Ayurveda is a 5,000 system of functional and lifestyle medicine rooted in consciousness - conscious connection to mind, body, heart and spirit. It offers wisdom that can inform how we think about ourselves, others and the world around us, our relationship to food, our daily habits and practices and our sleep.

When working with clients with depression we do a complete health intake and assessment to understand your struggles with depression and make detailed recommendations to help reduce depression from the inside out.

This might mean improving digestion and/or sleep so the body feels lighter and more energized. Many times poeple who struggle with depression eat a high carb diet to get the "seratonin", but this is a short-term high and we can provide nutrition recommendations and health coaching to help you choose the right foo and fuel to feel better. We can also show you practices that help calm the mind, body and spirit, giving you space to think about something else besides all the worry and stress.

Depression is something we "feel" in our body. The heaviness that makes it hard to get up off the couch, take a shower, care for yourselves. It can lead to isolation and disconnection from the body because many people struggling with depression live in their "head" in a constant cycle of worry, regret, and hopelessness. Learning how to "feel" our depression and also learning how to feel what takes us away from our state of depression is very valuable to wellness. We also use somatic therapy to show you how to shift your physiology from stress and depressed to aligned and active so you can feel more vibrant, alive and energized. We offer safe, trauma-informed, and compassionate spaces to explore their relationship to depression, how it shows up in the body, and teach some practical strategies for staying regulated.

Depression is quite simply a very. deep "sadness", and that sadness can be projected onto the relationship you have with yourself, others and the world around you. But, ultimately this sadness starts in the brain with our specific brain architecture. We can use brain health based strategies to promote healthy management and mitigation of depression and symptoms so clients feel more empowered and in control. We will develop a specific brain-health plan for you, rooted in psychology and neuroscience to support your brain health if you struggle with depression. We can also educate you on some of the brain and neuroscience based principles and research on depression so you can feel more informed and advocate for yourself.

Depression is like a quicksand and glue - it pulls you down into the abyss and it can feel impossible to escape. Energy Medicine comes in many forms and we offer sound healing, energy work like Reiki and Pranic healing, bodywork, breathwork and other modalities to help clients change their relationship to anxiety. Sometimes this means creating safe, quiet, relaxing spaces where clients learn how to be calm and still. Sometimes this means educating clients on the energetic qualities of depression, their origin, where they live in the body and how to move this energy to bring more balance back to the whole. It may also include "moving" the energy through integration and "digestion" of past experiences so we no longer have to hold them with such force. Energy work can help you feel lighter, more energized, and return to equilibrium more quickly.