12/29/2025
🌿 Intro to Ayurveda: A Beginner’s Guide to Holistic Self-Care
🌻Take Control of Your Health Naturally in the New Year!
🎟A Live FREE Community Wellness Workshop
📅 Saturday, January 24th, 11am-1pm
📍 Alachua Branch Library, 14913 NW 140th St. Alachua, FL 32615
🌺 Would you like to improve your and your family’s health naturally?
🌺 Have you been curious about Ayurveda but not sure where to start?
We’re happy to invite you to a free, in-person community wellness experience this New Year — a calm, welcoming space where we travel back in time to explore India’s whole-body wisdom of Ayurveda science, learning how to take responsibility for your own health by knowing your Ayurveda constitutional nature. Led by Richard Masla, owner of the Ayurveda Health Retreat, and Ayurveda practitioner with over 25 years of teaching and retreat experience.
In this community space, you’ll:
🌿 Learn simple Ayurvedic self-care principles
🧘 Practice gentle breathing and a short meditation
💬 Ask questions and explore how Ayurveda can support your daily life
Our discussion includes:
* Basic principles of Ayurveda - body, mind and soul
* Ayurveda Self-care for health and longevity
* Balancing the five elements (doshas)
* Discover what your dosha is and how to stay in balance
* Ayurvedic constitutions Vata (air and space), Pitta (fire and water), Kapha (earth and water)
* The healing power of breathwork, meditation and yoga
* How to calm and balance your nervous system and reduce stress
* Improve digestion, sleep, and cultivate a peaceful mind and happy heart
* Healing with nature and finding your own natural rhythm
We invite you to arrive a few minutes early to give yourself some settling; enter the gift raffle offering copies of Richard’s two books, Ayurveda Health Retreat Cookbook, and Healing With Nature, which are also available for checkout at any Alachua County Library, and on Amazon.
RSVP! Advance registration appreciated to help us prepare the space.
No prior experience with Ayurveda or meditation is needed.
We look forward to sharing this unique self-care experience with you soon! Bring a friend and start the New Year feeling refreshed and supported! 🌈
*HISTORY*
Ayurveda is a metaphysical medical system from ancient India. Your physical and mental health are the core of its profound teachings. It is personalized, looking at each individual’s unique constitution. It utilizes holistic practices that include lifestyle, diet, herbology, massage therapy, yoga and meditation. Your diet and lifestyle are the two pillars of health according to Ayurveda.
In Sanskrit, Ayur means life or longevity and Veda means knowledge - the science of living in harmony with nature. Ayurveda is known as the mother of all healing sciences. It has literature such as the Sushruta Samhita, an ancient text that is believed to have been composed around the 6th or 7th century BCE. It is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda, the traditional system of Indian medicine.
There are over 400 Ayurveda medical colleges in India. The formal study of this mind-body medicine offers a five year degree as a Doctor of Ayurveda Medicine.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine incorporates Ayurvedic self care practices into its Western medicine health care model, stating that “Ayurveda is a system of medicine based on the idea that disease is caused by an imbalance or stress in a person’s consciousness.”
When we learn this sacred science we awaken our own innate self-healing abilities.
Your master class instructor, Richard Masla, is the founder of the Ayurveda Health Retreat in Alachua, Florida. Established in 2001, it is a safe haven for rediscovering and remembering the happiness that true health brings. Over the last 25 years, Richard has guided thousands of global retreat guests on how to restore harmony in their lives through the path of Ayurveda, loving kindness and self transformation.
Richard regularly travels to India leading guests on spiritual journeys. Now semi retired, he brings his knowledge from inside private retreats to a public audience in a new series of free community wellness workshops. Here, you’ll be able to experience enlightening discussions and gain insights, inspiration, and practical lifestyle tools to improve your health.
The Ayurveda Health Retreat is a family owned business, now managed by Richard's daughters Syama and Dhyana. It offers all-inclusive customized personal stays that include a team of world-class massage therapists, yoga teachers, Ayurvedic practitioners, great Ayurvedic chefs, and lovely accommodations. You may come for a day, a week or longer. Rediscover yourself through Ayurveda!
The Retreat center hosts personal and group retreats. We have the School of Yoga & Ayurveda which offers a 200-hour yoga teacher training certification. And our latest addition is Soul Space, an empowering online community focused on yoga, Ayurveda and joyful living.
Reach out with any questions, and we wish you good health and vitality in the New Year!
Ayurveda Health Retreat
(352) 870-7645
ahr.yoga@gmail.com
To learn more please visit:
www.ayurvedahealthretreat.com
www.ayurvedahealthretreat.com/online-community
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