Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom

A Complete Prescription to Optimize Your Health, Prevent Disease, and Live with Vitality and Joy

BY ACHARYA SHUNYA

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“This book that you are holding in your hand has the potential to change your state of health for the better, permanently. Health is not a probability that you may achieve. It is a reality, an underlying natural state of being.”
–Acharya Shunya

An empowering guide to finding balance and restoring health in mind, body, and soul

Ayurveda teaches us that true health is our birthright and that by artfully adapting to the rhythms of nature, we can bring ourselves back into balance and experience optimal well-being. Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom is a groundbreaking work within the field of holistic health and traditional yoga, written by internationally renowned Ayurvedic healer, teacher, and scholar Acharya Shunya.

Whether you’re looking for help with a specific health concern, or if you’d simply like to improve your overall well-being, in Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom you’ll finda treasury of Ayurvedic lifestyle teachings and wellness practices for every part of your day.

  • Publisher St. Martin's Essentials Sounds True
  • Released February 01, 2017
  • ISBN 9781622038275
  • Pages 384
  • Dimensions 9.94 x 7.94 x 1 (Inches)

Raised in a distinguished lineage of Vedic mystics and healers, Shunya learned the ancient art of Ayurveda directly from her grandfather, a well-known healer in Northern India. Here, she presents both an engaging narrative of her unique education, as well as a complete encyclopedia of Ayurvedic practices, recipes, and knowledge.

With Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom, Shunya maintains the integrity of Ayurveda’s traditional teachings while showing us how to integrate them into our modern lifestyles. Through her in-depth teachings, we learn to live in a way that supports our greatest health through daily ritual, nourishing food, spiritual practice, and self-care.

Highlights include:

• Detailed instructions for a nourishing daily routine, organized by time of day and aligned with seasonal changes
• Clear, accessible guidance in the basic principles of Ayurveda, as transmitted through an uninterrupted lineage of Ayurvedic healers
• Dozens of traditional recipes, along with advice for structuring your meals according to the season, your constitution, and your unique health needs
• A treasury of lifestyle teachings and wellness practices—meditation and pranayama, exercise and yoga, connecting with nature, rituals for self-care and pleasure, daily cleansing routines, and working with the doshas (energetic body types)
• An approach to healing both practical and spiritual—restore your body to health with holistic lifestyle guidance, rather than a list of rigid rules or do’s and don’ts
• Beauty routines and rituals, including recipes for homemade scrubs, oil blends, gargles, and more
• How modern lifestyles contribute to chronic disease, and how to restore vital health through Ayurveda
• Experience greater physical energy, more joy, better sleep, increased sexual pleasure, improved digestion, stronger immunity, and many other benefits in mind, body, and soul

“Acharya Shunya is one of the extraordinary teachers of the living, embodied wisdom of Ayurveda... She is a model of how to access the healing power of nature within.” Shiva Rea, author of Tending the Heart Fire

“Acharya Shunya’s teachings are a must for those wishing to understand and apply holistic concepts to health and healing to real-life challenges.” Suhas Kshirsagar, BAMS MD (Ayurveda), author of The Hot Belly Diet

“Acharya Shunya provides us the Vedic prescription to optimize our health in a clear and straightforward fashion, giving each of us the power to change our lives.” James R. Doty, MD, clinical professor of neurosurgery and director, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine

“Acharya Shunya imparts us all the pearls of Ayurveda.” John Douillard, author of Eat Wheat, Body, Mind, and Sport, and The 3-Season Diet

“Acharya Shunya is one of the most authentic Vedic teachers in the West today... sharing the ancient traditions in a dynamic and innovative manner for the transformation of life and consciousness.” Dr. David Frawley, D.Litt., Director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies

“Acharya Shunya’s teachings can be utilized throughout your life.” Sally Kempton, author of Awakening Shakti and Meditation for the Love of It

“This is an important addition to a ‘holistic approach to health’ that readers will want to refer to time and again.” Publishers Weekly

“An ongoing source of expert guidance... along with facts, charts, and illustrated yoga poses, Acharya Shunya shares her experiences, wisdom, and knowledge in a loving way.” Light of Consciousness

“This is the ultimate guidebook for optimizing your self-care habits... Shunya makes Ayurvedic ideas and practices completely accessible.” Bustle

“Acharya Shunya is an internationally recognized spiritual teacher who awakens health and consciousness through Ayurveda lifestyle and Vedic spiritual teachings.” Yoga Journal

“Shunya writes with passion and expertise; newcomers to Ayurveda will receive a comprehensive education, and long-standing practitioners can also delve more deeply into this wellspring of knowledge.” Publishers Weekly

“A poetic and inspiring journey rooted in a millennia-long tradition.” Alain Touwaide, PhD, co-founder and scientific director, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, D.C.

“A practical guide that reconnects readers to the truth of our spiritual nature and the cosmic laws of balance.” Professor Mike Jordan, PhD, RN, CWP, Chair, Dept. of Somatic Psychology, Integrative Health and Human Sexuality, California Institute of Integral Studies; Author, How to be a Health Coach; Founding Editor, American Fitness Magazine

“An important addition to the literature on Ayurveda; every household should own a copy.” Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West

“A beautifully written book offering a unique perspective on effective Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle change.” Diana I. Lurie, PhD, C.A.P., Professor of Neuropharmacology, The University of Montana; Editor-in-Chief, Ayurveda Journal of Health

“Profound Ayurvedic wisdom and an invaluable resource for restoring vibrant health.” Dhaval Dhru, M.D., Chair, Department of Ayurvedic Sciences, Bastyr University, VA; President of Board, National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA)

“A must-read resource for natural health, resilience, and well-being.” Richard Miller, PhD, author of High Performance: Restorative Practices for Health, Resilience, and Well-Being (Second Ed.)

Acharya Shunya is an internationally renowned mystic and classically trained master of nondual Advaita, Ayurveda, and Yoga. She is the spiritual head of Sarayu Parampara, a 2,000-year-old Vedic lineage rooted in Ayodhya, India, and the first woman to formally lead this ancient tradition. She received its teachings through her grandfather and guru, Acharya Ayodhya Nath, whose own guru was Acharya Shanti Prakash.

She is the founder of Vedika Global, an educational nonprofit established in 2008 to preserve and share the depth of India's wisdom traditions, and of The Awakened Self Foundation, headquartered in California. Through Vedika Global's courses, retreats, and the Vedic Study Circle, she guides seekers across the world into the wisdom of Advaita Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, Yoga, Shakti, and Ayurveda.

Acharya Shunya has received lifetime achievement recognition in Ayurveda and Vedic sciences from the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Nalanda Award for Excellence in Ayurvedic Education, and the Ayurveda Vachaspati Award. She was named by Spirituality & Health among the Top 100 Yoga and Ayurveda Teachers in America, and has served as an advisor to India's Ministry of AYUSH on international Ayurveda and yoga affairs and as a former president of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine.

She is the bestselling author of Sovereign Self, Roar Like a Goddess, and Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom. Roar Like a Goddess received an Ommie Award, and Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom was recognized by Healthline among its Top 10 books on alternative medicine. Her podcast, Shadow to Self, has ranked among the top 2.5 percent of podcasts globally.

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