The Body and the Land
In Ayurveda, the body — deha — is understood as a microcosm of the living earth — desha. The same elements that compose the soil, the rivers, the atmosphere compose you. The same cycles that govern the seasons govern your digestion, your sleep, your capacity to adapt. You are not separate from the ecology. You are a particular expression of it.
This is not metaphor. It is the foundational premise of a five-thousand-year-old science of life.
Your prakriti is your constitutional pattern — the specific balance of elements present at your origin. Think of it as the native ecology of a place: the soil composition, the watershed, the kind of growth the land naturally supports. Your vikriti is the imprint of everything since — climate, grief, diet, sleeplessness, medication, joy, the accumulated weather of a life. The distance between prakriti and vikriti is where imbalance takes root.
In our work together, we read that distance. Not to diagnose — that is not my role — but to understand the pattern. Why does your body respond to seasonal change the way it does? Why does grief settle in your joints? Why does this food nourish and that one deplete? Ayurveda offers a language for these questions that the Western medical framework often cannot hold.
What Ayurvedic Consultation Involves
The work begins before we meet. You complete a detailed intake form — your medical history, your daily rhythms, how you eat and sleep and move, what medications and substances are in your system, your emotional terrain, your timeline of significant events. You submit a tongue photo. I read all of this before our first session.
The initial consultation is ninety minutes. We go through your terrain together — not as a checklist, but as a reading. I’m looking for the pattern beneath the symptoms: which elements are in excess, which are depleted, where the digestive capacity has been compromised, how the accumulated stress of your history has settled into your body’s current expression. We talk about what you eat, when you eat, how you sleep, what wakes you, what drains you, what sustains you. By the end of the first session, you have an initial set of recommendations — dietary shifts, lifestyle adjustments, and sometimes herbal support — and a clear sense of what we’re working with.
From there, the work is iterative. Follow-up sessions track how your body responds to the changes. We adjust. We observe. We adjust again. Some things shift quickly — sleep often improves first, then digestion, then energy. Other patterns are deeper and require longer observation, particularly in autoimmune conditions where the imbalance has been building for years or decades. The body has its own pace. We respect it.
Over the course of several sessions, we build a protocol that is specific to you — not a generic Ayurvedic template, but a detailed, evolving set of practices rooted in how your particular body processes food, rest, stress, and seasonal change. This may include dietary protocols calibrated to your constitution and current imbalance, herbal formulations, adjustments to your daily and seasonal routines, and guidance on movement and rest. It always includes learning to read your own signals with increasing precision.
The goal is not to hand you a set of rules. It is to hand you a way of reading your own ecology — so that over time, you make choices not because a protocol told you to, but because you can feel what your body is asking for.
What This Is Not
This is complementary to your medical care. I do not diagnose, prescribe pharmaceuticals, or replace your physician. What I read is the layer your medical team may not have time to read — your daily rhythms, your digestion, your sleep architecture, your capacity for change, the accumulated conditions that created the terrain the disease inhabits.
Your doctor manages the acute. I accompany the ongoing. These are different registers of care, and they work best in concert.
I study Ayurveda through the Académie Québécoise d’Ayurveda, where I also serve as Adjunct Director. This is a living tradition, not a credential. I am a student first — and I bring twenty-five years of navigating autoimmunity in my own body to every consultation I conduct.
Who This Is For
You are living with a condition that cycles — remission and relapse, good seasons and difficult ones. You may have autoimmunity, chronic fatigue, burnout, digestive collapse, or the aftermath of long-term stress that conventional medicine has managed but not resolved. You may not have a clear diagnosis at all — only the lived experience of a body that is no longer functioning the way it once did.
You’ve likely been through the medical system and received what it can offer. You may have tried other approaches — functional medicine, naturopathy, acupuncture, dietary protocols found online. Some helped. Some didn’t. What you haven’t had is someone who reads the whole terrain and accompanies you through it over time.
You are intelligent, resourceful, and accustomed to managing complex situations. You have the means and the willingness to invest in a sustained process. You understand that what took years to accumulate will not resolve in a single session.
You are looking for a navigator, not an authority. Someone who has been in the water — not just studied the current from shore.
How to Begin
Complete the intake form. It takes 30–45 minutes. I review your responses within 5 business days and contact you to schedule your first consultation.
You do not have to wait for collapse to seek support.