My dear Ayurveda family,

It is with great joy, tinged with bittersweet, that I announce big changes underway at Shanti Ayurveda. I have accepted a managerial & teaching position at the California College of Ayurveda and will be relocating to Nevada City, California (about an hour north of Sacramento). As of October 1, I will no longer see clients in my lovely Southern California office.

Happily, technology makes it possible for me to continue to serve you, my loyal clients; I will be available for appointments through Skype, which is in fact a highly effective way of working together. I have many clients located throughout the world with whom I meet via Skype on a regular basis, and this forum works quite nicely. I also will be able to continue to fill your herb orders through the herb department at the college. And, whenever you find yourself in Nevada City, I would of course love to meet with you in person!

This is an extraordinarily exciting opportunity for me at the California College of Ayurveda (CCA). I will be wearing many hats, including creating a new School of Yoga Therapy within the college, which will include opening a yoga studio - appropriately called Dosha Yoga. I also will be starting an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy program at the college, which will allow for yoga teachers to deepen their practices by incorporating the wisdom of Ayurveda into their teaching of yoga. As many of you know, I have been teaching Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy at Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in various locations around the world for a number of years, and will now focus on bringing this program "home" to CCA. By the way, for those of you who have already taken our AYT program, we will be expanding and deepening the program to include IAYT certification, ultimately at the 800 hour level (if you are interested in learning more about this, please email me directly). I will keep you all informed when the website it ready and the program ready to roll.

I will also be managing the pancha karma department at CCA, continuing to teach, and as mentioned before, seeing clients via Skype. All while living in the incredibly quaint and charming town of Nevada City, located in the forest along Highway 49 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Quite an exciting change of life for me!

I can't even begin to thank all of you enough for your many years of loyalty. I will forever feel graced by the huge roles that you have each played in my life. I began practicing nearly 10 years ago, and many of you have been with me since the very beginning of this most amazing of journeys. It is my deepest hope that you will continue to allow me to serve as your practitioner of Ayurveda.

As my expression of gratitude, I offer you two gifts. It is my wish to provide you with as much healing wisdom as possible so that the light of Ayurveda may continue to shine upon your lives. To this end, I have included in this newsletter what I consider to be the most fundamentally important aspects of Ayurveda. Not because other aspects of Ayurveda are any less important or effective, but these are the bedrock concepts upon which a healthy life can be built. For some this will serve as reminders; for others, this is new information. For everyone, this is timeless wisdom that can lead to a complete transformation in health and wellness.  

For my other "gift", I have compiled a list of Clinical Ayurvedic Specialists, yoga studios, healers of various descriptions, and other health-and-wellness related centers in this area. These are practitioners with whom I have had the great fortune of interacting with over the years. This is by no means a definitive list, and I very much apologize if I have overlooked anyone of importance. My wish is to provide as complete a list as possible. Please let me know if you know of other practitioners and/or services which would be suitable for this list and I will send out a revised list as soon as possible.

Thank you, my loyal clients, from the depths of my heart, for the many gifts that you have brought to my life. It is my honor, and my dharma, to continue to serve humanity by playing a role in bringing the deep and profound wisdom of Ayurveda out into the world. As one embraces the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda, health is restored, consciousness expands, and the world evolves into higher planes of health and wellness. I am humbled to be playing a role in spreading this incredible body of knowledge. By working closely at the California College of Ayurveda, my role will be able to expand even further.

May our paths continue to cross. Along the way, I wish you eternal bliss, robust health, and joy that knows no bounds.

Om Shanti (In Peace),