Ayurveda is the medical system related to Yoga that gives each one of us a roadmap to our body.  It means “the knowledge of life” and it teaches us how to understand our body and mind, what tendencies we have for imbalance and ill-health, and how to take care of our body through each season and various stages of life.

This “yogic medicine” seeks to bring balance into our daily routines, our dietary habits, our exercise regimens and our way of being in the world. Ayurveda understands that we all have goals we wish to pursue, and that we need a healthy body and a stable mind to be able to pursue those goals. It teaches us how to do that.

Clients come to me for three basic reasons:

1. 1.they are in great health and want to find out how to maintain that.
   

2. 2.they are having symptoms of imbalance or in the midst of a disease process. This could be on a physical level, emotional or mental level, or even spiritual level.
   

3. 3.they have a complicated health history and have found little or no success with allopathic or other alternative methods. They may be under an western doctors care, on prescription medications, or undergoing treatments of some sort. I work with this patient, wherever they are at, to bring in as many of the tools of Ayurveda as we can to help them on their path to healing or to alleviate discomfort
   

The tools of Ayurveda are vast: we use food as medicine, herbal therapies, essential oils for healing purposes, meditation and thought awareness, mantra therapy, pranayama (breathing practices), color therapy, massage and body treatments, and the ever important lifestyle counseling that can help us put it all together.