Leslie Lovlin - Inner Sage Ayurveda

01/09/2026

Sacred Pause looks different at certain times of the day/month/year!

This weekend my Sacred Pause is flying to Kelowna to celebrate with girlfriends.
It will be nourishing being in the energy of people who have no expectations or even an agenda of what this looks like.

Although it’s pretty much a given there will be lots of honest talk, laughter, tears, coffee, order in food, fresh air walks, a scheduled sound bath. And time to just let tge weekend unfold.

What is your Sacred Pause for your weekend?

01/07/2026

There’s a moment in a woman’s life when something inside her whispers,
“Slow down… you’re missing yourself.”

It doesn’t come as a loud demand.
It arrives like a winter snowfall — soft, honest, unhurried —
asking us to lay down what is heavy
and return to what is true.

For a long time now, I’ve felt a quiet invitation growing in my heart…
this longing to create a space where women can breathe again,
rest again, remember again.

A place where we don’t have to pretend we’re fine.
Where our nervous systems can unclench.
Where our rhythms matter more than our productivity.
Where we walk season by season, gently, together.

It’s a space to pause long enough to hear your own truth again — the quiet voice beneath the noise that whispers Mary Oliver’s question:

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

And to finally answer it from a place of steadiness, presence, and deep self-knowing.

Today, that invitation becomes something real.

Sacred Pause Sangha
A year-long sanctuary for women who are ready to reclaim their inner stillness and live with more intention, softness, and seasonal wisdom.

This is not a program.
This is not another thing on your to-do list.
This is a homecoming.

A place where:

your breath becomes medicine

your rituals become nourishment

your body becomes wise again

your heart feels held

your pace becomes sacred

Each month we meet in circle.
Each season we shift in rhythm.
Each week you receive a gentle practice — a pause, not a push.
And slowly, beautifully, something inside begins to thaw…
and open…
and remember.

As I step into this next chapter of my work — of our work —
I feel such tenderness.
Such gratitude.
Such readiness.

If your heart whispered the moment you saw this image…
If somewhere deep inside you’ve been craving quiet, connection, ritual, and presence…
Then maybe — just maybe — this Sangha is calling your name too.

More details coming.
Or if you'd like more info drop a 🧡
But for now… just breathe with me.
She’s here.
She’s arriving with winter’s soft light.
And she’s beautiful.

Sacred Pause Sangha is a seasonal, heart-centered space for women who want to journey along side others to slow down, reconnect, and live in rhythm with themselves again. Through monthly circles, gentle practices, Ayurveda-inspired guidance, and a supportive community, the Sangha offers a sanctuary to rest, regulate, and return to your inner wisdom — one season at a time.

Because your life deserves a rhythm that actually feels like yours.

To your one wild and precious life,

Leslie XO

11/19/2025

Grief has a thousand faces, and no two look the same.
Every person moves through it in their own rhythm, their own way, their own sacred timing. There’s no map. No right path. No single expression that explains it all.

Grief is not a chapter you close.
It becomes part of your journey—
not the whole journey, but a powerful, honest part of it —
and you learn how to live a meaningful life with all of it inside you.

It refines what matters, deepens your compassion,
and slowly, gently, it returns you to yourself with a wiser, softer heart. If you let it.

There is one thing almost everyone longs for:
to be heard.
Not analyzed.
Not fixed.
Not pitied.

Just seen.
Just witnessed.
Just met in the truth of where they are.

Most grieving hearts don’t want someone to feel sorry for them — they want someone who can sit beside the pain without turning away. Someone who can hold space, listen deeply, and not rush the process or make it tidy.

Grief doesn’t need comparison or advice.
It needs presence.
It needs compassion.
It needs room to breathe.

And sometimes the most healing gift you can offer someone is simply:
“I’m here. I see you. I’m listening.”

Leslie 🧡

10/31/2025

A Sacred Ayurvedic Experience for Grief, Love, and Renewal

Today is the final day to receive Eternal Grace: A Healing Ritual for the Heart at the introductory price of $300 (regular $350).

This 2½-hour Ayurvedic experience is a sanctuary for the woman who has carried so much—loss, stress, or quiet fatigue—and is ready to soften, release, and remember her own light.

Your Experience Includes
~Abhyanga Massage – a deeply grounding Ayurvedic massage using warm, herbal oils applied in slow, rhythmic strokes to calm the nervous system and melt tension.
~Heart Basti – a gentle well of dough placed over the heart and filled with warm, healing oil to soften emotional heaviness and open the heart to peace.
~Sacred Anointment – Blue Lotus, Rose, Tulsi & Myrrh oil lovingly applied over the skin.
~Yoga Nidra & Sound Bath – guided rest for the nervous system and emotional body.
~Herbal Tea & Reflection Time – a soft return to yourself.

You’ll also take home
~ a 10 ml Eternal Grace Anointing Oil
~ Yoga Nidra for the Heart recording to continue your ritual at home.

This is not just a treatment—it’s ceremony for your heart.

~Purchase today to lock in your special rate of $300.

You can book your session any time that fits your rhythm.
And perhaps there’s someone you love who could use this too —
a thoughtful Christmas gift, a birthday offering, or a simple gesture of emotional support for someone walking through change or loss.
Because sometimes, the most meaningful gift we can give is rest and renewal.

~ Inner Sage Ayurveda Studio – Grande Prairie, AB

Purchase your session here
https://innersage.ca/.../eternal-grace-a-healing-ritual...

10/28/2025

4 Days Left to Receive Eternal Grace at $300 (Regular $350)

Life is filled with constant change — and sometimes, the hardest changes are the ones we never asked for.
Loss, endings, heartbreak, identity shifts, or simply realizing we’re not okay… they can all leave the heart aching for a pause.

That’s why I created Eternal Grace: A Healing Ritual for the Heart — a 2.5-hour Ayurvedic experience to help you soften, release, and remember that you are still whole, even when life feels broken.

You’ll be held in warmth through:
~Abhyanga oil massage and warm stones to melt tension
~Hṛdaya Basti (Heart Basti) — a gentle pool of herbal oil poured over the heart center
~Sacred anointment with my Eternal Grace Heart Oil (blue lotus, rose, tulsi, myrrh)
~Yoga Nidra + Sound Bath for deep emotional rest
~Herbal tea + reflection time to close your ritual

You’ll also take home:
~A 10 ml Eternal Grace Anointing Oil
~A Yoga Nidra for the Heart meditation recording

This isn’t just a treatment — it’s a ceremony for your heart. 💗

Introductory Special: $300 until October 31 (Regular $350)
You can purchase now at the special price and book your session whenever it fits your schedule.

Inner Sage Ayurveda Studio – Grande Prairie, AB

Your heart knows...it’s time to rest and this is your invitation.

Message me to book or Purchase Here https://innersage.ca/products/eternal-grace-a-healing-ritual-for-the-heart-120-minute-private-session?_pos=3&_sid=7984deec4&_ss=r

With Love,
Leslie

“The heart, when nourished, becomes the seat of courage, compassion, and clarity.”
— Ayurvedic Teaching

10/21/2025

Life is filled with constant change.

And many times, when we experience loss — it’s a change we never wanted to happen.

Yet, I’ve come to recognize that even amidst loss, there can be moments of quiet reawakening. A soft awareness that whispers,
“You can stand again, even in the midst of what feels broken.”

In the raw edges of grief, we begin to touch the deeper roots of resilience — learning how to move forward, not by forgetting, but by allowing love and loss to coexist. Where pain becomes purpose.

Because love and grief are a package deal.
One does not exist without the other.

It is a sacred dance. When there comes a moment when the heart begins to open again — when light slowly finds its way back in.

That’s why I created Eternal Grace: A Healing Ritual for the Heart — a 2.5-hour Ayurvedic experience designed to help you rest, release, and gently rediscover your strength.

Through Abhyanga massage, hot stones, Heart Basti, and Yoga Nidra with sound bath, you are invited into stillness — a place where your heart can soften, and your spirit can begin to mend.

You’ll also take home a 10 ml Eternal Grace Anointing Oil and a Yoga Nidra for the Heart meditation to continue your ritual of healing.

Introductory Special: $300 until October 31 (Regular $350)

Inner Sage Ayurveda Studio — Grande Prairie, AB

For the person whose heart carries both love and loss — may this be your return to grace.

Purchase your session in the link below. Then message me for a time to book in.

https://innersage.ca/products/eternal-grace-a-healing-ritual-for-the-heart-120-minute-private-session?_pos=1&_sid=8d53e9c3e&_ss=r

Eternal Grace: A Healing Ritual for the Heart — 2.5-Hour Private Session Introductory Special: $300 until October 27 (Regular $350) There are times when life asks us to slow down — to soften, to grieve, to remember what it feels like to be held.Grief comes in many forms — loss of a loved one, ...

10/19/2025

Eternal Grace: A Healing Ritual for the Heart

Grief, change, love — they all live in the same place: the heart.
This sacred 2.5-hour Ayurvedic experience is your invitation to soften, rest, and be held.

You’ll be wrapped in warmth through Abhyanga oil massage, hot stones, and a deeply soothing Heart Basti — a gentle pool of warm herbal oil poured over the heart to ease emotional tension and invite peace.

The ritual continues with Yoga Nidra + Sound Bath, guiding you into the stillness where healing begins.

Your Experience Includes

~ 30-Minute Heart Consultation — a gentle conversation to meet you where you are.
~ Warm Stone Therapy & Abhyanga — full-body massage with warm herbal oils to melt tension and nourish the tissues.
~ Hṛdaya Basti (Heart Oil Therapy) — a warm pool of fragrant oil placed over the heart to release stored emotion and open the chest.
~ Eternal Grace Sacred Anointment — a heart-opening oil blend of Blue Lotus, Rose, Tulsi, and Myrrh, lovingly applied to honor your journey.
~ Yoga Nidra + Sound Bath — guided yogic rest with crystal bowls to calm the mind and integrate healing.
~ Herbal Tea + Reflection — gentle time to land, journal, and reconnect.

The Benefits of Heart Basti
Heart Basti nourishes the emotional and physical heart — the seat of love, compassion, and circulation. The gentle warmth of herbal oil restores balance to the nervous system and opens the heart to deeper connection.

Benefits include:
Releases emotional tension and supports grief processing
~ Nourishes the heart chakra and emotional body
~ Improves circulation and heart vitality
~ Calms the nervous system and relieves anxiety
~ Promotes compassion, forgiveness, and inner peace

You’ll also take home:
~ A 10 ml bottle of Eternal Grace Anointing Oil
~ A recorded Yoga Nidra for the Heart meditation

Introductory Offer: $300 until October 31 (Regular $350)
For the person whose heart carries both love and loss — may this be your return to grace.

Book your session 👇

https://innersage.ca/.../eternal-grace-a-healing-ritual...

10/03/2025

Integration Time

Today was my last day at Sitaram Beach Retreat

One last treatment.
One last doctor’s visit.
One last walk to the sea to sit and listen to the waves.

This morning the Brahminy kite appeared once more, circling above — a final wave goodbye.

When I lifted my camera to capture the moment, I noticed a plane flying through the same sky. A reminder it was time to move forward.

Today, on the sacred festival of Dussehra, we honor the eternal victory of light over darkness, clarity over confusion — and harmony over imbalance.

In many ways, this mirrors the inner battle we each face daily: the struggle to find peace, energy, and true rest in a noisy, overstimulated and over all consuming world.

Through the rhythm of Panchakarma, I have had some deep reflections on my life.

For 21 days, I fully embodied the treatments, rituals, and routines. It was not only medicine for my body but also for the mind, heart, and spirit. Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual baggage — toxins, grief, old burdens — have been loosened and released into the sea, into the sky, into the earth.

I am forever changed.

Now I ask myself: Who am I? What is my purpose?

I don’t need the answers today. They will arrive in their own time.

For now, I trust the unfolding.
Deep gratitude to Dr. Vignesh and his incredible team of doctors and staff — who work with such diligence, kindness, and devotion, always greeting with a smile and a namaste.

For the lectures that expanded my mind, the chanting that soothed my heart, the yoga that grounded my body, the Panchakarma that purified my being, and the rhythm of routine and nourishment that reset my life when i needed it most— thank you.

I have learned so much that has deepened my love and passion for Ayurveda even more.

Grateful. Honoured. Humbled by the gift of this experience.

Now it is integration time. Just as Dussehra reminds us to let light lead the way, I return home with that same intention — to carry the lessons of balance, presence, and release into my daily life. To weave Ayurveda not just into my work, but into the rhythm of how I live and love.

And so ready for what awaits me on the other side of 29 hours of flights — the arms of my family and friends, the laughter of my grandchildren, the comfort of home. ❤️

Thank you, Sitaram Beach. Until next time.

And in the words of Mary Oliver, I return with this question in my heart:

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

09/29/2025

Waves of Grief, Waves of Love

Sitting here by the sea, tears roll down my cheeks.

I sob because I miss you.

I sob because I didn’t have a life saver big enough to save you and bring you home.

My heart breaks… and yet it also honors your journey.

The waves crash, just as grief does — some days pulling me under, other days carrying me gently back to shore.

Even in the ache of missing you, I feel your freedom.

I couldn’t stop the storm, so I stand here, I breathe, and let the ocean remind me:
love never dies, it just changes form.

🦅❤️

09/28/2025

The Meaning & Purpose of the Labyrinth

A labyrinth is not a maze.
No tricks, no dead ends. Just one single path that leads you inward, to the center, and then back out again.

Walking a labyrinth is like walking the journey of life itself—full of twists and turns, moments when it feels like you’re moving away from your center, yet always being guided back to it.

Each step slows the mind.
Each turn asks you to surrender.
Each breath invites a calmness and presence.

The center becomes a place of pause—a sacred moment of stillness, reflection, or prayer.

The walk outward is integration—carrying your insights, healing, or intentions back into daily life.

In Ayurveda, we would say this practice nourishes sattva—the clarity and harmony that allows your nervous system to soften and your inner wisdom to shine.

The labyrinth reminds us: you are never truly lost. The path is always unfolding, guiding you home to your own heart.

09/23/2025

Some of you are wondering!

What is Panchakarma?

Panchakarma is Ayurveda’s most profound system of detoxification and rejuvenation.

The word means “five actions,” referring to five powerful therapies that cleanse the body of deep-rooted toxins, reset the digestive fire, and restore harmony to body, mind, and spirit.

These are not spa treatments. Panchakarma is a rigorous medical process, carefully tailored to each person, that works at the deepest level of the tissues.

Dietary foods and herbs are specifically given during the whole process.

Purvakarma: Pre-Purification Measures
Before the actual purification begins, the body must be prepared so that it can release toxins more effectively. This preparation phase is known as Purvakarma, and it involves two essential therapies:

Snehan – Oleation (Oil Therapy)
Oil is applied to the entire body with a specific type of massage that helps mobilize toxins toward the gastrointestinal tract.
Makes superficial and deep tissues soft and supple
Removes accumulated stress
Nourishes and calms the nervous system

Snehan is given daily for 3–7 days, depending on individual needs.

Svedana – Sudation (Herbal Steam Therapy)
Immediately following snehan, sweating therapies are given to further loosen toxins. Herbal decoctions may be added to the steam to intensify the effect.

Liquefies toxins
Opens channels of circulation
Moves toxins into the gastrointestinal tract for elimination

After 3–7 days of snehan and svedana, the doshas are considered “ripened” and ready to be expelled through one of the five Panchakarma methods.

The Five Actions of Panchakarma

Vamana – therapeutic vommitting (clearing excess Kapha & mucous)
Virechana – purgation (removing excess Pitta & bile)
Basti – medicated enemas (the crown of Panchakarma, balancing Vata and nourishing tissues)
Nasya – nasal therapies (clearing toxins from the head and mind)
Raktamokshana – bloodletting (less common today, but effective for purifying blood disorders)

Main Benefits of Panchakarma
~Eliminate toxins and toxic conditions from body and mind
~Restore your constitutional balance, improving overall health & wellness
~Strengthen your immune system and increase resistance to illness
~Reverse the negative effects of stress, slowing the aging process
~Cultivate deep relaxation and a lasting sense of well-being

Panchakarma is not easy—it asks for surrender, courage, and trust in the body’s wisdom. But it is transformative. By clearing what no longer serves, it allows the body and mind to return to their natural state of balance, vitality, and clarity.

09/22/2025

My jouney in India
10 Days in at Sitaram Beach Retreat

I’ve reached day 10 of my Panchakarma journey here in Kerala, and I want to be clear—this is not a spa vacation.

Every day I receive body treatments, and they are not fluffy or relaxing. They are rigorous, methodical, and designed to go deep into my tissues to pull out toxins that have been stored for years.

Through this process, stored grief also rises to the surface. The body holds what the heart cannot always process, and as the oils, herbs, and therapies pe*****te deeper, emotions release alongside physical toxins. It’s as if the body finally says, “It’s safe to let this go now.”

I have studied these treatments in-depth, learning their theory and application, but this is my first time experiencing them in their traditional form, at the source.

It is humbling. I feel both the power of the ancient wisdom I’ve devoted my life to, and the tenderness of being asked to surrender fully to it.

I came here with the intention to heal my psoriasis, to reset my digestion and nervous system, and to nourish my seven dhātus—the tissues that sustain life. Ten days in, I feel cracked open, tired, lighter, and deeply grateful.

This is not an easy process. But I know it will be worth it in the end. True healing rarely comes through comfort—it comes through courage, release, and the willingness to meet ourselves fully.

And yes, those are bug bites.
They seem to really love my blood here.