Ayurdeva is based on harmony between body and mind, this practice offers many benefits such as stress reduction, elimination of toxins, improvement of circulation … If the treatments are often massage techniques very precise, Ayurveda also proposes to readjust one’s lifestyle in order to be in better harmony and in better health.

Ayurveda is the sister science of yoga which is dedicated to balancing the mind versus the body. Several thousand years ago in India Ayurveda was developed as a system for diagnosing imbalances in the body and mind which eventually manifested in the form of illnesses, ailments, and other symptoms. It is thus a question of bringing back the balance in the body thanks to a hygiene of life adapted to the person, the use of formulas of plants and other adapted natural remedies.

Ayurveda is above all a system of holistic and preventive medicine.

Its role is to provide knowledge and targeted practices so that body and mind can be in harmony and in good shape.

Ayurveda teaches us that in order to be healthy we need good bodily function, but that we must combine physical health with mental and emotional health. This involves understanding the lifestyle that works best for us by adjusting our diet, sleep, communications, interactions, and more.

Ayurveda is one of the traditional medicines recognized and listed by the WHO as a natural, traditional and integrative health system.

The main principles

• Ayurveda is based on the theory of 5 elements.
• Ether (Akasha) – subtle space
• L’Air (Vayu)
• Fire (Agni)
• The Earth (Prithivi)
• Water (Jala)

These elements make up the universe (macrocosm) and create the human body (microcosm). So we have all the elements inside of us and we are a reflection of the universe.

Who is it for?

To everyone, regardless of age, whether we are in good health looking for what is most suitable for us, in deep or slight imbalance. Ayurveda accompanies towards well-being and reconnection to the body and its own essence. Self-realization is the ultimate state of healing.

Focus on Ayurvedic massage

In Ayurvedic medicine, massages are therapeutic tools in their own right. In India from childhood, the practice of massage is integrated into everyday life. Massage is a body therapy as well as a daily lifestyle. These are massages that of course do a lot of good (wellness massages) but they are also therapeutic.

These are individualized massages, there are different Ayurvedic massages, it all depends on the imbalance and the underlying need of the person observed at the time of the consultation as well as their birth constitution.

There are 10 treatments or massages:

• abhyanga: treatment with lukewarm Ayurvedic oil
• udvartana: friction treatment with plant powders
• guyshan: care of frictions
• pizhichil: oil treatment + heat / sweat
• vishesh: muscle tonic treatment
• Swedish: sweats
• marmas: care of energy points
• shirodhara, takradhara: relaxing treatments on the forehead
• pindasvedana: massages with pouches
• external basti: local external care
• care for pregnant women, infants and children
• massages suitable for athletes

The 5 elements combine to give birth to 3 biological humours, 3 great vital forces that create the body, make it work and destroy it: The Doshas

Vata, the wind, is a combination of the elements air and ether. It is the dosha that characterizes movement, the driving force. Vata mainly lodges in the colon, nervous system, skin, ears, and bones. It manages all the movements of the organism such as the pulsations of the heart and breathing. It is rather cold and dry energy. In balance, it expresses itself by fluidity, creativity, alertness. In imbalance, it creates fear, anxiety and irregularity.

Pitta, fire, is a combination of the elements fire and water. It is the dosha which characterizes the transformation, the metabolism. This humor lodges mainly in the liver, small intestine, blood and eyes. It is hot and humid energy. It manages digestion, absorption, assimilation, body temperature. In balance, it is expressed by tenacity, intelligence, acuity. In imbalance, it creates anger, frustration, hatred and inflammatory states.

Kapha, water, is a combination of water and earth. It is the dosha that connects and supports, the structuring force. It is housed mainly in the stomach, lungs, tongue, plasma. It is cold, wet energy. It manages the lubrication of the body, hydration, the immune system. In balance, it is an energy that creates love, gentleness, forgiveness. In imbalance, it generates attachment, possession, greed and congestion in the body.

The Ayurvedic constitution of each person is characterized by a specific combination of these 3 doshas which is unique to us. Depending on the dominant dosha (s), one can determine the physical and psychological type to which the patient belongs (Prakriti).

When the doshas become unbalanced, dysfunctions and diseases appear. Ayurveda restores the balance that is unique to each individual and maintains the optimal state of health of the organism.

• Calms the nervous system, soothes the body and the spirit, more particularly the imbalance of the Wind (the dosha Vata) which is high in the 21st century given the rhythm of the activities of each one.
• Improves blood and lymphatic circulation.
• Facilitates the elimination of toxins from the body
• Revitalizes body and mind: Promotes the body’s natural and regenerative and defensive capacities
• Freer circulation of energies

Les branches de l’ayurveda

This ancestral health system initially consists of 8 branches:

• Internal medicine (Kaya Chikitsa)
• Head and Neck Disease (Shalakya Tantra)
• Chirurgie (Shalya)
• Treatment of poisonings / Science of antidotes (Agadatantra)
• Pédiatrie (Kaumara Bhritya)
• Rejuvenation / Science of Essences (Rasayana)
• Use of aphrodisiacs / Sexual potency and fertility (Vajikarana)
• Psychology / Science of Evil Spirits (Bhutavidya)

Today in India, Ayurveda remains the benchmark medicine for the bone system, ophthalmology, odontology and obstetric medicine.

However, even if there are branches and fields of expertise, Ayurveda always takes into account the being in its entirety and the concept of “specialties” which one finds in our Western health systems does not exist. therefore does not apply. Diagnosis and treatment in Ayurvedic medicine

Diagnostics and treatments in Ayurvedic medicine

During the first consultation, the practitioner gets to know the patient and establishes an Ayurvedic assessment.

Among its tools, we find the taking of the pulse, the observation of the tongue, the questioning of the evacuations (stools, urine, sweat), food and life habits, digestion, skin, nails, sleep. , patient liabilities etc.

This assessment allows you to define your constitution and set up a tailor-made program based on who you are, your personal history, your dysfunctions and your needs.

Many techniques will be used to restore balance such as rehabilitation towards an optimal hygiene of life (ex: daily and seasonal routine), food (flavors, combination and food balance), medicinal plants, meditation, breathing ( pranayama), yoga, mantras, massages, gems etc. We can also consider “Panchakarma” which are deep purification cures under medical supervision (eg: enemas, therapeutic purgations etc.)

Follow-up consultations allow you to take stock of your balance by readjusting, modifying or deepening the proposed methods.

The specialist in Ayurvedic medicine

The “advisor-consultant” or the “advisor-consultant” has the ability:

• to determine the constitution of his client (prakriti) as well as his imbalances (vikriti)
• to establish a complete Ayurvedic assessment
• to advise and guide his client in matters of food, hygiene of life, Ayurvedic care.

Ayurvedic body therapist

The body therapist in Ayurvedic care can establish an Ayurvedic constitutional diagnosis (prakrit) and thus adapt his or her care (massages or other treatments) specific according to this diagnosis.

Contraindications of Ayurveda

Against indication of Ayurvedic massages for people with lymph cancer.

“Ayurveda is getting more fascinating every day. This holistic medicine restores the balance in the body and helps to redevelop its natural self-healing capacities. It is a real treasure that allows you to learn to know yourself, to restore body-mind-soul unity, to reconnect with your body and to realize that it is our best ally.

Integrating this art of living on a daily basis connects us to nature and to who we really are. It is an awakening to oneself, a revealer of consciousness that reconnects us to our true nature, the one that is there but that we have forgotten, a key that opens us to our intrinsic power, our inner divinity. Ayurveda restores homeostasis and is the pioneering science of epigenetics.

It is a medicine that makes patients competent. Thomas Edison said in 1903 that “The doctor of the future will not give drugs. He will train his patients to take care of their body, nutrition and the causes and prevention of diseases ”. This is what Ayurveda offers.

For me “the joy of the heart is the health of the body”: a smile is the beginning of all healings. I created my own method: “Ayurveda smile” which combines traditional Ayurveda with positive thinking and tools for optimism. This technique allows to reveal the best version of each patient that I call “Nugget” in joy, kindness and good humor while cultivating self-love. This art of living is both subtle and powerful, it brings about profound changes, while establishing a development and lasting harmony. “

Gwenaelle Batard

“Ayurveda offers a perspective of fully taking charge of the individual in his own path of life.

The precision of the diagnosis, as well as the prescriptions in relation to the real situation of the person at a time T (Vikriti), allows the specialist to support the regeneration and re-harmonization of the Body-Soul-Spirit ensemble. This global consideration of the individual constitutes the heart of the Ayurvedic perspective of healing.

My role as a specialist is to restore the individual, through the various ancestral and effective tools offered by this holistic medicine, in the responsibility and real freedom to once again become a “pro-actor” of his health and well-being. By giving targeted advice, a space opens up for deep re-harmonization and sanitation of life habits through Ayurvedic dietetics, of readjustment in behavior and not always optimal habits that we undergo by an automatism whose causes escape us. sometimes. Food is of paramount importance alongside Ayurvedic plants to rebalance body and mind.

The arsenal of therapeutic massages offered by this science of long life offers a power of rebalancing in the service of a concrete, perceptible and visible better being.

The synergy of the yoga I teach and the genius of Ayurvedic therapy brings about an elevation of consciousness and vital energy. The person feels in the temple of his body restored in his Divinity, the rediscovered unity of his body and his spirit. “

Shadie Lord

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