Practical AYURVEDA Yoga Meditation Massage Food Home Remedies

Yoga and Ayurveda are sister sciences. Together, they show a way to live naturally and achieve radiant physical, mental, and spiritual health.

As one of the most important spiritual and healing traditions of the world, Ayurvedic and yogic scriptures describe the ethics and daily, monthly, and yearly practices of a healthy life; this covers topics including diet and exercise, as well as the use of the breath, senses, emotions, and mind. Their approach to meditation provides a step-by-step guide to complete peace and harmony—a balance of the mind and the heart—opening up the deeper potential of human awareness.

Practical Ayurveda follows the vision of Swami Sivananda (1887–1963), a renowned Indian yoga master and medical doctor who wrote over 200 books on all aspects of yoga, as well as on Ayurveda.

It was Swami Vishnudevananda (1927–1993), an eminent disciple of Swami Sivananda, who, sent by his Master, brought the practice of yoga from India to the Western world. After establishing Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in the Americas and Europe, Swami Vishnudevananda founded the Sivananda Yoga Dhanwantari Ashram, a unique training center in Kerala, South India, where the practice of yoga and Ayurveda are combined.

The daily Ayurvedic routine allows you to gradually develop a healthier lifestyle. The food choices presented in this book work for both the individual person’s constitution, and the practice of yoga and meditation.

While Ayurveda increases your prana (life energy) through diet, herbs, oils, and minerals, the practice of yoga and meditation teaches you to stabilize that prana in a more direct way—through postures, breathing exercises, deep relaxation, and meditation.

We hope that Practical Ayurveda will help you to heal yourself and to help you to manifest your full potential in body, mind, and spirit.