traditional healing center for women
June and July are NOT summertime in Kerala. The summer heat of April and May disappear with the first rains around June 1st, kicking off two months of monsoon. It’s a really great time to come to Rasa Ayurveda. Just be prepared to share the grounds with a few seasonal fish and beautiful wild birds…!…
Rasa Ayurveda closes each year in early April for the hot season, reopening when monsoon arrives June 1st. All our residential patients had gone, but before staff joined their families for a summer break, we put together a special event of The Muthashi Project for a group of young orphan girls – ages 9-13 –…
We’ve just returned to Rasa Ayurveda after leading a group of women from Chicago on a learning expedition to Medicine Mountain in Tamil Nadu. The great Indian epic, the Ramayana, tells the story of Lord Rama and his servant Hanuman, the monkey God who is the embodient of service and devotion. In the Ramayana, Hanuman…
Manjal (pronouned “mun-yal”) means “turmeric” in Malayalam. And “manja” – pronounced “mun-ya”– means “yellow”. The medicinal, culinary and sacred uses of manjal are so varied and wide-spread that I’d need a bookfull of pages to cover all the facts. So here’s just a taste of info on manjal that will surely whet your appetite for…
Tona Leiseth came to Rasa Ayurveda for group trip last year thru AyurvedaTrip.com. She’d been struggling with health issues for years, and still lacked a diagnosis she could trust. We felt confident that if she extended her stay to focus on her health, we could help her at the very least receive an accurate diagnosis,…
