Bourne Hill encourages a holistic approach to care

In my quest to encourage the residents of Bourne Hill to embrace life, independence and more importantly, to ensure that in doing so, they get to also live in a stress-free and relaxing environment, through a colleague of mine, Ashish Paul I have discovered the wonders of Ayurveda. Ayurveda or Ayurvedic medicine is a system of traditional medicine native to India, which uses a range of treatments, including Panchakarma ('five actions'), yoga, massage, acupuncture and herbal medicine, to encourage health and wellbeing.

I wanted to bring this to Bourne Hill as a natural therapy that our valued carers, residents and their families can benefit from.

In many parts of the world, behavioural therapy is teamed up with various forms of Ayurvedic treatments to improve the mental ability in cases learning disabilities. This has proved to be very efficient.  Read more from a recent article here.

We intend to offer Pranayama (a breathing technique) and yoga as choices of relaxation at Bourne Hill. Ashish Paul from Ashishveda will be introducing Pranayama to our staff, so they can practice this Ayurvedic treatment with our residents and also be equipped with a way to cope with stress and adjust well in unexpected challenging situations which inevitably arrive in any business environment not just care homes.

To offer respite for family members I am delighted to have invited some of our residents family members to join in, for a bit of downtime and equip them with these wonderful tools to manage the day to day stress from the challenges they face from caring for a loved one with Learning Disability.

Read more from this informative article from Vedic World here

http://www.vedicworld.org/its-a-mad-mad-world-mental-health-an-ayurvedic-perspective/