Slip Into “TOTAL BLISS!” – With Dr Lisa Raskin – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter July 9, 2026, #26, Vol 16

Vaidya Mishra was an award-winning master-formulator. That is an undisputed fact. He not only knew all the properties of the full ayurvedic pharmacopeia – pharmacy of healing plants and herb, but he also knew how to combine one with the other(s), to create a totally new synergy of herbs with unprecedented healing and balancing properties.

Today, it is with great joy that we make available a formula that has been waiting a looooong time! Vaidya Mishra had a notebook where he wrote down recipes of spice blends, herbal formulations, and more products, that he did not have the time to launch. We have been arduously and patiently working hard to make these available to all.

Today, we are delighted to bring you Total Bliss: a unique blend of Ashwagandha and Ashoka, a formula that is so much needed right now, in these globally mentally and emotionally stressful times.

Ashwagandha needs no introduction! It is a superstar ayurvedic plant that is greatly misused – have you seen the latest version on the Costco shelves that contains the extract AND the plant?! The misuse of Ashwagandha is actually causing more harm to people than if they did not take it at all – it is extremely heating and can cause severe pitta aggravation amongst other things… This SVA formula is designed to give all the benefits of Ashwagandha with none of the side-effects. But as you have probably guessed and as we expect from Vaidya Mishra, there is so much more this formula.

It contains Ashoka – a great anti-inflammatory and grief removing tree of mythical dimensions; Guduchi, also a giant amongst ayurvedic healing plants, known as “amrita” – plant that rejuvenates and supplies immortality; Brahmi – the sacred plant that heals the body to give access to all that resides beyond the body; Tulsi, a great rejuvenator and protector; the sacred Bilva; the divine queen amongst all flowers – Rose, PLUS a few more! The greatest thing about this formula is that they ALL work together to give you a new level of mental equanimity and emotional stability, improve your sleep, pacify your pachak/digestive pitta, and allow your mind and heart to experience the cosmic bliss that animates your body, and is ever-present your days and nights. We just don’t get to experience it because we are caught up in the mundane and the fleeting moment. But enough said…We know this is going to become your newest favorite SVA-go-to! Don’t take our word for it: we asked Dr Lisa Raskin to tell us a bit more about her own experiences with the Total Bliss capsules…

Just when I thought I understood ashwagandha, Vaidya taught me one more lesson….

Years ago, Vaidya taught us that ashwagandha is a heating herb and that, in his experience, it was generally better suited to the male physiology. He preferred women receive it in other ways rather than as the whole herb internally. More recently, I experienced exactly what he had described. In formulas containing whole-herb ashwagandha, I felt my physiology being pushed. My sleep shortened, my nervous system became more intense, and I knew it wasn’t the right fit for me.

A few months ago, after my last two posts on ashwagandha, Dr. Melina Takvorian-Mishra sent me a sample of one of Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra’s formulas that had not yet been made available and is only now becoming available. Wisely, as she always is, she did not share more. She wanted me to experience it before making up my mind about it! I trust Vaidya so I did not hesitate or question! 

She did say it contained ashwagandha, and after everything I had just shared about my own experience with whole-herb ashwagandha, I expected it to affect me similarly: not in a positive way.

But I was willing to go through with the experience. And I am so glad I did. Because it was unlike anything I could have remotely predicted! In regards to Ashwagandha…. 

The first capsule completely stopped me in my tracks. I had taken it during the day, thinking I’d continue working. Instead, I couldn’t do anything. My body wanted rest, and it wasn’t negotiating.

At the time, I wasn’t exactly thrilled. I had a full day planned, and an unplanned day off was definitely not on my agenda.

Later, I asked Dr. Melina to send me the powder so I could experiment with much smaller amounts. And that changed everything!

Instead of feeling pushed, as I had with other formulas containing whole-herb ashwagandha, I felt something I honestly struggle to describe. It created a kind of smoothness in my nervous system, in my physiology, even in my emotions. One day my whole body felt bliss, not emotionally but physically. I also noticed it gave me deep, fulfilling sleep.

What surprised me most wasn’t just how I felt that day. It was that I still felt the effects the following day, even without taking it again. This didn’t feel like simple symptom relief. It felt restorative.

That experience made me stop and ask a different question: how could a formula containing ashwagandha create such a different experience?

I believe the answer is one of the greatest lessons Vaidya ever taught me. When creating a remedy, the wisdom isn’t only in choosing the right herbs. It’s in knowing how those herbs belong together.

Today, many formulas are created by combining ingredients that have individually been shown to support a particular condition or for their isolated nutritional and medicinal content. Vaidya Mishra worked very differently. He understood the relationships between herbs, how one herb could soften another, how one could direct another, how one could balance another’s nature, how the whole could become something entirely different from its individual parts.

That was Vaidya’s genius. That is the art of formulation.

It’s why I don’t look at an ingredient list and assume I know how a remedy will behave. And it’s why this experience didn’t contradict my previous posts about ashwagandha. If anything, it deepened them.

The nature of an herb matters. The state of the body matters. And the intelligence within the formulation matters too.

Watching Vaidya formulate remedies was like watching a divine artist at work – it is a cosmic creative act I feel incredibly grateful to have witnessed and to experience then, and now…

Lisa Raskin (D.C)

www.somaradiantwellness.com

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