Ayurveda and Alternative Medicine

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Think of your body as a process - as a verb, not a noun.

Mind and body health with Deepak.

The word holistic  has come to refer to everything from organic food and massage therapy to herbal supplements and Eastern healing practices, all of which are undeniably valuable and evidence of a growing consciousness that earlier generations only dreamed of. The Chopra Center defines holistic in its original sense, as related to wholeness. Wholeness is the union of mind, body, and spirit.

Deepak Chopra Explains the difference between integrative and alternative medicine. Alternative medicine applies an alternative treatment compared to a conve...

Until recently I didn't know anything about Ayurveda. Now I'm obsessed! I had listened to podcasts and read a bit online but I knew I had to get a book so I purchased Perfect Health by Deepak Chopra and found it so interesting!

A balanced diet and daily exercise routine is only the beginning of achieving a healthy mind and body. Tap into some of Ayurveda's lesser-known ancient teachings and practices to attain optimum mind-body health.

Almost two years ago, I attended the Chopra Center’s Perfect Health with Panchakarma program, and the experience was transformational. The classes were chock full of valuable tips to help live a healthy, balanced lifestyle from the perspective of Ayurveda, a 5,000-year-old healing system that originated in India.

Thousands of years before modern medicine provided scientific evidence for the mind-body connection, the sages of India developed Ayurveda, which continues to be one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful mind-body health systems.

Join us for our first Life Wisdom series course, Discovering Ayurveda.