Tiwari - Ayurveda secrets of healing: the complete Ayurvedic guide to healing through Pancha Karma seasonal therapies, diet, herbal remedies, and memory

Critical Reviews of Ayurveda: Secrets of Healing

Bri. Maya Tiwari

To have this book in your hands is to have the oceanic presence of Bri. Maya Tiwari in your home, is to have the cosmos in your soul... remembered. Read it at your own risk, for you may lose your false self in the process, and find true health and happiness.

DIRK BENEDICT

ACTOR AND AUTHOR, Kamakazi Cowboy

Ayurveda: Secrets of Healing is an excellent book for the serious practitioner and layperson who wish to learn the Ayurvedic healing practices. Maya Tiwari has clearly and beautifully written an in-depth, detailed manual on this timeless, ancient form of healing.

MARGARET PAUL, N.D.

AUTHOR, Healing Your Aloneness

Maya Tiwari brought together ancient concepts of Ayurveda in such a way that they are comprehensible and useable in our modern western culture. This book is valuable in its overall discussion of philosophy and then in its ability to adapt the philosophy to practical day by day activities which can be used by people in their own home and also by health care practitioners. The way we as humans relate to the world around us including the seasons of the year and the phases of the sun and moon is presented in interesting ways. I recommend this book not for casual reading but for in-depth study.

GLADYS TAYLOR MCGAREY, M.D., M.D.(H)

Scottsdale Holistic Medical Group, PA.

Since the beginning of time, some of us search for growth-personal and humanitary development. On that path, we need tools and guidance to mirror back to us our progress or our obstacles. This book is one of those precious tools that one will keep, refer to, return to, to continuously find in it that important vibration emanating from someone in mastery and willing to share it with us. This is a rich manual to empower all aspects of our being: mental, physical and spiritual.

NIRO MARKOFF ASISTENT

AUTHOR, Why I Survived Aids

Bri. Maya Tiwari is one of the most beloved and inspiring teachers of Ayurveda in the country today.

New York Open Center

In a recent re-visiting of the psychic plane through a dream, I came upon a celestial child whose transport was the trunk of a tree. I awakened with a vision which became the cover art, entitled Celestial Grace. In keeping with the vast and stupendous symbology of Vedic literature, the cover art depicts the ceaseless psychic communion among the three planes of existence: causal, psychic and physical. The entire universe is formed from the relationship between the divine forces of Shiva, solar memory, and Shakti, lunar memory. In Celestial Grace, a cosmic chariot glides through boundless space, illuminated by the waxing moon, luminous stars and the rainbow.

The chariot is empowered by Shiva, who embodies masculinity and strength, symbolized by the two young, tusked rainbow elephants propelling forward the chakras, or wheels, of the chariot. The chakras propagate the cosmic energy of space, represented by the sixteen spokes of each wheel. The energy of space is born of the cosmic sound, Om. Carrying the cosmic memory of plants on Earth, the elephants progress the chakras through the celestial river of boundless life, effortlessly transporting the force of Shakti to Earth in the form of four numinous, celestial beings, Artha, Kama, Dharma and Moksha. They bring to Earth reminders of the four gifts of life: Artha being wealth and wellness, symbolized by the plant; Kama being desires and happiness, symbolized by the seed; Dharma being devotion to the divine, symbolized by the fruit; and Moksha being wisdom of our boundless nature, symbolized by the prayer.

May the rainbow elephants and the celestials bless us with the wisdom to render self-healing through the harmonious use of the healing herbs, grains and seeds, and may our spirit turn towards the Divine Love.

In 1992, Maya Tiwari was initiated by her teacher as a brahmacarini, one whose life is committed to the study of the Vedas. Being a traditional Vedic monk, Bri. Maya lives a simple life in Asheville, North Carolina, and teaches with love and selflessness the ancient wisdom of sadhanas, the art of consciously participating in the wholesome activities of nature. Over the years she has assisted hundreds of cancer patients, and more recently AIDS patients, through their "dark night of the soul" into good health.

Bri. Maya co-authored Dietfor Natural Beauty with Aveline Kushi and has written the current best-selling Ayurveda: A Life of Balance, the definitive work on Ayurvedic nutrition.

The complete Ayurvedic guide to healing through Pancha Karma seasonal therapies, diet, herbal remedies and memory.

Maya Tiwari

CONTENTS

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SECTION 1: AYURVEDIC AND COSMIC ANATOMY

Chapter One: Ayurvedic Anatomy

Chapter Two: Cosmic Anatomy

SECTION II: SEASONAL INFLUENCES ON AYURVEDIC THERAPIES

Chapter Three: The Six Seasons

SECTION III: AYURVEDIC REJUVENATIVE SADHANAS

Chapter 91

Chapter 125

Chapter 181

SECTION IV: AYURVEDIC CLEANSING THERAPIES: PANCHA KARMA

Chapter Seven: Introducing Pancha Karma

SECTION V: AYURVEDIC HEALING DIET AND ACTIVITIES

Chapter Eight: The Healing Diet

Chapter Nine: The Healing Activities

Chapter Nine: The Healing Activities (continued)

SECTION VI: APPENDICES & GLOSSARIES

FOREWORD

I know this is true because a little thing called cancer told me so; and it is there, in the experience of that spiritual disease, that I found my universal being and had my peek into that part of my Self that is all of us. The talented writer and enlightened creator of this book that you hold in your hands has also experienced her spiritual disease.

I always suspected that cancer was my spiritual salvation. With the passage of time (and increased well being) came the faith that allowed me to give voice to that suspicion and to the deeper suspicion that the physical dis-ease that is shortening the lives of many of us and that we give many names-cancer, heart disease, diabetes-and call incurable, is nothing of the sort. But rather is this physical degeneration merely a symptom of our loss of memory, memory of our true Self, of all that went before, generations beyond counting, and of all that is yet to come. For everything that is, has been, or will be, is written on the infinite pages of the Cosmos; I know this is true for I have had my carcinogenic glimpse into that Cosmos. It is this Cosmic Memory which Maya unfolds in this book that reveals to us our sacred, spiritual nature, and allows us to proceed with what we call life; reveals to us our timeless mind and ageless body, makes us whole and harmonious... and One.