Questionnaires to Help Determine Prakriti (your constitution or dominant dosha)
Books
- Perfect Health, by Deepak Chopra
- Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life, by Claudia Welch
- The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies, by Dr. Vasant Lad
- Women’s Power to Heal through Inner Medicine, by Maya Tiwari
- Prakruti, by Robert Svoboda
Ayurveda-Specific Cookbooks
- Ayurvedic Cooking for Self-Healing, by Dr. Vasant and Usha Lad
- The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, by Kate O’Donnell
- What to Eat for How You Feel, Divya Alter
- Ayurvedic Cooking for Westerners, by Amadea Morningstar
- The Ayurvedic Cookbook, by Amadea Morningstar
- Heaven’s Banquet: Vegetarian Cooking for Lifelong Health the Ayurveda Way, by Miriam Kasin Hospodar
Herbs and Specialty Ayurveda Products
- Banyan Botanicals www.banyanbotanicals.com
- The Ayurvedic Institute http://ayurveda.com/shop/
- Mountain Rose Herbs www.mountainroseherbs.com
- Floracopeia (excellent medicinal essential oils) www.floracopeia.com
- Singing Springs Botanicals http://www.singingspringsbotanicals.com/
- Horizon Herbs (great source for organic SEEDS so you can grow your own!) www.horizonherbs.com
Education and Training
- The Ayurvedic Institute http://ayurveda.com/education/index.html (summer intensives, weekend workshops, year-long course and correspondence courses)
- Vaidyagrama (in southern India) www.vaidyagrama.com
Pancha Karma (intensive rejuvenation and detoxification treatment)
- The Ayurvedic Institute (in Albuquerque, New Mexico) http://ayurveda.com/panchakarma/index.html
- Vaidyagrama (in southern India) www.vaidyagrama.com
- Lakshmi’s Garden (in Massachusetts) www.lakshmisgarden.com