Direct Flights to Iowa for Your Ayurvedic Wellness Retreat Planning a visit to The Raj Ayurveda Health Center and Wellness Spa? With direct flights into Cedar Rapids (CID) and Des Moines (DSM) from over 30 major cities, your journey to authentic Ayurvedic healing in the U.S. has never been easier. Whether you’re booking a 7-day…
READ MORE →Stay inspired with useful tips that can help you maintain a healthy Ayurvedic lifestyle all year round. The goal of The Raj Blog is to make the knowledge of Ayurveda simple and easy for you to understand and to integrate into your daily life. While Ayurveda is indeed an ancient science, its wisdom is timeless and it is a valuable resource for creating balance in our modern lives.
Are Hidden Factors Blocking Your Weight-Loss Efforts?
Most people who lose weight gain it back within a few years – with many regaining even more than they lost. What they may not know is that there may be a number of factors triggering their weight-gain that are beyond their ability to control. We’ll go over some of these factors and give you…
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Maharishi Light Technology with Gems: Harnessing the Healing Power of Gems
Light therapy, in and of itself, is not a new approach to healing. It is commonly used in hospitals and clinics around the world as an accepted treatment for many mood and sleep disorders, depression, seasonal affective disorder, and even some skin diseases, According to Richard J. Wurtman, a nutritionist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “…light…
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Pesticides and Alzheimer’s — Ayurveda Can Help!
A study published in JAMA Neurology found that patients with Alzheimer’s had four times as much blood levels of DDT as healthy people. While the findings are not conclusive, researchers believe the chemical increases the chance of Alzheimer’s and may be involved in the development of amyloid plaques in the brain, which contribute to the…
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Ayurveda Provides a Leading-Edge Approach to Arthritis
Ayurveda often connects joint pain to Vata dosha. While other factors contribute to the development of arthritis and joint pain, an imbalance in Vata dosha is almost always involved. For this reason, one of the most important Ayurvedic recommendations for those who are dealing with arthritis is regularity in one’s daily routine: eating at the…
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Hot Water: The Simplest Ayurveda Tip
Here’s the simplest step to improve health: Drink hot water throughout the day. Ayurveda considers the removal of toxins and impurities from the body — and the prevention of their build-up in the first place — to be a key element in staying healthy. Sipping hot water can reduce impurities; Ayurveda refers to impurities as…
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Cleaning Fat Cells of Harmful Toxins
You can eat right, exercise regularly, take vitamins and herbal supplements, even meditate to get rid of stress—but in our modern industrial age, this it is still not enough to stay healthy. More and more research suggests that reducing environmental toxins is necessary to stay healthy. Hazardous industrial chemicals absorbed by the body have been…
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Ayurveda’s Weight Loss Secret: The Original Science of “Chrono-Nutrition”
The holiday season is over and so is the parade of celebrations and get-togethers with their enticing treats. How many New Year’s Resolutions lists have “Weight loss” (or “Improve diet” or “Cut out sugar and carbs”) near the top? Luckily for the diet-inclined, the ancient science of Ayurveda offers some simple tips that can help…
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Winter Skin Care: Ayurveda Tips for a Glowing Complexion
If you are familiar with Ayurveda, you are familiar with the concept that everything in life — including our bodies, the food that we eat, and the environment around us — is composed of the three “doshas”; Vata, Pitta and Kapha. These qualities, or principles of nature, each have their own fundamental traits and we’re…
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Sugar or Your Health?
The New Year is approaching and it’s time for that yearly commitment to better life choices. I like the “fresh start” approach to the new year. I start my year booking a week of Ayurveda detoxification treatments, known as Panchakarma, and picking one New Year’s resolution. The treatments remove imbalances that trigger food cravings and…
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