Today we are adopting the dress, manners, behaviour and values of the exotic culture or philosophy of India, which is not all...

...Adopting lifestyle habits which are more refined; in that they are less disease-causing and more health-enhancing. Each of us is making choices on a daily basis and we do teach our patients at AQ1 Ayurveda Sydney how to adopt Ayurvedic food and we do create Ayurvedic versions of familiar Australian foods.The foods described in the classical texts are those which are indigenous to the region. In Australia these questions become even more complex, as each of us comes ancestrally from yet another country. My Greek husband, for example only feels healthy and nourished if he intersperses his regular rice and dal diet with some familiar Greek food. A good example of what we are dealing with in terms of the most basic of considerations, of food. We believe in mild and easily prepared dals and kitcheris as well as presenting wholesome and doshically balanced modern recipes as a natural approach instead of a repressed, extreme option. 

The advantage to AQ1’s Ayurvedic approach is that we can be certain that, when we use the word Ayurveda, that is really what we are offering, in the most classical sense. We are taking full benefit of the wisdom of the sages, as well as of centuries of experience. And, as with foods, our classical approach deprives us of the opportunity to use the indigenous healing plants of our own local region. We believe every country has its own Ayurveda.

When a Shirodhara treatment is offered in a spa, is this Ayurveda? When a product contains certain herbs from the Ayurvedic pharmacopeia, is the product automatically Ayurvedic? For an authentic process of acculturation, we must see an adoption of the integral Ayurveda, rather than a gradually holding of highly marketable exotica.

At AQ1’s Ayurvedic Community Sydney we commit ourselves to be the guardians of the integrity of Ayurveda, as the ancient science meets the challenges of a commerce-driven society. Among ourselves, we must come to agreements regarding the proper and appropriate use of the term “Ayurveda”, so that this precious name of the Science of Life not become a label. 

Treating individuals rather than conditions or symptoms and utilizing the PRAKRUTI-VAKRUTI model as the basis for our recommendations, for example, could be regarded as essential preconditions for any treatment or medicament to be regarded as Ayurvedic. Just because a remedy originates in the Ayurvedic pharmacopeia, it is not necessarily Ayurvedic in itself, if used without regard for the doshic model. It is important to become clear about our basic values—such as individualized treatments, emphasis on balance and harmony of the individual in reference to time place, season and dosha, the importance of deep healing rather than symptomatic treatments, and a holistic model that considers the whole in a social setting and environment.

In offering Ayurveda to the West, there is no need to bring conversion to any religious or dogmatic faith. However, we must always walk in the spirit of honoring its essential teachings of truth and carisma, of reverence for permanent presence of mystery within all things and the wellbeing of the whole.

AQ1 Ayurveda Sydney wish to support and lead those individuals in need  with the great benefits of Ayurveda, so we just launched our AYURVEDIC LUNCH SERVICE in Eastern suburbs so we can all experience the simple magic everyday through this wonderfully prepared organic food!

29 Jan 2012

Last Update: 14 Feb 2012

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