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From Scientific AmericanAyurveda: A Life of Balance is a very complete and authoritative manual on the Vedic principles of health and nutrition, written by a well-respected expert in the field. It will be of great benefit to the layman and professional alike.ReviewAyurveda: A Life of Balance is a very complete and authoritative manual on the Vedic principles of health and nutrition, written by a well-respected expert in the field. It will be of great benefit to the layman and professional alike. — Deepak Chopra, M.D., Author of Quantum Healing and Perfect HealthBri. Maya is indeed the shining Yogi. Her book will benefit everyone who is conscious of personal health and global environment. — Barbara Y.E. Pyle, Vice President Turner Broadcasting SystemHere is a very special person who has journeyed through cancer, healed herself and now teaches others how to cross over the dark passages to light and life. This deeply personal and spiritual offering is a necessity to everyone who seeks to know the ancient secrets of healing from the Ayurvedas. — Dr. Wally Burnstein, Physician and anti-food irradiation activistIn her book, Maya introduces the Ayurvedic diet with a universal flavor and shows how to awaken Ahamkara (the memory of who we really are) through the proper use of wholesome foods. By understanding our individual body types, and using foods that best support and enhance each one, we are employing a powerful and essential method of attunement. I am truly grateful to Maya and a handful of other Vedic scholars who continue to devote their lives to sharing this knowledge with the rest of the world. A world that is in great need and which, hopeful, may finally be ready to receive it. — Lindsay Wagner, Actress and authorMaya Tiwari has been carving her own life-niche for many years. Forced by cancer to re-evaluate and refine her life that it might help to heal her, she returned to her own roots in Ayurveda, and from those roots has sprouted this book, a book which is both part of her therapy and a way to share her experience with others who need to heal. Inspired by Ayruveda, this book testifies to how Maya has successfully integrated its principles into her own life, an how others can do the same, to make their lives happy, healthy, and harmonious. — Dr. Robert E. Suoboda, Ayurvedic physician and author of PrakrutiMaya Tiwari’s gift to us is that her life of study, reflection, healing and becoming is a perpetual unfolding act. She has through personal experience and example acquired rich insight into an elusive ancient subject. Her book is faithful to the original precepts of Ayurveda which reveals the immortal principles of health and, ultimately, Self-realization. — Scott Gerson, M.D., Director, Ayurvedic Medicine of New York President, Foundation for Holistic Medical ResearchThe author writes knowledgeably and compassionately about the practicalities of an integrate Ayurvedic lifestyle. — Yoga World, Jan/Mar 1999Product Details    * Paperback: 368 pages    * Publisher: Healing Arts Press; 1st edition (December 1, 1994)    * Language: English    * ISBN-10: 089281490X    * ISBN-13: 978-0892814909This review is from: Ayurveda: A Life of Balance: The Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition & Body Types with Recipes (Paperback)Tiwari’s book initially appealed to me as a natural leap, since I had read a good deal about the ayurveduc lifestyle by popular authors such as Deepak Chopra. But ayurveda is a rather complicated health strategem dependent upon an analysis of body type; if the reader is not intimately familiar with his or her own ayurvedic body type, the recipes will be almost impossible to apply correctly. And, ultimately, this is a cookbook. However, the author, who writes compellingly of her own life-threatenting illness and lifestyle change in the introduction, does a great job of illustrating how taking one’s own health by the “horns” can produce amazing results. It’s just very hard to relate to, and the references to Hinduism will be arcane to those unfamiliar with them. Nevertheless, I tried some of the recipes, and found them to be satisfying, even if some of the ingredients were hard to find — even in my multi-cultural area. I would recommend this book only to those readers who plan to make a commitment to the ayurveduc lifestyle in partnership with an ayurvedic practioner, in which case this book will probably serve them well.If you have the time to contribute back please OCR and Proofread this book.I recommend ABBYY Finereader 10 for doing this work in an easy way.If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please post back the final pdf and I’d also appreciate the work files as well (please PM if you do).