Ayurveda is considered one of the oldest health and wellness systems in the world which dates back over 5,000 years, born in India by the Vedic thinkers of the time. These Vedic thinkers crafted Ayurveda from their observations of nature on Earth, and the nature of people, inside and out.
Their work expanded further than just health and wellness in Ayurveda and also created the grand practice of Yoga, which includes the postures we know so well. Abhyanga and other therapies, Chakras and Mudras are complementary practices that were observed and arranged in the systems that have accompanied Ayurveda and Yoga all these centuries.
The goal was simple: Designing a unified and beautiful system that allows individuals to bring into balance aspects that stray. They were committed to a vision of each person being unique, yet all part of something grander.
Ayurveda addresses our mind, body and spirit. I will add that I prefer saying mind, body, body and spirit. The reason for the second “body” is because our body is one, but also is inner and outer. The outer body is what we see, but the inner body is having all the action.
For the mind, Ayurveda works on the quality of our thoughts, our image of our selves, and much more. Through clear thinking, we want to be grounded in our intake of impressions, our processing of these impressions and our concluding thoughts and feeling on them.
The basics of understanding Ayurveda don’t need to be complicated. In fact, I find they are best understood when we start with the simplest seeds:
- Vedic thinking says that we are all connected
- Ayurveda says that we aim for balance in all
- Each of us, the foods we eat, the environment we live in are all related to a constitutional combination
- Simple principles bring us into balance and push us away from it
- Ayurveda allows us to choose of the many methods to make small adjustments to match our needs and our self
- The way we do things, the intention behind it, the temperature and texture and the way we process all matter
- We need to process and eliminate everything we take in, from foods to impressions
Junior Ayurveda
After graduating as an Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner, I wanted to focus my practice towards one audience: Families. I was fortunate enough to learn about Ayurveda during my children’s young years and was able to bring in so much of Ayurveda into our home in a way that complimented our lifestyle that I wanted to be able to share that with others.
Overshare: Though I had to shelf this concept a few years ago, it’s just shelved, not gone 🙂
