A good Ayurvedic lifestyle programme establishes routines and dietary guidelines specific for your constitution assisting to create harmony and clear imbalance in you body-mind-soul. Such a programme includes a balance of exercise, relaxation, reflection and work. The programme includes the use of Ayurvedic herbs to promote balance and harmony of the doshas, strengthen the immune system and promote general vitality.

Some of the keys to health is good digestion. If your digestion is good then you are able to assimilate what you eat, think, feel and the experiences you have. Poor digestion is the first step to a build up of toxins in the body and eventually dis-ease.

Through your consultations with Ayurveda Wellbeing, you will learn to understand the many Ayurvedic perspectives of healthy living and how to apply them to your unique self.

Some aspects of an Ayurvedic lifestyle will include:

• Learning what foods are good for you to bring balance, harmony, and health into your life, based on Ayurvedic principles, and learning to understand the qualities of different foods.
• How to cook foods properly and avoiding combinations that will create toxins in the body and learning some of the basic concepts behind Ayurvedic cooking.
• Why digestive fire is so important and how to ensure the fire is burning at appropriate times.
• Understanding the six tastes of food and herbs and their effect.
• The importance of cooking with respect and love.
• Learning about the fundamental herbs of an Ayurvedic kitchen. How to use herbs to make your food more digestible, to kindle your digestion.
• Understanding why certain eating habits can disturb your health, when to eat what type of food, and how else to improve your digestion.
• Learning how the seasons can affect your digestion and health and how to adjust your habits accordingly.
• Understanding why the change from one season to another may require shifting your diet for a period of time to restore balance, and how you can benefit from specific therapies and a cleansing program such as Panchakarma at the beginning of each season.
• Learning healthy routines, called Dinacharya, and how to slowly integrate them into your life.
• Understanding why exercise should also be suited to your specific constitution, and which kind and how much exercise you should perform to stimulate the digestive fire (agni), improve digestion, relieve constipation, and induce relaxation, as well as how to avoid dehydration, breathlessness, muscle aches, chest pain, and other problems such as arthritis, sciatica, or heart conditions, caused by over exercising.
• Understanding why both the relationships you develop with others and the one you have with yourself play a major role in your state of health and well-being, and how suppressed or unresolved emotions can poison your body just as much as bad food combining.
• Learning about the benefits of yoga, yoga therapy, and meditation and how to adjust them according to your constitution and needs.