Yoga and Ayurveda 

A healthy body&mind is at the core of yoga and Ayurveda. Keeping your vital organs healthy to have a clear mind and Ayurveda the Indian holistic therapy goes hand in hand with yoga for purification and detoxing of internal body, yoga postures twists, backbends where you massage your internal organs  to keep a healthy flow from the inside and you’ll glow on the outside. Ancient Yogis believed that if your gut is healthy then your mind is healthy. The dynamic yoga postures like Sun Salutations, warriors are designed to tone your muscles and stretch them and then when you sit in meditation your body is not aching. It keeps you healthy on the inside and outside. 

Ayurveda which means Knowledge of life is a health science that derived in India thousands of years ago. 

In Ayurveda it’s all about rhythm of nature. It’s about spiritual health versus in the west focuses on external health. 

Eminé Rushton in her book Sattva explains, There are 3 primal energies in Ayurveda 

1) Sattva: truth of us human beings that is intuitive, feeling rather than overthinking. Trusting your “gut” feeling.

It’s living in the present moment and In Harmony with nature. Where life flows beautifully and in healthy way. 

2) Rajas : where you never sit still, life is rushing around. Living too much in the future and not in the present. In the West we live mostly in this rushed state, waking up by alarm clock and continue rushing to work, gym, commuting. Not living in harmony with nature and it’s seasons. 

3) Tamas: where you cannot move , there is no growth, you are closed off.

Ayurveda teaches us to trust nature, have the attitude of gratitude and living life in rhythm with nature. 

Meditation and stillness can work magic, this will connect you with your true essence. 

Your body is a miracle, it can self heal. But we push it so hard  and hearts pounding racing around. Shallow breathing and the stress piles on. This brings our body&mind out of balance. In Yoga and Ayurveda you counter balance that. Self care by doing your yoga postures, living in tune with nature and eating foods that is in season, meditation, gentleness and stillness is where goodness arises. 

Namaste 

Luma 

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