness, and love.
One of the most pressing health concerns of our time: neurological wellness.
Neurological health challenges are on the rise, yet few approaches address them at the root, even before symptoms develop. In this session, Dylan shares the Ayurvedic perspective on the brain and nervous system, and how we can support both preventively and therapeutically.
We’ll explore:
Dylan will also share practical tools to integrate straight away — herbal remedies, medicinal oils, and at-home therapies that strengthen the nervous system and nourish the mind.
If you have heard of Ayurveda, you have likely heard of the three doshas: Vata, Pitta, Kapha. These are bio-energetic and elemental expressions of consciousness that are not only in human biology, but permeate the whole universe.
These three doshas can become a “fashionable trend”, and people can misuse them by over-complicating them in a rigid manner.
If you truly understand the doshas, you can recognise them in every moment of life, and utilise these laws of nature to bring harmony and balance to yourself and those around you.
In this workshop, you will learn the foundations of the three doshas so that you can understand them in a more sophisticated and complete way.
This deeper understanding of the 5 elements and 3 doshas gives you greater capacity to live life with these elemental laws of nature with expanded richness.
Throughout evolution, exposure to sunlight and the photosynthesis of vitamin D has been critically important for the evolution of land vertebrates.
But all of a sudden in the past few decades, we have been burying the Sun from our lives while simultaneously increasing our exposure to artificial light. Could this be a foundational mistake for our health? Has the status quo’s fear of the sun been blown out of proportion?
The 2017 Nobel Prize was won for “Circadian Medicine” simply showing that ‘going back to nature’ is the prescription for healing.
Dylan shares how to work with the Sun to optimise your health and re-establish this important and foundational human-Sun relationship.
In this talk, explore how natural medicine and Ayurveda can support you in cultivating strong immunity and adapting to the ever-changing environment we live in. Dylan discusses Ayurvedic practices that enhance immune function, help identify early stages of viral infections, and offer remedies to mitigate their impact and so much more. Learn practical tools like herbal remedies, daily self-care rituals, and lifestyle adjustments that empower you to stay grounded, thrive, and navigate a dynamic virome and microbiome with confidence.
A practical and approachable talk for anyone wanting to improve their reproductive health, boost vitality, and understand the Ayurvedic roots of sexual wellbeing.
You’ll learn:
• How sexual energy and fertility are nurtured in Ayurveda
• The role of digestion, stress, sleep, and daily rhythm
• Natural ways to support libido, hormonal balance, and reproductive strength
• Foundational steps to prepare the body for healthy conception
Dylan will share clear guidance, real case stories from his clinic, and insights from his own fertility journey. There’ll also be space for Q&A so you can bring personal questions.
This session is ideal for individuals, couples, or anyone wanting a deeper understanding of their body and a more empowered, natural approach to sexual health and fertility.
You may feel that you sleep fine. But what if sleep could do far more than you’re currently expecting from it?
Ayurveda sees sleep as a powerful window for cellular regeneration, ojas (vitality)-building and prāṇa (life-force)-restoration. The difference between sleeping and truly regenerating comes down to a handful of precise factors most people have never even considered, let alone been taught.
In this talk, Dylan explores sleep as an intelligent process created by an alteration in consciousness and governed by the rhythms of nature. You will discover why the hours before midnight carry a fundamentally different quality of restoration than those after. Sleep needs are governed by cycles within cycles — the seasons of the year, the seasons of your life, the rhythms of the planets — and forcing a fixed sleep formula against these living rhythms quietly erodes vitality over time.
For night owls, late-night workers, 2am wakers and those rising unrefreshed — Dylan will share how to systematically rebuild what has been lost. For those who consider themselves good sleepers, you may not have scratched the surface of what your nights can do for you.
Sleep-inducing foods, bedtime rituals, understanding light and hormones, specific Ayurvedic herbs and practices. Design your own sleep rhythm, naturally oscillate within what’s possible, and shift sleep from adequate to genuinely regenerative.
Before we had language, we had touch. It is the first sense to develop in the womb and the last to leave us. Ayurveda recognised this long ago, naming touch “Sparsha Indriya”, as the king of all senses.
In this immersive half-day workshop, Dylan Smith and Sole Del Riccio Smith guide you through two of Ayurveda’s most intimate and powerful practices:
The ancient art of Ayurvedic self-oil massage — not merely relaxing, but deeply protective. It supports the nervous system, lymphatic drainage, circulation, musculo-skeletal structure, skin and enhances the memory and vitality of every tissue in your body.
The art of feeling your own pulse. A self-referral mechanism, a simple and quick tool for immediate balance, and a window into what your body is quietly asking for.
You will leave with practical skills you can use every day — tools for self-healing, self-pacification and a relationship with your own body that goes far deeper than most people ever find.
BYO: small bowl, towel, wear your swimsuit.
For the Ayurvedic enthusiasts — get ready to be on the edge of your seat. Dylan shares his personal, radical recount of his emesis experiences at a traditional and renowned Panchakarma clinic.
This is a fun and shockingly humorous talk. It covers wisdom on cleansing pitta and chronic skin diseases, plus a deep dive into pūrvakarma (preparatory treatments), snehapana (drinking unctuous medicine), and saṁsarjanakarma (post-protocol) — including the delicacies and dangers of Panchakarma.
A light and fun talk that brings balance to a day of focused lectures. Delivered by a practitioner who has also been the patient — and undergone vamana more times than he would like.
Throughout evolution, sunlight shaped the physiology of all land vertebrates. Vitamin D photosynthesis, our internal biological rhythms and light itself supported the development of healthy biology. Yet in just a few decades we have pushed the sun out of our lives and flooded our days and nights with artificial light. This may be one of the most fundamental mistakes in modern health. Has our collective fear of the sun been exaggerated?
Across ancient cultures the sun was and still is revered. This shared wisdom forms a bridge into the Vedic tradition, where Sūrya is understood as the source of illumination, the principle that organises life and the force through which awareness expands. When one’s attention is absorbed in Sūrya, the field of knowing naturally widens into the cosmic regions.
In this session, Dylan shares how to work with the sun to optimise your health and re-establish this essential human–sun relationship, drawing on both natural science and subtle Vedic understanding. He will explore the medical dimension of sunlight, including melatonin regulation, hormonal health through light exposure, skin physiology and skin-cancer considerations. Alongside this, he will guide participants into the more subtle relationships with Sūrya, inviting a direct communion with the sun as a living presence that awakens clarity, vitality and expanded consciousness, offering a glimpse of the profound experience this human–sun relationship can unfold.
In Vedic tradition, our ancestors have one primary role: to support us in fulfilling our most evolutionary (dharmic) purpose. But for them to provide this guidance from their realms (lokas), we must reciprocate with energy and attention. This mutual exchange enlivens their presence and allows us to receive their celestial support.
Join Ayurveda practitioner Dylan Smith as he shares techniques to connect with your ancestors and activate their energy. These powerful practices not only enhance your physical vitality but also increase your alignment with cosmic intelligence, allowing you to radiate life and purpose.
In the Vedic tradition, the 13-day transition after body-death is crucial for the soul’s journey to the next realm(s). Join Ayurveda practitioner Dylan Smith for a captivating session as he shares personal stories of being present during the sacred rites performed by traditional highly-regarded Vedic families after revered saints and elders passed away. Here stories about the essential mantras and procedures that guided a soul’s smooth and unbound passage. This is a rare opportunity to glimpse into the ancient rituals that honour life’s most profound transition.
This lecture + workshop is for Ayurvedic health professionals and practitioners ready to go deeper into the treatment of:
• Fertility (both male and female)
• Sexual health & dysfunction
• Vitality & rejuvenation (Rasayana therapy)
Dylan will be sharing treatment protocols, case studies, lived experience from his own fertility journey, and the wisdom passed down from our teachers. There’ll also be space for Q&A, so you can bring real-world client cases or personal questions.
This workshop will empower Ayurvedic Health Professionals with ancient wisdom for modern solutions to sexual health and fertility challenges.
Ayurveda, the mother of medicines, teaches that menstruation is a sacred purification process—not just physically but emotionally and hormonally. Learn how to align with this cycle to balance hormones, improve vitality, and harness Shakti, vital creative feminine energy.
From the timeless tradition of Ayurveda, discover how to honour and cultivate the womb during pregnancy. To fully establish a pregnancy beyond the first trimester, a mother must reside in bliss and sattva (pure love). Learn how pregnancy should be a time of relaxation, enjoyment, and doing whatever brings contentment and peace for both mother and baby.
Ayurveda, the mother of medicines, provides profound wisdom on postpartum rejuvenation. Explore how specific applications of warmth and heat, deep rest, diet and tailored herbal support not only restore the mother but also balance hormones, enhance vitality, and pass on nourishment, energy, and presence to the baby.
Step into the rich tradition of Ayurveda and ancestral gatherings, where storytelling, ritual healing, and shared wisdom create a potent container for transformation, empowerment, and deep connection.
Join this hands-on festival experience! BYO small bowl, receive some warm herbal oil, bring a towel, wear your swimsuit, and follow the demonstration. Learn how to anoint yourself with love through Ayurvedic self-massage, a deeply nourishing ritual for the nervous system, lymphatic drainage, and overall well-being.
Learn how crying, laughter, and specific techniques help babies and children process stress and trauma rather than suppress it. Discover how emotional expression builds resilience, deepens parent-child bonds, and supports lifelong emotional health.
There is no better time to attend to your health than pre-conception. Ayurveda emphasises preparing the body for pregnancy by optimising the seed of both partners before planting it. Discover cleansing and rejuvenation techniques that enhance fertility and create a strong foundation for new life.
Your cycle and hormones. A baby’s immunity. The child who won’t sleep. The fertility journey that nobody talks about honestly. The postpartum months that changed everything.
These are exactly the questions Ayurveda was built for, and the ones most often left unanswered in the room.
In this open, lively session, Sole invites you to bring them all. Drawing on classical Ayurveda wisdom and her years of experience as a birth and postpartum doula, practitioner and mother, Sole covers the full landscape of women’s and children’s health — hormonal balance and menstrual health, fertility, pregnancy, birth, the sacred postpartum window, and raising children according to their unique constitution and nature.
Whether you are brand new to Ayurveda or have been studying it for years, this session is designed to meet you where you are. Expect real conversation, honest answers, fresh perspectives and more than a few moments where something just clicks.
Come with your questions and your curiosity. There is no such thing as a wrong question here.
Time tested wisdom & an integrated healing community for you.
We pay our respects to the traditional custodians and caretakers of the lands on which we treat, teach, work and live. Vital Veda headquarters work on Bundjalung country which is now commonly known as Byron Shire, Northern Rivers NSW Australia. We also frequently work on Gadigal land, now known as Sydney, Australia. We recognise the traditional custodians have never ceded sovereignty and their culture remains strong and holds supreme wisdom for all of humanity to enjoy.
*This information and these statements have not been evaluated by the Therapeutic Goods Association or the Food and Drug Administration. This information and these products are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure or prevent any disease.
Disclaimer: The entire contents of this website are based upon the opinions of Dylan Smith. This information is in no way to be construed as a substitute for consultation with a licensed health professional. It is not intended as medical advice. They are intended as sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dylan Smith and his community. Dylan Smith encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional.
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