If your body has been telling you something for a while and you have never had the language to answer it, this is the weekend that gives you one. Four sessions across a weekend at the shala: your constitution, digestion, mental health, and living in rhythm with the seasons. Private consultations filled. This page records the visit, and we will announce her next one here first.
What was covered
An introduction to the three doshas and to agni, the digestive fire. Living well through summer and keeping pitta in balance. Ayurveda for mental health and the regulation of the nervous system. And digestive allies, the Ayurvedic approach to gut health.
Not a set of rules to follow, but a language for speaking with your own body, which is what people took home.
Why we hosted it
Ayurvedic wisdom has been part of my teaching and my own practice for a long time. Finding someone I trusted enough to bring here, who holds the tradition rigorously and applies it with warmth, took much longer. Anjali is that person.
I brought her here because I wanted this community to have access to her.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Co-FounderAnjali Deva is the founder of Rooted Rasa and of the Madhya Way Ayurveda School, and works at the meeting point of digestion, mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The weekend
Friday evening, ninety minutes. The foundations: the three doshas of vata, pitta and kapha, the digestive fire of agni, and simple daily practices that hold the whole thing in balance. All levels, and everyone left with practical tools for reading their own constitution.
Saturday morning, two hours. How the season moves digestion, mood, sleep and energy, and the foods, herbs and daily routines that keep pitta from running hot through the warmer months.
Saturday afternoon, two hours. Ayurveda treats digestion, mood and the nervous system as one connected thing. This session worked anxiety and overwhelm through food, herbs, daily rhythm and mindfulness, weaving Ayurveda together with yoga.
Sunday morning, two hours. In Ayurveda digestion is the foundation of health. How each dosha shapes it, how to recognize imbalance, and how to strengthen agni with spices, mindful eating and supportive habits.
Monday, one to one with Anjali. A full constitution assessment, personalized nutrition, herbs and daily routine, and a written follow-up plan. Ninety minutes for new clients, sixty for returning. They filled before the weekend began.
$25 for the Friday introduction and $65 for each longer session, or $209 for the full weekend bundle. Private consultations were $250 and $175. Recorded here for reference; the weekend has concluded.
About Anjali
Anjali Deva is an Ayurvedic practitioner, educator and writer based in the mountains of Southern California. She founded Rooted Rasa, a private practice built around a trauma-informed approach to healing, and Madhya Way, a professional training program in integrative Ayurveda.
Her work sits at the meeting point of digestion, mental health and emotional wellbeing, and she draws on classical Ayurvedic teaching alongside yoga, meditation and herbalism. Most of the people she works with already know something is off. What they lack is the framework to name it.
You leave with a framework for understanding your own body that you will use for the rest of your life. Not a set of rules to follow, but a language to finally speak with yourself. Without it you go on managing symptoms one at a time, treating the afternoon crash and the restless night and the unsettled gut as three unrelated problems rather than one conversation your body has been trying to have with you. There is more depth in yoga than you have been able to reach.
Anjali Deva
Who you become
You stop guessing at what will help and start recognizing the pattern, which means the next time something is off you know where to look first. There is more depth in yoga than you have been able to reach.
How to be there next time
Tell us Ayurveda is what you are after. We keep a short list of people who want to know before anyone else does.
Visiting teachers go to our own community before the dates are announced anywhere public, and this weekend filled that way.
Rachel works one to one in yoga therapy year round, and much of what Anjali teaches lives in that work already.
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Rachel has trained teachers for twenty-five years. Two certification levels, small by design.
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