care is my love language.
I’ve always lived somewhere between theory and beauty.
I can spend hours trying to understand why something works — and just as happily spend the next few choosing an oil, arranging a room, finding the right music or creating a ritual that feels just right.
Ayurveda gave me a place where those two instincts didn’t have to compete.
What first drew me in was its incredibly detailed way of observing the body. But what made me fall in love with the tradition was something else: the importance it gives to the senses.
Touch. Scent. Sound. Taste. Warmth. Texture. Rhythm.
I became especially interested in the sensorial side of Ayurvedic chikitsa and the tanmatras — the subtle qualities through which we experience the world — and in the idea that care doesn’t only happen through understanding.
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