Dr Sreenath Nair (Ayurveda Lifecare Clinic)

Ayurveda is one of the oldest systems of medicine still in daily use, and Dr Sreenath Nair has built his working life around it. He is an Ayurvedic practitioner, and the Managing Director and Chief Medical Officer of Ayus Ayurveda Lifecare, the clinic behind Dr Nair’s Herbal Solutions. His approach is rooted in the healing traditions of Kerala in southern India, where Ayurveda is practised as an everyday way of keeping body and mind in balance rather than something you turn to only when things go wrong.

He will be at the Guildhall in September with a talk and a practical session, and his stand sits comfortably among the wellbeing exhibitors for anyone who wants to understand what Ayurveda actually involves before deciding whether it is for them.

What Ayurveda actually is

At its simplest, Ayurveda is a system for understanding your own constitution. Dr Nair works with the ideas of Prakriti, your natural body type, and dosha, the energies that shape how your body functions. The aim is balance, both within the body and between the body and the world around it. In practice that means looking at the whole picture: how you eat, how you sleep, how you move and how you handle stress, rather than treating one symptom in isolation.

The clinic’s work draws on established Ayurvedic methods including Panchakarma cleansing therapies, Abhyanga therapeutic oil massage, Rasayana therapy, meditation and yoga. None of this is presented as a replacement for medical care. It is offered as a considered, long-standing tradition that many people use alongside the rest of their lives.

Breath and prana

A good deal of Ayurvedic practice comes back to the breath. Dr Nair shares prana-based techniques, prana being the term for the vital energy that Ayurveda associates with the breath. These are simple, practical exercises rather than anything strenuous, and they are the sort of thing you can keep using at home once you have learnt the shape of them.

Food as part of the picture

Ayurveda takes food seriously, and personalised diet is central to how Dr Nair works. Rather than a single plan for everyone, the idea is to match what you eat to your own constitution and to the season. Herbal remedies, teas and wellness oils sit alongside this. If you have ever found generic nutrition advice hard to stick to, the Ayurvedic habit of tailoring it to the individual is often what makes the difference.

He also lists pain management, anxiety support and cancer support among his areas of work. These are best understood as supportive, wellbeing-focused approaches offered alongside conventional care, not as treatments or cures for any condition.

Something to try this week

Before you eat, take three slow breaths through the nose and let each one out gently and completely. Ayurveda places a lot of weight on eating in a calm, settled state rather than on the move. It costs nothing, takes under a minute, and it is a small, honest taste of the wider approach: pay attention to how you do the ordinary things, not just what you do.

Dr Sreenath Nair is one of over 70 readers, healers and stallholders at the Mind Body Spirit & Wellness Weekend, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September 2026, at Stockport Masonic Guildhall. His talk and workshop, like every session across the weekend, are included with entry.

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