This
month we will
have a discussion on
AYURVEDIC
FOUNDATIONS
October 19, 2005
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Ayurveda is a wholistic system of medicine from India. Its aim is to provide guidance regarding food and lifestyle so that healthy people can stay healthy and folks with health challenges can improve their health. Ayurveda is made up of two sanskrit words: Ayu which means "life" and Veda which means, "the knowledge of"
There are several aspects to Ayurveda that are quite unique:
1. Its recommendations will often be different for each person regarding which foods and which lifestyle they should follow in order to be completely healthy.
2. Everything in Ayurveda is validated by observation, inquiry, direct examination and knowledge derived fro the ancient texts.
3. It understands that there are energetic forces that influence nature and human beings.
4. Because Ayurveda sees a strong connection between the mind and the body, a huge amount of information is available regarding this relationship.
COME JOIN US AS WE EXPLORE THIS ANCIENT SYSTEM OF HEALTHY LIVING