Susan Weis-Bohlen - Seasonal Self-Care Rituals: Eat, Breathe, Move, and Sleep Better—According to Your Dosha

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SEASONAL SELF-CARE RITUALS

This book is a must for anyone who wants to understand how to stay healthy throughout the year. Drawing on her extensive training, as well as decades of personal experience, Susan Weis-Bohlen takes the teachings of Ayurvedic seasonal routines and makes them accessible to all, providing us with a wide variety of practices to stay balanced and healthy in body, mind, and spirit. Complete with recipes and simple practices, Seasonal Self-Care Rituals is an invaluable resource for improving our overall well-being.

Sheila Patel, MD, chief medical officer for Chopra Global

This gem of a book is like having a personal mind-body coach. Susan is a masterful teacher whose rituals, delicious recipes, and transformational practices keep us in thrive mode every day by aligning with nature. I will drink in the riches of this treasure for many years to come!

davidji, author of Sacred Powers

Seasonal Self-Care Rituals is an excellent guide to understanding the cycles of nature and how our physiology responds to various seasons of life. This is the true essence of personalized medicine.

Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar BAMS, MD, author of Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life and The Hot Belly Diet

If you want to play and work more skillfully with your health, your doshas, and the seasons, this is the book for you. Susan Weis-Bohlen is the ultimate Ayurvedic woman next door: supportive, informative, clear, nurturing, and down to earth. Susan, conscious of the interface of belief, feeling, and biology, tends your curious mind as well as your tender heart. Appealing, accessible, affordable, with delicious recipeswhat more could you want?

Amadea Morningstar, Ayurveda educator and author of Easy Healing Drinks from the Wisdom of Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Cooking for Westerners

Books about the ancient system of Ayurveda can be cumbersome and confusingbut not Susans! Every word is beautiful and rich; forever, will I use Susan's book to make natural choices that are as simple as flowing downstream.

Cyndi Dale, intuitive, healer, and author twenty-six books, including Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness

Seasonal Self-Care Rituals is a comprehensive yet welcoming entree to how to use Ayurvedas wisdom and practice self-care according to constitution and climate. Readers are sure to benefit.

Kate ODonnell, author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind, and The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care

This book is my go-to resource for natural health! The practicality, applicability, accessibility of Susans work stands outand she masterfully weaves healing routines with a sensory and spiritual experience, leading us in its application literally step-by-step. This book is a treasure!

Amanda Ree, founder of Sama Dog Wellbeing and a Chopra-certified Ayurveda, meditation, and yoga instructor

Seasonal Self-Care Rituals validates Nobel Prizewinning circadian science with the ancient and practical wisdom of Ayurveda's seasonal life cycles."

Dr. John Douillard DC, CAP founder of LifeSpa.com

Seasonal Self-Care Rituals focuses on how we can integrate Ayurveda into our lives to experience well-being according to our own personal natures. This book will help readers to pay attention to Mother Nature, working with her to make informed life choices. The more we learn about ourselves, the better we can follow our own individual paths to nurturance, health, and true satisfaction in life.

Dr. Robert Svoboda, Ayurvedic physician and author of Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution

Seasonal Self-Care Rituals takes you to the roots and rhythms of Ayurveda, through the different seasons. Susan is your guide to eat, breathe, move, and sleep better. This is a book that will guide you through baby steps, inspire you for profound changes, and make you flow in harmony with nature through the stages of life!

Ramkumar Kutty, BAMS, founder and director of Punarnava Ayurveda

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To all the mothers who have loved

and supported me unconditionally

my mom, Bunny,

my mother-in-law, Mary Lou,

and Mother Nature

W hen I was twenty-nine years old, long before bookstores had chairs and cozy reading corners or I owned my own bookshop, and years before I had even heard the word Ayurveda, I found myself sitting on the floor of Crown Books in Washington, DC. I had come across a book called Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old by a young Indian doctor named Deepak Chopra. The flap of the book had a quote by Wayne Dyer: Who might have imagined that the secret to conquering this universal mystery [of aging] lies not in our physical bodies but in our consciousness? The introduction went on to say, By intervening at the level where belief becomes biology, we can achieve our unbound potential. I learned while flipping through the pages that if one is feeling sad, its not just in the brain, but all over the bodybelief becomes biology. We can use our own abilities to create our reality. Our internal dialogue is just random mental noise coming from beliefs and assumptionsand this was just up to page 26!