“If you strive for bliss, your diet should be such that new disease cannot manifest and existing disease is alleviated.”
-Charaka
What is Ayurveda?
Ayurveda is the 5000-year-old system of health and medicine that originates in India. Like other wisdom traditions from indigenous cultures, Ayurveda has gone through periods of being suppressed and outlawed, but it has survived as a living tradition and we are fortunate to be able to practice it.
The foundation of Ayurveda is preventative medicine, and “medicine” has many meanings: food, lifestyle, routine, yoga and meditation, pranayama, herbs, massage, and more. For more information on how Ayurveda works, please see the video below.