Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

CALM within the chaos

‘I went to India to discover what this approach to wellbeing looks like’

Think of India and you think of noise, crowds and craziness. Due to its huge population, the chaos and cacophony of people en masse is a hallmark of every city and town across the subcontinent. But paradoxically, it’s also a place people come to seek peace. As the birthplace of yoga, meditation and Ayurvedic medicine, it is a culture that believes in the power of stretching and sitting in stillness to bring about a deeper sense of calm and connectedness, and favours a natural path to health and healing. The Western world has slowly been waking up to the benefits of these practices over the past few decades, and today we’re signing up in droves to classes, courses and apps like

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