The Path of Practice: A Woman's Book of Healing With Food, Breath, and Sound - Hardcover

Tiwari, Maya; Tiwari, Bri Maya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345430301 ISBN 13: 9780345430304

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2000

Synopsis

A three-part approach to total body wellness combines ancient Ayurvedic philosophy with cleansing and strengthening rituals, chants, and natural recipes in a guide that explains how women can use nutrition and diet, breathwork and meditation, posture, and sound to enhance healing, fitness, and general well-being. 15,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Bri. Maya Tiwari is an internationally renowned teacher of Ayurveda, a practicing Vedic monk, and the author of Ayurveda: Secrets of Healing and Ayurveda: A Life of Balance. She is building the Wise Earth School, an Ayurvedic, nature-based facility for teaching and healing in Asheville, North Carolina, and founded the Mother Om Mission, a charitable organization that teaches sadhana and Ayurvedic healing to at-risk communities throughout the world. Bri. Maya has been featured on the cover of Yoga Journal and gives numerous lectures every year at yoga and other major conferences. She also writes a regular column for the international newspaper Hinduism Today, which has several million English-speaking readers.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

From the Inside Flap

wellness. We are consciousness. That is our natural state. Disease is an imposter."<br><br>As one of the world's only female experts on the ancient Indian tradition of Ayurvedic medicine, renowned teacher Bri. Maya Tiwari has devoted her heart and soul to sharing the philosophy and methods that saved her from terminal cancer and redirected her life. Now, in The Path of Practice, she offers a short course in healing and living and reveals how she has gone back to the sources of Ayurvedic wisdom to reclaim time-honored, natural, and spiritual techniques for contemporary life. <br><br>Diagnosed with ovarian cancer at twenty-three, Bri. Maya was given two months to live. Her doctors' advice: die painlessly with heavy dosages of morphine. Instead, in the middle of winter, she left her career as a popular fashion designer in New York City and began several months of intensive meditation and holistic nutrition alone in a remote Vermont cabin. By Spring, her health and vitality had been rest

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345430301
• ISBN 13: 9780345430304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 419