Ayurveda and the Mind
About Me
My path into yoga began while studying Health and Wellness, where I discovered that healing extends far beyond the absence of disease. Yoga became a framework for understanding the relationship between the body, nervous system, mind, and lived experience—and a lifelong foundation for how I approach health, leadership, and human development.
Today, I serve as a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), Sattva Yoga Therapist, and Lead Faculty at PranaYoga Institute. With extensive experience in nonprofit management, I currently serve as the Chief Wellness Officer in a wellness organization dedicated to human development. My work integrates evidence-informed health sciences, yoga therapy, developmental science, and community wellness to create accessible, person-centered approaches to care across clinical, educational, nonprofit, and community settings.
I have experience supporting individuals across the lifespan with chronic and complex health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, neurological conditions, cancer, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), chronic pain, post-operative recovery, prenatal and postpartum care, trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and life transitions. Across every setting, my focus remains the same: understanding the whole person, supporting nervous system regulation, and empowering individuals to actively participate in their healing actively.
Whether working with clients, mentoring clinicians, or leading community initiatives, I believe every person possesses an innate capacity for healing, adaptation, and growth. My role is not to fix people, but to create the conditions where resilience, self-awareness, meaningful change, and the light that already exists within can emerge.
What to Expect From Me as Your Mentor
My role is not to give you all the answers... it's to help you become the Yoga Therapist you are capable of becoming.
You can expect me to:
- Lead with curiosity and compassion. I'll aim to cultivate a safe environment where questions, reflection, and honest conversations are welcomed.
- Challenge your clinical reasoning. I'll ask thoughtful questions that strengthen your assessment, decision-making, and confidence.
- Integrate evidence with humanity. Together we'll bridge health science, yoga therapy, and lived experience to provide individualized, ethical care.
- Provide honest feedback and accountability. I'll celebrate your strengths while encouraging continued growth, reflection, and professional integrity.
- Meet you where you are and walk with you to where you're going.
- Model lifelong learning. None of us has all the answers. I value humility, collaboration, and the willingness to keep learning.
My hope is that our mentorship equips you not only with clinical skill, but with the confidence, presence, and discernment to serve others with both competence and compassion.
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In this course, you will gain a practical understanding of how Ayurveda and Yoga philosophy explain mental and emotional patterns, and how these insights can guide therapeutic practice. You will explore the qualities of the mind through the three gunas (sattva, rajas, tamas) and learn how these influence clarity, motivation, stability, and emotional wellbeing.
You will become familiar with the inner landscape of the mind — including manas (sensory mind), buddhi (discernment), ahamkara (identity), and chitta (memory field) — and how patterns such as samskaras and vasanas shape behavior, habits, and perception over time. We will also explore the stages of the mind (bhumis) and common mental fluctuations (vrittis), helping you better recognize where a person is in their healing process and how to respond skillfully.
Through an integrated Ayurvedic and yogic lens, you will learn how subtle energies — prana (vital energy), tejas (clarity and transformation), and ojas (resilience and stability) — influence mental health and emotional balance. You will explore how to select meditation, pranayama, mantra, and self-inquiry practices based on an individual’s constitution and current state of imbalance.
You will also learn how trauma, lifestyle, and seasonal influences can affect mental doshic expression, and how to adapt practices to support greater steadiness, clarity, and ease. By the end of the course, you will have a clear framework for understanding Ayurveda’s model of the mind and how it contributes to a more holistic and compassionate approach to healing.
About Me
My path into yoga began while studying Health and Wellness, where I discovered that healing extends far beyond the absence of disease. Yoga became a framework for understanding the relationship between the body, nervous system, mind, and lived experience—and a lifelong foundation for how I approach health, leadership, and human development.
Today, I serve as a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), Sattva Yoga Therapist, and Lead Faculty at PranaYoga Institute. With extensive experience in nonprofit management, I currently serve as the Chief Wellness Officer in a wellness organization dedicated to human development. My work integrates evidence-informed health sciences, yoga therapy, developmental science, and community wellness to create accessible, person-centered approaches to care across clinical, educational, nonprofit, and community settings.
I have experience supporting individuals across the lifespan with chronic and complex health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, neurological conditions, cancer, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), chronic pain, post-operative recovery, prenatal and postpartum care, trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and life transitions. Across every setting, my focus remains the same: understanding the whole person, supporting nervous system regulation, and empowering individuals to actively participate in their healing actively.
Whether working with clients, mentoring clinicians, or leading community initiatives, I believe every person possesses an innate capacity for healing, adaptation, and growth. My role is not to fix people, but to create the conditions where resilience, self-awareness, meaningful change, and the light that already exists within can emerge.
What to Expect From Me as Your Mentor
My role is not to give you all the answers... it's to help you become the Yoga Therapist you are capable of becoming.
You can expect me to:
- Lead with curiosity and compassion. I'll aim to cultivate a safe environment where questions, reflection, and honest conversations are welcomed.
- Challenge your clinical reasoning. I'll ask thoughtful questions that strengthen your assessment, decision-making, and confidence.
- Integrate evidence with humanity. Together we'll bridge health science, yoga therapy, and lived experience to provide individualized, ethical care.
- Provide honest feedback and accountability. I'll celebrate your strengths while encouraging continued growth, reflection, and professional integrity.
- Meet you where you are and walk with you to where you're going.
- Model lifelong learning. None of us has all the answers. I value humility, collaboration, and the willingness to keep learning.
My hope is that our mentorship equips you not only with clinical skill, but with the confidence, presence, and discernment to serve others with both competence and compassion.