Ayurveda Center for Natural Healthcare

The Ayurveda Center offers health services and educational experiences oriented toward helping to restore the bodies' natural intelligence in a holistic way. Our fully licensed or certified healthcare professionals and teachers utilize the best of both ancient and modern Western approaches to bring balance. For more about Ayurveda and Yoga, see the about Ayurveda page.

Services include the following: Ayurvedic consultations and treatments (e.g., abhyanga, swedana, shirodhara, facials); massage therapy (e.g., therapeutic/deep tissue, Swedish/relaxation, hot stone therapy, chair massage); and psychotherapy services. For more information on the services, including prices, please see the services page.

The Ayurveda Center has ongoing classes (e.g., yoga and tai chi), as well as special classes (e.g., Ayurvedic cooking and lifestyle) and workshops (e.g., New Year Yoga and Ayurveda workshop). For more information see the classes page .

Hello everyone!

As the Bradford pears and forsythia herald the spring, I rejoice in the beauty of East Tennessee. Although the economy has everyone's nervous systems vibrating a little too fast, it is possible to view the positive aspects of this difficult time. We are forced to think about what is really important in our lives and cut loose that which is not. It is like we are having the same new beginnings that Nature is displaying for us. The new path we take and the stronger identity that emerges may have a somewhat challenging birth process, but eventually it will all lead us to a more fulfilling life. The choices in front of us may be confusing, but with faith and access to that higher aspect of our Selves, we can make good decisions.

Our April programs are about making changes in our lives that move us toward holistic health and a clearer sense of Self. It is part of the mission of the Ayurveda Center to support people in this process with education and services, as well as to build community. April is a big month for special programs with wonderful speakers traveling from afar. April 17-19 we have an entire weekend booked with different events - so if you want to make a "stay-at-home retreat weekend" of it, you can. The prices range from FREE to donation basis to very inexpensive, given the time the instructors are giving and the travel expenses involved. Take advantage of early registration discounts. With those, one could do three workshops and two free talks for $190. Or you can just come to what interests you.

For example, are you trying to change the way you eat, to lose weight, to save money by cooking healthy foods at home, or just improve well being? That is what former Oak Ridger, Myra Lewin is going to cover - how to transition to a healthy diet and lifestyle, a topic covered in her book, Freedom in Your Relationship with Food: An Everyday Guide. In her workshop by working with participants, she will use the basic principles of Ayurveda and Yoga to identify existing beliefs and how changing some of them will lead to feeling better. She will highlight specific things from her book that contains transformative guides, a list of ailments and suggested solutions, lists of foods and how to determine the best foods for you based on your constitution. In addition, the book has easy recipes, preparation principles, blessings, and simple breathing and meditation exercises. Myra's book is an insightful and helpful guide written with the simplicity and straightforwardness that only deep personal experience can reveal. The book is available at the Ayurveda Center for $16.95 plus tax if you want to read a copy prior to the workshop. Myra will do a book signing along with her free talk on Saturday night, April 18.

Using Vedic astrology, Ryan Kurczak is very talented at helping one to work through some difficulty in understanding life patterns in relationships, career, health, and so on. Interactions with Ryan may give that all important access to and understanding of the higher aspect of Self in order to make good decisions for the future, as well as provide deep understand of some of the past issues.

Both Myra and Ryan are conducting free talks as well as paid workshops. In addition, Ryan is conducting Vedic astrology consultations and a "by donation" workshop on meditation. I have listed the events available in order on the Calendar Page, in case you want to avail yourself of both of these presenters. For even more information and downloadable registration forms, see the Classes Page. There is an early deadline of 3/30 for one event, so don't put it off.

There is also a Svaroopa Yoga Foundations workshop April 25-29, 2009. And Ailene Radcliffe, one of my colleagues, is organizing an event on April 18, 2009, sponsored by the Association for Research and Enlightenment, listed last on the calendar page. I hope you will join us at some of these wonderful events. I know this e-mail is long, but hopefully you can easily find what is of interest to you and leave the rest.

Many blessings to all,

Mary Roberson, Ph.D.