Ayurvedic Health Center FAQ
There are so many benefits! Here are a handful…
- moving past your limitations
- digesting the foods you eat
- eliminating wastes from your body
- sleeping well
- getting a handle on anxiety & depression
- feeling better overall
- building a relationship with a practitioner
- empowering yourself to know what choices support you
- connecting with like-minded people
Ayurveda “sees” you as a whole person rather than the sum of your symptoms or disease. ie: Ayurveda understands that you are not “broken.” You have simply lost the connection to your deeper self and could use some direction, guidance, and help to make your way back.
The answer has four parts:
1. when you are ready to change the conversation that you are having with yourself/your body to something more positive, more productive, more constructive, more supportive—ie: change your relationship with your body
2. when you resonate with the toolbox that we have to offer:
- recommendations around foods and eating habits
- herbal formulas
- specialized massage and bodywork
- therapies for what ails ya
- purification, cleanse, & digestive reset protocols
- … and a host of allies including aromatherapy, color therapy, gem therapy, astrology, the ways our living and working spaces support us, breathing exercises, chanting, yoga and movement work, and practices aimed specifically at increasing our connection to Spirit.
3. when you’ve tried everything else—and you still need help
4. when you want/need additional support around what allopathic medicine provides.
You can expect an experience much like going to any other practitioner. Our office is comfortable and welcoming. We will guide you through the work and do all that we can to ensure that you have a successful experience.
During an intake, your Ayurvedic Health Practitioner will take a detailed health history. She will also determine your Ayurvedic constitution. (The constitution is the consideration around which all recommendations are made, so it’s an important and integral piece of the process.)
Your Ayurvedic Health Practitioner will brainstorm possible recommendations for you to follow through with. She will create a treatment program for you to follow. The two of you will collaborate on how it is easiest for you to implement the recommendations.
During 1-hour follow-up appointments we will fine-tune your self-care practices and may even shift some things around so that they better serve you. Remember that this is a co-creative process that unfolds over time.
Make an appointment!
The Initial Intake is 2 hours long. Once the appointment has been scheduled, you will receive a confirmation email that includes the link to download the new client forms. Your Ayurvedic Health Practitioner will take it from there. You will leave this appointment with easy, practical recommendations so that you can begin making positive changes right away. 1-hour follow-up appointments are a part of the process and support you as you implement new practices.
An open mind, a readiness to change some of your habits, and a willingness to make choices from a perspective that favors health and wellness are all that you need. Your Ayurvedic Health Practitioner will guide you through the rest!
We provide a fuller scope of practice than you might guess. Ayurveda is a wholistic system of health and wellness. It can help with (simple) gut issues, and it can help with (complex) long-standing issues.
Ayurvedic practitioners are skilled at helping you to prepare for and mitigate known, up-coming life events that are depleting.
Ayurveda is skilled at helping you to weather difficult times — as well as recovering from them. Ayurveda is very skilled at providing nourishment and support rather than piling on more things that are depleting.
We are also here to help you when you can’t get what you need from other modalities and approaches.
Ohmygosh. All the time! We can do health and wellness consultations for couples. We can work with families. You could even come in with a support buddy—someone who is wrestling with the same issue you are. If you are working with physical issues, we can customize specific treatments from Ayurveda’s deep well of possibilities.
We want to get you on your way to feeling better as soon as possible. The more things you do that support your health and wellness—and the sooner you get started—the more you’ll improve and the better you’ll feel.
Contact us to explore the options and craft something useful for you and your health goals.
This is a great question! The simple answer is, “No!”
Ayurveda, of course, comes out of the civilization that communicated in Sanskrit, and even though Sanskrit isn’t commonly spoken, it is still a viable language. All of the ancient texts about Ayurveda—and its related Vedic sciences—are written in Sanskrit, so students of Ayurveda are steeped in it, and practitioners find its terminology useful. It is sometimes helpful to use Sanskrit because it is such a poetic, lyrical, and musical language.
You, however, are not expected to know these words and terms. If we use a Sanskrit term with you, there will be a reason why we do so, and we’ll provide the English equivalent.