Ayurveda Beginner's Guide: Essential Ayurvedic Principles and Practices to Balance and Heal Naturally

A MUST HAVE book for someone new to Ayurveda. Straightforward approach, very enjoyable and informative. LOTS of useful information. I read it from beginning to end. Definitely buy this book if you really want to learn a lot about Ayurveda and you’re just starting out on the path or you’re curious and want to explore. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love this book so far. It delves into living a natural lifestyle with diet, exercise, meditation, breathing, and household products.

The book follows the subject clearly and whether novice or intermediate it makes for great reading and shared knowledge that you can put to use right away. I'm off to the race so to speak...Best at your endeavors...

Really enjoyed this book. A sincere and succinct Ayurvedic overview from a forthcoming author passionate about her newfound lifestyle and sharing helpful bits of her story and wisdom with others. This book has good basic information on what Ayurveda is (which I promise, barely scratches the surface of this beautiful and ancient system of healing; think iceberg...), the doshas, some yummy recipes, and lovely ideas for ritual practices to incorporate into your daily life if you so desire, to support mindful balance in all aspects of our mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical selves (e.g. meditation, tongue scraping, oil pulling, creating an altar, yoga, etc.) irrespective of your belief system and faith, this sweet book has lots of information and positive practices to help shift one toward a more healthy, gentle, and self-loving lifestyle. It may even spark an interest in further exploring the phenomenally intricate ancient healing wisdom of Ayurveda.Definitely check out the Daily CCF Tea (Cumin, Coriander, & Fennel) which is surprisingly nourishing, grounding, and energising.So, I do love and recommend this book and have already devoured and loaned out my copy...All that said, the overall editing could have been a bit more stellar, particularly in regard to consistency in format (information not being grouped in the same ways in some places) which annoys me greatly. I feel that the presentation can be greatly improved upon and should there be a newly edited version at some point, more illustrative photos would be nice.All in all, a great first book by Susan Weis-Bohlen!! Kudos.

I am very new to Ayurveda and this is a good book that is well written and laid out. I will probably reference the yoga section and try some recipes.

Great book excellent information!

I have been studying Ayurvedic medicine and cooking for a while now and found this book and thought what the hell i'll give it a shot. I was VERY impressed with this little book, it basically takes 5,000 years and condenses it into 175 pages! I would highly recommend it if you just want to stick your foot in the water and see what you think. It's affordable, covers about everything you need to get started, has some good recipes and a great resource section in the back of the book as well.

Easy and enjoyable to read. There's some interesting and entertaining concepts in this book but I'm not sold on the concept as I had hoped to be. Some of the information is fairly obvious like: don't eat a big heavy dinner and then immediately go to bed.Some of it is based on information that really only pertains to India like- all food should be cooked. That's because field grown produce- like spinach- is watered with less sanitary water than we're accustomed to in the states (although we're seeing more and more of those recalls here).And then some of it is based on old wives' tales or pure nonsense. For example- don't eat fruit with any other food. Yeah right! especially when a lot of vegetables we eat are actually fruit. Or don't eat while standing up. That has more to do with being mindful of your eating than anything health related. In fact, eating while you stand is probably healthier. How about- you can not snack between meals because the undigested last meal will turn to poison. Hilarious! Just like you can't eat leftovers because the life force has been drained from the food.Now, I don't know if this is common practices of true Ayurvedic teachings or if it's just the ramblings of a middle aged jewish woman who learned some stuff at some california commune. Read it and decide for yourself.