Prendre soin, c’est mon langage d’amour.
J’ai toujours vécu quelque part entre la théorie et la beauté.
Je peux passer des heures à essayer de comprendre pourquoi quelque chose fonctionne — puis être tout aussi heureuse de passer les heures suivantes à choisir une huile, aménager un espace, trouver la bonne musique ou créer un rituel qui semble simplement juste.
L’Ayurvéda m’a offert un endroit où ces deux élans n’avaient pas besoin de s’opposer.
Ce qui m’a d’abord attirée, c’est sa façon incroyablement détaillée d’observer le corps. Mais ce qui m’a vraiment fait tomber amoureuse de cette tradition, c’est autre chose : l’importance qu’elle accorde aux sens.
Le toucher. Les odeurs. Les sons. Le goût. La chaleur. Les textures. Le rythme.
Je me suis particulièrement intéressée à la dimension sensorielle du chikitsa ayurvédique et aux tanmatras — ces qualités subtiles à travers lesquelles nous faisons l’expérience du monde — ainsi qu’à cette idée que le soin ne passe pas uniquement par la compréhension.
BEAUTY ISN’T THE OPPOSITE OF DEPTH /
ayurveda places enormous importance on agni: our capacity to digest, transform and make something of what we take in.
that changed the way I think about beauty.
I’m much less interested in beauty as correction than I am in beauty as aliveness — circulation returning to a face, a jaw letting go, skin looking nourished, eyes becoming brighter, someone getting off the table looking somehow more like themselves. that is the kind of beauty I care about.
and then there’s marma — the slightly more mysterious thread running through everything I do.
Marma sits in that fascinating space between anatomy, touch and Ayurveda’s subtle energetic language. It connects my consultations, my bodywork and my facial practice: sometimes I work through food and daily rhythms, sometimes through muscle, fascia, lymph and skin, and sometimes through something a little harder to name.
different languages. same body.
Source has slowly become the place where all of those interests get to coexist: Ayurveda, beauty, touch, ritual, curiosity and a little bit of play.
study / practice / repeat
I love the intuitive side of this work, but intuition is not a substitute for study. Ayurveda is vast, and I still approach it first and foremost as a student. my practice has been shaped by training in traditional Ayurveda, marma, Ayurvedic beauty, facial massage, yoga and pranayama — and I continue learning as the work evolves.
ayurveda + marma
Ayurvedic Practitioner & Clinical Studies
Vaidya Hemant Gupta · Holistic Ayurveda Canada
Advanced Ayurvedic Practitioner
Dr. Janardhana V. Hebbar BAMS · Easy Ayurveda India
Ayurvedic Lakshana - Body reading
Vaidya Vasant Lad
Marma Therapy
Studies with Vaidya Vasant Lad and Vaidya Hemant Gupta
Subtle Marma
Following the theoretical teachings of the Raju lineage
face + ayurvedic beauty therapy
Ayurvedic Beauty Therapy
Dr. Sajna Rajesh BAMS & Dr. Rajesh Deven BAMS
School of Ayurveda & Panchakarma · Kerala, India
Sculpt & Lifting Facial Massage
ProAesthetics Academy
Touch of Beauty
Yakob Gershkovich
yoga + pranayama
Ongoing Yoga & Pranayama Studies
with Eddie Stern, alongside the teachings of Robert Moses & Harshvardhan Jhaveri