Posts under ‘Ayurveda’

I have been spending the last week in an ayurvedic hospital by the side of Dr Yeola observing, diagnosing and seeing many examples of different cases of patients on the ward. Many of these people have been treated with modern medicine and as no healing has come about they have found their way to the [...]

These next few days I will be studying with some other Pancha Karma therapists to go over different cases they are treating at the moment. It is great for practice to see first hand other therapists working on patients. It provides invaluable clues to why the mind and body accumulate disease and how to treat [...]

Discussing Ayurvedic medicine and the flow of energy in the body,  today in class we got talking about sexual habits and the loss of energy in the body from too much sex or from no activity. As ayurveda teaches, the most essential and the finest part of energy or life sap are in the seminal [...]

Studying today with the Dr Sameer we were discussing natural medicine and modern science and how in the western medicine there is no reference or acknowledgment of spiritual power. In Ayurveda a physician has to take into account not only the physical body  but also what state the mind is in and beyond all this [...]

Last month while sitting with my father and mother having breakfast a thought came to mind. My father smoked for 51 years up to the point he just had to have a big heart surgery. When we use to get into discussions about life, health or spirituality before his surgery, he repeated the same opinion for as [...]

How to look younger physically. Outer physical beauty will come and go quite rapidly in our life time and the most we can do to preserve our skin from aging quickly is to treat the inside of our bodies with good habits (food and thought).
The Ayurvedic and Yogic approach to beauty is to first change [...]