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 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 migrainetreatments and migrainetreatments for you, which includes everything from meals and herbal supplements to exercise and treatments. Then you''re left in the attentive and gentle hands of the staff-who out number guests two to one. Doctor''s orders: Lie back, close your eyes, and let the healing treatments begin. (All services and migrainetreatments meals are included in the cost of your stay, which will range from $1,611 for three days to $3,760 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 over your forehead to settle your nervous system. Sensuous mud and milk beauty baths are also available at your asking. Whatever work is done, the tender touches of the technicians, combined with sound and migrainetreatments aroma therapy, will leave you as limp as a noodle.

Herbal recommendations help nourish and restore balance to targetted areas throughout the body. Their most important effect is to strengthen specific areas of the body''s inner intelligence that are responsible for healing and maintaining balance in afflicted parts of the body. Ayurvedic herbs do not target the symptoms of disease directly but help the body remove the general functional imbalances that are the cause of these symptoms. Lifestyle and Behavior Health is won or lost in how we live day to day life. Improper eating habits, poor sleeping patterns, lack of proper exercise and lifestyle that disrupts natural bodily cycles, all can create disease and lower immunity. Consultations with our medical team include a thorough review of each individuals health related behaviors. Consultations provide practical advice on how stop making the mistakes that cause disease and empower individuals to create better health every day through healthy lifestyle choices. Stress Management and the Development of Consiousness Increasing migrainetreatments the strength migrainetreatments and balance of the mind is the most important feature of stress management. Wise living can reduce stress to some degree but the challenges migrainetreatments of life can never be completely removed. Many of the mentioned Ayurvedic recommendations can specifically migrainetreatments balance mind and emotions and lead to improvements in both inner and outer life. Instruction in the Transcendental Meditation technique is also available at Our Company. The TM technique is considered the single most powerful technique for stress management and mental development available in Ayurveda.

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