Outlining the basic elements of the ancient system of Ayurveda, Shubhra Krishan teaches readers how to recognize their energy and body type, and to use Ayurvedic principles to create a balanced diet and lifestyle for their optimum health. She offers tips and suggestions for finding the best products or for creating your own with her recipes for food, beauty care, and other healthcare items. Illustrations are included.
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"... surpassed my expectations...Krishan explores and explains each principle in comprehensible terms." -- Healing Lifestyles & Spas, March/April 2003
[It's] jargon-free, practical approach makes it a pleasure to read...compelling enough that you just might want to try it." -- Alternative Medicine March 2003
[It's] jargon-free, practical approach makes it a pleasure to read...compelling enough that you just might want to try it." -- Alternative Medicine March 2003
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This book is a very basic, very essential introduction to Ayurveda. It is very well organised into the different segment of life (foods, exercise, beauty, mental well-being etc), but the style is narative, it takes you along as if on a journey. At one point you will find yourself in an Indian kitchen, smelling the spices and the vegetables, and imagining the colours, sounds and the surroundings of an Indian family eating breakfast. I've implemented almost to the letter and sometimes with scepticism the advice of the author and after 6 weeks, our life (family of 6 with baby and small children) has truly changed and improved in all spheres (physical health, happiness, pleasure in smaller things, less materialistic etc). Now we are ready for more books and research on the subject, the book is a great spring board for it.
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I tried the step-by-step morning massage recommended in this book: and discovered bliss! And the author has a very easy, readable style. Go get it!
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"Amazing how beautifully the author has condensed the essence of a whole philosophy of healing into a few hundred pages. Who knew that Ayurveda can be so easy and fun to follow? I always thought it was something ancient and obsolete, until I found this book. Read it--just the first few pages can change your life! It opened my eyes."
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sadhaka pitta, essential ayurveda, bodhaka kapha, tarpaka kapha, dosha type, prana vata, ayurvedic way, mung dal, kapha dosha, ayurvedic nutrition, vata dosha, astringent foods, three doshas, digestive fire, ayurvedic healing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies by Vasant Lad in Back Matter
- Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie on page 37
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils: The Complete Guide to the Use of Oils in Aromatherapy & Herbalism by Julia Lawless in Back Matter
- Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils by Julia Lawless in Back Matter
- Encyclopedia of Essential Oils: The Complete Guide to The Use of Aromatic Oils In Aromatherapy, Herbalism, Health and Well Being by Julia Lawless in Back Matter
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