Ayurveda: Breaking the Rules without Breaking the Principles: A Clinical Approach to Lifestyle Medicine

Ayurveda: Breaking the Rules Without Breaking the Principles demonstrates the importance of Lifestyle Medicine in Ayurveda. This 5,000 year old science is practiced to get the body, mind, and spirit into balance and the key to healing comes from knowing ourselves. You will learn about the principles of Ayurveda to see what these time-tested, clinically validated techniques have to offer. Then, it is time to break the rules to personalize the practice. There is not a single path for all. Ayurveda asks us to go through a daily routine to get in touch with ourselves and make the right decisions for what we need in this life. In this book, we will explore how the beauty and philosophy of Ayurveda is grounded in epigenetics and spirituality, creating a mind-body union that brings self-awareness about how our choices make us feel. We will explore creating an ideal Ayurvedic lifestyle through daily routines such as sleep hygiene, oral health, alkalizing the gut, self-oil massage (abhyanga), yoga asanas, pranayama breathwork techniques, and meditation. And how to use ingredients and food combinations to create simple meals designed to promote health for all dosha types.