Return to your body’s natural state of balance
What is Ayurveda?
Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of healing that provides a framework to maintain or restore your ideal state of health. Its name stems from "ayuh," meaning "life" or "longevity," and "veda," representing "knowledge" or "science." Thus, Ayurveda translates to “the science of life.”
Your original form represents your state of perfect health.
In Ayurveda, each of us is born with a unique constitution, a specific proportion of ether, air, fire, water, and earth elements that represents the perfectly balanced state of each person’s body and mind.
These elements are organized into the three doshas, or energies which are the major governing principles of the body:
Vata (ether and air) - the principle of movement, orchestrating all activities of the body.
Pitta (fire and water) - the principle of transformation, governing metabolism and processing of sensory input.
Kapha (earth and water) - the principle of substance, comprising physical structures and bodily fluids.
Your original balance of these doshas is unique to you, and represents your prakruti — your ideal state of perfect health.
Inspire your body's natural intelligence.
Your prakruti represents your perfect state of health. Over time, we tend to drift away from this natural state of balance, leading to our current state of imbalance, or vikruti: the root cause of all dis-ease.
Ayurveda understands that nothing is random; various factors such as our diet, lifestyle, thought patterns, and external environment play a role in our movement towards balance or imbalance.
Through Ayurvedic assessment, Rina’s approach is to understand the root cause of the imbalances contributing to your health concerns, and to correct them at their core.
A holistic wellness plan tailored to your unique constitution.
The Ayurvedic approach recognizes that everything is medicine and everything is poison. One size does not fit all, and substances or activities that promote balance for one may be harmful to another. Rina recognizes the unique reality of each individual and tailors her approach accordingly to meet each person’s specific needs.
On your Ayurvedic journey with Rina, you will receive the education and tools to support movement towards your prakruti: your perfect state of health. Over time, she will support you in systematically addressing underlying factors such as diet, lifestyle, environment, and thought patterns to ultimately inspire your body’s natural intelligence to return to its state of balance.
“Vata, pitta, and kapha are the three doshas. In brief, they destroy the body when they are abnormal and support and maintain the body when they are normal.”
Ashtanga Hrdayam
Services
AVAILABLE ONLINE OR IN-PERSON IN ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Explore the different ways that Rina can help support your wellbeing.
Ayurvedic Consultations
The core way to work with Rina on your Ayurvedic wellness journey. Ayurvedic consultations provide personal support whether you are looking to incorporate Ayurvedic principles into your diet & lifestyle to maintain health and support general wellness, or you have a specific health concern or condition that you’d like to target.
You’ll receive:
education regarding your diet, daily routine, & lifestyle
guidance regarding spiritual practice (meditation and pranayama, or breathwork)
optional customized Ayurvedic herbal medicine formulation
Initial, $185 (2 hours)
Follow-Up, $85 (1 hour)
Packages:
Initial + 1 Follow-Up, $250
Initial + 2 Follow-Ups, $325
Initial + 3 Follow-Ups, $400
Initial + 4 Follow-Ups, $475
Need-based sliding scale may be discussed
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AyurYoga Consultation
Intake and detailed education regarding Ayurvedic breathwork, meditation, and specific yoga asanas that are best suited to the individual’s prakruti, vikruti, and current concerns.
$150 | 75 minutes
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Personalized Guided Home Cleanses
Includes initial consultation and daily check-in calls to support you in the systematic process of dislodging and ultimately eliminating deep rooted toxins. Typically 10-14 days.
Supplies include a customized combination of herbal formulation, medicated ghee, medicated oils, herbal teas, and nutritive herbal jams.
$350 + cost of supplies
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Marma and Polarity Therapy Session
Stimulation of powerful Ayurvedic energy points called Marma points, and energy balancing treatment.
In-person only.
$75 | 45 minutes
“Rina was an incredibly thoughtful and compassionate listener and a very capable health care provider. She did an excellent job of hearing our concerns and responding to my son’s situation.”
Mike Waring
What to expect
Here’s a general overview of the process when you receive Ayurvedic wellness support from Rina. You’re welcome to email questions to: rina@anantayurveda.com
Understand Your Needs
Whether you are looking to address a specific health condition or are interested in a general wellness consultation, your initial consultation will involve a detailed intake process that will help Rina understand your natural, balanced constitution as well as your current state of imbalance.
Rina will read your pulse (in-person), assess your tongue, nails, and skin, and dive into the complete picture of your current diet, lifestyle, and state of digestion along with your historic tendencies and health challenges.
Personalized Wellness Plan
You will then receive a unique protocol to support your journey back to your natural state of balance. This protocol will typically start with a focus on optimizing digestion and the cleansing of long, lingering toxins in the body and mind.
May include recommendations related to your diet, lifestyle and daily routine, customized Ayurvedic herbal formulations, and spiritual practices including meditation and breathwork.
Integration & Support
In most cases, you and Rina will continue to meet every 1-3 months depending on the trajectory of your journey, continuing to add or adjust practices depending on how you are responding and your evolving needs at each point in your journey.
Ultimately, Rina’s mission is to enable clients to take charge of their own health, empowering them with the tools and education to understand and navigate their journeys.
Address the root cause of imbalances in your body, mind, and emotions.
Receive personal support to respond to your body’s messages of imbalance.
Ayurveda can support a broad range of concerns, including but not limited to digestive complaints, hormone balancing, womens’ health concerns, preparing for pregnancy, postpartum, weight management, stress management, pain, detoxification, and skin disorders.
Ayurveda can support specific conditions like anxiety, arthritis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other chronic imbalances or symptoms.
Integrating classical Ayurvedic principles with the realities of modern life.
On your Ayurvedic journey with Rina, she will focus on adapting classical Ayurvedic principles to your modern lifestyle in the Western world, while honoring the roots of the science.
Empowering you with the tools & education you need to take charge of your journey towards wellbeing
Meet Rina
Doctor of Ayurveda
500h Ayuryoga Instructor | 200h RYT | Licensed Massage Therapist
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Four years of Ayurvedic training under the guidance of Dr. Vasant Lad, BAMS, MASc, at The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM and Asheville, NC, consisting of:
Ayurvedic Studies Program, Levels 1-3
Ayurvedic Health Counselor (1 year)
Ayurvedic Practitioner (1 year)
Doctor of Ayurveda (2 years)
Shadowing and working directly with Dr. Lad at his clinic in Pune, India
Internship at the Banyan Botanicals farm in Southern Oregon, experiencing the cultivation and energetics of Western and Ayurvedic plant medicine from a hands on perspective.
500-hour Ayuryoga Teacher Training at the Ayurvedic Institute
Massage Therapist training program at the New Mexico School of Massage in Albuquerque, NM
200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Rishikul Yogshala in Rishikesh, India
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I am currently practicing as a Doctor of Ayurveda in Albuquerque, NM.
Before embarking on my Ayurvedic path, I graduated from New York University and worked in the world of corporate finance for 11 years, until some health challenges impelled me to leave New York City and seek a path that inspired wellness, balance, and a deeper sense of fulfillment.
This journey landed me in India for six months, where I began to self-study and integrate Ayurveda into my own wellness journey.
During this time, I was fortunate to have an opportunity to spend a month shadowing Sudhirbhai Pandya, an Ayurvedic Doctor in Gujarat, India.
Seeing firsthand the direct impact of Ayurvedic therapies on clients’ physical and emotional health, combined with the transformative experience of having incorporated Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle practices into my own life, ultimately inspired me to study Ayurveda with Dr. Vasant Lad at the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico. Dr. Lad is widely recognized as having spread Ayurveda from India to the West in the 1970’s, and his teachings beautifully integrate the classical principles of Ayurveda with the realities of a modern lifestyle in the Western world.
I found that in its approach to understanding the individual from a holistic perspective and through the lens of the doshas and elements, Ayurveda had the answers to the questions about my health that were a mystery to Western medical practitioners. It helped me understand the root cause of my imbalance and provided the framework to inspire my body’s natural intelligence to guide itself back to balance.
I found the balance that I was seeking through Ayurveda, and I am passionate about sharing and utilizing the centuries old wisdom of Ayurveda to support others on their own wellness journeys. I feel that this is a profound part of my dharma, or my purpose, in this lifetime.
Upon completing my Doctor of Ayurveda program in Asheville, I was called back to the “Land of Enchantment” to settle and endeavor to to serve the New Mexico community that the Institute had served for 40 years before moving to Asheville in 2022. In addition to in-person consultations in NM, all of my services are available via telehealth with the exception of Marma therapy.
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Why ‘Ananta?’
Ananta is the Sanskrit word for that which is limitless, infinite, & boundless.
A quality of Brahman, the absolute reality of universal Consciousness, and Atman, the individual self, Ananta is eternal and cannot be destroyed. The essence of Ananta embodies the limitless potential of the healing power of Ayurveda and the journey towards your highest self. Occasionally used to refer to “sky,” the name Ananta was inspired by the vast horizons of the New Mexico landscape.
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