February 17, 2026

Ayurveda for Travel

Vacation! Finally! – Most people look for rest and relaxation during their vacation, a break from their often hectic daily lives. At the same time, vacation is a wonderful opportunity to discover new things. We have put together a small Ayurvedic travel set for you and show you how Ayurveda can help you slow down and recharge your batteries.

Slowing down with Ayurveda

To make it easier for you to relax, Vata Aroma Oil is your ideal travel companion. With its calming composition of sweet orange, rose geranium oil, basil, marjoram, and fennel, this natural blend spreads a pleasant scent and well-being. Gentle sounds of Maharishi Gandharva Music pave the way to inner peace. Choose the music according to your personal taste, inner needs, and the time of day from the variety of nature's eternal melodies. Here is a small selection of sounds from the bamboo flute played by Amar Nath:

Vacation Reading

Are you still looking for some vacation reading that will enrich you beyond your holiday? How about "Living in Balance: How to manage our energy properly despite stress" by Dr. med. Ulrich Bauhofer? Based on the millennia-old healing wisdom of Ayurveda, the successful author shows you how to learn to "manage" your energy more successfully in six steps. Would you like to take the time to inform yourself about the diverse possibilities of Ayurveda during your vacation? The handy paperback "Ayurveda for every day" by Dr. med. Ernst Schrott offers many Ayurveda tips on nutrition, body care, and health. Perhaps you would like to try out new Ayurvedic recipe ideas? And if something aches or twinges: In the chapter "Complaints from head to toe", Dr. Schrott tells you how you can help yourself with sunburn, headaches and infections using Ayurveda.

Start the day with vigor

Do you know this feeling? You know that something is good for you, but you don't have enough time for it in everyday life? Often, it is only on vacation that we find the necessary time and leisure for things that are important to us and bring us well-being. Perhaps you can use your next vacation to regularly start the day with the Ayurvedic morning routine. With it, you not only get your digestion and circulation going, but you also feel simply fresher and fitter. This way, you can enjoy your vacation even more!

Time for yourself: Ayurvedic head massage

An Ayurvedic head massage is a particularly simple and effective way to pamper yourself on vacation. The conscious attention to this extremely sensitive region alone helps us to collect ourselves internally and relax. With a gentle massage, you touch body, soul, and mind equally. The gentle head massage promotes blood circulation to the scalp and nourishes and strengthens hair and scalp. It is best to massage your scalp twice a week in the morning before washing your hair with a hair oil adapted to your Dosha type:

Vata Hair Oil for normal to dry and brittle hair
Pitta Hair Oil for thin, fine and reddish hair as well as people with sensitive scalp
Kapha Hair Oil for strong, slightly oily hair

The herbal blends and exquisite plant oils, composed according to ancient Ayurvedic original recipes, are a treat for body and senses alike. Our summer tip: If the sun additionally bleaches and dries out the hair, Vata mixed types in particular should rather use Vata hair oil. This provides an extra portion of protection and care for stressed summer hair.

Spices, mint oil and tea for unfamiliar foods

According to Ayurveda, spices can help to make difficult-to-digest or unfamiliar foods in the holiday country more tolerable. Our Churnas are particularly popular for travel, with which you can season dishes according to taste and season.

Vata Churna: especially for Vata-promoting foods such as cabbage, broccoli, corn, legumes and salads
Pitta Churna: as a seasoning for hot days, e.g. with tomato dishes
Kapha Churna: Spice up your meals: Kapha Churna for spicy-hot and slightly fiery as well as heavy dishes

All three Churnas are available from Maharishi Ayurveda^® in organic quality. So that the unfamiliar cuisine does not spoil your holiday joy, a mint-containing Ayurvedic herbal oil should always be with you. In case of discomfort after a foreign meal, simply add 1-2 drops to a glass of hot water and drink. As a healthy alternative to aperitif and digestif, Ayurveda values Digest Plus Tea. With its spicy-hot taste, Digest Plus Tea is a popular travel companion, ideally drunk about an hour before or after consuming heavy dishes or opulent meals.

Dosha teas instead of cool drinks

If you long for peace, an aromatic Vata Tea should not be missing from your vacation. Regular tea consumption can help you balance an excess of Vata. Even if the temptation is great, you should not drink ice-cold drinks on hot days. To bring the cold liquids to body temperature, our organism switches into "heating mode". What we perceive as refreshing in the short term thus ultimately causes even more internal heat. From an Ayurvedic perspective, therefore, even on hot summer days, warm to lukewarm water or tea should be drunk for cooling. Particularly recommended: one to two cups of Pitta Tea per day. Try it!

Sunbath without regret

Do you love the sun? Then it's best to enjoy your sunbath in the morning, when the radiation is not yet so intense. Your skin will thank you for it! Treat yourself and your skin to a pleasantly cooling after-sun care with Aloe Vera Gel from Maharishi Ayurveda^® after sunbathing. Applied externally, it is a blessing for sun-stressed skin. No matter what skin type you have: Simply rub in the Aloe Vera Gel, let it absorb, and then apply a care lotion adapted to your skin type or the Ayurvedic After Sun Skin Oil. In addition, you can use Aloe Vera juice internally for sun-stressed skin. Drink 1 to 3 glasses of Aloe Vera juice per day. Aloe Vera juice is now available in all well-stocked drugstores.

Packed for you: Your Ayurvedic Travel Set

Whether you are traveling for private or business reasons. These Ayurvedic helpers should always be on board:

Mint-containing Ayurvedic herbal oil – for rubbing on the temples in tense situations, for massaging muscles and joints, and in hot water for possible discomfort
Digest Plus Tea – soothing after heavy meals
Churnas – practical spice blends for on the go
Aloe Vera Gel – pleasantly cooling after sunbathing