Ayurveda has enriched my life beyond words, and continues to positively impact and transform the lives of my clients and students, and indeed thousands around the world every day. 

Here are ten features of Ayurveda that give it that transformational, impactful and unrivalled capacity to change lives for the better. 

1. It is a functional system of medicine. It goes beyond mere relief of symptoms or removal of patholgy. Instead it looks to uncover where the body is not functioning well and works to restore optimum functioning to restore health and wellbeing. 
2. Ayurveda is not only a powerful and time-tested clinical science, offering us positive solutions when we are ailing, it also offers us a way of life to support ongoing health and longevity. 
3. It’s treatments are without the adverse side-effects that many pharmaceutical prescriptions have, can be at least as effective, and offer side-benefits as they strengthen the whole being whilst relieving symptoms. 
4. Ayurveda has the unique capacity to determine each person’s individual metabolic nature and to prescribe treatments accordingly. It is not a one hat fits all approach. This means treatments can be more precisely suited to the indivdiual and therefore can be more effective and longer lasting. This is what many of us know of as the Tri-dosha system. 
5. It teaches us how to live in harmony with our own nature and with Mother Nature. 
6. Ayurveda is feminine in it’s essence, embracing all of nature without judgement, and teaching us to honour our body, heart and soul through the principles of light, life and love. These are the principles at the heart of the Tri-dosha system and so are fundamental to Ayurveda. 
7. Ayurveda has solutions for body, heart, mind and soul – for the whole being.  It does not separate one from the other in diagnosis and treatment. Body treatments, nutrition and herbs can have as great an impact on heart, soul, and mind as on the body. 
8. In teaching us to live in harmony with nature’s rhythms and the cyclical nature of life, Ayurveda restores our connection with the ways pf our ancestors and so with their love and wisdom. This reconnection to our personal ancestral heritage alongside our connection to Mother Nature, fosters a healing and strengthening sense of belonging. 
9. Ayurveda understands the Universal Laws that govern everything in this existence. In teaching us to understand these laws, it renders us alchemists and masters of our inner and outer lives. This is it’s remarkable gift to us of empowerment and self-mastery. 
10. Ayurveda perceives one supreme consciousness permeating all that exists in this Universe, thereby giving sacredness and divinity to everything – animal, vegetable and mineral. This inextricably links our own individual lives with all life, awakens us to our own inner divinity and it’s connection to the whole. 

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