Balancing Act: Staying Healthy as an Active Woman 
For many women today, it’s hard to find a moment to breathe let alone take care of your health. Whether you’re working in the office or in the home, raising your children or caring for elderly parents—it’s a balancing act just to get through the day.
Yet taking care of yourself and staying in balance mentally and physically is central to meeting all the demands of your family and career.
“Women today have so many areas of life to attend to, it’s important to that they set aside time to maintain their own health and happiness,” says Sankari Wegman, an ayurvedic expert at The Raj Maharishi Ayurveda Health Spa in Fairfield, Iowa. A wife and mother of children aged 3 and 5, she herself juggles work, teaching and home life.
Here she offers five simple suggestions from Maharishi Ayurveda to create more balance today.
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Help for Achy Joints 
Do your fingers feel stiff and crack when you bend them? Or does the rainy, cool spring weather make you feel achy all over? More than 28 million Americans visit their physician for some form of arthritis. May is National Arthritis Month, a good time to focus on joint health. Here’s the ayurvedic perspective on maintaining the health of your joints as you age.
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Throw Yourself a Pamper Party 
Taking care of yourself is not a luxury—it’s a key part of staying healthy. But squeezing a spa treatment into the schedule and the budget is another story. Here’s an idea: set aside an evening to throw a pamper party just for you.
Sounds complicated? Here are five simple steps.
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My Vedic Kitchen™ 
Easy Ayurvedic Lunches
The most important thing to remember about the ayurvedic approach to diet is that our meals should be warm cooked meals. Eating warm food is nourishing and balancing to all the doshas. It is possible to prepare a warm lunch while you are getting ready to go to work or at work. The following tips will help you find alternatives to sandwiches and fast foods.
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Ask the Expert
Varicose Veins
Vaidya Manohar, our ayurvedic expert from India, is our featured health practitioner this month. Here he explains the cause and treatment of varicose veins, which occur in one out of two people over age 50, mostly in women.
Q: After pregnancy I started to develop varicose veins, and I wonder if there’s any way to keep them from getting worse.
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 Maharishi Ayurveda Tip of the Day
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