How to get the most out of working with an Ayurvedic practitioner:
1. Be involved! Holistic and natural healing are participatory. You must be ready to take an active role in your health to receive benefits from Ayurvedic treatments...or any natural healing therapies.
2. Don't leave anything out. Ayurvedic practitioners work from a holistic perspective. This perspective means that we are looking at how all the components of you have interacted to create the symptoms you are experiencing. The more you tell us - even if you think it's unrelated to the issue at hand - the better we will be able to help. We need to know as much as possible about your physical issues, mental state, stressors in your life, and how you are sleeping, to name some examples. If you are a woman with irregular periods we need to know that...even if what brought you into the office was digestive illness.
3. Be committed. Create goals with your practitioner and show up to your follow-up visits. Ayurvedic practitioners want to help you make healthy life changes that last in the long term. It takes an average of three times encountering something for the human brain to hold onto it. As such, most practitioners suggest a minimum of three visits. This number is for your benefit and not just so we can make money on you coming back. Why throw away your money on one visit? Without the accountability of a follow-up, following through on health plans after one appointment is unlikely. We know it is overwhelming to make many changes at once, so we suggest changes little by little. If you don't come to your follow-up visits, you will never receive the benefits of the full treatment plan that your practitioner has for you.
4. Come prepared. Your practitioner needs a full list of the medications, vitamins, and supplements that you are taking; including the name and dosage. We cannot ethically recommend herbal remedies if we don't know what you are already using.
5. Ask questions. You deserve answers.
6. Know that we are here for you! Ayurvedic practitioners did not choose their careers for the money. Ayurvedic services are not covered by insurance and the time spent with you in the office is a small fraction of the time your practitioner is working on your treatment plan. We do what we do because we love helping others heal!
1. Be involved! Holistic and natural healing are participatory. You must be ready to take an active role in your health to receive benefits from Ayurvedic treatments...or any natural healing therapies.
2. Don't leave anything out. Ayurvedic practitioners work from a holistic perspective. This perspective means that we are looking at how all the components of you have interacted to create the symptoms you are experiencing. The more you tell us - even if you think it's unrelated to the issue at hand - the better we will be able to help. We need to know as much as possible about your physical issues, mental state, stressors in your life, and how you are sleeping, to name some examples. If you are a woman with irregular periods we need to know that...even if what brought you into the office was digestive illness.
3. Be committed. Create goals with your practitioner and show up to your follow-up visits. Ayurvedic practitioners want to help you make healthy life changes that last in the long term. It takes an average of three times encountering something for the human brain to hold onto it. As such, most practitioners suggest a minimum of three visits. This number is for your benefit and not just so we can make money on you coming back. Why throw away your money on one visit? Without the accountability of a follow-up, following through on health plans after one appointment is unlikely. We know it is overwhelming to make many changes at once, so we suggest changes little by little. If you don't come to your follow-up visits, you will never receive the benefits of the full treatment plan that your practitioner has for you.
4. Come prepared. Your practitioner needs a full list of the medications, vitamins, and supplements that you are taking; including the name and dosage. We cannot ethically recommend herbal remedies if we don't know what you are already using.
5. Ask questions. You deserve answers.
6. Know that we are here for you! Ayurvedic practitioners did not choose their careers for the money. Ayurvedic services are not covered by insurance and the time spent with you in the office is a small fraction of the time your practitioner is working on your treatment plan. We do what we do because we love helping others heal!