Ayurveda Health Newsletter
Issue 32 - October 2007
e-newsletter of Maharishi Ayurveda Products
This Issue:
- Quote - restoration of perfect health
- Dr Brennan’s Seasonal Tips – what to do in November
- Ghee – one of the three great medicines in Ayurveda
- Special Offers – Our eight Xmas Special Offers start on Nov 1st
- Prevent night time anxiety – any of these 16 tips will help
- Global Health News – the rise and rise of a healthier world
- This month’s Prize Draw winner
- This month’s Recipe – From Ayurveda cook Sue Holmes - Paneer and vegetables
- Stockists wanted – shops, salons, clinics, spas, hotels; plus local sales agents
- Q&A - What are Vata, Pitta and Kapha doshas
- Maharishi Ayurveda in Ireland – Seminars, workshops and health consultations
- Maharishi Ayurveda in London - New centre opens
- And finally …. the Maharishi Ayurveda behavioural rasayana of the month
1. Quote of the month
Inaugurating fifty eight Maharishi Hospitals and Maharishi Vedic Health Colleges around the world, Dr Walter Molk, Director of Curriculum Development, described their goal as being to provide relief and restoration of perfect health to patients.
We will enliven the inner healing power of the body and strengthen the physiology, allowing each person to gain mastery of their own physiology. We will also offer programmes for the reversal of ageing to provide creativity and energy for the mind and body. The slogan for these programmes is: "As the age advances, the age prolongs". Our hospitals will fulfil the need for comprehensive and complete health care, for the diagnosis and treatment of disease, and for the promotion of health and longevity.
2. Dr Donn Brennan’s Seasonal Tips for November
November is the height of Vata season and it’s a most beautiful time in nature when the colours are most enjoyable. It’s as if nature is beckoning us out to enjoy its finery. Read More
3. Ghee – considered one of the three great medicines in Ayurveda
Ghee’s main use is for balancing Pitta, the aspect of the body’s intelligence that governs metabolism. Being an oil, ghee is also Vata-reducing, so it has a settling effect on the mind and body. It also has a penetrating quality – think of it as an ‘easing oil’ - and is used for detoxifying as part of the panchakarma treatment process, where people are asked to take a specific amount on successive days to loosen and remove toxins from the circulatory channels and tissues of the body. It is also use to benefit the eyes in a treatment called Netra Tarpana, which is given at Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centres.
If you are having trouble sleeping, you can rub ghee on the soles of the feet before bedtime, making sure to rub off the excess when you go to bed. Ghee is used in Ayurvedic medicine, as the herbs are processed in ghee. Properly made, ghee can last a very long time, and there is a tradition amongst Ayurveda vaidyas (practitioners) of ‘laying down’ ghee for future generations. It is said in Ayurveda that ghee improves with age, and that 100 year ghee is the most efficacious.
Ghee made properly from organic unsalted cow’s milk butter is an excellent food, a sattvic food, a food that won’t disturb the mind, but it needs to be used in moderation according to the strength of one’s digestion. In cooking it is ideal when you are cooking at higher temperatures because it doesn’t burn a readily as olive oil.
Maharishi Ayurveda Products’ Bioland ghee is made strictly according to Ayurvedic guidelines. The butter comes from the Allgau, the traditional dairy region of Germany. The butter is not homogenised and the ghee produced from it therefore has a natural crystalline, grainy structure that is easier to digest. No industrial procedures – centrifuges, vacuums or adding gases – that allow ghee to be made quickly and cheaply, are used.
Buy Bioland or Maharishi Organic Ghee
4. Special Offers – Eight Xmas Special Offers start on Nov 1st. Plus a special treat!
Every year we select a few products suitable as seasonal gifts and offer them at a discount. We’ll be mailing out details next week and posting them on the website ( www.maharishi.co.uk ). The Xmas offers start on Nov 1st and run until Jan 12th.
As well as old favourites: herbal teas, spices, skin care products, therapeutic aromas and Amrit Kalash rasayanas, this year there’s also the remarkable, luxurious and therapeutic Maharishi Honey (mmm!), and an Ayurveda health book we can recommend, ‘The Ageless Woman’, by Dr Nancy Lonsdorf.
We hope you enjoy selecting presents for yourself and loved ones, and as a special treat for the festive season we’ll also send you a £10 gift voucher when you spend £100 or more on any of our entire range of products.
5. Prevent Night Time Anxiety
Anxiety and poor sleep often occur together, and both tend to increase in the Vata season (mid Sept-late Dec). If you are tossing and turning trying to get to sleep and suffering from worrying thoughts, try some of these Maharishi Ayurveda guidelines:
- Eat calming foods
- Eat your evening meal early
- Avoid chocolate, caffeine and alcohol at night
- Turn off your TV or computer after 8.30
- Listen to soothing Gandharva Veda (6pm-10pm) music
- Take a short evening stroll
- Diffuse Peace at Night Therapeutic Aroma in your bedroom and lounge
- Go to bed early, well before 10.00pm
- Train yourself to wake up, and get up early, before 6.00 am
- Give yourself an abhyanga (oil body massage) each morning
- Give yourself a mini-massage, just the head and feet, before bed with Rejuvenation Massage Oil
- Take a hot bath
- Exercise every day to reduce stress, but not at night
- Take Blissful Sleep herbal formula to settle your mind for sleep
- Lower stress levels with Worry Free herbal formula
- Practice Transcendental Meditation, the best-researched and most effective technique for reducing and preventing stress
6. Global Health News – The Rising Signs of a Healthier World
If you ever think nothing much good is happening in the world, take a refreshing look at the website www.globalgoodnews.com which reports positive trends emerging all over the planet. We produce a summary of the news, collected over the past eight weeks, and on the same page you can scroll down through what's been happening during the previous months and see real global trends in a positive direction. Read The News
7. This month’s Prize Draw winner
We are happy to announce that September’s Prize Draw winner for new newsletter subscribers is Mrs Sandra Dunphy from Rochdale, who receives a £10 voucher for Maharishi Ayurveda products. Congratulations Sandra.
8. This month’s Recipe – Paneer and Vegetables
The first in a recipe series from experienced
Ayurveda cook, Sue Holmes.
Susan Holmes, an experienced cook, has many practical and easy-to-make
recipes which incorporate the nutrition principles of Ayurveda. Sue will
be contributing a recipe each month to the newsletter. Print them out
and make a recipe book, or read them online at
Ayurveda Vegetarian Recipes
9. Retail stockists wanted – shops, salons, spas, clinics and hotels
Also local and international sales agents interested in Ayurveda.
Over the last 20 years, Maharishi Ayurveda Products has been a predominantly mail order company, but gradually our products are being sold in shops, salons, spas and clinics and hotels around the country, and we supply distributors and agents in many other countries.
We are very happy to welcome more retailers to Maharishi Ayurveda. The products are the best in their class, the name Maharishi Ayurveda now has a worldwide reputation for excellence and authenticity, and there is a growing demand for both the health products and the beauty range.
We also supply Yoga teachers and complementary health and beauty therapists, and more of these outlets are also welcome because the teachers and therapists use the products themselves, become knowledgeable about them and know which to recommend to their clients.
To become a stockist please call Our Office Manager at 01695 51015, or email him at map@maharishi.co.uk
To learn more about being a Maharishi Ayurveda sales agent, please call Bryan Irving at 01695 51015 ext 17, or email bryanirving@maharishi.co.uk
10. Q&A - What are Vata Pitta and Kapha doshas?
Doshas (Vata, Pitta and Kapha) are the (three) fundamental operating principles in our physiology. Vata is responsible for all movement in the body — circulation of blood, movement of food down the digestive tract, mental activity, etc. Pitta governs transformation and metabolism such as digestion of food and its transformation into bodily tissues, “digestion” of ideas and experiences, and more. Kapha gives solidity to the tissues, holds together different parts of the body and balances the bodily fluids.
Traditional Vedic texts associate each dosha with specific qualities. Vata is associated with cold, lightness, dryness and movement; Pitta with heat, light, sharpness and acidity; Kapha with cold, heaviness, oiliness and slowness.
Vata, Pitta, and Kapha are found everywhere in nature—wherever their qualities are present. Different foods, geographic locations, seasons, times of the day, etc. each have a predominant dosha associated with them. When a certain dosha increases in the environment it will tend to increase the same dosha in our physiology, and vice versa.
11. Maharishi Ayurveda in Ireland – Seminars, workshops and health consultations
If you are ever in Dublin, check the Maharishi Ayurveda website www.ayurveda.ie for Ayurveda events. Maharishi Ayurveda practitioner, Dr Donn Brennan, is giving regular seminars and workshops there. Irish health enthusiasts can also now buy Maharishi Ayurveda products online at the website’s shop. If you would like an Ayurveda health consultation, or to attend events, you can contact Dr Brennan at info@ayurveda.ie
12. Maharishi Ayurveda in London - New centre opens
The Baker Street centre has moved. Maharishi Ayurveda products, consultations and treatments are now available from the new centre in at 29 Abdale Place in Shepherd's Bush. Opening hours are 10.30 to 4.30 Monday to Friday. For further information call 0208 749 5442. Nearest Tube station is Shepherd's Bush on the Hammersmith & City Line.
13. And finally …. Maharishi Ayurveda behavioural rasayanas
Adopting behavioural rasayanas brings health and happiness to life.
1. Always follow our daily routine. When we follow our daily routine (known in Ayurveda as dinacharya) we ride the waves of Natural Law, and this makes every day more happy and fulfilling for us. When we favour Natural Law in this way, Natural Law favours us.
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