A New Way…

While most of us do believe the old saying that food is medicine, few really try to live by it, and even fewer, especially in the West, would know what truly healing food even looks like or which foods are appropriate for them individually. Even our doctors do not usually know much about food or its powers, and rarely has anyone ever gotten food or actual nourishment, of any kind, from a doctor.

Ayurveda — No one size that fits all.

‘Normal,’ or ‘balanced’ as Ayurveda would describe, must be evaluated individually, because every human constitution manifests its own particular and spontaneous temperament and functioning. What each of us needs depends on our particular physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual temperament, our environment, our activities, our habits, our stresses, our relationships, and our unique situations in life.

Finding the practices, food, or medicines that balance us can only be done with full acknowledgment of our unique selves. The Ayurvedic framework for recognizing, diagnosing, and treating individual imbalances and diseases has no equivalent in Western medicine — which is, of course, why modern medicine’s attempts to find one-size-fits-all remedies continue to fail so many people.

A healer that can cooks for you and teaches you to cook.

Prakash has spent decades healing thousands of people simply with food and right living. Most of us in the West, having been conceived and raised, and now living on a low quality, ‘tamasic’ diet, have no conception of the full effects of our diet on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual states. As Prakash often describes, “The simple reality is that no medicine or herbs or drugs or ‘superfoods,’ natural or unnatural, will ultimately make much lasting positive difference if we continue to eat poorly and engage in harmful habits. Change — real change — usually starts with finding and changing what we are already doing that isn’t working for us, not drugs or surgery.”