Ayurveda professes a lifestyle regime which not only includes eating foods which pacify your particular dosha(s), which includes moving your body through yoga and pranayama to increase balance, flexibility and life force in mind and body. It encourages discovering and practicing your dharma (life purpose or passion) as a key to your own happiness. It promotes expanding your mind, perspective and behavior through learning, understanding, compassion and tolerance. Ayurveda works with your own energies to help you to optimize your wellbeing.