Welcome to Still Point Ayurveda!
"Stillness has the power to heal the body and to awaken a higher energy and awareness in the mind. Such yogic stillness, however, is not an enforced stillness born of personal effort but a natural stillness born of deep relaxation."- Vamadeva Shastri (Dr. David Frawley)
Still Point Ayurveda is the first and leading Ayurveda holistic healthcare center in Philadelphia. UNIQUE, is this mini-Ayurvedic retreat center that is home to Ayurvedic practices and many of its eastern therapies and is the first and only center in Philadelphia to offer the powerful and profound protocols regarding CLEANSING called Ayurveda palliative care "Shamana cikitsa/karma" and Panchakarma. Still Point Ayurveda is a small private practice primarily located in E. Mt. Airy, Philadelphia PA, intending to be a simple, comfortable, traditional/non-traditional environment to practice this holistic healthcare system.
Dr. Antonio (Vishnu) Aragona AD, AYT, LMT, is also Philadelphia's first and only recognized Traditional Doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine DISCLAIMER, according to the Samudra Ayurvedic Physician Program (which is based on the Shuddha or “pure” Ayurveda lineage, that has its roots in the original Ayurveda pre-BAMS integration of western/English influence,) Ayurvedic Doctor level per NAMA (National Ayurveda Medical Association) standards, and Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist per NAMA. Read DISCLAIMER for further clarification of Ayurvedic practices here in the USA.
Antonio is a holistic healthcare educator/consultant and provider, practicing part-time in 2003 and establishing Still Point Ayurveda full-time in 2009, in Philadelphia, PA. He has an East meets West philosophy and provides a natural and holistic approach, which involves a great deal of information, education, and suggestions based on one of the world's oldest continually practiced systems of healthcare called Ayurveda, along with the science of Yoga.
Antonio incorporates an integrated holistic healthcare approach based on his training between “New Age Ayurveda,” otherwise known as Westernized Ayurveda, and Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine (TAM) also known as Shuddha Ayurveda (pure Ayurveda), which involves a Traditional Ayurvedic scientific approach and its proper application in the West according to a complex framework. If you’d like specific clarification between the various forms of Ayurveda, please read on. Wujastyk and Smith describe New Age Ayurveda as being defined by characteristics that include a commercialized form of Ayurveda centered around wellness, fundamental components of good health, preventative care, linking Ayurveda to Indian Spirituality such as Yoga, and having a basic body-mind-spirit medicine. Modern Ayurveda involves the current state of Ayurveda as it exists in India today which was heavily influenced by British colonization and its western medical influence. Whereas, Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine is specifically rooted in classical training that involves the direct teachings of the classical texts of Ayurveda.
"Everything is determined by an unknown force beyond our control. It is determined for the insect as well as the star. Human beings, vegetables and cosmic dust - We all dance to a mysterious tune intoned the distance by an invisible piper."- Albert Einstein
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