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Intuitive Ayurveda

Maria Gabriela is a certified Ayurveda Health Counselor, a doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.), a 200 hour certified yoga teacher, and founder of Intuitive Ayurveda. She specializes in helping women prepare for, celebrate, and manage the transition into menopause. The eastern and western perspectives of medicine each have something to offer us, and Maria Gabriela understands this dance. Her goal is to educate on Ayurvedic tools that can (and should) be individualized to each complex person. She strives to help her clients tune into the messages their bodies are sending them. Ultimately, she believes that every person is the expert on what is best for them, and can be empowered to hone in on which tools they need to support themselves in mind, body, and spirit. She shares stories, inspiration, and of course, Ayurveda tips on managing perimenopause + menopause. She sends out a weekly newsletter and sometimes an additional email per week with upcoming events. Check out the Starter Kit below!

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Finding the middle way

Hi friends, Warning: my email is a bit ranty today. You might enjoy that. I’m working on clarifying and sharing my point of view on perimenopause/menopause treatment as I see it. Something I’ve been giving a lot of thought to lately is competing messages around perimenopause and the Eastern/Western medicine world. There are many allopathic, Western docs out there now on a big bullhorn practically screaming about how great hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and how it can take care of your...

Hi friends, I’m writing to you this week as I visit with my oldest and closest friend, who lost her dad, Aziz, this week to dementia. I’ve known her family since I was 7, and our families spent a lot of time together growing up. They are chosen family to me. Aziz was a really fun person. He was a sweet, and loved to tease people. His humor is what I remember most. Towards the end, he couldn’t verbalize anymore, so he would make faces at people to make them laugh. He also worked as a...

Hi friends, At the retreat center I was recently at in Costa Rica, the man who owns the retreat center gave us a “longevity talk.” It was filled with gimmicky, on-trend treatments that were available for purchase at the center. He spoke with passion, zeal, and confidence, and all I could think was: this man is deeply afraid of death. Okay, well I had other thoughts too, but the main one I want to focus on is related to a question I got once from a student in a workshop: what have you given up...

Hi friends, I’m coming to you on just the other side of my cleanse. I feel like my body has processed and released some emotional residue from the past year (and gotten into a layer of even deeper stuff). Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, and talked about in my yoga classes, is that we don’t have to clearly intellectualize what we are releasing. With attention, intention, and space, we can shift. Cleansing gives the body a break from so much physical digestion, and allows it to...