Book Review: Ayurveda for the Yoga Soul
February 02, 2021
Ayurveda has become a subject of renewed interest over past years, especially for students and teachers of yoga, Ayurveda’s “sister science.” Author Sonia Welch is a British yoga practitioner and teacher and Ayurvedic nutritionist and therapist.
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Book Review: Ayurveda in Urban Living
December 02, 2020
Ayurveda in Urban Living is a little book (a mere 57 pages) that conveys a vast amount of information for its size. The book presents its reader with a weight-reduction program that goes beyond Western conceptions of appropriate diet and exercise by incorporating the ancient principles of "Ayurveda" into the equation.
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Book Review: Healing Mantras: Using Sound Affirmations or Personal Power, Creativity & Healing
November 19, 2020
Mantras, or simple chants, are short phrases packed with energy and intention–specifically designed to generate powerful sound waves that promote healing, insight, creativity, and spiritual growth.
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Book Review: Autism & Varma Therapy: A Parent’s Guide
November 11, 2020
This pictorial self-help guide has been written to allow parents, children and the wider community to utilize the therapeutic benefits of Varma (aka Marma) Therapy. This traditional therapy hails from the ancient Indian Siddha Medical System, a close relative of some say the inspiration for Ayurveda.
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Book Review: Healing Spices
September 01, 2020
The culinary spices that so copiously populate our pantries – turmeric, garlic, ginger, cloves and sesame seeds among many others – not only add savor to the foods we prepare, but are also often possessed of potent and even miraculous healing properties when used in therapeutic quantities on proper subjects for the right reasons.
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Book Review: American Veda - From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation How Indian Spirituality Changed the West
March 31th, 2020
American Veda - From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation How Indian Spirituality Changed the West by Philip Goldberg Three Rivers Press/Random House (New York 2010) “…In February 1968 the Beatles went to India for an extended stay
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Book Review: Ayurveda Revisited
December 16th, 2019
Today, however, Ayurveda in India does not enjoy the same status in the scientific world as it did during the years of Sushruta and Charaka.
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Book Review: Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies & Braided Sciences
October 14, 2019
Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that recasting...
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Book Review: Rasayana: Ayurvedic Herbs for Longevity and Rejuvenation
August 24, 2019
Rasayana (rejuvenation or revitalization therapy) one of the historic eight specializations within traditional Ayurvedic practice, although this least understood branch of this science, is becoming of ever growing interest.
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Book Review: Ayurveda Unmasked
June 16th, 2019
This is an important book that should be read by anyone concerned with the future of Ayurveda, although when I began reading this book I did so with a pre-existing bias: I disliked its title intensely. If something is to be “unmasked” that more than implies that it is wearing a mask, that it is presenting a false version of itself to the world, and hiding a true face that is unsuitable for public viewing or in some fashion unacceptable.
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Book Review: A Short Introduction: The Tamil Siddhars & the Siddha Medicine of Tamil Nadi
May 11th, 2019
Medicine means the prevention of physical illness; medicine means the prevention of mental illness; prevention means to avert illness; medicine therefore is the prevention of death.
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Book Review: The Natural Health Matrix: Eastern Wisdom for Western Minds
July 05, 2018
The book is part memoir and part straightforward instructional text which adds to its readability and overall charm, which makes a potentially labored reading in fact a real delight. The book describes its author’s personal pilgrimage into Ayurveda and his explorations into its guiding principles and philosophies that came to change his own life in a revolutionary fashion.
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