Ayurveda is an ancient Indian healing system that allows you to gain insight into your body mind.  It explains how to keep the body mind balanced with the internal and external environment, and functioning optimally.

When you have insight into your unique body mind nature, you can adjust your yoga exercise practice for balance. In addition to this Yoga Ayurveda connection, you understand:

Your likes and dislikes
Why you do the things you do
How you are likely to respond to stress
What diseases you are more likely to succumb to
What your dominant tendencies are, both negative and positive

The ancient seers realized that the 5 universal elements exist within all of creation. That the qualities or metaphors of earth, water, fire, air and ether is present within nature in various combinations.  For example: observe the proportion of solidness – earth – that’s within a palm tree and an oak; the quality of lightness – fire – within garlic and pepper; and the quality of movement – air – within a tortoise and a hare.

A unique combination of the elements, called doshas, form the body, and each body must be cared for it its own unique way to achieve and maintain balance with the environment.  This is essential for health as an excess or deficiency of an element can ultimately result in disease.

Take the test to gain insight into your unique body mind nature.

This is part 1 of a series on Yoga Ayurveda.