Ayurway Journal

Search for an ayurvedic wellness center and the pictures all look like spas. What the room actually needs, why the oil is warmed fresh rather than kept ready, and how a consultation and a full body oiling session fit into one quiet property in Sunol.

Ayurvedic immunity searches usually turn up a list of herbs to add. The tradition's own account works differently, built around bala and ojas, the reserve that digestion and sleep either protect or quietly spend. Here is what building that reserve looks like in the six weeks before real winter cold.

A panchakarma program is not sized like a package tier. Length changes what preparation, purification and recovery a body can actually move through, and a practitioner reads prakriti, digestion and the season before settling on three, seven or fourteen days.