Through difficult times with Ayurveda
I am ashamed! For what is (not) happening in our country right now. For the lack of compassion. For a lack of equanimity. For the lack of respect. For the lack of harmony. How could it come to this in the land of poets and thinkers? A look at India - the motherland of Ayurveda - helps: how much of all the great Vedic high culture, lived [...]
Back to the centre: What we can learn from the coronavirus with Ayurveda
It's Thursday, 10 December and I'm reading the following headline: „Despite partial lockdown: new coronavirus infections peak again“. After a good 5 weeks of massive contact restrictions, the Federal Republic of Germany is on its way to a full lockdown for the second time in its history. Despite the approaching vaccine approval, the coronavirus will continue to affect us well into 2021 [...].
Presence, mindfulness and meditation in Ayurveda
Our mind is constantly producing thoughts. Some of them relate to our past and the experiences associated with it - we wallow in memories. Some of them relate to our constructed future and the wishes, hopes or fears associated with it. Both patterns have one thing in common: they go hand in hand with a loss of presence. We pay for this [...]
Sadvritta: Ethics and morals in Ayurveda
Even in the otherwise rather tranquil town of Bad Homburg, there is only one topic on the streets this morning: the horrific attack in Nice, in which many people lost their precious lives. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was the motto of the French Revolution of 1789, which is commemorated every year on 14 July as a bank holiday in France. [...]
Communication from an Ayurvedic perspective
Communication helps us to understand each other, means exchange and participation - communication is our life. Through it, information is constantly exchanged internally and externally. You cannot not communicate. Classical Ayurveda emphasised the importance of beneficial communication for health 2,000 years ago. Combined with today's knowledge of communication psychology, this creates a valuable symbiosis [...]
Sattva, Rajas and Tamas - the basis of Ayurvedic psychology
Ayurveda is more than just the body and constitution theory of Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Ayurvedic psychology distinguishes between three characteristics that characterise our personality: Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Ayurveda - the knowledge of life In classical Ayurveda, life is understood as a combination of body, senses, mind and soul. „The knowledge of this concept of life [...]