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Ayurveda, India’s traditional medical system, offers various Ayurvedic bodywork (manual therapies) to help release impurities from the body and deeply cleanse and purify the mind, body and emotions. The ancient science is a complete medical system for healing disease and preventing disease from occurring. Ayurveda bodywork is offered in two …

Ayurvedic massage therapies have been used for centuries to detoxify the body and mind, restore and maintain ideal health, balance hormones, beautify the body, skin, and hair and promote overall wellness. These therapies are administered through medicated oil, herbs, milk and other natural products. To enhance the therapy or massage benefits …

The Sanskrit language has so many words for the mind. Ayurveda is a science that recognizes so many layers of the self. This science has taught me that illness may live in the mind, the emotions and in the ancestral layers as well. One of my favorite layers of the …

Stress is a normal physical response to events that make us feel threatened or upset our balance in some way. When we sense danger – whether real or imagined – the body’s defenses kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the “fight-or-flight” reaction, or stress response. The …

Ayurveda has been in existence for 5,000 years (give or take) and now is seeing a huge uprise in popularity. Ayurveda is not just in India and Sri Lanka anymore. It’s all around Europe in Portugal, Spain, Germany and Poland. It’s steadily growing in the United States, Canada and South America. So why …

Nowadays everyone from children to adults are living their lives like machines. No one has time to get relief from their day to day stress and tension and as a result, people are experiencing stress, insomnia, depression and loss of memory.  All of this can become the causative factors for …

It is Winter now in many parts of the world and according to Ayurveda this is the best season to detoxify the body physically and mentally. This is also the best time to rejuvenate the body. It is important to know the mechanism of Panchakarma, Ayurvedic detoxification. Let’s understand how …

Shirodhara is an amazing, unique body therapy from the ancient natural medical system Ayurveda. Shirodhara has a profound impact on the nervous system. That means, the treatment directly and immediately calms, relaxes and has a cleansing effect on the mind and nerves. In the western alternative medicine world, there may …