Seven Ways to Awaken Your Body’s Natural Wisdom: Ayurveda for beginners

Ayurveda is the indigenous medicine system of Ancient India, with texts dating back thousands of years from doctors, surgeons, and specialists, which parallel all branches of modern medicine. The systems are still alive and practiced today both in lineage folk traditions as well as through medical colleges in India. Ayurveda has been gaining global popularity around the world due to the focus on preventative health measures, holistic nutrition, lifestyle, and traditional cleansing methods. Ayurveda provides a lens for seeing the qualities of the natural world and ourselves as one in the same, not as separate.

Through the understanding of a five-element theory as well as modern and Ayurvedic anatomy and physiology, vaidyas and practitioners often work to identify optimal diets and lifestyles as per clients’ location, age, state of health, lifestyle, and goals. Clients and students of Ayurveda may gain new insights into the impacts of their environments and begin to engage more consciously with all substances in their environments to optimize vitality. While the process is usually individualized, below you will see a few general tips from the wisdom of Ayurveda to start on the journey of reawakening your body’s innate wisdom.

1. Tap into your natural biorhythms with the sun as your guide

In this age of tech, media, and over-productivity, our nervous systems and digestive systems can become erratically…