Ayurveda & fasting
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Even though Ayurveda and fasting are not a classic combination, these disciplines are often combined, especially in Europe. After all, both health concepts fit together perfectly and can be a real help not only in losing weight, but also with profound health problems.
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Your perfect vacation with Ayurveda and fasting
You can implement Ayurvedic fasting in very different ways. The best place to start is an Ayurveda fasting retreat, where the fasting therapy is carried out according to Ayurvedic tradition. Here you can expect an extensive therapeutic program, which includes other offers from the Ayurvedic healing art in addition to fasting.
Details about this as well as the special features of Ayurvedic therapeutic fasting you will learn in the following.
Fasting and Ayurveda - An unbeatable combination in the health holiday
There is a reason why Ayurveda and fasting go so well together. Because light food and regular purifying of the body by cleaning Ayurveda retreats have a firm place in the Ayurvedic nourishing teachings.
On the one hand there are in the Ayurveda traditional therapies such as Panchakarma or Rasayana, which aim at a cleaning of the body among other things by purifying food such as Ghee (clarified Indian butter) or light vegetable broths. On the other hand, moderate food intake through equal portions is an important principle in Ayurveda that also finds treatment outside of traditional fasting retreats. Ayurvedic fasting tries to combine both approaches, which is why fasting in Ayurveda is almost always a partial fast, whereby one eats less, but also not nothing at all.
Now, the purpose of Ayurvedic fasting is not only in the cleansing aspect. Likewise, occasional fasting retreats are meant to help with training a careful selection of high-quality foods. That can be for example with existing metabolic and intestine illnesses as well as food incompatibilities a good assistance. Within the framework of a diet tailored to the individual patient, problematic foods can thus be identified and eliminated from the diet plan. This dosha type-fair fasting diet helps apart from further Ayurvedic treatments also with the weight loss.
Furthermore Ayurvedic fasting very frequently a positive mental effect. For many Ayurvedic guests, fasting enables deep self-knowledge and a detachment from old patterns and behaviors.
While fasting programs in Asia are essentially Ayurvedic weight loss retreats, in Europe combinations of Ayurveda and classical therapeutic fasting are also offered. Read below what makes our hotels and programs for Ayurvedic therapeutic fasting.
Ayurveda and fasting hotels
Whether near the beach, in the mountains or in the deep jungle, all our Ayurveda hotels with fasting programs are located in picturesque surroundings, which creates an ideal setting for your Ayurvedic fasting retreat.
Enjoy top facilities in your double or single room and benefit from an extensive wellness and health area.
First and foremost in Europe, you can look forward to highly modern spa oases that include pools and saunas as well as special rooms for massages and beauty treatments.
Traditional Ayurveda resorts in India or Sri Lanka captivate with tropical gardens and outdoor platforms on which yoga and meditation sessions take place. The resorts in Asia are also usually characterized by a very rustic design with tropical straw bungalows in idyllic beach or jungle ambience.
In our Ayurveda & Fasting accommodations, you will be looked after by a very experienced team of Ayurveda specialists throughout your stay. Even in Europe, some of the therapists and doctors come from India or Sri Lanka, where Ayurveda has a long tradition.
Typical package contents of an Ayurveda fasting retreat
Dosha type determination:
An Ayurveda fasting program begins with a precise determination of your dosha type. Finally, different fasting therapies are recommended for each doshas. For Vata types, for example, a shorter fasting duration of up to 3 days is recommended, Pitta types should not fast longer than 4 days and for Kapha types, a longer fasting period is also possible.
Also with the nutrition is distinguished between the constitution types. This usually ranges from light soup fasts and small warm meals with Vata types to stricter variants with ginger tea, rice broth and hot water with Kapha types.
Ayurvedic treatments:
In addition to the nutrition program, which is divided into relief and build-up days, you can also expect many relaxing treatments during an Ayurvedic retreat with fasting. These include, for example, Ayurvedic baths, the typical forehead oil pouring, Ayurvedic massages and partly also Ayurvedic beauty treatments.
Movement units:
The classic offers of an Ayurveda and fasting trip also include regular movement offers. Be it nature walks in the surrounding area around the resort, swimming, gymnastics or physiotherapeutic measures - many things are conceivable.
The movement promotes a good digestion and stimulates the metabolism, which helps in the elimination of body waste especially during fasting.
Relaxation units:
The last building block of an Ayurveda fasting program are the relaxation units. Look forward to relaxing yoga sessions, Reiki, Pilates and much more.
The best destinations for an Ayurveda fasting vacation in Europe
The Ayurveda strongholds in Germany include, on the one hand, the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Here, where climate-therapeutic spa concepts such as Thalasso already have a long tradition, naturopathic treatment methods such as Ayurveda are also very popular. In the Bavarian Forest, on the banks of the Moselle as well as in the Allgäu form again the local spas, thermal baths, forests and, in the case of Bavaria, the proximity to the Alps excellent opportunities for accompanying leisure activities.
Speaking of the Alps, Austria is also known for its exquisite facilities for nutrition, weight loss and fasting retreats. Besides the Salzburger Land, it is above all Tyrol that is considered an expert region for Ayurveda fasting. A fasting program in Austria is very often combined with excursions to the local hiking areas in the Alps as well as yoga offers in the Tyrolean Alps.
The mountainous regions of Switzerland are also no strangers to Ayurvedic fasting retreats. Thereby, Swiss healing therapies and wellness centers are usually ultra-modern and captivate with partly very futuristic architecture. But there are also still traditional facilities in the quaint style of the Almhotel.
The most beautiful destinations for an Ayurveda retreat with fasting in Asia
The motherland of Ayurveda is for many Ayurveda vacationers certainly the Mecca par excellence. Especially in regions like Kerala are famous in this regard for their excellent Ayurveda and fasting programs after old school. Due to Kerala's location by the sea, the Ayurveda fasting holiday here can also be wonderfully combined with a beach holiday.
The west coast of Sri Lanka is strongly influenced by the Ayurvedic heritage of the country due to its proximity to the Indian mainland. Therefore, the offer of professional Ayurveda retreats with traditional fasting retreats is correspondingly large. The light island cuisine also offers a good basis for Ayurveda fasting according to Southeast Asian tradition with many fresh fruits, vegetables and rice dishes.
To Indonesia it sleeps just lovers of yoga training in ancient temples very much. Sights such as the Borobudur Temple on Java or the sea temple Tanah Lot on Bali promise unique meditation experiences and excursions to the temples are wonderful exercise options to complement the Ayurvedic fasting retreat.
FAQ about Ayurveda therapeutic fasting
Even though there are many offers for an Ayurveda weekend, we recommend at least one week of vacation for extensive fasting retreats. Effective fasting programs usually include at least 3 relief days and 2 build-up days.
Ayurvedic fasting takes into account the constitution type and adapts both the intensity of the fasting retreat and the duration to it. As a rule, Ayurvedic fasting is a partial fasting that also includes easily digestible small meals. Unlike European forms of fasting, Ayurvedic fasting is supplemented with other detoxifying measures. These include internal and external treatments typical of Panchakarma. Ayurvedic fasting programs in Asia are often Ayurvedic weight loss retreats.
Ayurvedic fasting serves primarily to detoxify and purify the body. Also a weight loss can be a positive side effect of the Ayurvedic fasting retreat. Furthermore, through an Ayurveda fasting program on vacation, new behaviors can be learned, especially, in nutrition, but also in terms of mindfulness. Ayurvedic fasting thus serves not only to cleanse the body, but at least as much to cleanse the mind.