Ayurveda is an ancient natural wisdom of health and healing, originating from India over 400 years ago. The object of this science is to maintain the health of a healthy person and to provide equilibrium to an unbalanced person.

Ayurveda is a true holistic approach providing a pure state of balance. Ayurveda treatments offer harmony and relaxation, by using the laws of nature. The universe consists of five elements, ether, air, fire, water and earth. These five elements are present in all of us. For example, water is essential for life, and water exists in the body in many different forms including, plasma, serum, and saliva. Water is also necessary for nutrition and maintaining an electrolyte balance in the body. These five elements express themself into three doshas (vata, pitta, kapha). By nurturing these doshas we can create a vital balance that spans mind, body, and soul.

We are all born with our genetic dosha (prakruti), which will stay with us throughout life.

When we experience lifestyle shifts and changes, our dosha can move to a new position. Everything you think, do, say, feel, smell, or taste moves your dosha. Your dosha is meant to bounce back into its original place, but when imbalances accumulate over time, our manufactured dosha is formed (vikruti).

The Dhatus
There are seven tissues that support the body. The word ‘dhatus’ is derived from the root ‘dha’ meaning ‘to support’. Dhatus refers to the seven anatomical tissue supports of the body: lymph, blood, muscles, adipose tissue, bone and cartilage, bone marrow, and semen/egg. These seven systems need to be nurtured, or illness could occur.

Our skin is the largest organ. Anything that is applied to the skin should provide nourishment. Nourishing substances build healthy skin by providing the correct nutrients to the plasma, blood, and muscle levels. Nourishing substances can come in the form of oil/creams or the food we consume. Artificial oils do not nourish our bodies’ tissues, and are only absorbed to a certain point. Oils that are naturally processed by a ‘cold pressed’ method will provide nourishment to all seven supporting systems.

Ayurveda states that you should only put things on your skin that you would put in your mouth, i.e.: food.

Ayurveda believes that the body is made up of three types of energy centres:
The chakras: crown, third eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral chakra, and root. The chakras are seen as spinning energy in the body. Through our chakras, we can receive and transmit social, sexual, and spiritual energy.

The Nadis
The nadis are a fine network of 14 subtle nerves that run from the chakras to various points in the body.

The marmas
Marmas are pressure or energy points in the Ayurvedic system of massage. Marmas meet at special junctions of blood vessels, muscles, ligaments, bones, and joints. Applying pressure to these points can stimulate the release of certain neurotransmitters like endorphins. Stimulating these points can send happy signals throughout the brain. Pulsing and vibration massage techniques can be used to stimulate these marmas.

If our energy balance is out of alignment, our chakras can become blocked. This blockage can affect our nervous system (nadis), causing our marmas pressure points to be painful and tense. Fortunately, there is a way to help this blockage, and this is through our marma points