Ayurveda

Ayurveda purports that all your senses react to food. Flavours, therefore, are part of a sophisticated system that yields chemical and emotional effects throughout your mind and body. Rasa: Discovering the Six Essential Flavours RaSa divides into two parts: ✓ Ra means ‘to feel, perceive, taste, relish, love, and desire’ ✓ Sa means ‘to encompass’… Continue reading Stimulating the Palate

Pancha Karma Ayurveda offers unique therapeutic measures that heal mild and chronic diseases. Even diseases that are believed to be incurable by modern medicine have been healed. Stories abound of people being carried into panchakarma centers, and a few weeks later, walking out on their own two feet, healthy and rejuvenated. ayurveda is not based… Continue reading Pancha Karma Treatment

The external world changes with the seasons, so you need to keep your internal systems in alignment with the external world. Understand the profound effect that the shifting seasons have on the body. the more intrinsic rhythms of the body follow the seasons to keep your system running smoothly in every season. Adapting your living… Continue reading Diet for the Seasons

Prana means, variously, ‘breath of life’, ‘vital energy’. Prana is where Ayurveda meets yoga because the yoga postures activate prana to work harmoniously throughout your body. The following list explains the five major winds or energies and how they act on the body. These forces which activate your system are divided into five types: ✓… Continue reading Yoga as per your Body Type

Dinacharya means ‘close to day’ in Sanskrit. It means you are in touch with the cycles of the earth, moon, and sun, as well as other planets on a more subtle level. If all that seems a bit airy-fairy to you, just observe how a full moon affects the tides and how sunspot activity affects… Continue reading Dinacharya for Fertility

So what is health? In Ayurvedic terms, health is harmony. It’s a state of normality and well-being and means being free from disease and discomfort. The concept of health gets a little more interesting from here. According to Ayurveda, you’re a true reflection of the universe and so can’t be totally healthy if the environment… Continue reading Health & Disease as per Ayurveda

Ayurvedic therapy is based on knowledge of your constitution – of your unique mind-body condition. In Sanskrit, the word for constitution is Prakriti, or ‘first creation’, which relates to your constitution at birth. Ayurveda sees illness as a product of your lifestyle more than an invasion by an outside force, and different constitution types depend… Continue reading Ayurveda Body Type Analysis

Your body elements don’t function independently but form an integrated matrix throughout your system, connected by pranic currents (energy). these forces operate within your nerves (nadis) and channels known as srotas. Pinpointing Three Essential Forces The end products of all the food, images, air and fluids that you take in daily ultimately end up as… Continue reading Ayurveda Energy Systems

Ayurveda is a truly holistic health system that supports you from the cradle to the end of your life. The Ayurvedic mode of living aims to maximize your lifespan by optimizing your health through interventions that care for your body, mind, spirit, and environment. Ayurveda places a great emphasis on the prevention of disease and… Continue reading Introduction

Samkhya philosophy, one of the oldest philosophical systems and the philosophy that underlies Ayurveda, holds that the creation of the universe enabled three states of energy, or pure consciousness, to come into play. These three states are known as gunas, which literally means ‘ropes that bind us to the physical world’. Which of these states… Continue reading Fundamental Concepts