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Ayurveda:A Life Of Balance is a book about the uses of Ayurveda in healing both the human body and the mind. Summary of the Book Distraught with cancer, Maya Tiwari left a successful career in New York to return to India to study Ayurvedic therapy. In this book she discusses how Ayurveda can help both body and soul achieve a state of well-being that conventional methods do not touch upon. She explains that this traditional science has been nurtured in India for several millennia, and that there are seven to ten body types as described by the ancient texts. She also talks about the psychospiritual nature of the types, revealing secrets hitherto untouched upon by other Western writers. In addition, she gives readers a detailed questionnaire which helps them determine their own body type and provides an extensive collection of charts to help identify the attributes of specific foods and their place in their diets.These vegetarian diets will help readers tackle their health problems at the roots, and awaken their sense of ahamkara, the memory of their true selves. She also teaches readers that wholesome foods and spiritual practices of the hearth, home, garden, and community help connect reader with the primal memory of a simpler time when all humans lived in coordination with nature. About Maya Tiwari Maya Tiwari is an Indian spiritual speaker, and writer, known better as Mother Maya. She founded the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda and Mother Om Mission, teaching Ayurveda throughout the world. She has also written: Ayurveda: Secrets of Healing, The Path of Practice: A Woman's Book of Healing with Food, Breath, and Sound, and Women's Power to Heal: Through Inner Medicine.