The Ayurveda Experiment

The Ayurveda Experiment: Phase I is a self-guided, twelve-week program that teaches others about conscious consumption and how to apply the principles of an ancient science of healing to achieve health, wellness, and life balance. In a twelve-week guide, Varsana offers personal stories intertwined with detailed guidelines and a variety of exercises that teach how to apply the principles of Ayurveda, an ancient holistic science of healing, to achieve life balance. Through her practical roadmap, others will learn about the five elements in the body, the disease process, and how to take inventory of physical imbalances, observe habits, and create goals. Varsana teaches that through these processes one can learn how to break through the cycles that bind us into making ongoing bad choices, and instead, make informed decisions that will contribute to fulfillment, the achievement of personal goals, and ultimately, to happiness. Also available is The Ayurveda Experiment Companion Journal. Varsana Lali Devi Dasi (born Lisa Marchand) has always been a seeker. While growing up in a tumultuous environment, she was drawn to ask questions about the bigger picture. What was the cause of her suffering and what could she do to make the best of it? As she searched for the truth in the ancient texts of India, Bhakti Yoga, and later through the principles of Ayurveda, Varsana not only found relief from her suffering, but also discovered her purpose, community, and the key to a meaningful life.

A guide to the Ayurvedic personality types, or doshas, with psychology-based advice on cultivating balance, from the author of The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook At the core of Ayurveda is an understanding that we are all made of the same materials—the five elements of ether (space), air, fire, water, and earth—and how you look, think, and feel can be traced back to your unique proportion of these elements at any given time. This is your dosha, the true essence of who you are. Knowing your dosha is the key to deeper self-knowledge, easier relationships, and a happier future. In The Seven Ways of Ayurveda, you’ll discover which type fits you best. Vata: creator, multitasker, artist Pitta: perfectionist, challenger, leader Kapha: peacemaker, nurturer, lover Vata-Pitta: performer, innovator, first responder Pitta-Kapha: guardian, moralist, observer Vata-Kapha: dreamer, supporter, conversationalist Tri-Dosha: proficient in all trades, well-rounded Then, you’ll identify your innate strengths (and their “shadow sides”); whether you’re out of balance (and what to do); how your unique type approaches work, love, travel, and more; and how to forge true, mutual understanding with friends and loved ones whose doshas may differ. When you know yourself better, you can take better care of yourself—and others, too.

This ancient system of healing from India emphasises the dynamic integration between our environment, body, mind and spirit.

As one of the world's only female experts on the ancient Indian tradition of Ayurvedic medicine, renowned teacher Bri. Maya Tiwari has devoted her heart and soul to share the philosophy and methods that saved her from terminal cancer and redirected her life. In this book, she offers a short course on healing and living and reveals how she has gone back to the sources of Ayurvedic wisdom to reclaim time-honoured, natural, spiritual techniques for use in contemporary life. Filled with illuminating insights, easy-to-follow recipes, and meditations and exercises that can be adapted to different lifestyles and traditions, The Path of Practice is one of the only holistic programs designed for women by a woman. This book has a strong focus on women because they are the staff-holders of sacred life and nurturance. The aim is to evoke, inform, strengthen, and safeguard the memory of women as guardians of sacred healing. It is also meant to help men become awakened to the Mother's primordial healing energy that has existed within them from ancient times.

Are you a health conscious person constantly looking for herbal solutions for your day to day health management? Do you know about herbal treasures from Africa? Do you know about Aloe ferox, a beautiful herb having bright red flowers draped in stout green leaves? Then you have an award-winner book in your hands! This book won 'Vagbhat Samhita Award' for original research book by Deerghayu International, India. Do you know about an ancient science of wellness from India, Ayurveda? Then you are holding right book! Read this book and you will find brief and interesting introduction to Ayurveda in simplified form. You dont need to be an Ayurveda expert..this book speaks in contemporary lingo yet can provide you guideline to the logic that Ayurveda holds in. If you want to take a more curious dip in scientific information about this plant, open any page of this handbook and know everything that Ayurveda explains about this valuable herb. A simple yet systematic pattern for explanation is maintained to provide an easily assimilable info out of this very scientific knowledge. Aloe ferox is one of the herbs given by Mother Nature that is providing a wide array of medicinal uses. This book is totally dedicated to this 'star' medicinal plant in South Africa that brings in millions of currency in this country due to the pharmaceutical trade. Are you that passionate investor for herbal pharma industry? Check line drawings in this book and read in detail patho-pharmacology of all fourteen medicinal uses. This book will provide complete pharmacological study of this plant in Ayurvedic perspective with fourteen new medicinal uses which can extensively widen the span of medicinal use of Aloe ferox in African continent and world wide. Read it and bring this cute blushing guest to your herbal garden!

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust, literate classical tradition, separated from the assorted, vernacular traditions of healing practices. It focuses on the dominant perspectives and theories of indigenous medicine and various compulsions which led to the codification and standardisation of Ayurveda in modern India. Critically engaging with authoritative scholarship, the book extrapolates from some of these theories, raising significant questions on the study of alternative knowledge practices. By using case studies of the southern Indian state of Kerala – which is known globally for its Ayurveda – it provides an in-depth analysis of local practices and histories. Drawing from interviews of practitioners, archival documents, vernacular texts and rare magazines on Ayurveda and indigenous medicine, it presents a nuanced understanding of the relationships between diverse practices. It highlights the interactions as well as the tensions within them, and the methods adopted to preserve the uniqueness of practices even while sharing elements of healing, herbs and medicine. It also discusses how regulations and standards set by the state have estranged assorted healing practices, created uncertainties and led to the formation of categories like Ayurveda and nattuvaidyam (indigenous medicine/ayurvedas). Lucid and topical, the book will be useful for researchers and people interested in social medicine, history of medicine, Ayurveda, cultural studies, history, indigenous studies, and social anthropology.

Ayurveda or "the sacred knowledge of longevity" has been practiced in India and many Asian countries since time immemorial. Interest in Ayurveda started growing all over the world in the late 1970s, following the Alma Ata Declaration adopted by the W.H.O. in 1978. Ayurveda in the New Millennium: Emerging Roles and Future Challenges attempts to survey the progress made in this field and to formulate a course of action to take Ayurveda through the new millennium. It also identifies the many stumbling blocks that need to be removed if Ayurveda is to cater to the needs of a wider audience. Features: Newer insights into the history of Ayurveda Regulatory aspects of the manufacture of ayurvedic medicines Industrial production of traditional ayurvedic medicines Quality control The scientific rationale of single herb therapy Biological effects of ayurvedic formulations Optimization of ancient wisdom and newer knowledge Conservation of threatened herbs Nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals from Ayurveda Critical view of Ayurveda in the West Direction for the Ayurveda renaissance Ayurveda in the New Millennium: Emerging Roles and Future Challenges describes the strength of Ayurveda and how to usher in the Ayurveda renaissance. This book will be of interest to proponents of Ayurveda and all branches of traditional and alternative medicine. Experts from the fields of medicine, pharmacology, new drug discovery and food technology will also find it useful.