THE AYURVEDIC INFLUENCES ON THAI MEDICINE - NYC NOVEMBER 22nd

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The Ayurvedic Influences on Thai Medicine: A Presentation by Edward Zachowski
Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 2:30pm

Ed Zachowski of Thaiurveda, a graduate of Sai Ayurvedic College (Miami, FL) will be presenting a lecture on The Ayurvedic Influences on Thai Medicine at the Eighth Annual Indian Festival. Event begins at 2:30 PM Saturday 22 November 2014 at the Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch College, 55 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10010.

Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased at The India Center or BrownPaper Tickets

Other presenters include:

Guru Calai Chandra started learning Bharat Natyam at the age of 5 years and quit a successful IT career in the US to obtain an MFA in India. Calai is Founder and Artistic Director of STUDIO 102 and has been performing Bharat Natyam professionally for over 10 years. She dances, teaches, choreographs and creates her own dance repertoires. Her school will be presenting Bharat Natyam Dances at the festival

Guru Neelima Raju started studying dance in 1985 and joined the Dr Vempati Chinna Satyam's Kuchipudi Kalakshetra in 1987. She was mentored by Shri Hari Rama Murthy and Guru Dr Vempati Chinna Satyam and graduated with a "Natya Visharada" degree in 2001. She was awarded the Vishaka Music and Dance Academy award, Natya Ravali Ugadi Talent Award, and the Kurella Sita Mahalakshmi Award and is a recipient of the Government of India Scholarship and is currently a member of the UNESCO's International Council of Dance. Her school will be presenting Kuchipudi Dance items at the festival.

Dr. Amita Gupta, Professor of Education at The City University of New York and a Fulbright Research Scholar will speak on Vedic Education and Mr. Vasu Murthy former Prsident of Kannada Koota will speak on the Sanskrit text Amarkosha while Vasthu expert Swamy Manjulanandji who is visiting from India will speak about the benefits of this ancient art.

The Rajasthani Association of North America (RANA) will make a presentation on the glorious culture of Rajasthan.

INDIA PM MODI CREATES NEW, SEPARATE MINISTRY FOR YURVEDA, AYUSH

New Delhi Television/NDTV
New Delhi, India
Monday, November 10, 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has, in his cabinet expansion on Sunday, created a separate AAYUSH portfolio, whose minister will be charged with promoting traditional medicines and practices of Ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and homeopathy.

As the first ever AAYUSH minister, Shripad Yesso Naik will have Independent Charge. AAYUSH was previously part of the Health Minister's responsibility.

PM Modi begins his day with yoga and had in his speech at the United Nations in September, made a strong pitch to observe an International Yoga Day, which has reportedly been supported by 50 countries, including the US and China.

He also regularly mentions traditional Indian practices in his exchanges with important world leaders. PM Modi had such a discussion with President Barack Obama during his visit to the United States and had gifted a book on Yoga to his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott, who expressed an interest in the traditional Indian forms of physical, mental and spiritual practices when he visited India also in September.

While calling on member countries of the UN to celebrate June 21 as International Yoga Day, Mr Modi had said, "Yoga embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfilment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well-being."

PM MODI: AYURVEDA CAN ACHIEVE SAME GLOBAL RECOGNITION AS YOGA

IANS - IndoAsian News SErvice
Sunday, November 9, 2014
New Delhi, India

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said that ayurveda can acquire global recognition, like yoga, if it is presented in the right spirit and as a way of life.

"Yoga had acquired global recognition for people who wanted a stress-free life and are moving towards holistic healthcare. Similarly, if ayurveda is presented in the right spirit as a way of life, it too can acquire acceptance," he said in his address at the valedictory session of the 6th World Ayurveda Congress here.

Modi said the biggest challenge to ayurveda comes from people who have dedicated their life to it as "they too do not trust it fully".

"The biggest challenge for ayurveda is posed by the people associated with it. It is hard to find physicians who are 100 percent committed to ayurveda. Unless the practitioners believe in it fully they cannot convince patients," he said.

The prime minister said instead of projecting ayurveda and allopathy as competing streams of medical science, ayurveda should be described as a way of life.

A disease can be cured by allopathy, but if a person adopts ayurveda, he can ensure that he remains healthy and free of disease, he said, and called on ayurveda practitioners to be dedicated to the stream not just as a profession, but as a service to mankind.

The prime minister said it is essential for ayurveda to reach people in a simple, effective way and for this, the modes of treatment should also be better packaged.

"Space has to be created in international medical and science publications, for articles on ayurveda. But the effort for this has to come from the practitioners and researchers of ayurveda," he added.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said despite having a rich heritage in alternate systems of medicine, India is behind China in this field.

"China has used its potential and created a lot of potential for employment," he said adding that the government has now decided to pump in around Rs. 5,000 crore in the Ayush mission.

The 6th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) and Arogya Expo is being held to integrate ayurveda with the mainstream public health system and propagate it globally as a safe and cost-efficient health care alternative. The event was is being organised by the AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy) department under the union health and family welfare ministry, in collaboration with the World Ayurveda Foundation (WAF) and the Delhi government.

WORLD AYUVEDA CONFERENCE TO COMMENCE on NOVEMBER 6th: PRIME MINSTER TO ADDRESS GROUP

ANI Asia News International
New Delhi, India
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Sixth World Ayurveda Conference which opens today, the first of a series of events proposed to celebrate the place of the 'fifth Veda' in the mainstream of the Indian public health system.

"Ayurveda may be ignored today in India, but all Indians will be proud to know that the Museum of Pathology in Chicago Medical School in the US has a portrait of the ancient Indian medical practitioner, Susruta. Under the portrait is a caption which reads 'The man who did the first cataract surgery," Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan told the media here.

Elaborating on the format of the World Ayurveda Congress, Harsh Vardhan said it will comprise five plenary sessions and 25 technical sessions on 15 research themes. "In all, 750 scientific papers will be presented by scientists from India, Germany, Italy, USA, Argentina, Russia, among other countries," he said.

Harsh Vardhan also announced that the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) in New Delhi will admit its first batch of post-graduate students during the academic year 2015-16.

"One of my first decisions was to approve the course content. I would like to see this develop into an institution comparable to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for Ayurveda." Harsh Vardhan said. (ANI)

NAMA 2015 CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON AYURVEDA'S OUTREACH

The National Ayurvedic Medical Association's 2015 Conference - whose theme is "Bringing Ayurveda to Our Modern World" will be held on April 9th through 12th, 2015 at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Spa, in Newport Beach, California. The conference will offer a wide variety of activities for participants to enhance their knowledge of Ayurveda as well as network with other ayuvedic professionals, students, researchers and teachers, with 20 information-rich sessions from which to choose. Other activities include optional morning yoga and meditation sessions, book signing with key authors, sponsors and exhibitors with an array of ayurvedic products and services as well as a "silent auction" with a wide variety of unique items at which one can both find a bargain and support the important work NAMA does on your behalf. Featured Presenters include Kulreet Chaudhary, MD; Marc Halpern, DC; Kevin Spelman, PhD; John Douillard, DC; and Christine Horner, MD.

One can register for the event by clicking here. Discounted attendance fees are available to encourage early registration.