Niika Quistgard, CAS
Niika Quistgard, CAS, a clinical Ayurvedic specialist, has been practicing, teaching, and writing about Ayurveda since 1998. She is the director of Rasa Ayurveda, a women’s healing and ecology center in Kerala, India, and was the founder, editor, and publisher of Inside Ayurveda, the first international journal of Ayurvedic medicine.
Quistgard embraced Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medical system, when she realized how relevant Ayurveda’s holistic philosophy can be in these times, and how effective Ayurveda’s treatments, concepts, and practices are for healing and for life. Through her own approach to applying Ayurveda, she has recovered her health and ignited the self-healing potential in others seeking full vitality and a life of joy and balance.
Quistgard is a frequent contributor to Yoga Journal. In 2005, Utne Reader chose her work for reprint in “the best of the alternative press.” She is now working on a forthcoming book, Bless Yourself With Balance: A Woman’s Year of Ayurveda. Quistgard divides her time between Kerala, India, and the West.
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