Yolanda Ayurveda

23/10/2025

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25/06/2025

Do your yoga your way ❤️

05/03/2025

Waiting for Alfred……

11/02/2025

17/12/2024

26/11/2024

Under the watchful Buddha eye, doused in spring rain and summerlike sun, the oregano flourishes. I’ve made a delicious pesto, recipe thanks to , I ran out of Parmesan and almonds by the third batch so substituted pecans and nutritional yeast and it is equally as yummy. Recipe in final image.

Oregano is warming and drying, just right for cool and soggy spring days. Oregano oil soothes the stomach liver and spleen and these bright young green leaves have plenty. I’m going to freeze the next batch (I don’t eat) and dry more young leaves to use when the plant is dormant.

15/07/2024

My first review from my Ayurvedic Artist Retreat offering…..

It was so rewarding to offer a quiet, comfortable and welcoming space for my guest to rest.

Additional offerings include
Private yoga class,
Ayurvedic consultation
Ayurvedic cooking class
Art class

Link to Airbnb in comments

27/01/2024

100% humidity

100% of anything is surely too much....the sticky icky of the intense humidity sends me indoors, somewhat disconnected from my natural source of inspiration. In term time that indoors can be the studio but in school holidays it’s the house. We turn to books, shows, board games……..and the kitchen.

Although my appetite and digestive fire would prefer I eat light (vata) food to counteract the heat (pitta) and moisture (kapha) excesses of the environment, it is hard to avoid the lure of sugar and processed food. These wolves in sheep’s clothing appear light and dry (vata like), but their impacts are  actually aggravating to vata rather than pacifying.

On the mental plane, the mind wavers, doubt sets in and we slide back into well worn and possibly unhelpful patterns of thinking. This can be purely as a means of coordinating the movement and direction (vata qualities) of thought patterns, an attempt to bring them back into the familiar and known realm, where we feel we are in control.

So this morning I have fresh ginger in a rolling boil with a few cups of water. I’m going to leave it on simmer for 30 minutes and use this concentrate in my water through the day. A natural digestive fire stoker, it will help prepare the body for wholesome food later in the day.

What do you reach for when you’re stuck indoors that you wish you didn’t? Can you recognise which dosha you are trying to pacify?

07/10/2023

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28/08/2023

Please let your young people know they are welcome at my class on Sunday mornings