Nourish 108 Ayurveda & Yoga

11/21/2025

The holiday season brings joy, festivities, and, inevitably, plenty of irresistible treats. Indulging is part of the fun, but finding balance helps you enjoy it all without feeling depleted. Here are a few Ayurvedically inspired tips to help you move through the celebrations with ease and intention.

🫚 Digestive spices to enhance your meals:
When preparing your holiday dishes, incorporate these warming spices to enhance digestion, reduce bloating, and help prevent the formation of Ama (toxins):

🫚 Add ginger, black pepper, and cumin to heavy dishes

🌰 Include cardamom in sweet receipes
Use cinnamon with dairy-based dishes

🥕Add turmeric to savory preparations

When cooking this holiday season enhancing your meals with these spices can help you fully enjoy the holidays without the discomfort! Enjoy!

11/17/2025

Happy Monday! This rain and creeping cold make it unmistakably feel like Kapha season. Kapha, with its cool, heavy, and damp qualities, is governed by the water and earth elements—exactly what we’re experiencing in the weather right now. As these qualities build in the environment, they can accumulate in our bodies and minds as well, leaving us feeling sluggish, foggy, or weighed down.

To stay balanced through this season, lean into warmth, stimulation, and movement. Think: warming meals, invigorating spices, energizing routines, and a little extra intention around staying active.

To support your movement and energizing routines, here’s my schedule for this week:

🕯️ Wednesday, November 19 at 5:30pm: 75min Full Moon Candlelight Yoga in the Brooklyn Ballroom at Hotel Petaluma.

☀️ Saturday, November 22 at 9:00am: 60min Awaken Yoga in the Brooklyn Ballroom at Hotel Petaluma

🌅 Sunday, November 23 at 9:00am: 60min Awaken Yoga in the Yoga Dome at the Sandman Hotel, 3421 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa (take the second right in the parking lot toward the pool)

All levels are welcome.

Drop in is $15, class passes are available.

Sign up at
💻 www.backyard.yoga (online calendar)
or
📱707 287 3728 (text)

You have the choice to pay in advance by credit/debit or cash/Venmo on site.

A minimum of 2 signups is appreciated.

Your advance sign up helps me tailor my instruction based on size and level of each class. 🙏🏼

11/17/2025

Receiving is a practice of being seen—by others and by myself. By allowing help in, I strengthen my sense of worthiness and connection to my deeper Self. In this receptive state, like a full moon reflecting light on still water, my own inner luminosity returns to me.

11/17/2025

About last Sunday…
💃🏻🎶🎸

11/17/2025

November Skies…

11/10/2025

Happy Monday! It’s hard to believe we’re already nearing mid-November with these golden, sun-soaked days—if not for the early onset of darkness each evening. I hope you’re taking the opportunity to get outside and soak up the sun and warmth before the rain arrives midweek.

This weekend also carries a subtle shift in energy: the grounding influence of the Ta**us full moon and the reflective pull of Mercury retrograde. Together they invite us to slow down, reconnect with the body, and find comfort in the simple things—nourishing meals, time in nature, steady breath, good company. It’s the perfect moment to pause before the holiday rush — to ask what really sustains you, what needs simplifying, and how you can create steadiness before the new year begins.

Here’s my schedule for this week:

🕯️ Wednesday, November 12 at 5:30pm: 75min Full Moon Candlelight Yoga in the Brooklyn Ballroom at Hotel Petaluma.

☀️ Saturday, November 15 at 9:00am: 60min Awaken Yoga in the Brooklyn Ballroom at Hotel Petaluma

🌅 Sunday, November 16 at 9:00am: 60min Awaken Yoga in the Yoga Dome at the Sandman Hotel, 3421 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa (take the second right in the parking lot toward the pool)

All levels are welcome.

Drop in is $15, class passes are available.

Sign up at
💻 www.backyard.yoga (online calendar)
or
📱707 287 3728 (text)

You have the choice to pay in advance by credit/debit or cash/Venmo on site.

A minimum of 2 signups is appreciated.

Your advance sign up helps me tailor my instruction based on size and level of each class. 🙏🏼

11/09/2025

Dogs.🐕‍🦺 + Ocean 🌊 = Happiness 🤩

11/08/2025

Friends + Ocean = Bliss ✨

11/06/2025

This week’s full moon, the Beaver Moon—traditionally the time when beavers prepared their lodges for winter—invites us to do the same on an inner level. As nature prepares for stillness, we’re called to gather our own resources of warmth, love, and wisdom, honoring both our ancestors and the lessons they’ve passed down. It’s a moment to reflect with gratitude, release what no longer serves, and strengthen the foundations that will sustain us through the colder months ahead.

11/03/2025

Happy November! This week’s full moon, the Beaver Moon—traditionally the time when beavers prepared their lodges for winter—invites us to do the same on an inner level. As nature prepares for stillness, we’re called to gather our own resources of warmth, love, and wisdom, honoring both our ancestors and the lessons they’ve passed down. It’s a moment to reflect with gratitude, release what no longer serves, and strengthen the foundations that will sustain us through the colder months ahead.

Here’s my schedule for this week:

🕯️ Wednesday, November 5 at 5:30pm: 75min Full Moon Candlelight Yoga in the Brooklyn Ballroom at Hotel Petaluma.

☀️ Saturday, November 8 at 9:00am: 60min Awaken Yoga in the Brooklyn Ballroom at Hotel Petaluma

🌅 Sunday, November 9 at 9:00am: 60min Awaken Yoga in the Yoga Dome at the Sandman Hotel, 3421 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa

All levels are welcome.
Drop in is $15, class passes are available.

Sign up at
💻 www.backyard.yoga (online calendar)
or
📱707 287 3728 (text)

You have the choice to pay in advance by credit/debit or cash/Venmo on site.

A minimum of 2 signups is appreciated.

Your advance sign up helps me tailor my instruction based on size and level of each class. 🙏🏼

11/02/2025

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As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, our bodies naturally crave warmth, moisture, and stability. In Ayurveda, this is Vata season—a time when the elements of air and ether dominate. You might notice drier skin, tighter muscles, colder hands and feet, and a restless mind. One of the mo...

10/31/2025

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🐝