Ayurveda Made Easy: 50 Exercises for Finding Health, Mindfulness, and Balance

by Heidi E. Spear

A simple guide to Ayurveda that focuses on exercises and remedies to achieve ultimate health, energy, mindfulness, and balance.

Practicing Ayurveda, one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems, doesn’t need to be complicated. Ayurveda Made Easy contains simple strategies to guide you toward a healthier lifestyle perfectly suited to your needs.

Ayurveda works to help you understand your body and achieve your personal ideal balance with a series of exercises, activities, and natural remedies. From dietary suggestions to yoga postures and breathing exercises, each page offers practiced steps to improve your body and keep you calm and mindful every day.

With over fifty easy-to-follow exercises, Ayurveda Made Easy takes you one step closer to achieving health, peace, and energy for a balanced life.

Genres: Nonfiction, Health, Spirituality, Self Help

160 pages, Hardcover

Published August 15, 2017

Reviews

[Ensley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good Ayurveda 101 book. I’d recommend starting with a more comprehensive text (like The Idiot’s Guide to Ayurveda), but this book contains lots of quick, easy tips to help balance body and mind.

[Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a good introduction to Ayurveda. It is written in a clear and easy to understand way and is divided up into a number of useful sections eg lifestyle and breathwork.

[Gaurav Prabhu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a brilliant book. If you are new to the world of Ayurveda, this one is for you. I have been into Ayurveda for close to two years. This helped me further inform about the topics I had discussed with my Ayurveda Doctor. It really helped me gain a lot of new insights.

[Dana Al-Basha | دانة الباشا]

I'm taking a small break from fiction to read one of my favorite genres, self care and medication. Have you heard of Ayurveda? It's said to be the oldest method of healing in the world, originating from India.

[Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book contains interesting information for someone who is a beginner for this topic/subject. As an Indian I knew a lot of things but at the same time the topic of Dosha was interesting.

If anyone wants to try it I would say maybe check other book because there were multiple red flags “For me” as a reader and also as a person who seeks more proper information about Aayurveda.

The grammatical mistakes (i am not sure if they were mistakes or written like that on purpose) were annoying. Specifically whenever the author needed to mention a human, the author use She (most of the times) and sometimes he as well. I don’t understand why the ayurvedic doctors were referred as she!? Very annoying to me personally.

The way the yoga positions are described are also confusing to me. It’s very inconsistent. Moreover, it’s a hard job to describe a yoga pose hence it needs to be described properly but I believe the author failed at that.

After 80% of the book was done I just wanted to finish the book and nothing informative was found in the later chapters. I just skimmed those 🤷🏽

Again nothing personal, shared my experience.

[Mishael · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good overview of ayurveda, and it gives you a lot of things to think about that traditional western medicine usually does not deal with at all. Ayurveda makes sense to me. Western medicine doesn't. I'm going to do some deeper study of traditional Chinese medicine soon, because I think there's a lot of useful information to be gleaned there, as well. And I can't help but think TCM will be similar to ayurveda in some ways.

That said, this book felt TOO basic. It was often repetitive. The ending wasn't definitive enough for me. The descriptions of the yoga poses without pictures were tedious. And I just didn't feel like I learned much more from this book than I could by reading a few blog posts (which I've done, and I already learned some of what was presented in this book).

Still, if you're completely new to ayurveda and don't have the time or inclination to read blog posts, you'll probably get more out of this book than I did.

[S · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is more in the form of tips rather than individual chapters.

[Gail · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as "easy" as I'd hoped. More for someone who is already well versed in Ayurveda and kinows the basics.

[Julie Gentile · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book offered incredibly helpful tips on how to incorporate Ayurvedic practices into everyday life.

[Cherie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read of 50 easy to do ways to incorporate ayurveda into your life. Not a thorough book, but helpful and interesting

[Lisa Rosenow · Rating 4 out of 5]

a quick and easy read. It gave me a good overview of the general concepts of ayurveda

[Marlane Barnes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This truly is Ayurveda made easy!

[emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for what it is (an intro)

[E · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just ok

[Mel mynightsbooked · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for those new to ayurveda. Informative and easy to read.