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What is Ayurveda? Considered by many scholars to be the oldest healing science, Ayurveda is a holistic approach to health that is designed to help people live long, healthy, and well-balanced lives. The term Ayurveda is taken from the Sanskrit words ayus, meaning life or lifespan, and veda, meaning knowledge. It has been practiced in India for...
Read moreOur habits are consistent patterns of choice and behavior that govern the way we live every day. Our habits are so well established that we are barely aware of them and naturally resist changing them. The resistance to changing habits is very strong. How we eat, exercise, sleep, learn, relax and relate to others is...
Read moreJune 2001, my family moved out to San Diego after my husband, at the time, had just completed his MD/PhD program in Texas. I had also finished a postdoctoral and my son had just turned one when we moved. It was definitely a time of change. With my husband gone most of the time due...
Read moreOver the past 10 years the mindset of what constitutes a workout dramatically changed in my opinion. For athletes there will be a certain degree of heavier lifting and strenuous workouts, but for the person who just wants to maintain a healthy lifestyle there has been a big move away from the push-pull mentality (i.e.:...
Read moreI have to be honest; I have never really been much into exercise. I was raised with the bias that people exercise only to lose weight and since I spent most of my life embarrassingly underweight, exercise was the last thing on my mind. I was naturally drawn to yoga and integrated a few basic...
Read morePanchakarma is recommended seasonally for everyone by the classical texts of Ayurveda – the original authority on longevity, prevention and enhancing happiness and well-being. Panchakarma has been extolled since ancient times as a powerful preventative and restorative procedure for cleansing and balancing the body and mind. Regular Panchakarma removes the build-up of metabolic waste products...
Read moreFor many of us, having a massage is an indulgent experience reserved for special occasions or when on vacation. However, a practice of self- massage, called abhyanga (ahb-yung-guh), has the ability to maintain health and balance on a daily basis. How can this ritual, which is so luxuriously relaxing and soothing, clear the mind and...
Read moreI just returned from 7 days of Panchakarma at the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center in Lancaster. Every year I go for Panchakarma as part of my health maintenance regimen. I put the money aside way in advance so that it is not money that I even consider spending for anything or anyone else. Typically, I...
Read moreOne of the newest approaches to treating migraine headaches is also one of the oldest: making dietary and lifestyle changes designed to prevent, rather than just medicate, migraines. For years, we have been treating migraines with medication. If the migraines worsened, we increased the medications or added new ones. In the new model—and this applies...
Read moreWhen I was 19 years old I went to Africa to help build a medical clinic in Tanzania during my summer break. It was a trip that shaped the rest of my life. There were three lessons in particular that I learned in Africa that have stayed with me. Even though I didn’t full appreciate...
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