It begins with your pulse
Forty-five minutes with a Vaidya trained in India. It begins with Nadi Vigyan, a pulse reading taken by hand.
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Forty-five minutes with a Vaidya, in person or online. They assess your constitution and your current balance, then give you guidance on your food, daily routine and herbal preparations. You also get written handouts for your Dosha type to take home.
You will see one of three Vaidyas. Each holds a BAMS, the Indian degree in Ayurveda, and an MD (Ayurveda) taken after it. Two of them worked directly with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi over many years and travelled internationally on his behalf.
It stands on its own, and nothing has to follow it.
Nadi Vigyan is the classical science of the pulse. It is also called Nadi Pariksha.
Your Vaidya places three fingers on your wrist and reads the pulse: the rhythm, the strength, the way it moves under each finger, and how it answers at different depths. From that they take two things. Your Prakriti, the constitution you were born with. And your Vikriti, your state today.
Three fingers, a few minutes, and your Vaidya knows where to look and what questions to ask.
Prakriti is the constitution you were born with. It is the proportion of the three Doshas set at your beginning, and it rarely changes. Vikriti is your current state, and how far it has moved from your Prakriti.
The three Doshas are Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Ayurveda describes them as the mind-body principles, drawn from the five elements of nature: earth, air, fire, water and space. Between them they govern how the body and the mind work.
Most Dosha quizzes address only the first question. What a Vaidya looks for is the distance between the two, because two people with the same Prakriti can need opposite things. Your Vaidya works out both and explains what they mean for you.
A quiz can tell you what you are. Only a pulse can tell you where you are.
Yes, and the two are worth telling apart. In person it begins with the pulse. Online your Vaidya works by questioning instead, going through your physiology, your habits, and where you feel out of balance, and works out your Prakriti and Vikriti that way.
Most Panchakarma guests receive their preparation plan at an online consultation, and follow it at home before they arrive.
The same Vaidya and the same forty-five minutes. Only the pulse is missing, which is why it costs less.
€100 in person and €80 online. A follow-up within sixty days is €50. If you go on to book a Panchakarma or an Ayurvedic Experience, the consultation is included in the programme price.
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A Vaidya Consultation at MERU is a forty-five minute assessment of a guest's constitution and current balance, given by a Vaidya, followed by guidance on food, daily routine and herbal support, with written handouts to take away. It is a stand-alone offering and does not require any treatment to be booked.
Nadi Vigyan, also known as Nadi Pariksha, is the classical Ayurvedic science of the pulse. The Vaidya rests three fingers on the wrist and reads its rhythm, its strength, the way it moves under each finger and how it answers at different depths. From it the Vaidya determines prakriti and vikriti. It is an assessment rather than a diagnosis, and no instrument is used.
Prakriti is the constitution a person is born with, and it rarely changes. Vikriti is their current state and how far it has moved from their balanced state. A Vaidya looks for the distance between the two, which is what determines what a person actually needs — two people with the same prakriti can need opposite things, because their vikriti differs.
Not necessarily. A Vaidya may conclude that a change of diet and daily routine is what is needed, in which case no treatment is recommended. The consultation is priced and booked on its own for that reason.
Yes, though the two differ. In person the consultation begins with Nadi Vigyan, a pulse reading taken by hand. Online the Vaidya works by detailed questioning about physiology, habits and where the guest feels out of balance, and determines prakriti and vikriti that way before recommending what is needed. An online consultation is how most Panchakarma guests receive the preparation regimen they follow at home before travelling.
