Sattva: The Ayurvedic Way to Live Well

by Eminé Rushton, Paul Rushton

'Eminé and Paul live and breathe Ayurveda everyday, and I love their gentle, intuitive, conscious approach to life.' - Jasmine Hemsley, author of East by West and co-author of the Hemsley + Hemsley books Sattva is one of the three basic life forces outlined in Ayurvedic teachings. It embodies seven main unity, harmony, purity, vitality, clarity, gentleness and serenity. In this book, Eminé and Paul Rushton, of Psychologies magazine, show how the life-changing principles of sattva can be applied to the home, the family, health, relationships and wellbeing. Using this book, readers will discover how
- move from doing to being
- approach all life situations with loving kindness
- live with natural energetic and seasonal cycles
- design the home using the ancient art of Vastu Supplemented with exclusive online content, including 28 delicious plant-based Ayurvedic recipes, this book offers solutions to our hectic lives, fatigue, loneliness and disconnection, and provides a much-needed anchor of harmony in a disconnected Western world.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Self Help

272 pages, Hardcover

Published June 4, 2019

Reviews

[Andreia Pereira · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second time I’m reading this book as Ayurveda is a subject that interests me. The book itself is a nice introduction to the science of Ayurveda. It’s not as practical as other books I’ve read before as the authors focus more on a whole Ayurvedic lifestyle than just simple recipes and suggestions for your body type. That said, I still think it’s a good introduction to how we can embrace the ancient science into our daily lives and gentle suggestions are given along the way.

Also, I do not find, as I read on a critic of this book, that the authors have a privileged life. Yes, not everyone will have access to a home with a garden to raise their own vegetables, but there are always a balcony or a window seal for a few herbs or, reducing deeply the way we consume things nowadays, choose to make more conscious and sustainable choices (like, why buy strawberries in the Winter, pay a premium for them and then complain they taste blunt? Yes, I am someone who read reviews before buying something. Sometimes they’re quite amusing!).

Moving forward, I still recommend this book. The only reason for 4 starts is that sometimes it’s not extremely engaging, and I can only read a few pages at a time.

[Lo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am always excited when I find a book on ayurveda, they are few and far between and the wisdom they contain are more than worth the effort to seek them out. This particular text is a modern dispensation of ancient techniques that is well intentioned but falls short, overly saccharine and self congratulatory in its approach. It would have done well for the authors to veer away from mentioning their privileged personal experiences and instead to examine ayurveda from a wider historical and practical point of view.

This said, there were chapters that were well researched particularly surrounding cleansing rituals and meditation practices and if it happens to introduce someone to the power of ayurveda, then it has done a service.

[Anita · Rating 2 out of 5]

Aesthetically beautiful book to show of on one's coffee table ☕ other than that I wasn't overly impressed with it.
This is 2nd time I have read this and this time round I know that I no longer want it on my bookshelf.
Touches Ayurveda lightly, in all sorts of areas, from herbs, which I'm not likely to take, oils, even what direction to face your bed.
I do practice ayurveda, for me it's more about diet for my overbalanced vata, and trying to live a good life.
This book kind of bored me.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's half about ayurveda half a vehicle for the authors to talk about their amazing lifestyle. It kind of felt more like and instagram account than a book.

But all in all, it's a good book. I do think that the visual text books I own do a better job of explaining ayurveda than a text only book. It can be explained well with pictures so if you're new to ayurveda then you may find a book with diagrams and illustrations more useful.

[Ellie · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolutely beautiful, wonderful, grounding, soul speaking book. It took me back to my Steiner days and I want to put as much as possible into my daily life! Definitely one to re read over and over and underline and gather life changing messages x

[Amy Easterbrook]

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[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grounding, beautiful, practical and easy-this is Sattva, and it can be accomplished by all. Big thanks to the authors for be journey.

[Chickpea · Rating 3 out of 5]

2 1/2 stars. Some useful sections but I prefer other Ayurveda books I’ve read.