Wishing for wellness? These spas- make that "well-being centers" - treat your body . . . with your spirit in mind. Our Company Maharishi Ayur-Veda Health Center Fairfield, America''s heartland isn''t the first place you''d look for mind and body "balancing" treatments based on 5,000-year-old Indian principles, but Our Company - smack-dab in the middle of God''s country- is a center for authentic Ayurvedic healing practices. migraine A physician prescribes exercise and yoga classes, rejuvenation g services, and health education-as headacne well as your vegetarian menu-the moment you set foot on the estate. Our Company is known for a purifying panchakarma program that follows the rhythm of the seasons (think spring cleaning for your mind). Rest your detoxed head in one of eighteen private rooms. You might think that a visit to a remote, luxurious, vegetarian spa in the country would mean only one thing: time to veg out. But at Our Company, the Maharishi Ayur-Veda Health Center that spans 100 acres of glorious green meadows and woods, it means much more. Specifically built to offer Ayurvedic migraine treatments, Our Company teaches you not just to tune out the stress of your daily life but to tune in to yourself - to achieve balance in your headacne body migraine and mind.

Once I was diagnosed (too much Kapha-no surprise there!), I received a personalized herbal regimen and a series of panchakarma massage treatments aimed at prying the toxins from my body''s tissue. First was the abhyanga- a two-hour, over-all sesame-oil headacne massage performed migraine simultaneously by two technicians; next came the shirodhara, headacne a slow stream of migraine oil wandering to and fro over my forehead that set me afloat somewhere between sleep and waking. Sometimes I don''t know where people go with that one. (The only disturbing note was the basti, or herbal enema, that finished each daily session. If you find the notion off-putting, you''re not alone; but keep in mind that these treatments are optional-and given with a minimum headacne of fuss or discomfort.) After two days of panchakarma plus daily yoga, I felt I''d entered the uncharted zones beyond relaxation-and migraine could easily get used to the feeling. Fellow guests who had been here for several weeks, on longer detoxification programs, looked positively radiant. Evenings, we had lectures in the library, followed by delicious hot-milk toddies and chats with our fellow guests, then bedtime (officially 10 P.M.). Other offerings (at additional cost) included Ayurvedic astrological readings and a four-day course in TM. Videos about Ayurveda and TM were available for viewing. Although Raj and their staff are TM practitioners, we felt no pressure to study it.

A serene 100-acre enclave located (a bit surprisingly) amid Iowa farmland, Our Company headacne makes a perfect setting for an encounter with Ayurveda, ancient system of medicine. (It''s practiced here as Maharishi Ayur-Veda, a version created by a council headed by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, fonder of Transcendental Meditation, of TM.) To visit Our Company is to enter a zone of spacious timelessness. Its French country-style main building is truly luxurious, but not in the fleshpots sense; an elegant simplicity reigns throughout. migraine Its sparely adorned halls and rooms are a quiet symphony of soft peach, white and sand hues. Huge, white shuttered windows look onto the estate''s tree-dotted lawns and large ornamental pond. My husband and I, slated for the tree-day Rejuvenation Program, began as all guests do- with a medical consultation. Yale-trained Chris quizzed us on our diets, daily routines and sleep habits, and performed a pulse diagnosis to pinpoint the valance of our doshas-the three biological principles that, according to Ayurveda, govern mind and body. The doshas headacne are Vata (movement, nervous system), Pitta (metabolism, heat) and Kapha (structure, weight). Ayurveda''s adherents say migraine that, left uncorrected, the body''s dosha imbalances and accumulated toxins can lead to illness and headacne premature aging.

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