Salila SukumaranFounder/ Ayurveda Wellness Concierge, Ayurgamaya · Founder, CEO | Ayurveda lineage-based wisdom keeper | Podcast Host guiding women to heal burnout and thrive in high-pressure lives

true mental health comes from the interconnected harmony of our mind, body, and energy.

26 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Actionable Ayurveda with Salila

26 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief podcast excerpt, the hosts discuss Ayurveda’s holistic approach to mental health and stress management. They emphasize that Ayurveda views the mind (manas/chitta), body, and spirit as inseparable, and that true health requires constant care of the mind. The conversation highlights that stress is a modern epidemic, yet Ayurvedic texts already address it by describing the need to balance complementary sun (rajas) and moon (sattva) energies. When the mind is in harmony, health follows; imbalance leads to disease.

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What is the Ayurvedic take on how to deal with stress and generally with regards to mental health?
Ayurveda is deeply interconnected— our mind, our body, our spirit. So there is no Ayurveda without taking care of our mind constantly. All the guidelines in our samhitas talk about how to take care of your mind, how to manage your emotions. Your manas is, you know, your chitta. Your manas is one of the major If it's not in harmony, then we are not in health. Stress is something that epidemic level in the modern world. In the Ayurvedic books, there is stress. They have talked about stress, but they've talked about it in the terms of the sun energy and the moon energy, and both being complementary and balancing to each other, both harmonizing each other.

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