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WHY AYURVEDA, WHY NOW?
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Or: the oldest knowledge system you've maybe never heard of!
Over thousands of years, Ayurveda's methods have helped literally millions of people find wellbeing, greater connection and joy in living. But, unlike yoga, it's still reletively unknown here in the West. Ayurveda's roots can be traced back to the ancient Vedic texts, particularly the Rigveda and Atharvaveda, which contain hymns and practices related to health and medicine. The foundational texts of Ayurveda, the Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita, compiled around 600 BCE, detail various medical theories, herbal treatments, ethical practices - and even surgical techniques, the first of their kind, some of which are still practiced by modern surgeons today.
Ayurveda's principles emphasize the balance of bodily doshas (vata, pitta, kapha), and its holistic approach incorporates diet, lifestyle, and spiritual practices. This ancient science has endured through centuries, influencing and integrating with other medical traditions, and remains a vital and respected form of natural healing in modern times. Some estimate that Ayurveda, being a knowledge system that pre-dates written languages, was shared via oral instruction and memorization from as far back as at least 7,000 years ago. Both yoga and Ayurveda weren't so much discovered as revealed to ancient rishis - superhuman seers - whose highly enlightened spiritual prowess gave them the wisdom to clearly and masterfully understand, integrate, practice, teach, codify and disseminate these beautiful systems of spiritual and physical wholeness to generation upon generation of students and practitioners, who in turn shared these rare and beautiful gifts with our world. Ayurveda also has the distinction of being one of the few indigenous knowledge systems that has been preserved intact up until our day, being an enormous part of the unbroken lifeways of the people of India for thousands of years - an astoundingly rare feat in these modern times where most indigenous knowledge has been oppressed or eradicated by Western/European colonization. This is a testament to the power and effectiveness of Ayurveda. |
The intactness of Ayurveda is also very likely because these simple but profoundly effective life practices and methods make complete sense and are incredibly effective, offering compounding benefits over time - benefits that don't come with side effects! Thus, Ayurveda has withstood the tests of time, imperialism and globalization.
Due to yoga's burgeoning popularity over the last 30+ years, most of us may have an understanding of yoga practices and even have experienced at least a class or two - but most Westerners have heard little to nothing about Ayurveda, the most continually practiced holistic health system in our world. The more you learn of Ayurveda, the more you realize how sensible and natural it is - even though it was denigrated as "grandmother's knowledge" by European colonizers when they first came into contact with these practices, and even though much of the knowledge was supressed and forbidden to be practiced by Indians (in order to favor Western Medicine) throughout the British Raj. But after Indian Independence in the middle of the last century, Ayurveda experienced a rebirth which is only continuing to expand, just as yoga has expanded throughout the globe. Connecting with and giving back to the cosmos, living in harmoney with nature, with days and nights and seasons, eating the most nourishing and appropriate kinds of food, at the right time, giving oneself the opportunity to experience a few daily nourishing and stress relieving practices - all of this is Ayurveda. But, there's so much more. Reach out to experience the profound and sensible wisdom of Ayurveda with me. Book your consultation today! |
I'm excited to be able to share the profound knowledge of Life, Ayurveda, with a new generation of humanity who so desperately needs its natural, beneficial wisdom.