Kate O'Donnell

Kate O’Donnell has spent more than twenty-five years traveling through India in search of ancient, time-tested, healing practices to bring back to the United States. Through her own healing journey, Kate experienced firsthand how a holistic system creates lasting health. She has since emerged as a preeminent expert in Ayurveda—the sister science to Yoga—and has built her own curriculum customized for modern Americans. Her individualized approach, “guiding from disease to ease,” has transformed the lives of thousands of people and made her a respected thought-leader in holistic medicine. Kate’s best-selling books, published in seven languages, continue to be the top resources in the field of Ayurveda. As a highly sought-after speaker and the founder of the Ayurvedic Living Institute, she has educated a generation of practitioners.

"This delightful book is full of principles of Ayurveda that O’Donnell leads us to easily apply to food, medicine, and living in general. Any effort expended diving into this book yields generous rewards. I love it." —Dr. Claudia Welch, DOM, author of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness Through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science

"Beautiful and lucid, Kate makes Ayurveda feel intimate and accessible. The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care perfectly complements her cookbooks and opens the reader to new possibilities for personal health and integration." —Scott Blossom, LAc

"O’Donnell offers concise, practical instruction in the art of living wisely. Readers discover ways to enhance their personal welfare as they learn to align the varied specifics of their lives into integrated wholes." —Dr. Robert Svoboda

"O’Donnell’s Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care presents authentic Ayurveda principles and invaluable diet and lifestyle knowledge for modern readers in any part of the world." —Dr. Ramkumar, Ayurvedic physician and cofounder of Vaidyagrama Healing Village

"Kate O’Donnell delivers her encyclopedic Ayurveda and yoga wisdom into a book that anyone looking for depth of wisdom can quickly access. As a true sadhaka, a practitioner of the path of awakening, Kate escorts the complexity of Ayurveda and yoga philosophy into accessible experiences to bring you home to you. If you want to learn Ayurveda, this book is the best gateway to the ancient healing system, combining theory and gorgeous recipes." —Cate Stillman, founder and podcaster at Yogahealer, and author of Body Thrive and Master of You