Judith E. Pentz - Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul: Sustainable Well-Being Through the Ancient Power of Ayurveda Panchakarma Therapy

Praise for Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul

Dr. Pentz, a thought leader in integrative mental health care, makes a compelling case for the relevance of an Ayurvedic practice that cleanses and rejuvenates body and soul. Combining ancient wisdom with stories from her own deeply personal journey toward healing, Dr. Pentz skillfully guides the reader through an immersive eight-day program of cleansing, meditation, and massage that will enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Strongly rec ommended.

James Lake, MD, integrative psychiatrist and the author of ten short books on alternative and integrative treatments of mental healt h problems

Judith is a wise kindred spirit who will take you on a journey to your most grounded, most spiritually aware self. This book has all the science and all the soul youll need to restore a sustainable sense of self-care in y our life.

Joan Borysenko, PhD, NY Times bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mendin g the Mind

Judith Pentz combines a marvelous mix of modern and ancient wellness wisdom in her book that will bring readers much peace, calm, and healing.

KJ Landis, author of Happy H ealthy You

Dr. Judith Pentz is a connoisseur of techniques and therapies that have been proven to work over millennia in other cultures. A key example is panchakarma, drawn from the Ayurveda healing tradition of ancient India. In Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul , Dr. Pentz reveals how and why this healing approach has endured over centuries and how it can benefit those of us in modern cultures as well. If you have an instinctive reluctance toward mind-bending medications, this subtle, gentle way of healing your body-mind deserves your a ttention.

Larry Dossey, MD, author of O ne Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

In Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul Judith Pentz, MD, provides us with an Ayurvedic roadmap to health, illuminated by years of personal exploration as a physician and healer. A comprehensive guide to the practices and process of Ayurvedic medicine, Pentz peppers this compendium of wisdom with explanations of herbal recipes, foods, medicinal preparations, and yogic practices. Pentz walks with us as a wise guide, so that we may understand and enact these methods in our daily lives, reminding us always that the journey to health and balance is as much a spiritual unfolding, as it is physically reju venating.

Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, author of Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: A Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection

Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul is a powerful retelling of Dr. Pentzs personal journey, one that will resonate with readers who seek health through balance, balance through health, and inspiration for action from an accomplished modern-da y healer.

James Greenblatt, MD, chief medical officer/VP of medical services at Walden Behav ioral Care

A dazzling and radiant book with a message straight from the Goddess. Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul addresses how to heal from chronic, pain, illness, trauma, and PTSD. Most of us have some form of one of these common imbalances that Western medicine often falls short of addressing. Adverse experiences can entangle us and Ayurveda offers simplicity as the antidote. Dr. Judith Eve Pentzs compelling account of her own Pancha Karma journey reveals why the healing wisdom of Ayurveda in its gorgeous and essential nature is still as relevant today as it was four thousand y ears ago.

Elise Marie Collins, author of Super Ager: You Can Look Younger, Have More Energy, a Better Memory, and Live a Long and He althy Life

Cleanse

your body,

Reveal

your soul

Sustainable Well-Being Through the Ancient Power of Ayurveda Panchakarma Therapy

Judith Eve Pentz, MD

Wisdom Teacher, Sage, & Alchemist

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Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul: Sustainable Well-Being Through the Ancient Power of Ayurveda Panchakarma Therapy

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2020940889
ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-378-4, (ebook) 978-1-64250-379-1
BISAC: OCC011000BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing / General

Glossary from Ayurveda and Panchakarma by Sunil V. Joshi, M.D., reprinted with permission from Lotus Press, P.O. Box 325, Twin Lakes, WI 53181. Copyright 1996, all rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America

Wisdom says that I a m nothing.

Love says that I am e verything.

Instead of searching for what you do not have,
find out what it is you n ever lost.

If you change yourself,
you will find that no other change is needed.

Sri Nisargadat ta Maharaj

Contents

Too many of us have tried just about everything to heal emotional wounds and shift them so they are no longer obstacles to happiness. Its baffling. If we are actively seeking to change, then why dont we heal? What if I told you that making a few small changes can make a dramatic, life-altering d ifference?

What if I told you that you could find healing on the cellular level, so the shifts are long-lasting and trans formative?

The magic word: Ayurveda.

It means the knowledge of life. And one little ayurvedic practicepanchakarmamakes all the difference. Panchakarma can be described as a fivefold detoxification treatment involving massage, herbal therapy, and other procedures. Let me paint a picture of some of panchakarmas simple life-giving methods: Imagine massages with warm sesame oil that soothe. The warmed oil, gently poured on your forehead, which can bliss you out. Nurturing food served to support your process. These methods have a component beneath them that is reverent of the knowledge of life. The foundation of panchakarma is tender, loving care of our body, mind, and soul, something we are short on in these times. Yet the results are not merely temporarily palliative. The methods guide you to find calm so you may come home to your essence. That is w hat lasts.

All of my life, I have sought a way to return to the soul. I believe this to be possible for my clients, in my work as an integrative psychiatrist, and I believe this for myself. Yet, so often I see people slip into their old ways of pain, even when they desire to move forward. Ive always sought a way to create change in a sustainable way. Ive always known there must be a way to unlearn the pain that creates a chronic pattern in the mind and keeps the body a container for the old pain. For a long time, I saw myself and others experience temporary relief or incremental shifts. But I always wondered: is there something deeper that, if I could tap into it, would shift me in such a profound way that I could be changed from the inside out? And from which place, the unfolding come with eas e and joy?