The Ayurveda Experience Blog
Ayurveda dates back thousands of years just like Yoga. Both aim to improve your health mentally and spiritually as well as your happiness. The practices of Ayurveda and Yoga are very similar practices especially regarding how they effect your mental strength and abilities. Ayurvedic practices influence different aspects of the …
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9 Practitioners Share Why To Cleanse With An Expert
Ayurveda is gently flowering in the wake of the yoga boom and is quickly becoming more and more popular. Seasonal Ayurvedic cleansing or panchakarma is merging into the culture and yogis and yoginis want in and that’s no wonder. Panchakarma just makes sense. There’s no deprivation of food. What you do …
Read More »Why Yoga Nidra Is Your Practice For More Energy + Natural Fertility
Yoga Nidra is now my go-to any time I need deep relaxation. It used to be a bath, then add abhyanga once I learned about Ayurveda. Now, for preventative medicine, as well as luxurious self-care, I lie on my back for an hour. Of course, it’s more than that. This …
Read More »Why Getting More Exercise Doesn’t Always Mean Getting Healthier
(As originally posted as “Featured Today” highlight and in the “Popular Lately” section on Elephant Journal) “Eat well and get plenty of exercise.” We hear this blanket statement of ‘health’ all the time in the health and wellness world. Doctors prescribe it, the media promotes it, and so we practice it. …
Read More »My Daily Routine: Elyse Wilkie
Ayurvedic Health Counselor Elyse Wilkie is passionate about helping families, kids and communities grow with Ayurveda and botany. Elyse lives in Providence, RI where there’s a big community garden initiative and a great natural market coop. Her business, Anahata Ayurveda & Yoga At Home brings Ayurveda treatments, cooking classes and …
Read More »Trauma On The Mat: How To Bring The Heart Of Yoga To Your Students
The next time you gaze out over your yoga class, silently bless each student for many of them are carrying heavy loads that are imperceptible to the human eye. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 29% of women and 10% of men have experienced rape, physical …
Read More »Healthy Weight: 5 Easy Tips To Gain Weight, 7 Easy Tips To Lose Weight
No one is immune to worry about weight. Most of us think we should be leaner. A few of you have the opposite issue and are working to gain weight and build strength. Regardless of what your goal is, Ayurveda offers tips for weight gain and tips for weight loss …
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