Ayurvedic Consultations
Ayurvedic Massage
Many factors play a role in the state of our health. Stress, overwhelm, trauma, deep unresolved emotions, an unsuitable diet, and environmental toxins dysregulate the body and mind. Ayurvedic Consultations entail looking at patterns in digestion, appetite, elimination, sleep, pain, toxin overload, and general symptomology to fully understand the whole person.
Food Therapy & Holistic Counseling
Ayurvedic Massage
Healing touch has a profound effect on our physical, mental, and emotional health. In Ayurveda, massage is often incorporated as part of a treatment plan. Ayurvedic massage is known widely as Oil Massage or Abhyanga. Organic herbal oils are used and absorbed through the skin to help strengthen muscles and joints, stimulate lymphatic drainage, reduce inflammation, or give relief to pain.
Massage directly affects the lymphatic system called rasa dhatu. It assists in blood circulation by moving fluids, wastes, and toxins from the tissues and back into the digestive tract and organs of elimination. For example, it’s common to have to use the bathroom after therapy. Urine, a way the body removes waste, is made from acids from the blood and other fluids. As circulation of blood and lymph is cleared, deep holding patters become released. As mind, body, and cells are interconnected, the mind receives messages to let go, allowing breath and prana to flow freely.
My sessions offer clients a safe space to receive a nurturing massage while applying flowing and steady strokes to relax and soothe muscles as well as deeper pressure on vital energy points or Marma Points.
Each therapy session works to release physical, mental, and emotional patterns. Often, it can allow deep wounds to come up into the light of our awareness to change patterns of overall health.
In Ayurveda, supporting digestion is an integral way to experience robust health. Food is the most basic form of medicine and the ahara rasa or “essence of food” forms the building blocks of the tissues of the body.
Today, it is increasingly common to experience some kind of digestive discomfort from bloating, indigestion, IBS, acid reflux, or poor absorption and elimination. When left unaddressed, these symptoms develop into chronic inflammation, multiple food sensitivities, difficulties throughout the menstrual cycle, high or low blood sugar, dysregulated nervous system, or disordered eating and other addictions.
Ayurveda emphasizes learning how to apply the shad rasa or six tastes found in foods- sweet, sour, salty, pungent, astringent, and bitter. These tastes have unique properties and effects from stimulating stomach acids or bile in the liver, building muscle tissue, or cleansing the blood.
In my practice, I support clients gain a better understanding of their bodies and an autonomous relationship with their food. With careful listening, I guide clients to include a diet focused on whole organic food, sustainable lifestyle habits, and herbs for the digestive and nervous system.
Food Therapy & Holistic Counseling
“I firmly believe the right diet and lifestyle has the capability to change the trajectory of our health in profound ways.”