The House of Lords – Ayurveda Day

We are going to The House of Lords with over 100 other leaders in Ayurveda, health, and politics and the community to celebrate and discuss Ayurveda in the NHS. We will also be addressing, the Early Day Motion. To support the motion, you are invited to write to your local MP requesting that they sign and back the motion. A draft letter for amendment is pasted below. Every voice counts!

Please find here the email address of your local Member of Parliament.

Dear (Name of your MP),

I have found Ayurveda very helpful in helping me reduce symptoms as well as reducing the use of medications. Please will you sign to support the motion outlined below, and encourage your other colleagues to do so, too?

Ayurveda is an empowering and multi-dimensional approach to encouraging well-being, which appreciates the link between physical and psychological health and lifestyle. A corpus of research studies reveal Ayurveda offers preventative and curative benefits for a variety of mental and physical conditions and is correlated with improved lifestyle choices. If Ayurveda were readily available on the NHS it would enhance well-being for so many of us – providing skills and tools that can be used to improve and or maintain health.

Recently, Simon Stevens, head of NHS England designed a well-being initiative for NHS staff wherein Yoga (sister science to Ayurveda) was included, thus, highlighting the NHS’s recognition of Yoga’s benefit. Following this action, The All Party Parliamentary Group on Indian Traditional Sciences is concentrating efforts towards the full-inclusion of Yoga as well as Ayurveda into the NHS for everyone and has tabled an Early Day Motion by its Co-Chairman Bob Blackman MP.

Please sign this motion before the 27th of October, as there will be a meeting at the House of Lords on this day, the more signatures we have the greater the clout behind this action. The motion can be found here

Text of the Early Day Motion 215: Celebrating 1st Ayurveda Day at House of Lords on 27 October 2016.

That this House celebrates the 1st Ayurveda Day, on 27 October 2016, espoused by the Indian Government in 2016; recognises Ayurveda as an established multi-dimensional holistic approach to health, which addresses well-being through comprehensive dietary and lifestyle management strategies that are specific to an individual’s unique psychological and physical constitution in all stages of one’s life; acknowledges that Ayurveda’s ethos and value to humanity is recognised by and is aligned with the ethos of the World Health Organization as a preventative and curative for various health conditions; believes Ayurveda’s integration into the NHS would ensure freedom of choice in healthcare for the populace; and calls on the Government to introduce an Ayurveda Chair.

Please sign!

Health+Happiness

(Your Name and Address)