A serene 100-acre enclave located (a bit surprisingly) amid Iowa farmland, Our Company makes a perfect setting for an encounter with Ayurveda, ancient system of medicine. migraine (It''s help 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 migraine luxurious, but not in the fleshpots sense; an elegant simplicity reigns throughout. Its sparely adorned halls and rooms are a quiet symphony of soft peach, white and sand hues. Huge, white help shuttered windows look onto the estate''s tree-dotted lawns and large ornamental pond. My husband migraine 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 help doshas are Vata (movement, nervous system), Pitta (metabolism, heat) and Kapha (structure, weight). Ayurveda''s adherents say migraine that, left uncorrected, help the body''s dosha imbalances and accumulated toxins can lead to illness migraine and premature aging.

One of the oldest systems of natural and preventative medicine in the world, the 5,000-year-old art of Ayurveda focuses on achieving equilibrium among the three kinds of help energy, or doshas, found in the body: vata, pitta, and kapha. To determine your dosha, you will start your stay at this tranquil resort with an hour-long consultation conducted by a Western-trained M.D. and an Indian doctor or vaidya. (Healthy Living''s editor-in-chief was amazed by the accuracy of their diagnoses; see her story on the next page.) Once completed, a tailor-made plan is prescribed for you, which includes everything from meals and herbal migraine supplements to exercise and treatments. Then help you''re left in the attentive and gentle hands of the staff-who out number migraine guests two help to one. Doctor''s orders: Lie back, close your eyes, and let the healing treatments migraine begin. (All services and meals are help included in the cost of your stay, which will range from $1,611 for three days to $3,760 migraine for seven days.) Some relaxing examples: The warm herbal oil massage (abhyanga), given in unison by two technicians, loosens toxins in your tissues and soothes your skin. This release of impurities leaves you primed for either an herbal steam treatment (swedana) to further purify, or the relaxation treatment (shirodhara), during which a continuous flow of essential oil is poured help over your forehead to settle your nervous system. migraine Sensuous mud and milk beauty baths are also available at your help asking. Whatever work is done, the tender touches of the technicians, combined with sound and aroma therapy, will leave you as limp as a noodle.

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