Ayurveda is considered to be the original holistic, healing medical system. It translates in Sanskrit as "The Science of Life". It originated in India over 5,000 years ago and stems from the Vedic culture, where it was taught orally by Ayurvedic masters, to their disciples. Many recent holistic approaches to health and wellness have their roots in Ayurveda. 

Ayurveda places great emphasis on balance. If our system is in balance, we will be able to avoid illness and disease, whilst promoting longevity, aging well. The balance is found through paying attention to nutrition, liftestyle, herbs, our thoughts, words and actions. Just as individual as our fingerprints are, our body makeup is just as individual, therefore a 'one size fits all' approach where health and wellbeing is involved, can be more detrimental, than useful. 

Once we understand our body make up, also known in Ayurveda, as our constitution, we can then understand why we are, the way we are and what we can do to truly enhance our wellness, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually and thereby restore balance in all fronts in our life. 

Your Constitution and Its Inner Balance

Ayurveda places great emphasis on prevention and encourages the maintenance of health through close attention to balance in one’s life, right thinking, diet, lifestyle and the use of herbs. Knowledge of Ayurveda enables one to understand how to create this balance of body, mind and consciousness according to one’s own individual constitution and how to make lifestyle changes to bring about and maintain this balance.

Just as everyone has a unique fingerprint, each person has a particular pattern of energy—an individual combination of physical, mental and emotional characteristics—which comprises their own constitution. This constitution is determined at conception by a number of factors and remains the same throughout one’s life. Many factors, both internal and external, act upon us to disturb this balance and are reflected as a change in one’s constitution from the balanced state. Examples of these emotional and physical stresses include one’s emotional state, diet and food choices, seasons and weather, physical trauma, work and family relationships. Once these factors are understood, one can take appropriate actions to nullify or minimize their effects or eliminate the causes of imbalance and re-establish one’s original constitution. Balance is the natural order; imbalance is disorder. Health is order; disease is disorder. Within the body there is a constant interaction between order and disorder. When one understands the nature and structure of disorder, one can re-establish order.