Ayurveda looks at life from an energy perspective. Health is the harmony between the energy components of body, mind and spirit. The Ayurvedic approach to disturbances in the mental and spiritual aspects of an individual, aims first to harmonise the physical body and then to expand that harmony to the mind and the spirit. The Yogic approach involves working with the spirit to induce the body and the mind to become harmonised. The Yogic diet aims to take predominantly Sattvic food, living in a Sattvic environment, associating with Sattvic people and having a generally Sattvic life-style.
Sattvic food is vegetarian, fresh, organic and prepared with love.
A Sattvic environment is natural, pure, quiet and harmonious. Sattvic people are possessed of love, faith, devotion, honesty and truthfulness. Tantra works to maximise a being's mental energy which then balances and harmonises the body and spirit. These elements make up the body, are present in every cell. These individual cells are not able to live independently of the whole body.