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Ayurveda and Autumn – Dr Donn Brennan

By |2023-09-20T16:44:41+01:00September 20th, 2023|Aromatherapy, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Drinks, Food, Health, Heatwave, Herbal Formulas, Holiday, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Natural cycles, Pitta, Summer|

Autumn is a time of rest.  The sun heads south and days get shorter.  In the countryside you are aware of nature settling, as growth ceases and leaves decay.  It is a beautiful time. In our concrete jungles we are not so aware of this.  For too many people autumn is a busy time, after the relaxation of the summer.  School restarts.  New projects are begun, and night classes distract [...]

Top Ayurvedic Tips for a Blissful Summer by Varsha Khatri, MA, MCMA, MFNTP

By |2023-07-24T16:25:57+01:00July 24th, 2023|Aromatherapy, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Drinks, Food, Health, Heatwave, Herbal Formulas, Holiday, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Natural cycles, Pitta, Summer|

Registered Nutritionist & Ayurveda Consultant As the sun shines brightly and warm summer breezes beckon, it's the perfect time to enjoy the outdoors, having delightful picnics, or going to the beach. Summer is the time to spend in the great outdoors. In Ayurveda, the principles of balance and harmony extend to all aspects of life, including food and activities. By incorporating Ayurvedic wisdom into your summer food and activities, you [...]

How to make the most of your Maharishi Ayurveda products

By |2023-07-11T09:25:00+01:00July 10th, 2023|Aromatherapy, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Drinks, Food, Health, Heatwave, Herbal Formulas, Holiday, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Massage, Meditation, Natural cycles, Summer|

Index: Key recommendations Well begun is half done Development of consciousness Rest Exercise Diet and digestion Maharishi Ayurveda food supplements When to take your MAV preparation How much to take If you are taking more than one food supplement For how long to use the product Anupan or vehicle for food supplements Pregnancy and beast feeding Storage and lifetime Safety precautions Negative effects - side effects, adverse reactions and drug [...]

Ayurveda – Spring & Happiness by Varsha Khatri, MA, MCMA, MFNTP

By |2023-05-04T15:14:27+01:00May 4th, 2023|Aromatherapy, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Drinks, Food, Health, Heatwave, Herbal Formulas, Holiday, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Massage, Meditation, Natural cycles, Summer|

Registered Nutritionist & Ayurveda Consultant In Ayurveda, spring is considered the Kapha season, and it is important to maintain balance in this season to avoid feeling lethargic or congested. Today, I am going to share my top Maharishi Ayurveda dietary and lifestyle tips for spring and how to increase happiness through these ancient principles that can be applied to the modern life. In Ayurveda, food is considered medicine, and the [...]

Summer by Dr Donn Brennan

By |2023-04-21T15:25:37+01:00April 21st, 2023|Amrit Kalash, Anxiety, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Children's Health, Consciousness, Daily Habits, Doshas, Fatigue, Health, Knowledge, Meditation, Mental Health, Mental Performance, Mind, Panchakarma, Stress, Work|

The season of mellow fruitfulness is almost with us.  Time to anticipate your holiday by the sea, to change to lighter, cooler foods, to plan to catch a music festival and a garden show.  How different we feel from just a few months ago when the cold, damp days and short night were with us. Ayurveda is the most ancient health tradition on earth.  It explains the change of mood [...]

Cooking for your Spirit by Dr Donn Brennan

By |2022-09-15T15:24:34+01:00September 15th, 2022|About Maharishi Ayurveda, Ageing, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Consciousness, Daily Habits, Dr Donn Brennan videos, Evening Meal, Family, Food, Healthy Eating, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Videos, Nutrition, Obesity, Ojas, Relationships, Teenage Health, Toxins|

You are what you eat. To most people this means simply that the vitamins, carbs, and proteins in food build the cells, blood and bones of your body. But in Maharishi Ayurveda, "you are what you eat" means something far more subtle and powerful. Food is known to directly influence your consciousness and feelings. It can create bliss or anger, contentment or restlessness, thoughts of the sacred or the profane. [...]

Ways to Stay Cool using the 5 Senses by Linda Sinden

By |2022-09-14T10:23:20+01:00September 7th, 2022|Aromatherapy, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Drinks, Food, Health, Heatwave, Herbal Formulas, Holiday, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Massage, Meditation, Natural cycles, Summer|

Hasn't it been hot! With a high in London of 40 on July 19th July, experiencing heat waves is a reality to be managed as best we can. So, with this global trend being felt by many, here are some simple choices to help keep you cool! How to Use Your 5 Senses to Stay Cool Ayurveda explains that three principles of nature called Vata, Pitta and Kapha doshas underlie [...]

Be proactive this Ritu Sandhi: master the change of Season with ease

By |2022-09-01T11:43:49+01:00September 1st, 2022|About Maharishi Ayurveda, Ageing, Autumn, Detox, Digestion, Doshas, Elimination, Food, Health, Healthy Eating, Herbal Formulas, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Massage, Meditation, Natural cycles, Rasayanas, Recipes, Seasons, Skin Care, Summer, Toxins, Triphala, Yoga|

by Mrs Suneeta Lakshmi Lies The Sanskrit word Ritu means season and Sandhi means junction so Ritu Sandhi is a transitional junction or an interseasonal period of 7 days culminating the current season and the 7 days commencing the following season: Thursday 25 August to Wednesday 7 September, 2022. The classical Ayurveda text Ashtanga Hridaya states that: “During this period, the regimen of the preceding season should be discontinued gradually [...]

Traveling with Ayurveda

By |2022-08-25T21:32:15+01:00August 25th, 2022|About Maharishi Ayurveda, Balance, Digestion, Doshas, Drinks, Food, Healthy Eating, Holiday, Knowledge, Sleep, Spices, travel|

by Varsha Khatri, MA, SYT, MCMA Travelling comes with excitement, but can also be met with stress. There is change to sleep, diet, routine, and even hydration. When away from home, habits change and this inevitably impacts the digestion. Staying away from home whether it is at a hotel, a resort, on a cruise, or anywhere that is not home, you are likely to imbalance your doshas. Especially Vata. The [...]

Anxiety by Dr Donn Brennan

By |2022-08-19T15:35:25+01:00August 19th, 2022|Amrit Kalash, Anxiety, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Children's Health, Consciousness, Daily Habits, Doshas, Fatigue, Health, Knowledge, Meditation, Mental Health, Mental Performance, Mind, Panchakarma, Stress, Work|

The Importance of Balance: Life is uncertain.  The only certainty is that everything changes.  The secret of good health and happiness according to Maharishi Ayurveda is to remain balanced amidst the change.  Balance is an individual thing because everyone is unique.  The beauty of Ayurveda is that it helps everyone to find their own balance. A little pressure or demand on us is good for us.  Otherwise, life becomes a [...]

Summer trip tips to stay calm and cool

By |2022-07-05T10:48:53+01:00June 29th, 2022|About Maharishi Ayurveda, Aromatherapy, Ayurveda Diary, Balance, Behaviour, Consciousness, Doshas, Food, Health, Healthy Eating, Herbal Formulas, Holiday, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Meditation, Mental Health, Mental Performance, Natural cycles, Pitta, Sub Doshas, Summer, travel, Vata, vegetables|

by Mrs Suneeta Lakshmi Lies Summer solstice was officially June 21 which marked the brightest and longest day of the year. The weather is heating up and the summery clothing is coming out as this is the season when Pitta Dosha, (the bodily process and bio-energetic force composed of predominately fire and water elements), is increasing internally in our bodies and our external environments. When Pitta dosha is balanced positive [...]

Spring Cleansing and 45 Day Programme

By |2021-04-07T18:33:24+01:00March 30th, 2021|About Maharishi Ayurveda, Ageing, Ayurveda Diary, Consultations, Detox, Elimination, Food, Health, Healthy Eating, Herbal Formulas, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre, Massage, Natural cycles, Nutrition, Oils, Rejuvenation, Spring, Toxins, Triphala|

Springtime is for cleansing and reinvigoration The vernal equinox marks the beginning of Spring when daylight strengthens. Equinox comes from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), and vernal means springtime or youthful and fresh. For your own youthfulness and freshness, you may like to consider a Spring cleansing programme. Internal cleansing is particularly recommended by Ayurveda because Spring is the season when your body’s natural cleansing and rejuvenating mechanisms [...]

Ayurveda – 5,000 Years Young

By |2019-12-20T14:47:44+00:00December 20th, 2019|About Maharishi Ayurveda, Ayurveda History, Doshas, Herbal Formulas, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Vaidya|

Ayurveda, the ancient system of holistic healing from India, is justly enjoying a widespread resurgence in popularity today. Savvy, health-conscious individuals all over the world are taking more responsibility for their own health and well-being. The story of Ayurveda

A Closer Look at Stress-Free Emotions

By |2019-11-14T14:31:47+00:00November 14th, 2019|Herbal Formulas, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Rasayanas, Stress, Stress-Free|

At Maharishi AyurVeda, our process of designing herbal formulas is not simply just combining herbs together. We lean into the ancient knowledge of Ayurveda, which enables our formulas to come into power and truly balance the doshas.

Top Seven Ayurvedic Behavioral Rasayanas

By |2019-11-07T10:33:26+00:00November 6th, 2019|Balance, Behaviour, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Mental Health, Mental Performance, Rasayanas, Relationships|

Behavioral (achara) rasayanas are behaviors that enhance health, happiness and longevity. Achara rasayanas do more than just tell us how to behave. They provide practical methods — such as eating sattvic foods and practicing meditation — to effortlessly improve our ability to choose positive behaviors and avoid making mistakes that cause ill health and unhappiness.

Maharishi Revives Ayurveda

By |2019-02-12T14:47:20+00:00February 12th, 2019|Ayurveda History, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Vaidya|

Maharishi Revives Ayurveda. At the end of the 1970s, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who brought the Transcendental Meditation programme to the world, started working closely with leading Ayurvedic physicians and scholars to systematize and restore the age-old knowledge of Ayurveda to its complete value. It is this total approach to natural health care that has been given the name Maharishi AyurVeda. 20m Video

The Magic of Maharishi AyurVeda

By |2019-02-12T09:32:00+00:00February 11th, 2019|About Maharishi Ayurveda, Ayurveda History, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs|

The Magic of Maharishi AyurVeda In this series of four articles, Anand Shrivastava, Chairman and Managing Director of Maharishi AyurVeda Products Ltd. based in India, shares his memories of the beginning days of Maharishi AyurVeda. "To tell you honestly, I did not have any experience or any knowledge in those days, around 1984, when Maharishi Mahesh Yogi started looking into ayurveda." "It so happened that when Maharishi asked who should take care of the production of the herbal products, two of our most respected vaidyas (ayurvedic physicians), Triguna-ji and Balaraj Maharishi, pointed their fingers at me. I was really surprised to see this, and I was not able to respond. Maharishi said, "Fine, just do it" and I started with his blessings."

The Yoga – Ayurveda Connection

By |2019-01-30T13:58:54+00:00January 29th, 2019|Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Massage, Meditation, Yoga|

Yoga is becoming very popular around the world. While many view yoga as a gentler way to exercise, most long-time practitioners realize that yoga is not just physical - it creates balance in mind, emotions and consciousness as well. And they are starting to realize that yoga shares the same origin and goal as ayurveda, the traditional Vedic system of health care.

Discover your Ayurvedic body-type

By |2019-01-29T15:04:46+00:00January 29th, 2019|Food, Kapha, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Men's Health, Pitta, Vata, Women's Health|

A Guide to the Doshas. Discover your individual body-type and which Dosha you need to balance most – Vata, Pitta or Kapha. Identify your individual health needs by reading our Dosha guide and test booklet.

Ayurveda guide for a soothing Vata season

By |2017-10-30T20:18:41+00:00October 26th, 2017|Autumn, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Natural cycles, Panchakarma, Vata|

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How old is Ayurveda and what are its origins?

By |2017-09-05T13:51:42+01:00April 15th, 2017|Consciousness, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Natural cycles, Yugas|

You often find assertions such as “Ayurveda is a 3,000-year-old medical science”. Are such origin dates just plucked from the air because writers know their audience needs some reference point to what may appear, a mysterious and obscure health system? What are the real origins of Ayurveda? As old as mankind I recently went to a fascinating talk by Dr Jagdish Vaidya here in Skelmersdale, where he stated [...]

Why Raw Honey is Always Best

By |2019-02-07T10:02:17+00:00October 16th, 2016|Fatigue, Food, Heart, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre, Weightloss|

Enjoy one of nature’s finest gifts in its raw and organic form The unheated, unprocessed honey, supplied by Maharishi AyurVeda Products, is remarkably different from the honey you’ll find on supermarket shelves. Sourced from Antonio Simon’s apiaries in Northern Spain, the bees that create this honey gather nectar from areas free of pollutants. To preserve its health giving properties, and the unique flavour of this unadulterated natural honey, Antonio spins the [...]

8 Ayurvedic ways to boost your natural immunity

By |2018-03-04T21:54:47+00:00November 19th, 2015|Autumn, Detox, Digestion, Food, Immunity, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Spring|

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Battlefield surgery of ancient India

By |2018-09-14T06:38:28+01:00October 8th, 2015|Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs|

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New video series on Maharishi AyurVeda

By |2017-09-05T13:50:32+01:00December 22nd, 2014|Detox, Digestion, Dr Donn Brennan videos, Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre, Maharishi Ayurveda Videos, Other videos, Rejuvenation|

We have new video series on Maharishi AyurVeda with Dr Donn Brennan. This is just the beginning and over the next few months many more videos, full of Ayurvedic health wisdom, will be put up on our site. [fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_2" last="no"] Introductory videos In some videos Donn introduces basic concepts, such as what is Ayurveda’s approach to health, why Maharishi helped to revive this ancient science, what are the Ayurvedic body-types, how your [...]

Invitation to the biggest Ayurveda congress ever held in Europe

By |2017-09-05T13:50:32+01:00December 22nd, 2014|Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs, Maharishi Ayurveda Videos|

On 10-14 April 2015, the largest ever European congress on Ayurveda will be held in Roermond, Holland. In the following video Dr Ulrick Bauhofer explains the purpose of the congress: Video transcript: "During the past decades Ayurveda has become very popular here in the West. People are travelling to India, to Sri Lanka, but also here in Europe many clinics of Ayurvedic medicine have opened. "Nevertheless, many people connect Ayurveda with the [...]

Dr Amit Arora: Talks and Consultations

By |2019-06-26T14:17:27+01:00July 29th, 2014|Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs|

Renowned Vaidya Dr Amit Arora visits the UK, July 2019 It is a delight to welcome back the renowned Vaidya, Dr Amit Arora, Head of Ayurveda (clinical practices) at Maharishi AyurVeda Hospital, Delhi. Dr Arora will offer health consultations and talks on Maharishi AyurVeda.

Balaraj Maharishi – an extraordinary healer

By |2017-09-05T13:50:32+01:00July 9th, 2014|Knowledge, Maharishi Ayurveda Blogs|

My first meeting with Balaraj In June 1984, I became part of a group of western-trained medical doctors from six countries who began a 15-month course in Ayurveda. In February 1985, as part of our course, we were invited to join a group of eminent vaidyas (Ayurvedic doctors) in Brasilia, for a two-week conference on the indigenous health traditions of South America. It was here that I first came into contact with [...]

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