For thousands of years, women in India have practiced ancient Ayurvedic rituals to enhance their natural beauty. These time-tested traditions bring out the most radiant and healthy version of yourself using only natural ingredients and mindfulness techniques. This book brings you the secrets of Ayurvedic beauty care from ancient scriptures and texts so you can adopt these rituals for beautiful, nourished skin and an inner glow. In our modern fast-paced lives, we try all sorts of cosmetic products and treatments that promise flawless beauty. But these often contain harsh chemicals and provide only temporary solutions while ignoring health and wellbeing. Ayurveda takes a more holistic approach - it recognizes that true beauty comes when we are healthy and balanced inside out. This book is a result of extensive research into ancient Ayurvedic texts like Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita which have described rituals for cleansing, hydration, nourishment and enhancing natural glow since thousands of years. It contains proven recipes of facial packs, scrubs and oils using natural ingredients from your kitchen like essential oils, milk, yogurt, flowers, fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices. These elements balance your doshas, heal from within and promote natural radiance. So embark on the journey of holistic self-care and experience the diverse treatments and rituals passed down by generations of women in India who understood that true beauty originates from within. Bring out your most confident, charming and photoshoot-ready look every single day using these safe, natural techniques inspired by Ayurveda!

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Tired of struggling to lose weight only to regain it all back? The solution isn't trying harder - it's balancing your body and mind holistically. Grounded in thousands of years of practice, Ayurveda provides natural, personalized protocols to help you achieve your healthiest weight in body, mind, and spirit. Unlike fad diets, Ayurveda identifies the root causes behind your imbalance and empowers you to heal them. This practical guide lays out Ayurveda's time-tested wisdom to gently transform your whole being and free yourself from constant weight worries. Learn your unique Ayurvedic body type and customized diet to rekindle your inner fire and metabolism. Discover cleansing techniques, stress-relieving yoga poses, restful sleep routines, medicinal herbs, mindfulness practices, and more tools tailored to your specific needs. Regain energy, improve digestion, balance hormones, and realize lasting weight balance. Identifying your personal Vata, Pitta and Kapha makeup Crafting a personalized Ayurvedic diet and meal plan Using medicinal herbs and spices to stimulate fat burning Safely cleansing toxins through Panchakarma protocols Establishing daily self-care rituals for mind-body harmony Managing stress and emotional eating skillfully Achieving sound sleep to optimize metabolic hormones Balance Your Body, Free Your Weight provides a complete holistic roadmap to help you transcend dieting frustration and embrace your body's highest potential - naturally and joyfully.

Ayurvedic Beauty Care presents both ancient and modern Ayurvedic secrets for beauty-care. The aim of this book is to elevate our Western understanding of beauty to new levels with the deeper Ayurvedic insights. These insights hold powerful health promoting and enhancing methods and luxurious beauty techniques such that all levels of beauty (outer, inner, secret) can be realized in our increasingly fast paced and chaotic world. There are two audiences that are addressed in this volume. First and foremost, every person should be able to find what brings out their true beauty. In this light, the book is intended to be a self-care manual. At the same time, those interested in or practising as beauty therapists or aestheticians should receive the benefits of the deep insights and marvelous results Ayurveda can offer their clients.

Ayurvedic Rituals: Wisdom, Recipes and the Ancient Art of Self-Care is your introduction and practical guide to Ayurvedic philosophy, showing you how a deep connection to yourself and your natural environment will help achieve harmony in your body and mind. In this guide, Ayurvedic Diet & Lifestyle Consultant Chasca Summerville introduces this ancient practice to us in a modern setting. Chasca teaches us how we can achieve optimal health and happiness by tuning into nature and living an Ayurvedic lifestyle: rising daily with the sun, eating a seasonal plant-based diet, using natural/toxin-free personal care products, nurturing our mind and body through meditation & movement, and accessing the apothecary that the plant kingdom offers in abundance. Ayurveda is decadent self-care, it's for anyone wanting to deepen their yoga or meditation practice and it's for those who want to achieve a life of great health, deep fulfilment and serenity. Featuring sumptuous photography, Ayurvedic Rituals includes seasonal recipes, herbal teas, natural beauty recipes, self-care rituals, a plant-based first-aid kit plus methods to reduce stress & anxiety, improve digestion & gut health, and techniques to access deep rejuvenating sleep. Routines and rituals spread throughout the book will help you feel relaxed, happy, healthy and deeply connected to the natural world. This ancient practice will help you find a sense of peace & vitality so you can glow from the inside out.

Ayurveda, popularized by Deepak Chopra in his bestselling books, is an ancient wholistic approach that originated in India. Both natural skin care and the ancient discipline of Ayurveda are tremendously popular concepts right now, and this is the first time the two have come together in a comprehensive book. The founder of her own skin care clinic in Manhattan, author Pratima Raichur is a leading expert on Ayruveda who uses classic Ayurvedic principles to develop her own completely original skin care regimen that can be tailored to all skin types. In concrete, accessible terms, Raichur shows readers how to achieve what she calls absolute beauty-a complexion so luminous and an inner vitality so compelling that our attractiveness transcends all modes of fashion and all physical ideals-a beauty that anyone can achieve, regardless of age, wealth, status or bodily imperfection. Part I outlines the principles of Ayurvedic skin care and shows how the skin, our largest organ, can reveal important information about our stress levels and overall health-if we know what to look for-and offers readers a self-test to determine their skin type from three categories. Part 2 describes each skin type's regimen, and shows the individual reader how they can achieve balance in their particular problem areas through proper nutrition, cleansing, and moisturizing. It also offers a consumers' guide to -natural' products currently available, as well as remedies for the 12 most common complaints, and natural makeup tips. Part 3 focuses even further on nutritional information such as how much is enough water, what your skin can tell you about your digestion, and how to detoxify your body for beautiful skin and hair. Part 4 discusses the spiritual aspects of Ayurveda which can aid in achieving inner peace and the outer glow that stems from it. Also included throughout the book are line drawings to illustrate Raichur's skin care techniques and exercises.aCombining the best of modern science and the age old wisdom of Ayurveda, Absolute Beauty is a complete skin care guide that not only offers the key to more beautiful skin, shinier hair, and thicker eyelashes, but to better overall health, vitality, and abody that feels as good as it looks.

Inner Beauty draws on the teachings of Ayurveda, Indias tradition of natural health, to create a lifestyle centered on looking and feeling radiant. Whether your custom beauty plans include the cooling ritual of A Milk and Rice Water Bath, meditative breathing techniques to complete your workout, or the cleaning effects of a complete detox weekend, This book will help you find the balance we all crave.