Most of us were never taught how to have a body. We may have learned about the different parts of a human body in a health class, or some of the basics of how a human body works, but we never learned about our specific body: it's constitution, strengths, weaknesses, and the diet and lifestyle practices that build and sustain health through our lifespan.

 

The health advice we've received is often general in nature and not applicable to our unique constitution. We are starting to talk about holistic health, and mind-body medicine, but western medicine still focuses on discreet parts of  the body, and misses the holistic nature of our body-mind-spirit wholeness. Sadly, even in 2025, the majority of health research has been done on male bodies, so caring for our female cycles, fertility, post partum, peri and post menopause is addressed indirectly if at all.

 

As modern women, we do our best getting the nutrition, exercise and sleep we need, but there are often gaps in what we know to do to build and sustain health throughout our lives. Those gaps in our diet and lifestyle practices often lead  us to symptoms that we don't know how to resolve, and start to live with, or get symptom relief through medicines that don't resolve the underlying problem.

 

Symptoms like:
 

• gas, bloating, acidity, constipation, IBS and slow, sluggish digestion

• metabolic issues like unwanted weight gain, or weight that's hard to lose, blood sugar issues excess heat or cold in the body.

• painful periods, missing periods, hot flashes, irregular cycles, low libido, incontinence

• acne, rashes and other skin flare-ups

• trouble falling asleep or staying asleep

• low energy or chronic fatigue

• muscle and joint pain or achiness

• anxiety, fear, depression, loss of satisfaction in life

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​The truth is that most of our body complaints can be partly or completely resolved through diet and lifestyle. AND, when our foundational habits are in place, it becomes clear when we need an intervention from a specialist. Allopathic medicine is there for us when we have a disease process that is too advanced to be impacted by our diet and lifestyle alone. Before that, Ayurveda is there for us to teach us about our unique constitution and how to understand it's needs and how to care for it. 

 

Āyurveda offers the diet and lifestyle medicine for our unique constitution and lifestage. Its teachings lead us back to ourselves, to understanding our strenghts and weaknesses and how best to care for the body-mind-spirit we've been given. It's a system of medicine that's been around for thousands of years, and modern research into health and longevity are bearing out most of its tenents. 

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Whether you're at the beginning of your life, mid way through, or moving towards eldering, these teachings can meet you where you are and expand and refine your health in wonderful ways. I've seen it in my own life and in the life of my clients. 

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You're invited...to join me and a wonderful group of women for a 12 week journey the foundational practices of Āyurvedic dinacharya--Daily Rhythm--to live into the next iteration of your good health and deep wellbeing. Through 1 - 1 work with Shannon, weekly classes with the group, monthly integration weeks for digestion and integration, and two additional 1 - 1 follow up's with Shannon you'll make outstanding progress in creating and living a healthy-for-you daily routine. 

 

You'll learn about your Āyurvedic constitution, receive customized recommendations for your specific situation, learn about and implement one or two aspects of dinacharya each week, and continue to learn about and refine the way you take care of yourself over 12 weeks. We'll meet 3 times a month in November, December and January, taking 1 week off each month (2 in Dec) for digestion and integration.

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