Montclair Ayurveda

Ayurvedic health consulting and bioenergetic healing - for the whole family - in the northern New Jersey area

Ayurveda, or ayurvedic medicine, is a holistic tradition of medicine from South Asia, particularly India, that uses a systemic and highly complex model of health, disease and health restoration. For thousands of years, since before written alphabets existed, the peoples and cultures of India have been among the world's most keen observers of nature. Among the objects of their most intensive study and interest were issues of practical application: agriculture, animal husbandry, astronomy and the human body and mind - specifically, the means for maintaining their good working order and the means for their cure when either fell victim to disease or injury. The sum of the knowledge gained from their millennia-spanning study is known in Sanskrit as ayurveda or in English, the science of life.

Ayurveda's most distinctive features are its reliance on primarily natural remedies (diet, yoga, pranayama, herbal medicine, manipulative therapies) to treat and natural means (lifestyle management) to avoid disease, its extremely sophisticated system of diagnosis, and its categorization of patients into distinctive anatomic and metabolic types.

Truly, Ayurveda is an ancient science with answers for the problems of 21st century living!