Stabilizing Phase Diet is the second step in the healing diet. After achieving the desired health goals with the Healing Phase Diet (Phase 1 Diet), you should start the Stabilizing Phase Diet. It has a similar benefit, as discussed in Healing Diet. It provides more nutritional support to the body and restores energy.

The people who cannot follow the healing phase diet can also start with the Stabilizing Phase Diet (Phase 2) to restore health.

Like other phases, it also stops inflammation. It stabilises the health and helps to prevent deterioration of current health conditions.

It keeps the digestive system healthy, maintains liver health, and stabilises kidney function.

Prerequisite

You should also follow this diet after completing the following two steps:

1. Fasting for Healing.
2. Healing Phase Diet.

Stabilizing Phase Diet Rules

Many rules are similar to the Healing Phase Diet, with a few exceptions. Here are the basic rules of the Stabilizing Phase Diet (Phase 2):

1. Plant-Only Food: Take all food from plant-based sources. Eat more fruits and vegetables in fresh and uncooked form. Choose a variety of fruits and vegetables from different categories.
2. Eat More Sattvic Food: Limit the consumption of sattvic-rajasic and rajasic-tamasic foods. Avoid tamasic foods. You should only eat plant-based whole foods. Learn more: Sattvic Food.
3. Food Groups: You can take fruits, vegetables, berries, non-starchy vegetables, starchy vegetables, fresh herbs, nuts, seeds, intact whole grains and healing legumes (sprouts, green peas and edamame).
4. Intact Whole Grains: Choose intact whole grains from the Healing Grain list given below in this article. You need to slowly introduce whole grains in this diet after following the healing phase diet.
5. Eat More Fresh Herbs: Fresh green herbs have potent healing benefits. Therefore, we recommend increasing the amount of these herbs than recommended in the dietary guidelines. If you follow this diet plan, you should eat fresh herbs in the recommended amount given in this article.
6. Sunlight: We also consider sunlight as food. Because it helps in reactivating antioxidants, e.g., CoQ10 (in combination with greens – chlorophyll) and the formation of vitamin D in the body. It also has healing benefits. Take sunbath for 30-45 minutes daily. Expose both sides of your body – front and back each for at least 15 minutes. Exposing the whole body to sunlight is recommended. If it is not possible, expose at least 60% of your body to sunlight. You can wear white cotton clothes/shorts while taking sunbath.
7. 8-10 Hours Eating Window: Eat your food at a fixed time and within an 8-10 hours eating window. The eating window should be 8 to 10 hours and between 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. Do not eat and drink anything after 7:00 pm. Also, avoid the water after 7:00 pm unless you have a strong thirst. The appetite rule applies if you feel appetite outside the eating window.
8. Appetite Rule: Do not suppress appetite. You can eat regardless of the time if you are hungry. You can take fresh fruits and non-starchy vegetables. You should not eat grains, sprouts, legumes, starchy vegetables, nuts, seeds and other foods outside the eating window.
9. Chew Well: Be watchful while chewing, enjoy chewing, and feel the taste with each chew. Chew with a calm mind. Do not be in a hurry. Meditate on eating. Make chewing a meditation. If you are using dentures or having difficulty in chewing, then put food in a food processor or blender to make its paste, smoothie, or puree. Eat the paste, puree, or smoothie. You can also add some water for easier consumption.
10. Limit Cooking: Eat fruits and non-starchy vegetables in fresh and uncooked form. 60% of vegetables’ servings should be from non-starchy vegetables. You can cook whole grains and starchy vegetables.
11. Limit Salt: During this phase, you can eat salt in a limited amount. Your total sodium intake from added salt should not exceed 500 mg a day. You can take 1.25 grams (¼ teaspoon) of salt daily. Use healing spices for making food tastier instead of salt. Healing spices include Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cumin Seeds, Ginger (fresh), Green Cardamon, Long Pepper, and Turmeric.
12. Limit Nuts: Avoid all types of nuts during this phase except walnuts and almonds. You can also take the recommended seeds in the recommended amount.
13. Take Vitamin B12: Take at least 25 mcg of Cyanocobalamin twice daily. Generally, 100 mcg tablets are easily available. So, you can take a quarter (1/4) of tablet 2 times a day. Check Vitamin B12 Guide for more details.
14. No Added Sugar: You should not take added sugar and sweeteners. Alternatively, you can eat fruits. Also, avoid all artificial sweeteners.
15. No Oil & Less Fat: Do not use oils and fats in any form during this phase. You can take avocado and coconut. The total weekly intake of these two fruits should not exceed 600 grams. You can also take nuts and seeds in the recommended amount, as described in this article below.
16. No Animal Food: Avoid all animal foods, including eggs, meat, fish, and all dairy products.
17. No Processed Food: Avoid all types of processed food.
18. No Extracts: Extracted means an individual component of a specific food is extracted to form a new type of food or medicine, e.g., curcumin from turmeric.
19. Fasting: Do not take anything except water till 6:00 pm for a day every week. Choose the same day for fasting every week. Take only salad at dinner (at 6:00 pm). Learn more: Fasting for Healing.
20. Exercise: Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. The maximum recommendation is 90 minutes a day during this phase. Try to involve in physical activities. Stop doing exercise if you feel exhausted and get excessive perspiration (even before 30 minutes).
21. Massage: You should have a full-body massage (with oil) once a week.
22. Gratitude meditation: Gratitude meditation is to express your gratitude and thankfulness to Nature. When you are doing this, you should have a smile on your face and a feeling of happiness inside. You should do it immediately after waking up in the morning, before and after eating food.
23. Breathing meditation: Watch your breathing – inhale and exhale, with closed eyes and feeling of happiness and smile on the face. Just watch, do not entangle with it. Watching is key. Do it 2-3 minutes immediately after waking up, 20 minutes in the morning after getting a shower, and 15 minutes before sleeping at bedtime.
24. Herbal Medicine: Use herbs for treating diseases. Herbs should also be in their natural form – fresh or powdered (churna). Do not take Herbal extract unless recommended by us. Avoid internal use of essential oils, extracted phytochemicals and chemical-based medicines. For example, take turmeric instead of curcumin and black pepper or long pepper instead of piperine. Consult your doctor for tapering or stopping or change in your current allopathic medicines. Some allopathic medicines may not work well with healing diets. For example, if you are taking antidiabetic medicines, they can cause hypoglycemia with this diet. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor your health regularly and adjust the dosage accordingly. You may not stop all medicines immediately. You may have to taper the dosage before stopping any medicine. Sometimes, you may have to take your current medications for a longer duration. Monitor your health and consult your doctor for any change in health condition and medication requirement.

Recommended Timings

In this phase, you can eat in the following way:

• These timings are for illustration purposes. You can choose a fixed time according to your convenience and daily schedule.
• You should eat everything in an 8-10 hours’ window. For example, start breakfast at 8:00 am by drinking vegetable juice and stop eating by taking the last meal (dinner) at 6:00 pm.

Let’s discuss what should you eat and how much do you need in a day.

Early Morning (Green Herbs’ Smoothie)

During this phase, you should stop taking vegetable juice in the morning. We highly recommend taking the green smoothie. Smoothies are better accepted in whole food plant-only (WFPO) diet than vegetable juice.

Recommended Time: 8:00 AM.

You can find more details about Green Herbs’ Smoothie Here to learn how to make it and which ingredients you should use.

Recommended Daily Amount

If you make a smoothie using the recommended method given in here – Green Herbs’ Smoothie, you should take it in the recommended amount given below:

Note: You can drink more as per your tolerance. The minimum recommended amount is the required amount to get healing benefits.

Mid-Morning (Fruits)

Choose 3-4 types of fruits daily. Choose fruits with different colours from different fruit groups. You should eat fruits from each group. You must include 7 servings of berries every week. Check Fruit Groups in Fruit’s Guide.

Recommended Time: 10:00 am.

Standard Serving Size for Fruits

Lunch

In the Stablizing Phase Diet, you can also take intact whole grains and cooked vegetables. You should first eat salad and then eat whole grains with cooked vegetables.

Recommended Time

Lunch Salad

Lunch salad should consist of non-starchy vegetables and fresh green herbs. Fresh herbs include coriander, all types of mint and all types of basils. Check more herbs here: Fresh Herbs Guide.

Choosing Salad Ingredients and Ratio

Find more details about vegetable categories in Vegetable’s Guide. Learn more about choosing vegetables for salad in Recommended and Restricted Vegetables for Salad article.

Recommended Servings

One serving size for uncooked raw vegetables is 150 g. The following table represents the minimum serving amount for vegetables and fresh herbs for making salad according to age group:

Cooked Vegetables

One serving size for cooked or boiled vegetables (especially starchy vegetables) is 75 g. You can cook starchy vegetables and start consuming them from this phase.

Learn How to cook vegetables in the Vegetable’s Guide.

Healing Whole Grains

You can select the grains from the following list:

1. Sorghum (Jowar).
2. Barley.
3. Amaranth (Rajgira).
4. Teff (red, brown, and white)
5. Farro (Ancient Wheat Grains)
   1. Emmer (Farro piccolo).
   1. Einkorn (Farro piccolo).
   1. Spelt (Farro grande).
6. Barnyard Millet.
7. Foxtail Millet.
8. Kodo Millet.
9. Little Millet.
10. Browntop Millet.
11. Buckwheat.
12. Oats.
13. Rye.
14. Quinoa.
15. Bulgur (cracked wheat).

More Details: Whole Grain Guide

Recommended Grains Servings

According to age group, you should choose the recommended daily servings as given below. There is a difference between the recommendation given for this diet and dietary guidelines.

Serving Size: Learn about grain’s serving size here: Whole Grains Guide.

How to Cook Whole Grains:

1. Wash whole grains well before soaking. Soak whole grains for at least 4 hours before cooking. Use the same water in which grains are soaked for cooking the grains.
2. Generally, the ratio of water and most whole grains is 2.25:1 (2 ¼ cups water + 1 cup whole grains).
3. Take 2 ¼ cups of water in a pan and 1 cup of whole grains.
4. Bring it to a boil, then cook on low flame until the water gets absorbed and grains become soft and eatable.
5. Eat cooked whole grains with cooked vegetables.

Evening

In the evening, you can take group 3 or 4 fruits. Check fruit groups here.

Recommended Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

Standard Serving Size for Fruits: Check above under mid-morning meal.

Alternatively, you can also take Green Herbs’ Smoothie, Fruit Smoothies, or Vegetable Juice.

Dinner

The rules and recommendations for dinner salad are almost the same as the lunch salad above in this article. Dinner salad also consists of vegetables, fresh green herbs, healing legumes and soaked almonds and walnuts.

Recommended Time: 6:00 PM.

Food Groups

Find more details about vegetable categories in Vegetable’s Guide. Learn more about choosing vegetables for salad in the article –  Recommended and Restricted Vegetables for Salad.

Fresh Green Herbs: Choose any two fresh green herbs from the list given in Fresh Herb Guide. It generally includes coriander, mint (all types) and basil (all types).

Healing Legumes: It includesFresh edamame, mung sprouts and fresh green peas. Mung sprouts are the best among other sprouts and highly recommended.

Recommended Servings for Dinner

One serving size for uncooked raw vegetables is 150 g. The following table represents the recommended serving amount for vegetables, fresh herbs and legumes (sprouts) for making salad according to age group:

Soaked Nuts

Soaked almonds and walnuts should be the main nuts. You should avoid all other nuts during this phase.

Recommended Servings for Nuts

The serving size is in the number of almonds and walnuts.

You should soak nuts in water for at least 6 hours before eating. You can soak nuts in the morning and eat at dinner.

Duration

The Stabilizing Phase Diet is recommended to follow after the Healing Phase Diet for about 3 months. After 3 months, you should follow the Preventing Phase Diet, which is recommended for lifelong.

Indications of Stabilizing Phase Diet

The Stabilizing Phase Diet has the same indications as to the Healing Phase Diet. It is incredibly useful in the following conditions:

1. Inflammatory Disorders.
2. Arthritis.
3. Heart diseases.
4. Obesity and its complications.
5. Diabetes and its complications.
6. Hypothyroidism.
7. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).
8. Atherosclerosis.
9. Stroke.
10. Hypertension.
11. All types of cancer, especially colon cancer.
12. Blockage in blood vessels.
13. Skin Diseases.
14. All chronic diseases.
15. Kidney disorders.
16. Hyperacidity, Ulcers and GERD.

Some foods might not be suitable in some cases. You may need to work on selecting food according to tolerability, health condition and dosha. An experienced practitioner can help you with this. You may also require herbal treatment for the disease in addition to this diet. Consult herbalist, naturopath or ayurvedic practitioner for the same.

Contraindications

You should not follow this plan if you have from any of the following the condition:

1. Children: This diet plan is not for children under the age of 9 years. Children under the age of 16 should follow this diet under professional supervision. A careful selection of foods may require a case-to-case basis.
2. Pregnant women: This diet is not suitable for pregnant women. Pregnant women should directly adopt the Phase 3 Diet.
3. Lactating mothers: This diet is also not recommendable for lactating women. They should directly follow the Phase 3 Diet.
4. Underweight & Vata Aggravation: Underweight people suffering from Vata Diseases should not follow this diet without professional advice. If you select the right foods, it might be helpful. Based on your individual health goals, alternation may require in the recommendation. You may directly follow the Phase 3 Diet.
5. Health conditions require fluid restriction: This diet includes water-rich foods. Fruits and vegetables contain around 90% water content. Generally, this diet provides around 1.5-2 litres of water a day.

Warning & Disclaimer

This diet is not for everyone. This diet is also not suitable for children under 9, pregnant women and lactating mothers without professional supervision. It may help some people but may also be potentially harmful to others. Consult your healthcare provider before making any dietary changes. Also, check a few contraindications listed above. You should not follow this diet for more than 3 months without professional supervision. Read Disclaimer for more information.

Healing Phase Diet is to promote the healing process, speed up the recovery rate in the body and helps to reverse health conditions. It is effective in almost every disease that exists in human life. It also improves life quality in genetic disorders.

It stops inflammation in the body. So, it is effective in all diseases in which inflammation is present.

It releases accumulated toxins from the body, so it is useful in digestive ailments. It is the right choice for lifestyle disorders.

It stimulates liver function, improves kidney health, boosts memory, enhances cognitive functions, and gives you clarity of mind.

Prerequisite

Before you incorporate the Healing Phase Diet in your life, you need to undergo Fasting for Healing. How to fast for healing, you can find more details in this article: Fasting for Healing.

Healing Phase Diet Rules

Here are the basic rules of the Healing Phase Diet (Phase 1):

1. Plant-Only Food: Eat all food from plant-based sources and choose 100% plant-based sattvic food. Learn more:  Sattvic Food. Choose a variety of fruits and vegetables from their different categories and groups.
2. Food Groups: Eat only Fruits, Berries, Non-starchy Vegetables, Green Leafy Vegetables, Fresh Green Herbs, Mung Sprouts and Sunlight. During this phase, avoid starchy vegetables, legumes (except mung sprouts, edamame, fresh green pea and green beans).
3. Fresh, Raw & Uncooked (No Cooking): Eat fresh, seasonal, unprocessed, and locally available plant-only food. It should be uncooked and in the natural form with the full of vitality and livingness. Avoid heating, boiling, and cooking food during this phase.
4. Eat More Fresh Herbs: Fresh green herbs have potent healing benefits. Therefore, we recommend increasing the amount of these herbs than recommended in the dietary guidelines. If you follow this diet plan, you should eat fresh herbs in the recommended amount given in this article.
5. Minimal Processing (Cut, Chop, Dice, Blend, Grind): You can cut, dice, chop, or grind to make paste, puree, or smoothie. You can also blend vegetables and fruits in a blender to make smoothies or use a food processor for making it easy for chewing but consume within 45 minutes after this type of processing of fresh food.
6. Sunlight: We also consider sunlight as food. Because it helps in reactivating antioxidants, e.g., CoQ10 (in combination with greens – chlorophyll) and vitamin D formation in the body. It also has healing benefits. Take sunbath for 30-45 minutes daily. Expose both sides of your body – front and back each for 15 minutes. Exposing the whole body to sunlight is recommended. If it is not possible, expose at least 60% of your body to sunlight. You can wear white cotton clothes/shorts while taking a sunbath.
7. 8-10 Hours Eating Window: Eat your food at a fixed time and within an 8-10 hours eating window. The eating window should be 8 to 10 hours and between 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. Do not eat and drink anything after 7:00 pm. Also, avoid the water after 7:00 pm unless you have a strong thirst. The appetite rule applies if you feel appetite outside the eating window.
8. Appetite Rule: Do not suppress appetite. You can eat regardless of the time if you are hungry. If you feel an appetite, you can eat fresh fruits and non-starchy vegetables (uncooked and raw) as much as it satisfies your hunger. If the time frame is between 7:00 am to 7:00 pm, you can eat fresh fruits and non-starchy vegetables. If the time frame is between 7:00 pm to 7:00 am, you should only eat non-starchy vegetables. During this period, you should not eat fruits.
9. Eat More: You can eat more than the recommended amount according to your appetite. But you should not eat less than the recommended amount during this phase, even if you have a low appetite.
10. Chew Well: Be watchful while chewing, enjoy chewing, and feel the taste with each chew. Chew with a calm mind. Do not be in a hurry. Meditate on eating. Make chewing a meditation. If you are using dentures or having difficulty in chewing, then put food in a food processor or blender to make its paste/puree. Eat the paste or drink puree or smoothie. You can also add some water for easier consumption.
11. Limit Nuts: Avoid nuts during this phase except for walnuts and almonds. You can eat 2 soaked walnuts and 5 soaked almonds daily.
12. Limit Avocado: You can take avocado twice a week. But eat within an appropriate amount that does not suppress the appetite and cause heaviness in the abdomen. The total avocado intake should not exceed 300 grams per week.
13. Limit Coconut:  Coconut is limited to up to 2 servings per week. One serving size for fresh coconut is 150 grams, and dry or desiccated coconut is 30 grams. There is no limit applies to coconut water. You can drink coconut water in an appropriate amount that does not suppress appetite and cause heaviness in the abdomen.
14. No Supplement: During this phase, you should not take any supplement, including Vitamin B12 unless recommended by your health care provider. You should start the Vitamin B12 supplement in the Stablizing Phase Diet.
15. No Oil and Fats: Do not use oils and fats in any form during this phase. You can use oils for external applications, e.g., oil massage.
16. No Salt: Do not take salt during this phase. Use healing spices for making food tastier instead of salt. Healing spices include Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cumin Seeds, Ginger (fresh), Green Cardamon, Long Pepper, and Turmeric. It is optional during this phase.
17. No Added Sugar & Sweetener: You should not take added sugar and sweeteners. Alternatively, you can eat fruits. Also, avoid all artificial sweeteners.
18. No Processed Food: Avoid all types of processed food, e.g. packed fruit juice, fruit jam, jellies, fruit cake, canned fruits, canned vegetables, salted or roasted nuts, cookies, biscuits, etc.
19. No Extracts: Extracted means an individual component of a specific food is extracted to form a food, e.g., curcumin from turmeric.
20. No Animal Food: Avoid all animal foods, including eggs, meat, fish, and all dairy products.
21. Fasting: Fasting is a prerequisite to the Healing Phase Diet. Keep one-day full water fast every week. Follow the instructions given in this article: Fasting for Healing.
22. Exercise: Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. The maximum recommendation is 90 minutes a day. Stop doing exercise if you feel exhausted and get excessive perspiration (even before 30 minutes).
23. Massage: You should have a full-body massage (with oil) once a week.
24. Gratitude meditation: Gratitude meditation is to express your gratitude and thankfulness to Nature. When you are doing this, you should have a smile on your face and a feeling of happiness inside. You should do it immediately after waking up in the morning, before and after eating food.
25. Breathing meditation: Watch your breathing – inhale and exhale, with closed eyes and feeling of happiness and smile on the face. Just watch, do not entangle with it. Watching is key. Do it 2-3 minutes immediately after waking up, 20 minutes in the morning after getting a shower, and 15 minutes before sleeping at bedtime.
26. Herbal Medicine: Use herbs for treating diseases. Herbs also should be in their natural form – fresh or powdered (churna). Do not take Herbal extract, essential oils, or any extracted phytochemicals. For example, take turmeric instead of curcumin. You should take herbal medicines when you are following healing diets whenever possible. No allopathic medicine works well with a healing diet. For example, if you are taking antidiabetic medicines, they can cause hypoglycemia. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor your health regularly and adjust the dosage accordingly. You should consult your doctor to change or stop medicines. You may not stop all medicines immediately. You may have to taper the dosage before stopping any medicine. Sometimes, you may have to take your current medications for a longer duration. Monitor your health and consult your doctor for any change in medicine.

Recommended Timings

In this phase, you can eat in the following way:

• These timings are for illustration purposes. You can choose a fixed time according to your convenience and daily schedule.
• You should eat everything in an 8-10 hours’ window. For example, start breakfast at 8:00 am by drinking vegetable juice and stop eating by taking the last meal (dinner) at 6:00 pm.

Let’s discuss what should you eat and how much do you need in a day.

Early Morning (Vegetable Juice)

Start your day with freshly squeezed vegetable juice. You can include juice from any seasonal vegetable.

Recommended Time

Principles

1. Freshly Squeezed Juice: You should drink freshly squeezed juice from any seasonal vegetable. The most important thing is to choose from local and seasonal vegetables whenever possible.
2. Variety: Do not drink juice squeezed from the same vegetable every day. Variety is key to the Healing Phase Diet to get maximum nutrients and healing benefits. Use different vegetables every day.
3. Vegetables:  Use non-starchy vegetables, green leaves, fresh herbs and bio-enhancers for making juice. In the case of children, you can also use the recommended fruits for squeezing juice.
4. Single Main Ingredient: Mixing is not strictly prohibited. But use only one vegetable as the main ingredient. You can add bio-enhancers, a taste enhancer, ginger juice, lemon juice and other vegetables. Lemon juice should not be added to tomatoes and cucumber juice. Juice from some vegetables is not suitable to drink in the recommended amount. In such a case, you can mix it with other vegetables. Generally, these vegetables include bell peppers and leafy greens.
5. Sipping: You should drink freshly squeezed juice immediately but sip by sip as you are eating them. Do not gulp it down into your gut. Taste each sip of juice.

Recommended & Restricted Vegetables

Some vegetables are not suitable for making juice. For example, spinach has high oxalate content, which blocks calcium absorption. However, it is healthy to eat a whole, but not suitable for juicing.

Bioenhancers: Adding a pinch of bio-enhancers is recommended but not necessary. If you use fresh ginger juice, you can add up to ½ to 1 teaspoon in 175 ml of juice. For all other bio-enhancers, just add a pinch of their dry powder.

How much do you need to drink?

You need to decide the quantity according to your age group:

Note: You can drink more as per your tolerance. The minimum amount is the required amount to get healing benefits.

Mid-Morning (Fruits)

During the healing phase diet, you should choose 3-4 fruits daily. Group 1 fruits are an essential category. You should have at least 1 serving from group-1 daily during the Healing Phase Diet. Check Fruit Groups in Fruit’s Guide.

Recommended Time: 10:00 am.

Standard Serving Size for Fruits

Note:

• The above table recommends a minimum amount. You should eat more whenever you feel hunger.
• Avoid fruit juice and smoothies during this phase.

Lunch

In the Healing Phase Diet, you should only take non-starchy raw vegetables, fresh green herbs, healing legumes and soaked seeds. In this phase, fresh green herbs are very important and should be taken in a higher dosage.

Recommended Timings: 1:00 PM.

Food Groups

Find more details about vegetable categories in Vegetable’s Guide. Learn more about choosing vegetables for salad in the article –  Recommended and Restricted Vegetables for Salad.

Healing Legumes

In this phase, you should only eat legumes, which you can eat without cooking. It includes:

1. Fresh edamame.
2. Mung sprouts.
3. Fresh green peas.

We generally recommend mung sprouts.

Choosing Seeds

Sesame seeds are the best remedy for bone, muscles and joints disorders. You can take it twice a day in the divided doses. For treating arthritis, you should take it with 3 grams of Ashwagandha powder.

Recommended Servings for Lunch

You should follow the tables below for the recommended servings:

Note:

1. If any vegetable from a specific group is not available, you should adjust the total recommended amount with vegetables from other available groups.
2. You can also add fruits to the salad in the case of children. Adults can also add fruits (group 1 and 2 fruits only) to a salad without any issue. Make sure you eat the minimum recommended servings for both fruits and vegetables.
3. You can eat more than the recommended amount according to your appetite. But you should not eat less than the recommended amount during this phase.

Evening

In the evening, you can take group 3 or 4 fruits. Check fruit groups here.

Recommended Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

Standard Serving Size for Fruits: Check above under mid-morning meal or read here – Fruit’s Guide.

Dinner

During the Healing Phase Diet, you should only take raw vegetables, fresh herbs, 5 soaked almonds and 2 walnuts.

Recommended Timings: 6:00 PM.

Food Groups

Find more details about vegetable categories in Vegetable’s Guide. Learn more about choosing vegetables for salad in the article –  Recommended and Restricted Vegetables for Salad.

Recommended Servings for Dinner

You should follow the tables below for the recommended servings:

Note:

• If you cannot eat the recommended servings of vegetables during lunch and dinner, you can take the servings in 3 sittings. You need to adjust the time for it. For example, you can eat 1/3 vegetables at noon, evening fruits at 3:00 pm, 1/3 vegetables at 5:00 pm and the remaining at 7:00 pm.
• The Healing Phase Diet is not recommended for children under 9 years and pregnant women and lactating mothers.

Duration

You can follow it as long as you get complete relief from a disease or as recommended by us on a case-to-case basis. The duration may vary from 3 days to several weeks. For example, people with high blood pressure may require it for a month. A patient who has skin diseases may need to follow it for a longer duration.

Indications of Healing Phase Diet

The Healing Phase Diet is recommended in all health conditions except as discussed under contraindications. It is incredibly useful in the following conditions:

1. Inflammatory Disorders.
2. Heart diseases.
3. Obesity and its complications.
4. Diabetes and its complications (don’t add fruit juice in vegetable juice; reduce fruit intake by 50% of the recommended above; increase vegetable intake by 150% of the recommended above).
5. Hypothyroidism.
6. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).
7. Atherosclerosis.
8. Stroke.
9. Hypertension.
10. All types of cancer, especially colon cancer.
11. Blockage in blood vessels.
12. Skin Diseases.
13. All chronic diseases.
14. Kidney disorders.
15. Hyperacidity, Ulcers and GERD.

The Healing Phase Diet works well in almost every disease, with a few alternations in food selection. Some foods might not be suitable in some cases. You may need to work on selecting food according to tolerability, health condition and dosha. An experienced practitioner can help you with this. You may also require herbal treatment for the disease in addition to this diet. Consult herbalist, naturopath or ayurvedic practitioner for the same.

Contraindications

You should not follow this plan if you have from any of the following the condition:

1. Children: This diet plan is not for children under the age of 9 years. Children under the age of 16 should follow this diet under professional supervision. A careful selection of foods may require a case-to-case basis.
2. Pregnant women: This diet is not suitable for pregnant women. Pregnant women should directly adopt the Phase 3 Diet.
3. Lactating mothers: This diet is also not recommendable for lactating women. They should directly follow the Phase 3 Diet.
4. Underweight & Vata Aggravation: Underweight people suffering from Vata Diseases should not follow this diet without professional advice. If you select the right foods, it might be helpful. Based on your individual health goals, alternation may require in the recommendation. You may directly follow the Phase 3 Diet.
5. Health conditions require fluid restriction: This diet includes water-rich foods. Fruits and vegetables contain around 90% water content. Generally, this diet provides around 1.5-2 litres of water a day.

Warning & Disclaimer

This diet is not for everyone. This diet is also not suitable for children under 9, pregnant women and lactating mothers without professional supervision. It may help some people but may also be potentially harmful to others. Consult your healthcare provider before making any dietary changes. Also, check a few contraindications listed above. You should not follow this diet for more than six weeks without professional supervision. Read Disclaimer for more information.

Fasting is an important step for healing and reversing disease. You must undergo water fasting for a minimum duration of 24 hours before starting the Healing Phase Diet. Depending on the health condition, the recommended duration for water fasting can vary from 1 to 7 days. In addition to initial water fasting, we recommend intermittent fasting and regular weekly fasting for a day.

Fasting promotes detoxifying, autolysis and repairing in the body.

1. Detoxifying: During fasting, your body first uses the food remains in the gut. Then it utilises adipose tissue and glycogen stored in the body. It helps to remove extra nutritive material from the body. It digests the non-digested food particles and removes them from the body. The non-digested food particles are the major cause of toxins stored in the body. In terms of ayurveda, these toxins are called Ama dosha. Fasting helps to remove its storage. It promotes the elimination of toxins. Therefore, fasting is an important step for detoxifying the body.
2. Autophagy & Autolysis: Fasting stimulates autophagy. Autophagy is a natural process of self-digestion. In this process, cells break down its own protein and other components. Use them for energy. It also destroys pathogens (viruses and bacteria). It also breaks down diseased and dead cells in the body. It absorbs and eliminates dead cells and tumour-like growths. This process is very importance for cellular renewal and slowing down the aging process. (Credit: Yoshinori Ohsumi Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016).
3. Repairing: After autophagy and autolysis, fasting promotes repairing and healing. During fasting, the body repairs the tissues and organs rapidly. It helps in forming new cells in the body and redistribute nutritive material. It rejuvenates the cells and reverses the aging of the body. If you follow fasting as we recommended in this article, you can see improved skin tone and elimination of blemishes, blotches, and fine lines. It removes cysts, blockages and small tumours and reduces the size of large tumours. The repeated fasting helps to eliminate large tumours as well.

How to Fast for Healing

Generally, we recommend three types of fasting simultaneously.

1. Initial Fasting.
2. Weekly Fasting for a day.
3. Intermittent fasting.

Initial Fasting

Before you start the healing phase diet, we recommend fasting in the following way:

Water Fasting (Day 1)

Keep water fast for 24 hours. Drink lukewarm water. Do not take anything else except water. In this case, you skip your breakfast, lunch and dinner.

If you feel a strong appetite during water fasting, you can skip breakfast and lunch. From dinner, you can start vegetable juice fasting. It happens in the case of people with Pitta Body Type.

You can drink homemade and freshly squeezed juice of any seasonal, local and non-starchy vegetables.

Signs of Effective Water Fasting

1. Increased appetite.
2. Increased energy.
3. Feeling lightness in the body.
4. The clarity in mind.
5. Clean tongue – discolouration (white, black or yellow) of tongue disappears.
6. No digestive ailment like bloating, gas, abdominal heaviness, etc.
7. One will feel appetite, and his/her body will demand food passionately.

If you do not feel signs of effectiveness, you may require a longer duration of water fasting.

Juice Fasting (Day 2)

After water fasting, we recommend staying on juice for 24 hours. You can drink juice as much as your body allows and according to your appetite. You should keep at least 4 hours gap between the two servings.

You can take any type of homemade freshly squeezed juice. We advise vegetable juice based on a health condition. However, you can also take fruit juice instead of vegetable juice. You should give first preference to vegetable juice. Fruit juice is always a second preference.

Salad Fasting (Day 3 & 4)

You can eat a salad made of non-starchy vegetables. You can also include group 1 and 2 fruits.

The vegetable and fruits ratio can be 1:1. There is no recommended amount at this time.

You can eat as per your appetite and digestive capacity. Eating less should be better. Eat whenever you feel appetite.

Fasting Duration

Sometimes, we also recommend our patients for a longer duration of water fasting. It depends on their health condition, body type and endurance.

It varies from 1 to 5 days, followed by juice fasting and salad fasting. In such cases, juice fasting duration also varies from 1 to 7 days. Salad fasting duration may also vary from 1 to 21 days.

Without professional supervision, you should not have water fasting for more than 24 hours. You may follow the initial four days of fasting regimen without professional supervision, as explained above.

Weekly Fasting for a Day

You should have a fast for a day each week. Choose a day in the week on which you can have fast. The day should be the same every week. For example, if you choose Friday for fasting, you should fast on every Friday.

How to Do this Fast

You should not have anything till 6:00 pm. You can have lukewarm water during winters and normal water, or water kept in an earthen pot during summers before 6:00 pm. The dinner should be at 6:00 pm.

The salad should consist of preferably non-starchy vegetables. You can also take fruits from group 1 or group 2 fruits. Check Fruit Guide to know about fruit groups.

Even if you are healthy and following the Preventing Phase Diet (lifelong phase), you should also keep fast for a day every week.

Intermittent fasting

You should eat food in 8-10 hours window daily. You can choose your eating window depending on your circumstances and preferences. But make sure you do not eat after 7:00 PM.

We generally recommend the Eating Window between 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. If you follow this eating window, you can have vegetable juice at 8:00 am, fruits at 10:00 am, lunch at 1:00 pm, fruits at 4:00 pm and dinner at 6:00 pm.

Practically, you are eating between 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Vegetable juice is recommended in the Healing Phase Diet and Stablizing Phase Diet. It is optional in Preventing Phase Diet (lifelong phase).

Fasting Contraindication

You should not keep water fast if you suffer from any of the following conditions:

1. The progressive wasting of the body.
2. Aggravation of Vata Dosha.
3. Fear.
4. Anger.
5. Excessive physical relations.
6. Excessive grief.
7. Excessive physical exertion.

The Preventing Phase Diet is the standard healing diet that most people can easily follow and adhere to the guidelines. The people who cannot follow the healing phase diet and stabilizing phase diet can also start with the Preventing Phase Diet (Phase 3) to restore health. You should follow this diet for your whole life for the prevention of diseases. That’s why it is named as preventing phase diet.

Preventing Phase Diet (Phase 3) provides optimum nourishment to your body and promote health and wellbeing. It also helps to prevent almost every disease and improves the quality of life in genetic disorders. It is the third phase of the Healing Diet. It alleviates inflammation and accelerates the healing process in the body.

Eating good food is not enough for good health. You also need to eat a balanced diet. It is a balanced diet plan. Everyone can follow this diet plan, regardless of age, gender, and health condition.

Prerequisite

You should adopt the phase 3 diet after completing the following 3 steps:

1. Fasting for Healing.
2. Healing Phase Diet (Phase 1).
3. Stabilizing Phase Diet (Phase 2).

If you are healthy, you do not need to follow the second and third steps to start this diet. Just remember to do initial fasting before starting this diet. Learn more: Fasting for Healing.

Preventing Phase Diet Rules

Many rules are similar to the Phase 1 and 2 diets, with a few exceptions. Here are the basic rules of the Preventing Phase Diet (Phase 3):

1. Plant-Based Food: Choose more plant-based foods. Choose different foods with different colours and variety from each food groups and their sub-groups.
2. Food Groups: You can take all types of fruits, vegetables, fresh herbs, nuts, seeds, intact whole grains, legumes, and spices.
3. Intact Whole Grains & Whole Grain Flour: Choose intact whole grains most of the time. More than 75% of grains’ servings should be from intact whole grains. The servings of food made of whole-grain flour should be less than 25%. So, you can also eat homemade whole grain chapati, homemade whole grain bread, or homemade whole grain flatbread, but in a limited quantity (1/4^th servings of total recommended grains). Limit intake of wholemeal bread (especially yeast bread). Avoid white bread and products made of refined grains such as white rice, white pasta, refined flour flatbread or chapati, other products made of refined flour etc.
4. Sunlight: In our option, sunlight is also a food group because it is essential for vitamin D formation and reactivating antioxidants, e.g., CoQ10 (combined with circulating chlorophyll obtained by eating greens). According to Nature Cure, it also has healing benefits. Take sunbath for 30-45 minutes daily. Expose both sides of your body – front and back each for at least 15 minutes. Exposing the whole body to sunlight is recommended. If it is not possible, expose at least 60% of your body to sunlight. You can wear white cotton clothes or shorts while taking a sunbath.
5. 8-10 Hours Eating Window: Eat your food at a fixed time and within an 8-10 hours eating window. The eating window should be 8 to 10 hours and between 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. Do not eat and drink anything after 7:00 pm. Also, avoid the water after 7:00 pm unless you have a strong thirst. The appetite rule applies if you feel appetite outside the eating window.
6. Appetite Rule: Do not suppress appetite. You can eat regardless of the time if you are hungry. You can take fresh fruits and non-starchy vegetables. You should not eat grains, legumes, starchy vegetables, nuts, seeds and other foods outside the eating window.
7. Chew Well: Be watchful while chewing, enjoy chewing, and feel the taste with each chew. Chew with a calm mind. Do not be in a hurry. Meditate on eating. Make chewing a meditation. If you are using dentures or having difficulty in chewing, then put food in a food processor or blender to make its paste, smoothie, or puree. Eat the paste, puree, or smoothie. You can also add some water for easier consumption.
8. Limit Cooking: Eat fruits and non-starchy vegetables in fresh and uncooked form. 60% of vegetables’ servings should be from non-starchy vegetables. You can cook starchy vegetables, grains and legumes. Use the recommended cooking methods described in the vegetable guide, whole grain guide, and legume guide.
9. Limit Salt: The total sodium from added salt should not exceed 1000 mg per day. Your goal should be taking less salt and limited to ½ teaspoon (2.5 grams) a day. Avoid high salt foods. However, this rule is not strictly applicable. This rule is advisory and highly recommended. Your salt intake should never exceed 1 teaspoon (5 grams) a day with the condition that you must eat the recommended amount of fruits, vegetables and fresh green herbs. You can use spices for making food tastier instead of salt. Check the spices guide for more details about the recommended spices.
10. Limit Added Sugar: You should not take added sugar most days in the week. Avoid artificial sweeteners. However, you can take raw sugar, jaggery, brown sugar (unrefined sugar, also called Sharkara) in a limited amount (20 grams per week). The total sugar intake from added sugar should not exceed 20 grams per week. Alternatively, you can eat fruits.
11. Take Vitamin B12: Take at least 25 mcg of Cyanocobalamin twice daily. Generally, 100 mcg tablets are easily available. So, you can take a quarter (1/4) of tablet 2 times a day. Check Vitamin B12 Guide for more details.
12. No Oil: You should not use any kind of oils. Cooking is possible without oil. Check the vegetable guide, whole grain guide, and legume guide to learn oil-free cooking methods.
13. No Animal Food: Avoid all animal foods, including eggs, meat, fish, and all dairy products (milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, etc.).
14. No Processed Food: Avoid all types of processed food. In our opinion, professed foods are defined as food prepared outside our recommended cooking guidelines (oil-free cooking). Check the recommended cooking methods here: Vegetable Guide, Legume Guide and Whole Grain Guide. It also includes foods high in salt and fats, overcooked foods, fried foods (paratha, French fries, fast foods, etc.), biscuits, cookies, crackers, crisps, commercial bread, commercial rolls, pies, etc.
15. No Yeast Containing Food: Avoid or limit any food containing yeast, e.g., baker’s yeast, brewer’s yeast, nutritional yeast, malt (malt syrup or extract), etc. The common examples include bread, beer, wine, ciders, candies, kombucha, soy sauce, miso, etc.
16. Fasting: Do not take anything except water till 6:00 pm for a day every week. Choose the same day for fasting every week. Take only salad at dinner (at 6:00 pm). Children should only skip breakfast and can start eating in the afternoon. Learn more: Fasting for Healing.
17. Exercise: Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. Involve in physical activities at least for 120 minutes daily. Thirty minutes of exercise and 120 minutes of daily involvement in physical activities (e.g., playing) are mandatory. In total, you should be physically active for about 2.5 hours daily.
18. Massage: You should have a full-body massage (with oil) once a week.
19. Gratitude meditation: Gratitude meditation is to express your gratitude and thankfulness to Nature. When you are doing this, you should have a smile on your face and a feeling of happiness inside. Even you may not be happy but pretend and teach your body and mind to feel happiness. You should do it immediately after waking up in the morning, before and after eating food and before doing breathing meditation at night.
20. Breathing meditation: Watch your breathing – inhale and exhale, with closed eyes and feeling of happiness and smile on the face. Just watch, do not entangle with it. Watching is key. Do it 2-3 minutes immediately after waking up (after gratitude meditation), 20 minutes in the morning after getting a shower, and 15 minutes before sleeping at bedtime (after gratitude meditation).

Recommended Timings

In this phase, you can eat in the following way:

Early Morning

Recommended Timings: 7:30 am to 9:00 am

Food Type

There are slight variations in the recommendations for children and adults in the Preventing Phase Diet. Children should also have 1/3^rd of their whole grains’ servings in the morning. For adults, they can take either Green Herbs’ Smoothie or nothing.

Children

Children should also eat whole grains along with vegetables in the morning. The breakfast should provide about 1/3^rd of their daily calories needs. You should serve breakfast to children with three major components:

1. Intact whole grains.
2. Vegetables (raw or cooked).
3. Soaked nuts or seeds or plant-based milk (only one of these options). Check nuts’ guide and seeds’ guide to learn about the recommended amount.

Examples:

Most recommended examples: It means you should use intact whole grains instead of food made of whole-grain flour. You should use intact whole grains at least four days a week for preparing children’s breakfast.

1. Cooked quinoa with steamed vegetables and soaked walnuts, almonds and pumpkin seeds.
2. Porridge cooked in plant-based milk with steamed vegetables.
3. Oats pulao with cashew cream.
4. Millet (choose any type) vegetable pulao with soaked nuts and seeds.
5. Brown rice (or wild rice) vegetable pulao with soaked nuts and seeds.

Acceptable Examples: It means you can use a meal prepared from whole grain flour.

• Cooked vegetables with homemade chapati (made from whole grain flour kneaded with seeds and nut flour – flaxseed or almond meal).
• Homemade whole grain chapati with cooked vegetable and almond milk or soaked nuts.
• Flaxseed and sesame seed whole grain flour chapati along with cooked vegetables.
• Vegetable stuffed chapati with homemade almond butter, peanut yogurt, tahini, or cashew cream mixed with tomato sauce.
• Homemade whole grain wrap with steamed vegetables and almond butter.

There can be several examples. You should use your creativity to include three foods groups in children’s breakfast – vegetables (either cooked or raw), whole grains and soaked nuts or seeds or plant-based milk.

Note: If you do not know how to make chapati, you should learn it. Watch several YouTube videos for it. Wholemeal bread generally contains 20% to 70% whole grain flour. The rest is always refined flour. Besides, we do also not recommend yeast bread. Therefore, it is best to learn how to make chapati.

How to Make Dough for Chapati: You can knead whole grain flour with your hands. Just add 1 cup of whole-grain flour, ½ cup of water and 1 tablespoon of flaxseed powder. Knead the flour until dough. You can also knead it using the food processor (with a kneading attachment). Wet your hands when you are removing the dough from the food processor. This ratio gives you proper consistency for making chapatis. When you practice, you can start kneading flour using vegetable puree.

Recommended whole grains servings in the morning for children, pregnant and lactating women:

Pregnant & Lactating Women

Pregnant women and lactating mothers should take 2-3 servings of whole grains with vegetables, nuts and seeds in the morning. A similar recommendation applies to pregnant and lactating women as described for children above.

Adults

Adults can skip the early morning meal, or take fruits, or take a green herb smoothie.

1. Green Herb Smoothie: Smoothie is optional. You can also skip it and take only fruits instead. A green herbs’ smoothie is a good option because it boosts greens’ intake and keeps you energetic. If you cannot eat green herbs and green leafy vegetables in the salad, you must go with green herbs’ smoothie. Learn more about Green Herbs’ Smoothie Here.
2. Fruits: If you eat a sufficient serving of greens in the salad, you can also take fruits in the morning. You should take as per the recommended serving amount. Choose fruits from group 1 and group. Check the Fruit Guide for learning about fruit groups. If you take group 1 and 2 fruits at this time, then you can take citrus fruits at 10:00 am.
3. Nuts & Seeds: You can also take overnight soaked nuts and seeds at this time. Check the nuts’ guide and seeds’ guide for the recommended amount. You can also add nuts and seeds in Green Herbs Smoothie. We generally recommend specific seeds and only walnuts in the smoothie. For more details, check the article on Green Herb Smoothie.

We highly recommend Green Herb Smoothie because it offers an appropriate serving of greens and fresh herbs.

Mid-Morning (Fruits)

We generally recommend fruits in the mid-morning. You can take any type of fruits, but we usually recommend group 1 and group 2 fruits. Try to take only one type of fruit at a time, but you can take it in any amount (according to appetite) or the recommended amount given below. Taking one fruit at a time is not essential. It is recommended for people who experience gas, abdominal discomfort or bloating after eating fruits’ salad. However, it is uncommon, but you may be one of such people who have such complaints. You can also choose various fruits from the same fruit group to avoid this effect.

Recommended Time: 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Recommended Fruit Servings

The following table represents the serving size for fresh fruits for the mid-morning meal. You should also eat 7 servings of berries every week. Include fruits from various fruit groups. Check Fruit Groups in Fruit’s Guide.

Standard Serving Size for Fruits

Berries are essential fruits. You must eat at least 7 servings of different types of berries each week.

Lunch

Lunch should consist of salad, whole grains and cooked legumes during the Preventing Phase Diet.

Recommended Time

Lunch Salad

Lunch salad should consist of non-starchy vegetables and fresh green herbs.

Choosing Salad Ingredients and Ratio

Choose different vegetables from various vegetable categories. Find more details about vegetable categories in Vegetable’s Guide. Learn more about choosing vegetables for salad in the article –  Recommended and Restricted Vegetables for Salad. Find a list of recommended Fresh Herbs in the Fresh Herbs Guide.

Recommended Servings

One serving size for uncooked raw vegetables is 150 g. The following table represents the minimum serving amount for vegetables and fresh herbs for making salad according to age group:

Note: If you take Green Herbs’ Smoothie, you can reduce the intake of fresh herbs accordingly.

Whole Grains

75% of servings of whole grains should be from intact whole grains. 25% of servings can be from food made of whole-grain flour. You should not use refined grains.

Recommended Grains Servings

According to age group, you should choose the recommended daily servings:

Learn more about here: Whole Grains Guide.

Standard Serving Size for Whole Grains:

Learn Here How to Cook Whole Grains: Whole Grain Guide. You can eat cooked whole grains with cooked legumes.

Legumes

You can start taking all types of legumes during this phase.

Recommended Daily Amount

Standard Serving Size for Legumes:

Learn Here How to Cook Legumes: Legume Guide. You can eat cooked legumes with cooked whole grains.

Evening

In the evening, you can take group 3 or 4 fruits. Check fruit groups here.

Recommended Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

Standard Serving Size for Fruits: Check above under mid-morning meal.

Alternatively, you can also take Green Herbs’ Smoothie or Vegetable Juice.

Dinner

At dinner, you should start your meal with a salad. You can take whole grains along with cooked vegetables.

Recommended Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Dinner Salad

Choose different vegetables from various vegetable categories. Find more details about vegetable categories in Vegetable’s Guide. Learn more about choosing vegetables for salad in the article –  Recommended and Restricted Vegetables for Salad.

Cooked Vegetables

One serving size for cooked or boiled vegetables (especially starchy vegetables) is 75 g. You can cook starchy vegetables along with whole grains.

Recommended Serving Size for Cooked Vegetables:

Learn more How to Cook Vegetables: Vegetable Guide.

Whole Grains

Try to take intact whole grains during dinner.

Recommended Grains Servings:

According to age group, you should choose the recommended daily servings:

Learn about grain’s serving size and How to cook whole grains here: Whole Grains Guide.

Vegetable Soup

You can also take vegetable soup for dinner in addition to salad and whole grains. Vegetable soup is optional.

Warning & Disclaimer

This diet may not be for everyone. You should take care of your calories’ requirement. If you follow the above diet plan exactly in the provided serving sizes, you may get around 1850-2200 calories a day (in the case of adults). It also depends on your food choices. Some foods serve more calories than others in the same serving size. You may need to increase or decrease the servings of legumes and whole grains to meet your caloric requirement. The preventing phase diet may help some people but may also be potentially harmful to others. Consult your healthcare provider before making any dietary changes. Read Disclaimer for more information.

It is considered as the best exercise for human body. Surya Namaskar consists of important Yogasanas and Pranayama. The Pranayama and its advantages are skillfully incorporated in Surya Namaskar.

In all this Surya Namaskar is an appreciated exercise among people of all ages from kids to old age people.

Ideally, these exercises should be performed early in the morning, exposing your body to the sun’s rays. But if, for some reason, it cannot be performed in the morning you may do so in the evening on an empty stomach, in a well ventilated room. Initially, you may start with three rounds and gradually build up the stamina for 10 to 12 rounds. Practice the exercises at the pace you feel comfortable with. If you feel tired after a few rounds, rest by lying down with eyes closed for a few minutes.

Surya Namaskar Step

In all one Surya Namaskar includes 10 different steps, they are

Surya Namaskar Step 1:

Inhale and maintain the position as shown in figure in standing position with hands joined together near chest, feet together and toes touching each other.

Surya Namaskar Step 2:

Exhale and bend forward in the waist till palms touch the ground in line with the toes. Don’t bend knees while performing. At first you may find it difficult to attain the ideal position but try to bend as much as possible without bending in knees.

Do’s

– While exhaling bend forward in the waist 

– Palms touching the ground, fingers pointing forward, thumbs at 90 degree angle 

– Legs straight 

– Try to touch the forehead to the knees 

– Relax the neck 

Don’ts

– Do not bend the knees. 

– Do not keep the neck tense 

Surya Namaskar Step 3:

Inhale and take the left leg back with left toes on the floor, press the waist downwards and raise the neck, stretch the chest forward and push shoulders backwards. Keep the right leg and both the hands in the same position. Keep the right leg folded.

Dos

– Take the left leg backwards and touch the knee to the floor, keeping the toes erect. 

– The knee of the right leg will be bent 

– The knee of the left leg should touch the ground 

– Drop the waist/ hips towards the floor 

– Gaze is upwards, both arms are straight 

Don’ts

– Do not bend the neck forward. 

– Do not bend the elbows. 

Surya Namaskar Step 4:

Hold the breath and raise the knee of left leg. Take the right leg backwards and keep it close to the left leg. Straighten both the legs and both hands. Keep the neck straight and site fixed. Keep both the toes erect. Take care that the neck, spine, thighs and the feet are in a straight line.

Dos

– Take the right leg back and place it beside the left leg, keeping the toes erect 

– Keep the body in one straight line – plank position 

– Keep the arms straight 

– Gaze forward 

Don’ts

– Do not bend the arms 

– Do not look towards the floor 

– Do not drop the hips/waist towards the floor 

– Do not stick the buttocks into the air 

– Do not bend the knees 

Surya Namaskar Step 5:

Exhaling bend both the hands in elbows and touch forehead on the ground, touch the knees on the ground, keep both the elbows close to chest. The forehead, chest, both the palms, both the toes, knees should touch the ground and rest of the body not

touching the floor. Since only eight parts rest on the ground , it is called ‘ Ashtanga’ position.

Dos

– Bring the body towards the floor placing the 8 parts on the floor: Toes, knees, chest, palms, and forehead 

– Keep the hands close to the body, next to the shoulders 

– Keep the elbows pointed to the sky and close in to the body 

Don’ts

– Do not touch the thighs, hips, waist or abdomen to the floor 

– Do not touch the chin to the floor 

– Do not let the elbows fall away from the body 

Surya Namaskar Step 6:

Inhale and straighten the elbows, stretch the shoulders upwards, press the waist downwards but dont bend the arms. Keep the knees and toes on the floor. Push the neck backwards and site upwards.

Dos

– Push the upper body upwards so that the arms are straight 

– Keep the fingers pointed forwards, palms on the ground, thumbs at 90 degree angle 

– Open the chest, pull the shoulders downwards 

– Drop the head and neck backwards and gaze upwards towards the sky 

– Keep the heels, legs and knees together 

– Keep the toes erect 

Don’ts

– Do not let the legs or heels be apart 

– Do not bend the elbows 

– Do not hunch the shoulders towards the ears 

Surya Namaskar Step 7:

Hold the breath, bend the neck downwards and press the chin in the throat, push the body backwards and touch the heels on the ground, raise the waist upwards, do not move the palms on the floor.

Dos

– Push the body upward so the buttocks and waist are raised into the air, leaving the body in an Inverted ‘V’ position 

– Take the head and chin towards the chest 

– Try to touch the heels to the floor 

Don’ts

– Do not bend the legs in the knees 

– Do not bend the arms

Surya Namaskar Step 8:

Hold the breath as in position 7, bring the right leg in the front and place it in between the hands like in position 3 but instead of left leg in the front here take right leg and place left leg in the back with left knee and toes on the ground.

Dos

– Take the right leg forward and place it between the hands 

– The knee of the right leg will be bent 

– The knee of the left leg should touch the ground 

– Drop the waist/ hips towards the floor 

– Gaze is upwards, both arms are straight 

Don’ts

– Do not bend the neck forward. 

– Do not bend the elbows. 

Surya Namaskar Step 9:

Exhale and bring the left leg forwards as in the position 2 and place it in between both the arms.

Do’s

– Take the left leg forward and place it beside the right 

– Palms touching the ground, fingers pointing forward, thumbs at 90 degree angle 

– Legs straight 

– Try to touch the forehead to the knees 

– Relax the neck 

Don’ts

– Do not bend the knees. 

– Do not keep the neck tense. 

Surya Namaskar Step 10:

Inhaling start getting up and attain the position as in position 1.

Ayurveda has many benefits. When it comes to eating healthy and taking care of physical and emotional health, there is nothing better than going the ayurveda way. Being the oldest medicinal system in the world, Ayurveda helps build the internal power and strength by increasing immunity for the body to combat many diseases and infections. According to ayurveda, for immunity one needs to properly cook the food enough to make it digestible. Food cooked should be adequately soft and easy to chew and lunch should be the main meal of the day so that it can be digested easily and provides the required nourishment to the body.

With the changing environment around us, it has become very common to fall sick every weather change. Also, various flus and colds which are a part of viral infections have become a sort of epidemics that need to be curbed. If one’s immune system is strong enough, it suppresses the virus which eventually becomes latent. Whereas, if the immunity levels are low, there are bound to be outbreaks and relapses which can also be dangerous in the long run. Ayurvedic immunity booster helps in identifying foreign bodies that attacks the cells and destroys them, keeping us healthy.

For a good health according to ayurveda, for immunity one needs to retain natural resistance to diseases and its symptoms. Low immunity and poor health have symptoms like dependency to diseases, low resistance, allergies, fatigue, low energy, weakness, respiratory issues, stress and depression, digestion issues and chronic insomnia. There are many causes of low immunity which includes genetic factors, poor mental health, pollution, poor diet, lifestyle and metabolic issues. All these problems can be overcome with the help of various tips that are easy to follow.

EAT HEALTHY

The mantra to any health issue is to eat healthy and wise. According to ayurveda it is best to eat according to the body energy type which provides most nutrition. One must avoid harmful sugars, processed and canned foods that contains preservatives, limit the eating of fried and high calorie food and alcohol. If you are thinking on how to increase immune system by ayurveda, one needs to induce ayurvedic immunity boosters like coriander, turmeric, black pepper and cumin in daily food. Eating green leafy vegetables and seasonal fruits like apples and oranges are great for fulfilling the nutritional value. One must always consume lunch as the biggest meal of the day around noon and eat very light for dinner in order to keep digestion fine. Also avoid gluten and dairy. It is also recommended to eat at short intervals regularly so as to provide required nourishment and make sure the body isn’t starving.

TAKE AYURVEDIC SUPPLEMENTS

For creating a mind-body balance and increasing a strong immune system it is always recommended to take few supplements along with a good diet and exercising adequately. Ayurvedic supplements help increase the power of digestive fire along with meditation, yoga, sound sleeping pattern, and body massage. Know more on how to improve digestion & advantages of yoga. It also helps giving a positive outlook on life. To increase immunity, ayurveda has thousands of herbs like Garlic, Echinacea, ginseng, ginger, turmeric, amla etc. One can also buy ayurvedic supplements like sitopaladi and mahasudarshan, that are used to prevent colds and flu, as well as Western herbs osha and Echinacea.

DETOX REGULARLY

According to ayurveda, undigested food is the root cause of toxins that spread across the body making it unhealthy and sick. The toxins stored within the body become breeding grounds for the parasites and begin to settle into weak places in the body causing infections and illnesses and finally weakening the immune system. Hence detoxification is very important and it can be done by regularly consuming lots of fresh fruits, vegetables and juices.

KEEP THE DIGESTIVE FIRE STRONG

The digestive fire or agni is vital to a strong immune system. The immunity of our body is totally under the power of agni or the digestion process through which the nutrients are absorbed in the body. If there is an imbalance within the agni, metabolism can be affected and immunity can go low. The toxic environment in the body leads to thriving viruses and bacteria as well. One can sip hot water or drink natural hot teas throughout the day in order to boost the digestive fire.

MEDITATE REGULARLY

It is very important to do yoga or meditation regularly in to positively affect the immune system. Both yoga and meditation are correlated and help lower the stress and anxiety levels in the body. Meditation boosts the antibodies and stimulates the brain function as well.

EXERCISE REGULARLY

According to ayurveda, it is very important to exercise taking into account one’s dosha or energy. Any kind of physical activity like walks, swimming, or even weight training in the gym helps the body to recover from the sedentary positions, thereby making it more active to the surroundings. It also helps to charge the body cells making it fitter and stronger and also increases the immunity levels tremendously. It is therefore recommended to exercise regularly every day for at least 30 minutes for long term improvement in health. One can also practice pranayama, which is the ancient ayurvedic habit of redirecting pranic energy through the breath. Pranayama purifies and toughens the body while peacefully composing the mind. Alternate nostril breathing brings a positive effect to the immune system as well.

LIMIT ALCOHOL INTAKE

Alcohol is very dangerous if consumed regularly as it impairs immunity building cells. It also causes blood sludging by clumping together blood vessels and reducing the flow of oxygen to many organs. With the limited amount of oxygen to the organs the immunity is bound to get at an all-time low, causing many diseases and illnesses.

GET GOOD SLEEP

It is very important to get good sleep and rest after a hard day’s work. In a bid to improve immunity, ayurveda recommends at least 8 hours of sleep so that the immune cells can regenerate properly. Lack of sleep interrupts the process and can cause diseases like depression, diabetes, heart problems etc. During our sleep the immune system releases proteins called cytokines.

TAKE WARM BATHS

According to ayurveda, it is very important to take bath with warm water in the evening in order to calm the body cells and help in their regeneration and health. Epsom salts and warming essential oils like ginger, cinnamon, rosemary, cedar, pine, basil, eucalyptus etc help boost immunity to great levels.

HAVE LOTS OF GREEN TEA

Green tea has proven to be a great ayurvedic immunity booster that helps in fighting bacteria and viruses. It contains epigallocatechin gallate, which is a flavonoid stimulating the production of immune cells. It is also rich in antioxidants and a good way to lose weight as it contains zero calories. If you take green tea regularly, you prevent yourself against cardiovascular diseases, stroke and even cancer.

REGULARLY CONSUME FLAXSEEDS

Flaxseeds are rich in omega 3 fatty acids and phytoestrogens. That makes them a rich ingredient for alpha linoleic acids that is vital for modulating a retort of the immune system, keeping infections and virus at bay. Flax seeds are also anti-cancer and hence a must have in your daily ayurvedic diet.

There is more to yoga and Ayurveda than just asanas and medicinal plants ! Both of them encompass all of human life and the entire universe. Both Yoga and Ayurveda are historically closely related and have developed in tandem with each other since ancient times. They have diverged in modern times, over the last hundred and fifty years, particularly outside of India, in which Yoga without Ayurveda was for a long time the norm. However, Yoga and Ayurveda are becoming reconnected again, not only in India but across the globe. Therefore, it would not be wrong to say that theirreintegrationis the reintegration of the circle of consciousness,life, healing and transformation! Therefore, it is important to understand the respective roles of Ayurveda and Yoga in the Vedic system.

History of yoga :

The genesis of yoga dates back to theage of Mantra Yoga of the Rigveda; the ancient Vedic text that came into existence five thousand years ago. The mantras mentioned in them of the Rishis promote a Yoga or union with the higher powers of consciousness in the universe, providing the basis for self-knowledge and cosmic knowledge that were later mentioned in the Vedanta and the Vedic sciences as well.

Vedic mantras, along with corresponding rituals and meditations, were commonly utilized both for spiritual development and for the achievement of the outer objectives of life by invoking the Devatas or the Divine powers behind nature and the soul. These vast energies are characterized mainly as four important elements in the Vedas; namely Agni (fire), Vayu or Indra (air and electrical vitality), Surya (sun) and Soma (moon). Their light forms are symbolic of yet more profound inward powers of Agni as speech, Vayu/Indra as Prana, Surya as Atman (soul), and Soma as the brain. A variety of such formulations exists in Vedic texts.

The story of Ayurveda :

Ayurveda emerged in the Vedic context as the Upaveda or supplementary Vedic text that focused on the well-being and overall healing of both body and mind. Ayurveda initially emerged as an application of Vedic mantras and not as a different train. Every Vedic text available has a potential Ayurvedic or recuperating application, particularly Vedic customs and mantras. Numerous Vedic practices are said to allow ‘sarvayur’, which means life span as well as the totality of life, as one of their essential objectives.Recuperating and life span are thought to be common consequences of Vedic practices, with some Vedic hones particularly identified with these. Also Learn about the various importance of yoga.

Ayurveda is normally thought to be a branch of the Atharva Veda, which carries the most mantras pointed particularly at recuperating. In any case, parts of Ayurveda can be found in all the Vedas and are inborn in the Vedic gods (Devatas) and in the Vedic cosmology.

‘Vedic Yoga, for example, we find in the Svetsvatara Upanishad, underlines how the Vedic Devatas or inestimable energies like Agni, Vayu and Soma work in the mind as powers of interior reconciliation and self-acknowledgment.

Vedic Chikitsa :

Chikitsa is a Sanskrit term for therapy. Ayurvedic course readings like Charak, Sushruta, and Vagbhatta all contain segments called ChikitsaSthana, or the ‘areas identifying with chikitsa or treatment’. They have complementary areas like NidanaSthana, ‘segment concerning to diagnosis’, and ShariraSthana, ‘segment identifying with the embodied soul’, which incorporates the anatomy and physiology of the physical body. The Ayurvedic perspective of our embodied nature (body, brain and soul) and how itworks, the reasons for infection and the treatment of illness are altogether connected in an excellent, clear, and wonderfulsystem of optimal health and ideal well-being.

Ayurveda addresses all areas of medicine, which includes diet, ayurvedic medicines using herbs, drugs, surgery, bodywork, and its own extraordinary clinical methods like panchakarma. It acquires ritual, mantra and meditation for healing of both the body and the mind. Furthermore, it imparts life-style instructions for health, life span, and avoiding illness and also exceptional procedures for rejuvenation of body and mind. It incorporates the acts of Yoga from asana and pranayama to mantra and reflection as a major aspect of its recuperating tools.

Yoga writings like the Yoga Sutras have segments like Samadhi Pada- ‘segment identifying with Samadhi or profound meditation’;SadhanaPada- ‘area identifying with spiritual practice’;VibhutiPada- ‘segment identifying with yogic powers’; and KaivalyaPada- ‘segment identifying with liberation and freedom’. The yogic study of consciousness, the inconspicuous energies of prana and mind, and different kind of spiritual practices are all associated with each other. Yogic writings contain topics of meditation, concentration, mantra, ritual, pranayama, asana, and related factors but as part of spiritual practice, not as a therapy.

We don’t discover any Chikitsa Padas or treatment segments in the standard Yoga writings. This is because the concerns in classical Yoga is related toSadhana and not Chikitsa, which was viewed as the field of Ayurveda. Above all, there is no discovery of disease, pathology, diagnosis, or ayurvedic treatment strategies apart from the approach of Ayurveda in Yoga writings. There is no Yoga system of medicine as far as diagnosis, pathology, and treatment, apart from Ayurvedais concerned.

What is discovered in standard Yoga writings are discussions of the pranas, senses, mind, nadis, and chakras, worship of deities, discussion of the inner self and nature of consciousness, and also the type of samadhi or inner assimilation. Malady is briefly discussed in some Yoga writings as it is viewed as one of the fundamental obstructions to Yoga practice. In any case, when this occurs, the dialect of Ayurveda is normally employed.

Integral Yoga and Integral Ayurveda :

The term Yoga itself means to connect, combine, balance, or integrate. A genuine yogic approach is characteristically an integrative approach, orchestrating body, prana, senses, mind, and consciousness. It can’t be minimized to the body alone. A yogic way to healing isn’t a specialization or a side-line procedure but involves a combination of all levels and aspects of healing. That is the reason classical Yoga has an eightfold approach from lifestyle practices and values through asana, pranayama, to samadhi. If we lessen Yoga to asana, we are not practicing Yoga or an integrative approach but rather falling into a similar trap of principally concentrating on the external material reality and forgetting about the inner reality of prana, mind, and consciousness.

A real Yoga treatment must consider all eight limbs of Yoga. It can’t simply seclude the physical aspects of Yoga like asana. The initial two of the eight limbs of Yoga, the yamas and niyamas, the yogic standards and practices of right living, provide the foundation important to support any spiritual or healing practice. They likewise give a perfect implicit rule for doctors, therapists, and Yoga educators.

We can call asana the ‘outer pharmaceutical’ of Yoga. It essentially treats musculo-skeletal disorders, yet it benefits numerous other conditions and gives an ideal form of exercise to everyone. However, without the correct eating routine, its recuperating possibilities are constrained, as bodily action will reflect the nutrition the body recieves. Asana works best with regards to Ayurvedic dietary and lifestyle recommendations

Pranayama can be known as the ‘inward medication’ of Yoga. It brings prana or essential vitality straightforwardly into the body and can be utilized to coordinate prana in different ways as required. Pranayama straightforwardly impacts the doshas or organic humors of Ayurveda (vata, pitta, and kapha), which are modifications of prana. Pranayama basically treats states of the respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems however through these it has a powerful impact on all physical and mental conditions. Pranayama is an extraordinary guide for the utilization of herbs and functions much like them to redress the development of energy inside our physiological and psychological frameworks.

As all types of healing include changing the development of prana and expanding the recuperating energy of prana, pranayama is an essential and direct type of healing for body and mind, while asana is indirect and secondary. This implies that a real Yoga treatment notwithstanding for the physical body must underline pranayama over asana and utilize asana with regards to pranayama.

Pratyahara is the disguise of energy vital for profound healing or for genuine meditation to happen. Not achieving the phase of pratyahara means we are still not practicing Yoga as a sadhana or spiritual practice. In pratyahara, one pulls back the prana and mind within. For genuine recuperating, the body and mind must be placed in a casual relaxed state and the vitality coordinated inside. Many types of treatment like massage or panchakarma are to a great extent stimulated types of pratyahara, putting the patient into a state of profound rest in which all toxins can be expelled from the body.

Yoga as a philosophy :

Dharana is the essential centralization of mind and the improvement of the power of attention required to maintain any recuperating practice. Dhyana is reflective contemplation, the internal balance of awareness, which enables the mind to mend itself. Samadhi is the unitary perspective, prana, and awareness that builds up the full healing energy of body and mind and discharges us from physical, emotional and spiritual suffering. These higher parts of Yoga, help in giving the positive attitude and perspective for healing to take place on any level.

The inner practices of Yoga (dharana, dhyana, and samadhi) or the inward aspect of Yoga are essential for treating the mind and utilized as a part of mainly to deal with psychological disorders. This implies that classical Yoga treatment is fundamentally a psychology employing mantra and meditation. Yoga as connected by Ayurveda is a standout amongst the most capable methodologies for recuperating the mind and emotions that is accessible in the world today.

Conclusion :

It is vital to reintegrate Yoga and Ayurveda in order to get the complete healing and spiritual prospective of each. Bringing Ayurveda into Yoga gives a yogic and Vedic arrangement of medication to take into account the full healing application of all facets of Yoga. It gives an analysis and treatment in concordance with Yoga philosophy, and in addition an eating routine and herbal treatment that follows the spiritual approach of Yoga. Bringing Yoga into Ayurveda includes a spiritual and mental aspect to Ayurvedic treatment, without which Ayurveda has a tendency to get decreased to a physical model in which its full Vedic healing powers can’t be effectively figured out.

Ayurveda imparts suitable life-style recommendations for Yoga Practice and provides a complete background to uncover the complete healing potential of all facets of Yoga. Yoga provides the spiritual and psychological basis for Ayurveda and its higher applications.

Both Ayurveda and Yoga are required for a truly encompassing and profound way to deal with medication and recuperating, but with Ayurveda giving the medical foundation and Yoga, the spiritual objective and practices. This is the first and original Vedic plan. The way to a complete Yoga treatment and Yoga system of medicine lies in re-establishing Yoga’s connection with Ayurveda. This reconnection of Yoga and Ayurveda will also provide the premise to a real exchange with modern medicine not only addressing specific therapies but also the real causes of disease and how to keep up wellbeing and prosperity in society. Joining Yoga and Ayurveda in their full applications and in the more prominent setting of Vedic science offers a total arrangement of prosperity for body, mind, and consciousness.

There is more to yoga and Ayurveda than just asanas and medicinal plants ! Both of them encompass all of human life and the entire universe. Both Yoga and Ayurveda are historically closely related and have developed in tandem with each other since ancient times. They have diverged in modern times, over the last hundred and fifty years, particularly outside of India, in which Yoga without Ayurveda was for a long time the norm. However, Yoga and Ayurveda are becoming reconnected again, not only in India but across the globe. Therefore, it would not be wrong to say that theirreintegrationis the reintegration of the circle of consciousness,life, healing and transformation! Therefore, it is important to understand the respective roles of Ayurveda and Yoga in the Vedic system.

History of yoga :

The genesis of yoga dates back to theage of Mantra Yoga of the Rigveda; the ancient Vedic text that came into existence five thousand years ago. The mantras mentioned in them of the Rishis promote a Yoga or union with the higher powers of consciousness in the universe, providing the basis for self-knowledge and cosmic knowledge that were later mentioned in the Vedanta and the Vedic sciences as well.

Vedic mantras, along with corresponding rituals and meditations, were commonly utilized both for spiritual development and for the achievement of the outer objectives of life by invoking the Devatas or the Divine powers behind nature and the soul. These vast energies are characterized mainly as four important elements in the Vedas; namely Agni (fire), Vayu or Indra (air and electrical vitality), Surya (sun) and Soma (moon). Their light forms are symbolic of yet more profound inward powers of Agni as speech, Vayu/Indra as Prana, Surya as Atman (soul), and Soma as the brain. A variety of such formulations exists in Vedic texts.

The story of Ayurveda :

Ayurveda emerged in the Vedic context as the Upaveda or supplementary Vedic text that focused on the well-being and overall healing of both body and mind. Ayurveda initially emerged as an application of Vedic mantras and not as a different train. Every Vedic text available has a potential Ayurvedic or recuperating application, particularly Vedic customs and mantras. Numerous Vedic practices are said to allow ‘sarvayur’, which means life span as well as the totality of life, as one of their essential objectives.Recuperating and life span are thought to be common consequences of Vedic practices, with some Vedic hones particularly identified with these. Also Learn about the various importance of yoga.

Ayurveda is normally thought to be a branch of the Atharva Veda, which carries the most mantras pointed particularly at recuperating. In any case, parts of Ayurveda can be found in all the Vedas and are inborn in the Vedic gods (Devatas) and in the Vedic cosmology.

‘Vedic Yoga, for example, we find in the Svetsvatara Upanishad, underlines how the Vedic Devatas or inestimable energies like Agni, Vayu and Soma work in the mind as powers of interior reconciliation and self-acknowledgment.

Vedic Chikitsa :

Chikitsa is a Sanskrit term for therapy. Ayurvedic course readings like Charak, Sushruta, and Vagbhatta all contain segments called ChikitsaSthana, or the ‘areas identifying with chikitsa or treatment’. They have complementary areas like NidanaSthana, ‘segment concerning to diagnosis’, and ShariraSthana, ‘segment identifying with the embodied soul’, which incorporates the anatomy and physiology of the physical body. The Ayurvedic perspective of our embodied nature (body, brain and soul) and how itworks, the reasons for infection and the treatment of illness are altogether connected in an excellent, clear, and wonderfulsystem of optimal health and ideal well-being.

Ayurveda addresses all areas of medicine, which includes diet, ayurvedic medicines using herbs, drugs, surgery, bodywork, and its own extraordinary clinical methods like panchakarma. It acquires ritual, mantra and meditation for healing of both the body and the mind. Furthermore, it imparts life-style instructions for health, life span, and avoiding illness and also exceptional procedures for rejuvenation of body and mind. It incorporates the acts of Yoga from asana and pranayama to mantra and reflection as a major aspect of its recuperating tools.

Yoga writings like the Yoga Sutras have segments like Samadhi Pada- ‘segment identifying with Samadhi or profound meditation’;SadhanaPada- ‘area identifying with spiritual practice’;VibhutiPada- ‘segment identifying with yogic powers’; and KaivalyaPada- ‘segment identifying with liberation and freedom’. The yogic study of consciousness, the inconspicuous energies of prana and mind, and different kind of spiritual practices are all associated with each other. Yogic writings contain topics of meditation, concentration, mantra, ritual, pranayama, asana, and related factors but as part of spiritual practice, not as a therapy.

We don’t discover any Chikitsa Padas or treatment segments in the standard Yoga writings. This is because the concerns in classical Yoga is related toSadhana and not Chikitsa, which was viewed as the field of Ayurveda. Above all, there is no discovery of disease, pathology, diagnosis, or ayurvedic treatment strategies apart from the approach of Ayurveda in Yoga writings. There is no Yoga system of medicine as far as diagnosis, pathology, and treatment, apart from Ayurvedais concerned.

What is discovered in standard Yoga writings are discussions of the pranas, senses, mind, nadis, and chakras, worship of deities, discussion of the inner self and nature of consciousness, and also the type of samadhi or inner assimilation. Malady is briefly discussed in some Yoga writings as it is viewed as one of the fundamental obstructions to Yoga practice. In any case, when this occurs, the dialect of Ayurveda is normally employed.

Integral Yoga and Integral Ayurveda :

The term Yoga itself means to connect, combine, balance, or integrate. A genuine yogic approach is characteristically an integrative approach, orchestrating body, prana, senses, mind, and consciousness. It can’t be minimized to the body alone. A yogic way to healing isn’t a specialization or a side-line procedure but involves a combination of all levels and aspects of healing. That is the reason classical Yoga has an eightfold approach from lifestyle practices and values through asana, pranayama, to samadhi. If we lessen Yoga to asana, we are not practicing Yoga or an integrative approach but rather falling into a similar trap of principally concentrating on the external material reality and forgetting about the inner reality of prana, mind, and consciousness.

A real Yoga treatment must consider all eight limbs of Yoga. It can’t simply seclude the physical aspects of Yoga like asana. The initial two of the eight limbs of Yoga, the yamas and niyamas, the yogic standards and practices of right living, provide the foundation important to support any spiritual or healing practice. They likewise give a perfect implicit rule for doctors, therapists, and Yoga educators.

We can call asana the ‘outer pharmaceutical’ of Yoga. It essentially treats musculo-skeletal disorders, yet it benefits numerous other conditions and gives an ideal form of exercise to everyone. However, without the correct eating routine, its recuperating possibilities are constrained, as bodily action will reflect the nutrition the body recieves. Asana works best with regards to Ayurvedic dietary and lifestyle recommendations

Pranayama can be known as the ‘inward medication’ of Yoga. It brings prana or essential vitality straightforwardly into the body and can be utilized to coordinate prana in different ways as required. Pranayama straightforwardly impacts the doshas or organic humors of Ayurveda (vata, pitta, and kapha), which are modifications of prana. Pranayama basically treats states of the respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems however through these it has a powerful impact on all physical and mental conditions. Pranayama is an extraordinary guide for the utilization of herbs and functions much like them to redress the development of energy inside our physiological and psychological frameworks.

As all types of healing include changing the development of prana and expanding the recuperating energy of prana, pranayama is an essential and direct type of healing for body and mind, while asana is indirect and secondary. This implies that a real Yoga treatment notwithstanding for the physical body must underline pranayama over asana and utilize asana with regards to pranayama.

Pratyahara is the disguise of energy vital for profound healing or for genuine meditation to happen. Not achieving the phase of pratyahara means we are still not practicing Yoga as a sadhana or spiritual practice. In pratyahara, one pulls back the prana and mind within. For genuine recuperating, the body and mind must be placed in a casual relaxed state and the vitality coordinated inside. Many types of treatment like massage or panchakarma are to a great extent stimulated types of pratyahara, putting the patient into a state of profound rest in which all toxins can be expelled from the body.

Yoga as a philosophy :

Dharana is the essential centralization of mind and the improvement of the power of attention required to maintain any recuperating practice. Dhyana is reflective contemplation, the internal balance of awareness, which enables the mind to mend itself. Samadhi is the unitary perspective, prana, and awareness that builds up the full healing energy of body and mind and discharges us from physical, emotional and spiritual suffering. These higher parts of Yoga, help in giving the positive attitude and perspective for healing to take place on any level.

The inner practices of Yoga (dharana, dhyana, and samadhi) or the inward aspect of Yoga are essential for treating the mind and utilized as a part of mainly to deal with psychological disorders. This implies that classical Yoga treatment is fundamentally a psychology employing mantra and meditation. Yoga as connected by Ayurveda is a standout amongst the most capable methodologies for recuperating the mind and emotions that is accessible in the world today.

Conclusion :

It is vital to reintegrate Yoga and Ayurveda in order to get the complete healing and spiritual prospective of each. Bringing Ayurveda into Yoga gives a yogic and Vedic arrangement of medication to take into account the full healing application of all facets of Yoga. It gives an analysis and treatment in concordance with Yoga philosophy, and in addition an eating routine and herbal treatment that follows the spiritual approach of Yoga. Bringing Yoga into Ayurveda includes a spiritual and mental aspect to Ayurvedic treatment, without which Ayurveda has a tendency to get decreased to a physical model in which its full Vedic healing powers can’t be effectively figured out.

Ayurveda imparts suitable life-style recommendations for Yoga Practice and provides a complete background to uncover the complete healing potential of all facets of Yoga. Yoga provides the spiritual and psychological basis for Ayurveda and its higher applications.

Both Ayurveda and Yoga are required for a truly encompassing and profound way to deal with medication and recuperating, but with Ayurveda giving the medical foundation and Yoga, the spiritual objective and practices. This is the first and original Vedic plan. The way to a complete Yoga treatment and Yoga system of medicine lies in re-establishing Yoga’s connection with Ayurveda. This reconnection of Yoga and Ayurveda will also provide the premise to a real exchange with modern medicine not only addressing specific therapies but also the real causes of disease and how to keep up wellbeing and prosperity in society. Joining Yoga and Ayurveda in their full applications and in the more prominent setting of Vedic science offers a total arrangement of prosperity for body, mind, and consciousness.

RULES OF SEX ACCORDING TO THE OLDEST HEALTH SCIENCE AYURVEDA:

Across time, culture, and history, humans have engaged in sex. But most of us are told and are veiled that sex is only for reproductive purposes. But Ayurveda doesn’t limit sex for just breeding. One of the three pillars of Ayurveda is sex. Sex can nourish us profoundly and should be indulged from time to time. But there are rules to this.

Everything, according to Ayurveda, has a relation with the three elements. Sex is one of the factors of air elements vata dosha. If the movement of this vata is healthy, it keeps us balanced and the rhythms of nature.

What does the great Ayurveda text say about sex in summer?

The summer is when your body is the least strong, and our energy is drained naturally, which means there’s vata aggravation

Sexual activities are draining in nature, meaning increases vata and build-up of vata dosha in our body. This is as per the Ayurveda principle, “like increases like” and “opposites decrease.”

Based on this Ayurveda teaching, some of the important points around sex:

1) The best time to have sex is during the day, in the morning after sunrise, but before ten or during the early evening.

2) While most of us prefer having sex in the night, but in  Ayurveda, it is not ideal

3) The perfect seasons to have more sex are winter and early spring.

4) During summer and fall, the influence of Vata increase and sex during this season can reduce your energy and strength. Thus, one must reduce the frequency of sex.

5)  Have foods that are natural aphrodisiacs and stimulate the production of sperm and eggs, such as ghee, coconut juice, and milk.

6) Post sex,  practice oil massage before the bath to recover the depleted vata dosha.