The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook: Holistic Healing Rituals for Every Day and Season

A 2019 Nautilus Silver Award Winner, Body, Mind, & Spirit Practices

Feeling burned-out, unmotivated, or stuck? The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook is here to help. This authoritative guide to ancient healing offers more than 100 daily and seasonal Ayurvedic rituals--each taking 10 minutes or less--to reconnect you with nature's rhythms, and to unlock better health, as you:

• Boost and stabilize your energy with yogic breathing
• Overcome transitions with grounding meditations
• Undo physical and emotional stress with personalized yoga postures
• Prevent and treat disease with nourishing tonics and teas
• Pause and reflect with daily and weekly journaling prompts.

Get back in sync with nature--and rediscover your potential to feel good.

Sarah Kucera, DC, CAP, has been championing healthy practices professionally for over a decade, and personally for her whole life. A licensed chiropractor, certified Ayurvedic practitioner, registered yoga teacher and yoga therapist, and entrepreneur, she is the founder of Sage, a healing arts center and herbal apothecary in Kansas City, Missouri, where she combines these methods to help others find well-being.

Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, BAMS, MD (Ayurveda), is a world-renowned educator, the director of the Ayurvedic Healing and Integrative Wellness Clinic, and author of The Hot Belly Diet.

Review Quotes:

"Kucera shows readers how to incorporate principles of Ayurvedic philosophy into their lives in this welcoming, persuasive debut. . . . Those interested in natural, easy-to-follow solutions for daily health concerns will find much helpful advice here."--Publishers Weekly

"Dr. Kucera guides us in the practical application of rituals in the healing process of balancing the bodily humors and their circadian rhythms in our day-to-day lives. Applied in one's life, we can celebrate our lives through daily, seasonal, and healing rituals thereby bringing more awareness in every aspect of our lives. A joyful, blissful book, it serves as a guideline to students and practitioners, unfolding inner healing and longevity."--Dr. Vasant Lad, BAMS, MASc, Ayurvedic physician, author of Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing, the Textbook of Ayurveda series, and more

"Sarah Kucera is a person of abundant healing talent and uncanny insight into the human being. She has authored an important book that we in the industrial, stressed-out world need now more than ever. I highly recommend it."--Max Strom, speaker, teacher, and author of A Life Worth Breathing and There Is No App for Happiness

"Sarah Kucera's The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook is a powerful and engaging overview of Ayurvedic practices. Not only does she share this healing approach in a brand-new way, but she makes it easy to implement it into your every day. If you are seeking a simple, effective, and gentle way to incorporate the wisdom of Ayurveda into your life, this book is the key."--Amy B. Scher, bestselling author of How to Heal Yourself from Anxiety When No One Else Can and This Is How I Save My Life

"A wonderful book to upgrade your self-care rituals for more Ayurvedic magic in your life."--Sahara Rose Ketabi, best-selling author of Eat Feel Fresh and Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda

"Sarah's expertise as a healer, both an Ayurvedic practitioner and a chiropractor, is abundantly evident in The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook, but what really shines through are her gifts as a teacher. This is the most accessible, logical and practical, yet never reductive, book on Ayurveda I've ever read. It is now required reading for our Yoga Teacher Training programs!"--Gina Caputo, Founder Director of the Colorado School of Yoga

"Sarah is a fresh, much-needed voice for Ayurvedic techniques for healing and balancing. The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook is an incredible manual for anyone who is ready to feel more in balance, energized, and radiant while still showing up for everything that's on their (full) plate. I can't wait to share this with the women I work with."--Cassandra Bodzak, author of Eat With Intention

"In our culture where our traditions and rituals have been forgotten, The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook reminds us that our health, longevity, and happiness depend on our traditional circadian rituals."--Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP author of The 3-Season Diet, founder of LifeSpa.com