The Path of Practice : A Woman's Book of Ayurvedic Healing

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Summary: Can we return to Eden?
Review: As a beginner in the study of Vedic Practice, Bri Maya has written in words much that is wonderful, soft and serene. Perhaps the most difficult portion to describe is what is written between her lines.

The tender and affectionate tone of her words conveys all that I have hoped Ayurveda would be. She is a shinning example of what can be accomplished when a science based on infinite wisdom is applied with love.

Bri Maya has titled her book " A Womans Book of Ayurvedic Healing" and while I don't know her true intent here surely this is a lovely book for anyone. I was in awe and am now an official fan.

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Summary: a self-absorbed account of healing
Review: Ms. Tiwari may have a fascinating story, but while she tells people not to look to the past or the future in order to live within the moment, she painstaking details how one should get in touch with their anscestral roots in order heal. The dysfunction of her early childhood, (her father had two wives), and her race to become famous as a young woman, (bouncing from choices of lawyer, to actress, to fashion designer,) left me wary of her philosophy of change. She lost me completely when, after being diagnosed with cancer, she describes seeing a vision of the Divine Mother swathed in bright light and then the vision of a bluebird, (the Divine Mother in disguise), asking her to fly out of her manhattan apartment window. She is stopped from leaping to her death by being again being bathed in white light, (i guess from the Divine Mother). For a woman trying to give "practical" advice to healing, a found this smacking of snake oil.