While I first learned about Ayurveda — and my dosha — back in massage school at 21, my real initiation into this path began years later, in the aftermath of a divorce that shook me to my core. It was 2017, and I was sitting in a therapist’s office in Vermont, blindsided and raw, diagnosed with PTSD and depression, struggling to make sense of what the heck had just happened. My nervous system was in a constant state of survival — looping, frozen, lost. Luckily for me, my therapist had come with over 5000 years of wisdom to share. We talked, I cried, she offered me small Ayurvedic practices as “homework.” Just one thing every few weeks. Slowly, something started to shift. I felt myself coming back — not to the self I had known, but to a deeper, truer version of me. 

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I knew then that I needed to learn this “magic.”

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Once the dust of the divorce settled, I set my sights on New Mexico to study at The Ayurvedic Institute with Dr Vasant Lad, the very same teacher my therapist studied under. But life had other plans. After fleeing another long Vermont winter, I ended up in the South, by accident more than design. It was the beginning of 2020. The pandemic had just begun, and Asheville, North Carolina became my unexpected refuge. I told myself I’d stay just until the world opened back up and I could make my way west. But as the fog of the pandemic began to lift, so did something within me. I found myself deeply nourished by these Blue Ridge mountains, diving into the study of plants and herbs and growing more rooted than I expected.

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But I couldn't shake it. This feeling of needing to go. To seek the wisdom I knew I needed to learn. Then, one day, a friend sent me a video of this teacher I so desperately wanted to learn from. It was Dr. Lad on a lovely mountain vista, surrounded by clouds and lush forest, speaking about expansion — and about the Ayurvedic Institute MOVING. The landscape, the clouds, the trees in the video looked… familiar. When he said it out loud — that the school would be relocating to Asheville after 40 years in Albuquerque — I could hardly believe it. I honestly thought someone was playing a trick on me.

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But after rewatching the video about 20 more times I realized it was indeed real.

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I fell to the earth in tears. I had been in the right place all along. On my own timing. On my own path. And Ayurveda had found me — again — and this time, it wasn’t just a spark of curiosity. 

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Today, I integrate everything this journey has taught me — the unraveling, the remembering, the return — into how I practice and share Ayurveda. This isn’t just a system of health to me; it’s a way of life, a lens I see the world through, and a path of coming home to yourself. I strive to keep this medicine both accessible as well as approachable, which is why I have several options for you to choose from for level of care.  I offer Ayurvedic consultations both locally here in Asheville as well as virtually, so that wherever you are, we can explore this world together. It would be my honor to walk beside you as you reconnect with your own innate wisdom, rhythm, and vitality, because I promise, it never left, we just have to know how to look for where to find it.