Panchakarma Overview
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Contact us at (505) 291-9698, Ext. 114 or by email at Panchakarma.
Benefits of Panchakarma
- Eliminate toxins and toxic conditions from your body and mind.
- Restore your constitutional balance improving health and wellness.
- Strengthen your immune system and become more resistant to illness.
- Reverse the negative effects of stress on your body and mind thereby slowing the aging process.
- Enhance your self-reliance, strength, energy, vitality and mental clarity.
- Bring about deep relaxation and sense of well-being.
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Our Natural State
According to Ayurveda, our natural state is one of health, happiness and an inner sense of well-being. Health is defined as the body being clear of toxins, the mind is at peace, emotions are calm and happy, wastes are efficiently eliminated and organs are functioning normally. In a busy, stressful and toxic world, our physical and mental systems accumulate toxins causing deterioration in bodily functioning. This eventually weakens our systems, which opens the door for chronic, degenerative, and non-specific diseases to develop. These can evolve into serious specific diseases, ultimately damaging an individual’s health and wellness.
Panchakarma can help by reversing these negative effects of daily living. It can restore your natural state of health and wellness by cleansing your body of toxins, bringing balance into your system and improving bodily function. It can also help you sustain this process by making positive changes in lifestyle.
At The Ayurvedic Institute
Our five-day program, designed by Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, and based on his 40+ years of clinical Ayurvedic and allopathic experience, is custom-tailored to your current state of health, wellness and constitution. It is the starting point to pro-actively manage and improve your own health and wellness. Personal attention is given to each client’s specific needs. The following are included in the basic panchakarma fee. (Refer to the Panchakarma Fee Schedule for details.)
- An orientation on Sunday evening before your program begins on Monday.
- A complete Ayurvedic assessment including a pulse evaluation.
- A customized herbal protocol.
- Daily Ayurvedic treatments of approximately two hours consisting of: Abhyanga (a two-person synchronized oil massage), Swedana (individual herbalized sweat therapy), Shirodhara (pouring of warm oil to the forehead), Udhulana (herbalized dusting of the body).
- One chromo (color) therapy session.
- Special Ayuryoga® classes that assist in eliminating toxins and doshas, and have a therapeutic and restorative effect on the system.
- Daily check-ins with your Panchakarma Consultant throughout the week to monitor your cleansing process
- A special therapeutic diet of kitchari and herbal teas provided daily. All of the food and tea served is 100% organic.
- Lifestyle and diet recommendations specific to each individual.
- Free attendance of Ayurvedic education classes with Vasant Lad, Monday-Thursday, 6-9 PM when the Ayurvedic Studies Program is in session, or by his advanced students when Vasant Lad is not available.
- A supportive environment that provides space for true contemplation and self-healing.
- Recommendations for herbal rasayanas (rejuvenatives) for you to take after panchakarma.
- Post-panchakarma health and wellness program for healthy diet, exercise and lifestyle practices.
The Following Services are Available at an Additional Charge:
- Optional private yoga sessions.
- Additional subtle therapy treatments that may be prescribed.
- Comfortable housing nearby conducive to a healing, quiet and supportive environment.
Ed Danaher - Panchakarma Department Manager
