Ayurveda: The Art of Living Well
Learning to care for yourself through the wisdom of Ayurveda.
For most of my adult life, I've been searching for ways to help humans suffer less.
Not just my clients.
Me, too.
Ayurveda has become one of the most important ways I've learned to do that.
Ayurveda means the science of life. And while it includes herbs, food, daily practices, understanding the doshas, and so much more, what I love most about Ayurveda is actually quite simple:
It teaches us how to pay attention.
What strengthens me?
What weakens me?
What nourishes me?
What depletes me?
What am I taking in—and am I able to digest it?
What I have taken in-food, experiences, traumas-did I digest those? Or are they still running my life??
What do I need in this season of my life?
These questions can apply to food and sleep.
But they also apply to our work, relationships, emotions, money, habits, boundaries, and the ways we move through the world.
Maybe they were never separate.
Something interesting happened as I began healing my relationship with money.
I started taking better care of myself.
Or maybe it was the other way around.
As I started taking better care of myself, my relationship with money changed.
Maybe they were never as separate as I thought.
I stopped believing I had to sacrifice myself in order to create wealth. I began questioning the constant pull toward more—more work, more clients, more money, more achievement—and started paying attention to what all of that more was actually doing to me.
Because our relationship with money doesn't live in a little compartment labeled finances (but my God, for most of my life I thought it did!!).
It lives inside our relationship with work, rest, enoughness, fear, desire, receiving, pleasure, our bodies, and how we care for ourselves.
This is one of the places where Ayurveda and my work with wealth meet.
Ayurveda continually invites us to notice what strengthens us and what weakens us. What we're taking in and whether we can digest it. What brings us toward balance and what pulls us away.
Those questions don't only apply to food.
They apply to how we work.
How we spend.
How we rest.
How we receive.
How we pursue what we want.
And how we know when we have enough.
I've become increasingly interested in a kind of wealth that doesn't require us to abandon ourselves in order to create it.
A wealth that includes money—but also includes having the capacity to actually inhabit and enjoy the life we're building.
For me, Ayurveda has become an important part of understanding what that kind of wealth can look like.
This isn't another way to perfect yourself.
For a long time, I believed healing required becoming someone better.
More disciplined.
More consistent.
More evolved.
Ayurveda helped me begin to understand something different.
Caring for ourselves doesn't have to grow from the belief that there is something wrong with us.
We can do things that are good for us because they feel good and because we want to care for ourselves—not because we're trying to earn our way toward some better version of ourselves.
This is the Ayurveda I practice and teach.
Not perfect morning routines.
Not rigid food rules.
Not another list of things you should be doing.
Instead, we learn to listen.
To our bodies.
To our emotions.
To our needs.
To our rhythms.
To the seasons around us.
And, little by little, to the wisdom within us that can become difficult to hear beneath years of fear, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and everything that has happened to us.
Ayurveda gives us a way to come back into relationship with ourselves.
And from that relationship, we can begin to care for ourselves differently.
Living Ayurveda
A Fall 2026 Mentorship for Women
Learning to care for yourself through the wisdom of Ayurveda.
Living Ayurveda is a seasonal mentorship for women who want to explore Ayurveda not as another self-improvement project, but as a way of living with greater balance, compassion, and connection to themselves.
We'll spend one season exploring foundational Ayurvedic and yogic teachings and translating them into ordinary, modern life.
We'll explore what nourishes you and what depletes you, how to create rhythms that support the life you're actually living, how Ayurveda understands digestion and emotional health, and what ancient teachings around enoughness and receiving might have to offer us today.
This isn't about practicing Ayurveda perfectly.
It's an invitation to stop trying to become someone better and begin learning how to care for yourself.
My relationship with Ayurveda
Yoga found me when I was 19 years old, and I've been studying and practicing ever since.
Over the years, my training has taken me more deeply into yoga, yoga therapy, meditation, yogic philosophy, and eventually Ayurveda. My study of Ayurveda deepened profoundly through The Shakti School and its compassionate, feminine-form approach to this ancient wisdom.
But I don't consider Ayurveda something I've mastered.
I consider myself a student of it.
Ayurveda has slowly changed the way I eat, rest, work, move, relate to my emotions, understand my body, and care for myself.
More than anything, it has helped me loosen my grip on the belief that healing requires becoming someone better.
And that may be the part of this wisdom I most want to share.
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Weekly, I write about women, well-being, Ayurveda, money, self-compassion, enoughness, and what it means to care for ourselves and our lives a little differently.