Yoga and Ayurveda

Ayurveda is the Indian traditional system of medicine. This holistic science aims at restoring or maintaining the innate balance or “smrti” (memory) of health through individual constitutional analysis, diet, herbs and bodywork. 

Like the science and practice of Yoga, Ayurveda contains a wealth of knowledge that originated in the Indian subcontinent thousands of years ago and has been handed down from one generation to the next over the millennia. Much like in China practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine and Thai Chi adopted a similar understanding of the human mind, body and spirit and integrated their forms of medicine and exercise, similarly in India we find that the disciplines of Yoga and Ayurveda share many key concepts and often support and strengthen each other through their practices and regimens.

So how and where do Yoga and Ayurveda come together?