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The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care

Rhythms, Routines, and Home Remedies for Natural Healing

By Kate O'Donnell
Photography by Cara Brostrom

Discover the best way to care for yourself—day by day and season by season.

Embrace the ancient principles of Ayurveda to become a more integrated, whole, and healthy version of yourself. This detailed guide walks you through the steps of foundational Ayurvedic practices that can be easily integrated into your existing self-care routine—from self-massage, oil pulling, and tongue scraping to breathing practices, meditation exercises, and eating with intention—to uplift your physical health and state of mind.

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Praise for The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self Care:

“O’Donnell offers concise, practical instruction in the art of living wisely. Readers discover ways to enhance their personal welfare as they learn to align the varied specifics of their lives into integrated wholes.”—Dr. Robert Svoboda

“This delightful book is full of principles of Ayurveda that O’Donnell leads us to easily apply to food, medicine, and living in general. Any effort expended diving into this book yields generous rewards. I love it.”—Dr. Claudia Welch, DOM, author of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life

“Beautiful and lucid, Kate makes Ayurveda feel intimate and accessible. The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care perfectly complements her cookbooks and opens the reader to new possibilities for personal health and integration.”—Scott Blossom, Lac

“O’Donnell’s Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care presents authentic Ayurveda principles and invaluable diet and lifestyle knowledge for modern readers in any part of the world.”—Dr. Ramkumar, Ayurvedic physician and cofounder of Vaidyagrama Healing Village

“Kate O’Donnell delivers her encyclopedic Ayurveda and yoga wisdom into a book that anyone looking for depth of wisdom can quickly access. As a truesadhaka, a practitioner of the path of awakening, Kate escorts the complexity of Ayurveda and yoga philosophy into accessible experiences to bring you home to you. If you want to learn Ayurveda, this book is the best gateway to the ancient healing system, combining theory and gorgeous recipes.”—Cate Stillman, founder and podcaster at Yogahealer, and author of Body Thrive and Master of You

Learn more about the bestselling Everyday Ayurveda series:

Eat delicious seasonal food, balance the body, and heal the gut through traditional Ayurvedic wisdom and recipes.

“Simple, basic tools are often all we need to get ourselves started on a healthy path. Kate O’Donnell has used her natural lightness and humor along with real-life examples to show us how easy this can be. The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook is a must-have for anyone on the road to improve their health through good food sense.”—Hilary Garivaltis, founder of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda

Bring the energetic states of the mind into harmony and calm the nervous system with simple and nourishing recipes.

“Building on her achievement with The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, Kate O’Donnell turns her focus onto the modern mind, exhausted by overstimulation. This new cookbook lays out in tasty detail how a healthy diet can promote lucidity and how unwise food choices can compromise mental acuity.”—Dr. Robert Svoboda, Ayurvedic physician and author of Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution