Living Ayurveda

26/09/2025

🌷NOW SOLD OUT!

LAST CHANCE TO JOIN this Spring Retreat! 😍

If you love camping, yoga, good food, the company of good women, inner connection and are ready for some good ole relaxation this is your chance to snap up the last place at my upcoming Feminine Vitality Retreat!
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One camping space is left! 🎉

This is your opportunity to join us and experience all of the activities, meals, and divine nourishment of being on retreat without having to pay for the accommodation!
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With rising costs I really wanted to create an affordable offer for those who are needing some support and nourishing time away. ⁠
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Enjoy camping on the beautiful surrounds of Wattle Flat and be a part of this divine 4 day experience! ⁠
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Thursday 30th Oct - Sunday 2nd November. ⁠
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Retreat includes:⁠
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✨️ Divine Catering with delicious Vegetarian Sattvic (meaning harmonious) meals.⁠
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✨️ Daily guided inner explorations/ meditations to connect with your subtle energy body and heart.⁠
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✨️ Daily Yoga to nourish your body, mind, and nervous system.⁠
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✨️ Optional massage and times of stillness.⁠
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✨️ Wisdom circles and discussions to support your hormone balance, inner connection and wellness.⁠
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✨️ Practices to re-connect with your divine feminine & creativity - deepen your self love and trust in your own body wisdom.⁠
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✨️ Beautiful accommodation surrounded by nature and a magnesium pool to enjoy!

PLUS as a celebration of my 20th Retreat, I'm super excited to have Tori from The Green Room Adelaide come and share her botanical magic with us! 💛💛💛
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Please provide your own bedding and camp mat. ⁠
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If you love nature, yoga, dropping into stillness and nourishing your body mind and spirit then this is for you! ⁠
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Click the link below for more info.
https://livingayurveda.com.au/feminine-vitality-ayurveda-yoga-retreats/

Shoot me an email hello@livingayurveda.com.au if you have any questions.
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With love,⁠
Jacq ⁠
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07/09/2025

1 spot left for this gorgeously nourishing weekend with Joan from and me!

✨ONE SPOT LEFT

🌷Would you like to be pampered, nourished and empowered to move forward with more vitality and lightness in your life?

Join Jacq and Joan for the Women's Spring Retreat from 12 - 14 September at The Farm for Wellbeing 🌳

https://events.humanitix.com/women-s-spring-retreat
Afterpay available OR contact Joan for a payment plan - contact@thefarmforwellbeing.com.au

05/09/2025

🌿 Keeping it real… lately, I’ve been feeling the effects of a few indulgences.

Camping last weekend included...
🔥 Marshmallows by the fire
🍷 A couple of glasses of wine
🍫 And plenty of dark chocolate (my constant companion!)

And now I've been feeling

Foggy, tired, a little dull

My big toe knuckle is painful and my feet sore

I've had more broken sleep, and lower motivation

Sugar cravings are up (I could live on hot choc right now 🙈)

My morning meditation practice has slipping away… replaced with checking my phone 😬

And I'm feeling busier, frazzled, and more disconnected. 😢

I know that too many sweet treats have thrown off my microbiome and fueled cravings.

Add to that skipping my morning grounding practices, and it’s clear… It’s absolutely time for my Spring Conscious Cleanse & Reset!

I know from experience that the inflammation, dullness, sugar cravings, and frazzled energy will fall away once I reset. 🌷

Have you ever wondered which of your symptoms are actually optional?

Fatigue, bloating, restless sleep, cravings, PMS, even hot flushes… they don't need to be “just part of life.”

They’re signs your body is asking for support.

This cleanse isn’t about deprivation.
It’s about:
🌱 Coming home to yourself
🌱 Nourishing your nervous system
🌱 Remembering that health is rhythm, balance & kindness

✨ Join once and you’ll always have access to the live rounds each Spring + Autumn for a low alumni price!

💚 Not ready for the 21-day live reset? There’s also a 10-day DIY Cleanse to dip your toe in.

But if you join the live version, you’ll be held in community and supported directly by me every step of the way.

🌸 We start 12th September — ready to help you feel light, clear & energised for the holidays!

And the next 3 sign-ups get a bonus 20-min 1:1 with me.

PLUS 5% proceed are always donated to Trees For Life (SA) to support their good work for our environment. 🌱🌳

Are you in? 🌿

✨ Click 👇🏼 to check it out and join!

21 Day Live Cleanse - https://living-ayurveda.newzenler.com/courses/living-ayurveda-seasonal-cleanse-and-reset-spring-2025

10 Day DIY Cleanse - https://living-ayurveda.newzenler.com/courses/10-day-cleanse

With love & fresh Spring energy,
Jacq 💚

19/08/2025

The wattle is blooming, the daffodils and tulips are out! 🌷

Now is a good time to take care of yourself before the busy (and allergy) season of Spring!

Until the 31st August I'm offering 10% off bookings for massage, Shirodhara, and Consultations.

Nourish your nervous system and alleviate anxiety.

Improve your gut health now and keep those Spring allergies at bay.

Learn simple and effective ways to balance your hormones naturally and thrive through perimenopause and beyond!

Grab this offer before I'm booked up!

Call 0421601715
Book here.... https://living-ayurveda.splose.com/booking

🌷🙏🏽 Jacq

10/08/2025

Only 3 spots left!!

Ready to feel more nourished, connected, and radiant this Spring?

My Spring Feminine Vitality Yoga + Ayurveda Retreat has just a few spots left... could one of them be for you?? (Or yours + your bestie’s — check out our sweet shared room option!).

🌿Join us for a soulfully curated weekend to restore your body and awaken your feminine vitality

Here’s your opportunity to come home to yourself this Spring 💛and experience…

✨ Nourishing Sattvic (harmonious + delicious) vegetarian meals , prepared with love

✨ Daily yoga to soothe your nervous system + replenish your energy

✨ Guided meditations to reconnect with your heart and subtle energy body

✨ Wisdom circles and Ayurvedic insights to support your whole wellbeing

✨ Restful time for stillness, optional massage, and simply being

✨ Fun somatic practices to reawaken your creative essence + deepen self-trust

✨ Magnesium pool, gorgeous nature surrounds, and soul-nourishing company

PLUS special guests to celebrate this my 20th Retreat!! 🎉

This is for you if you're craving some time out for yourself to fill your cup and experience gentle rhythm, sacred space, and natural connection — with yourself, your body, and a community of like-hearted women. 😍

🌿 Find all the details 👉🏽https://livingayurveda.com.au/feminine-vitality-ayurveda-yoga-retreats/

🌷 Reach out if you have any questions.

🙏 Jacq

24/07/2025

I’m acting in a play! 🫨🎭

Something I haven’t done since high school — and even then, I was too shy to truly throw myself into it.

But now, at 52, I’m saying yes to things that stretch me. ✨️

I'm happy and excited to nudge at the edges of my comfort zone and do things that are a bit scary but awaken parts of me that have been quietly waiting for their moment.

Because this is what keeps us alive — fully alive.

Not just existing, but expressing!

Not just going through the motions, but saying yes to what makes our hearts flutter (and maybe our stomachs flip, too!).

There’s definitely something powerful about gently challenging ourselves — not with pressure or perfectionism, but with curiosity, courage and a sense of play.

It might be dancing again (anotherfun things ive been doing more of lately!), or saying what you really feel, trying something you’ve always admired in others or just wearing those bold earrings.

Or Singing louder. Or even resting more, because that for sooo many women IS a real challenge!

Extending ourselves is what keeps us alive — fully alive! 🥰🎊✨️

So let's keep meeting our edges with kindness, and then taking one step further… into joy, into truth, into our own becoming.

Here’s to being brave, a little wobbly, and fully alive.

💗 Jacq

P.s. I think I've been born in the wrong era. It's the 1930's for me! 😄

22/07/2025

I was working with a client a few weeks ago who was tired of living with uncomfortable belly boating.

She'd feel fine in the mornings, but by early evening her clothes felt tight, her belly was puffy and bloated, and she was often in pain.

As we went thought her daily habits and meals, we discovered she had some habits that were causing this bloating.

She believed she was eating well (and most of the time she was!), and making healthy choices, especially as she was trying to lose a little belly fat too.

But there was one 'lil habit that was not right for the stage of life she's in, (mid 40's), nor for this cold winter season, and they weren't helping her shed those few kilo's either.

What was it?

Well, by mid afternoon, after sitting at her desk for hours, she was restless and felt like a snack.

To be 'healthy' she chose rice thins, with humous. Sometimes with some raw carrot or celery sticks.

But, not only are these foods all cold, light, and drying, which increase the Vata WIND element, we also discovered that she wasn't even hungry at this time. She was restless and bored and felt like the snack just to distract herself!

Raw, cold, dry and light foods all increase Vata and create bloating in the gut.

Eating when we are not hungry also weakens digestion and cause more bloating.

And all of this was happening in the Vata time of day, between 2 and 6pm, when the Air element is most prevalent.

So, the simple and effective remedy to reduce her belly bloating, was to swap out the snack with a herbal tea, or simply hot water. If she was hungry and needed some food, then some stewed fruit (pre-prepared) or a bliss ball, or some instant miso soup would do the trick, and tithe her over until dinner.

I also recommended she go for a walk to break up the monotony of sitting for long periods.

Vata wants hydration, warmth, and grounding; especially at the middle of the afternoon slump time when we often reach for a snack, or sugar as a pick me up.

Sipping hot water throughout the day, between meals, is another really easy habit that supports happier digestion and reduces bloating. Clients have often commented how doing this is a real game changer for them!

Happily after only a few days of doing this simple habit my client's belly is much happier and she is so much more comfortable in her clothes again!

And her weight is slowly coming down!

If you would like my support for your gut health, hormone health and whole wellbeing, I now have spaces available in August with Consultations in person from Aldgate, or from anywhere online!

Dip your toe in with a Free Natural Hormone Balancing Strategy call or book your first consultation here....

https://living-ayurveda.splose.com/booking
To you're good health!
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21/07/2025

Don’t wait until you lose your buffer to take care of yourself! 😮

Perimenopause exacerbates any niggling health issues because our buffer hormones, estrogen and progesterone are declining.

Progesterone strengthens our bones, stabilises moods and blood sugars and supports balanced estrogen....

but levels start dropping from the age of 35 and decline more quickly when there is high stress.

Estrogen keeps us juicy and is excellent at covering up our weak spots.

Flash back 10 years.... I was 42, and wasn’t even thinking about Menopause but I knew I was out of balance with insomnia, hot, flushes, anxiety and irregular periods.

I wish, before then, that I was taught what I know now.... it's how we treat and tend to ourselves leading up Perimenopause that determines our experience.

Ignore those little health niggles in our early 40’s, and when perimenopause comes, they don't go away, they just get louder.

I see too many women who put their own needs last (like I did), and hope their health issues resolve by themselves or once they’re through menopause.

But what if we turn towards ourselves BEFORE menopause to bring balance and ease to our life?

What if you put yourself in the centre of your life NOW and take care of those niggling health issues....
bloating, headaches, PMS, irregular cycles, poor sleep, joint pain, thyroid issues, weight gain.... before you lose your buffers!

It’s much easier to create balance BEFORE you're in the thick of perimenopause.

It's time to turn towards yourself.

What do you wish you had known before your perimenopause?

Let me know in the comments below!
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Dm if you would like my support to thrive through perimenopause and beyond! I now have availability in August.

07/07/2025

Perimenopause symptoms are many, and varied, and can leave you feeling like a stranger in your own body.

But you don’t have to suffer or go it alone. 😊

My clients often share that they felt better much more quickly than they imagined was possible! 😮❤️

✨ Hot flushes dissipating within days. Yay!

✨ Digestion improving in only a few days so they feel more comfortable in body and clearer in their mind!

✨ Sleeping more soundly and deep within a couple of weeks, and, then

✨ Energy, confidence, and joy for life returning!
You can experience this too!

🌿 I bring 20 years of experience and blend the wisdom Ayurveda & Yoga, organic herbs, and modern science and nervous system support to offers a gentle, natural approach to balance your hormones and restore your energy, without nasty side effects!

With a few simple (and personalised!) shifts to your diet, lifestyle habits, rhythms and self care practices your body will start to recalibrate and create better sleep, more stable energy, stop the middle age weight creep, and build resilience and joy for life again!

Your hormone balance, your metabolism, your spark — they’re all in your hands.

And with the right support, it’s not as hard as you might think to feel alive and joyful again.

✨If you want to feel good again, I’d love to support you, in person at Aldgate or online!

Book a free natural hormone balancing strategy call with me to map out your best pathway forward.

https://living-ayurveda.splose.com/booking

Say Yes to thriving through perimenopause and beyond!

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17/06/2025

Sharing the sad news of Dr Krishna Kumar's passing.

An Adelaide Icon, teacher, practitioner, and passionate advocate for Ayurveda in Australia.

Dr. Krishna was my teacher and friend. His passion and tireless work brought Ayurveda government recognition and accreditation.

He was wise, humble, generous and humorous.

I am forever grateful to him for gifting me with the wisdom of Ayurveda, which has influenced, enhanced, and guided over half of my life and become my Dharma, my passion and purpose.

My heartfelt condolences go out to his wife Olga and his family.

May his soul be free, at peace, and expanded.

He will live on in many people heart's, and in mine.

Amanda Mandala Kaaram,
Vyaptam Yena Characharam,
Tatpadam Darsh*tam Yena,
Tasmai Shri Gurave Namaha

I offer my salutations to that Guru,
Who has shown me the abode,
By which the entire universe
With its moving and non moving objects is pervaded.

Ajana timira andhyadya janananjana shalakaya,
Chakshur-unmilitam yena tasmai shri-gurave Namaha.

I offer my salutations for that Guru,
Who opens my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance,
With the salve of knowledge.


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17/06/2025

Craving a deeply nourishing massage in a warm and cosy space?

Or, maybe you've always wanted to experience the divine Ayurvedic treatment called Shirodhara... a massage including 20 minutes of warmed herbalised oil streaming over your forehead and scalp. Deeply soothing for your nervous system!

Or, perhaps Perimenopause is driving you nuts? Bloating, hot flushes, insomnia, heavy bleeding, anxiety or irritability, or just feeling off lately? 😌😔

I bring my 20 plus years of experience in working with Women's Health and Yoga Therapy, to support you in creating balanced health naturally. 🌿

My services include Personal Consultations, Nourished Health Mentoring Packages, Retreats, Workshops, Natural Hormone Balancing & Seasonal Cleanse Online Courses, and Massage and Shirodhara treatments.

And, until the end of June I'm offering 10% off all of my services! 😍🎉

You can find me at the beautiful Aldgate Healing Center.

Bookings here 👉 https://living-ayurveda.splose.com/booking or email hello@livingayurveda.com.au

Stay warm!
x Jacq

02/06/2025

Our Autumn Feminine Vitality Retreat was gorgeous! ❤️🍂❤️

There was laughter, stillness, meditation and tuning into our divine intuition and feminine source of wisdom, dancing, creativity, yoga, beautiful food, rituals of letting go, and such a beautiful alive and compassionate connection between all!

I feel honoured to be able to hold space for these wonderful women to come home to themselves and fill their cups.

Here's just some of the beautiful feedback I received...

"I feel very refreshed and grounded. Thank you for holding space for me, and everyone, during our time together. I've tuned into my inner wisdom and feel like I have tools to move forward with my health.
Your retreat has absolutely helped to give me a deeper understanding of myself, a sense of clarity and purpose to rid the old, accept and trust my path forward. I really loved the massage!
Thanks again this retreat really has made such a difference to my life."
🙏 - Sandra

Huge thanks to my helpers. I couldn't do it without you! ❤️

If you would like to join my 20th Retreat this Spring 😍I've just set the dates!

Thursday October 30th to Sunday November 2nd. 🌷
Learn more and book your place 👇
https://livingayurveda.com.au/feminine-vitality-ayurveda-yoga-retreats/ Spaces are filling already!

Have a beautiful day!
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