Āyurvedic Wellness Consultations are for anyone who wants to feel better in body-mind-spirit. This ancient, indigenous wisdom specializes in preventative care and maintaining balance, based on your unique constitution and current needs. I work with folks in varying states of wellness and chronic or acute dis-ease, including those who arrive without a specific complaint, and are simply curious.

Our time together offers space to explore your own unique constitution in relationship to the world around you, through the lens of the five elements (ether, air, fire, water, earth), and how to maintain balance within the context of continual change. It's an opportunity to be guided within a container of compassionate accountability, as you establish or deepen a relationship with your own inner wisdom.

You don't need prior experience with āyurveda, yoga, meditation, or other healing modalities in order to benefit from this work.  The only requirement is a desire to heal and the willingness to take responsibility for your own healing. All of the practices and suggestions offered are secular in nature.  If desired, we can incorporate your spiritual or religious beliefs into our work together.  I will meet you where you are, and allow you to guide me in this way.

Self Care Guidance is part of the foundation of our work together through the lens of āyurveda. It is not a separate offering as much as a key component of everything that I offer. Self care is community care; the way we do or do not care for our own glorious selves, directly shapes the way we are able to show up for others. I believe that self care is an obligation rather than a luxury, requiring loving self discipline, compassionate boundaries, and patience. In this way, we care for ourselves for the benefit of the whole. And also, it's okay to enjoy it!

After our initial consultations, I often meet with clients monthly, seasonally, or somewhere in between. This allows for continual adjustments as life circumstances and seasons shift, within a gentle container of accountability. It also allows for you to continue to deepen in your own practice, and relationship to the five elements and the other basic principles of āyurveda and holistic wellness that most resonate with you.

Personal Retreat Guidance offers you the opportunity to "go on retreat" without actually having to go anywhere. Yes, heading off to some beautiful place where all your needs are taken care of is wonderful. And sometimes we just don't have that luxury. Or even with do, creating containers of retreat within our every day lives (or camping in the woods, a hotel stay, house sitting gig, etc.) can offer something uniquely supportive. We can build in pockets of retreat within a single day, week, month, or season.

This kind of retreat can happen even with kids, parents, housemates, pets, or other beings at home. Though it is nice to have some time off from work, it's not necessary. You get to decide how inward you want to be, and how you want to engage with the world around you. Your retreat can be one day, one week, or however long you want. If you are able or want to stay someplace outside your home, we can plan for that as well.

Your retreat may include seated or walking mediation, breath work (prānāyāma), yoga or other movement practices, journaling, dance, singing or chanting, art, or other forms of creative expression. I might offer suggestions for daily routine and rituals for waking, preparing for sleep, meal time, or body and sense care practices. Your retreat can include naps or a solo hike up a mountain. We'll make it what you need.