Ayurveda: Natural Health Practices for Your Body Type, from the World's Oldest Healing Tradition with Others [Audio Cassette]

Vasant Lad (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1, 2000

For over 4,000 years, the people of India have looked to Ayurveda as a pathway to vibrant health and increased longevity. This ancient science is treasured as the world’s oldest complete system for holistic healing. On Ayurveda: The Science of Life, Dr. Vasant Lad—the founder of the Ayurvedic Institute—shows you how to apply this time-honored system for total wellness to your own life. From principles of self-healing and proper food combinations to the cosmic laws that unite all consciousness, Ayurveda: The Science of Life makes it easy to explore this ancient healing art.

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Ayurveda, the world's first system of holistic medicine established more than 5,000 years ago, is based on spiritual principles to correct balance between the mind, body, and consciousness. Dr. Lad explains how to choose the right diet and food combinations, cosmic laws about individual constitutions, and principles for attaining enlightenment through perfect health.

About the Author

Dr Vasant Lad is a native of India who has been a practitioner and professor of Ayurvedic medicine for more than 20 years. He served as Medical Director of the Ayurveda Hospital in Pune, India for three years. He also held the position of professor of clinical medicine for 12 years. Dr. Lad’s academic and practical training includes the study of allopathy (Western medicine) and surgery. He is the founder and director of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since 1984, he has conducted one of the first full-time programs of study on Ayurveda in the United States. Dr. Lad is the author of Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564557502
• ISBN-13: 978-1564557506
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.2 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,390,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ayurveda, Natural Health Practices for Your Body Type, December 5, 2000

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This review is from: Ayurveda: Natural Health Practices for Your Body Type, from the World's Oldest Healing Tradition with Others (Audio Cassette)

I have the audio tapes of the book. Dr. Lad's speaking voice is soothing, clear and enunciation exact. The difference in cultural background requires a bit of consideration for some words but listening carefully any doubt is quickly alayed. I can't imagine anyone with English as a second language pronouncing it more clearly or charmingly. He sings parts of the Vedas, which is the basis of the Teaching of Ayurveda, melodically, clearly with resonance...I would love to sit in his classes and learn from him.

The information given starts at the most basic and allowed me to build a comprehensive data base upon which to build my learning. His many examples of the three doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, give neumonics to attach my imagination to. He is thorough and the tape on conception, pregnancy and child care is outstanding...should be required teaching in every school. Ayurveda is about "The Science of Life," he says...and I would add, "of Living carefully and respectfully," with a vision to the next seven generations certainly...and beyond and back, most likely.

Dr. Lad's descriptions of the Philosophy of Ayurveda proves to me the theory that humans are the microcosmos of the macrocosmos. As simply as he states it, he equally completes the picture. Thank you, Dr. Vasant Lad!!