maya tiwari: path of practice
maya tiwari: path of practice
The Path of Practice by Bri. Maya Tiwari
"We are wellness. We are consciousness. That is our natural state. Disease is an imposter."
As one of the world’s only female experts on the ancient Indian tradition of Ayurvedic medicine, renowned teacher Bri. Maya Tiwari has devoted her heart and soul to sharing the philosophy and methods that saved her from terminal cancer and redirected her life. Now, in The Path of Practice, she offers a short course in healing and living and reveals how she has gone back to the sources of Ayurvedic wisdom to reclaim time-honored, natural, and spiritual techniques for contemporary life.
Diagnosed with ovarian cancer at twenty-three, Bri. Maya was given two months to live. Her doctors’ advice: die painlessly with heavy dosages of morphine. Instead, in the middle of winter, she left her career as a popular fashion designer in New York City and began several months of intensive meditation and holistic nutrition alone in a remote Vermont cabin. By Spring, her health and vitality had been restored. Inspired by dramatic visions and dreams of her family and ancestors, Bri. Maya became a student of one of India’s few living masters of the traditional Vedas. Today, healthy in body and spirit, she devotes herself to teaching the wisdom practices of the Vedas to help others heal emotional and spiritual discomfort, dis-ease, and physical illness.
In The Path of Practice, Bri. Maya’s gentle, compassionate voice instructs you in living life consciously in the present moment, so that you can recover your natural rhythms and align yourself and your inner cycles with the universe. With particular emphasis on using the primordial feminine healing power of shakti–which everyone possesses–Bri. Maya leads you through the daily practice, or sadhana, of a three-part wellness program that includes nutrition and cooking with whole foods, breath work and meditation, and chanting with healing sounds. Encouraged by the inspirational stories of Bri. Maya’s life and those of others who have made these simple but powerful practices an integral part of their lives, you will learn how to take charge of your own health. Through Bri. Maya’s unique philosophy and practice of "cosmic memory," you will discover your personal, body wisdom and intuition, your singular mission in the world, and your connection to the divine within you and around you.
Filled with illuminating insights, easy-to-follow recipes, and meditations and exercises that can be adapted to different lifestyles and traditions, The Path of Practice is one of the only holistic programs designed for women by a woman. Imbued with the spiritual strength and centeredness of its remarkable author, here is a practical and profound book you will turn to time and time again for instruction, wisdom, and peace of mind.
418 pages
Bri. Maya grew up and was educated in British Guiana (now Guyana). Born of Eastern Indian parents, whose great-grandparents had emigrated to the Indies as indentured laborers, at fifteen she moved to New York City to become a successful fashion designer. At twenty-three, forced by ovarian cancer to redirect her life, Bri. Maya left a highly successful career and returned to her ancestral India to study the ancient Indian spiritual tradition of Vedanta and Ayurvedic medicine. She is now an internationally renowned teacher and practitioner of Ayurveda and is the founder of the Wise Earth School, an Ayurvedic, nature-based facility for healing in Asheville, North Carolina, where she lives. Bri. Maya is also the founder of the Mother Om Mission ( M.O.M.), headquartered in Guyana, South America, with a base in Queens, New York, a charitable organization the goal of which is to provide Ayurvedic health care to at-risk communities throughout the world. Bri. Maya gives numerous lectures at major conferences, where she has taught thousands of attendees, and as a spiritual teacher conducts satsangas—the traditional Vedic forum for the spiritual master to share wisdom and spirituality—throughout the world to give solace to the grieving and afflicted. Also a traditional guru and spiritual mother to hundred, Bri. Maya is called Maya Ma (Mother Maya) by her devotees. She has been featured on the cover of Yoga Journal, has made radio and television appearances, and writes a regular column for Hinduism Today, an international Hindu newspaper that has over a million readers. Bri. Maya returns to India annually for a three-month silent meditation retreat. She is the author of Ayurveda: Secrets of Healing (Lotus Light) and Ayurveda: A Life of Balance (Healing Arts Press).
