{"id":161848,"date":"2020-07-31T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/?p=161848"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:10:28","slug":"ayurvedic-healing-dr-prasanth-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/ayurvedic-healing-dr-prasanth-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"We chat Ayurvedic healing, holistic wellbeing, and stress management with Dr Prasanth from COMO Shambhala Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong is a busy place, and many people feel burnt out due to excessive work hours. We\u2019re starting to see a huge growth in alternative healing<\/a> options in the city itself, along with a growing interest in wellness holidays from Hong Kong<\/a>\u00a0where people can try and get their wellbeing back on track while also enjoying a vacation and picking up new skills. And at COMO Shambhala Estate, Bali, Dr Prasanth brings Ayurvedic healing and his twenty-plus years of practice to the world. We took to the yoga mat to learn more about this ancient tradition.<\/p>\n

Hi, Dr Prasanth. Thanks so much for sitting down with me. I know that you\u2019re originally from the birthplace of Ayurveda \u2013 Kerala, India \u2013 but how did you first become interested in Ayurvedic healing?<\/h3>\n

From childhood, I had a great affinity for the Ayurvedic science of healing, thanks to a family history of Ayurvedic physicians. After finishing high school, the system in India is that if you want to study any type of medicine you need to study general medicine first, and if you qualify in that, then you select your field. So I chose Ayurveda as my profession.<\/p>\n

The university degree itself takes five and half years, with the final year in internship. I\u2019m also a qualified yoga instructor, and the qualification for Ayurveda also includes yoga. They\u2019re actually sister sciences, so there are a lot of common areas of philosophy and practice.<\/p>\n

And once you qualified? What did you do then?<\/h3>\n

At the beginning of my career I actually was more on the clinical side, so I worked in some of the Ayurvedic hospitals in India. Then I changed to more of the wellness retreat side of things, so I worked with a number of big groups in India, and I also worked with the Centre for Healthy Living in Malacca, Malaysia. Then I began working with the COMO group as a visiting wellness consultant in the Maldives before moving to a full time position as their Ayurvedic Consultant at COMO Shambhala Estate in Bali.<\/p>\n

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The practice of Ayurveda has been used in India for thousands of years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, in India, is there an opportunity for Western medicine and Ayurvedic healing to be practiced together in hospitals?<\/h3>\n

Actually, the latest holistic trend in India is that many of the large hospitals that practice Western medicine will also have an Ayurvedic department. Now, of course, there are some limitations for us, for example we wouldn\u2019t work in emergency medicine, but there are opportunities during recovery for it to be introduced. For example, if a patient has had a stroke and is working through the difficulties during recovery, then Ayurveda certainly has a role to play there, and we are seeing these fields working in conjunction together more and more.<\/p>\n

Ayurvedic healing has clearly been practiced in India for thousands of years, but in terms of the rest of world, are you seeing it become more popular?<\/h3>\n

I\u2019ve been practicing for 21 years, so that\u2019s over two decades. Although Ayurveda and yoga are sister sciences, yoga became more well-known first, but now people are beginning to understand that Ayurveda helps greatly with healthy living. And I\u2019m very happy to see this positive growth in interest, study and understanding.<\/p>\n

How would you explain Ayurvedic healing to anyone unfamiliar with the science?<\/h3>\n

So at the very heart of Ayurvedic philosophy is the The Dosha Theory, which is about the three elements, and everything else in Ayurvedic healing is built upon this theory. The theory says that every human being is made up of three elements: air, fire and water, and when a person has an exactly equal combination of these three elements, then that leads to perfect health. But, you won\u2019t see many people in that perfectly balanced state.<\/p>\n

Actually, Ayurveda has a recorded history of 2000 years, but it existed well before that, and the perfect balance was defined back in those early days. Back then, achieving the perfect balance was much easier, as there was less pollution, people had a more natural way of living, and there was almost no stress, so even though it\u2019s not impossible to achieve this perfect balance nowadays, we need to put more effort into finding it.<\/p>\n

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