Ayurvedic Consultations
What is an Ayurvedic Consultation?
An Ayurvedic consultation is a personalized health assessment that explores how your body, mind, and environment interact to shape your well-being. Rather than treating isolated symptoms, it examines the patterns behind them - how your digestion, sleep, stress, emotions, and energy influence one another.
At its core, Ayurveda is the study of balance. It recognizes that every person is born with a unique physiological blueprint - a natural ratio of motion (vāta), metabolism (pitta), and structure (kapha). When these forces are in harmony, the body functions efficiently and the mind remains clear. When life's demands, diet, or environment pull them out of rhythm, early signs of imbalance appear: fatigue, irritability, digestive issues, anxiety, or inflammation.
During a consultation, we trace those patterns back to their origin. Through observation, listening, and detailed inquiry, we identify how daily habits, nervous system tone, and nutritional choices influence your overall physiology. The process combines ancient diagnostic tools - such as pulse and tongue reading - with a modern understanding of biology, circadian rhythm, and stress physiology.
The result is not a prescription, but a map - an individualized plan that teaches you how to restore balance through food, lifestyle, herbs, and conscious awareness. It's a dialogue with your own biology - an opportunity to understand how your body communicates and how to work with it, not against it.
Why Book an Ayurvedic Consultation?
Many people seek an Ayurvedic consultation when they feel out of rhythm with themselves - when something in their body, energy, or emotions no longer feels predictable or stable. It may begin with digestive changes, fatigue, poor sleep, skin issues, or emotional overwhelm that don't respond to surface-level solutions.
Ayurveda offers a comprehensive framework for understanding why these physical and emotional symptoms often appear together. By examining digestion, metabolism, stress hormones, and nervous system tone as an integrated system, it reveals how chronic tension or unresolved trauma can alter physiology - increasing inflammation, disrupting sleep cycles, and exhausting the body's adaptive capacity.
During consultation, the emotional story is never separated from the biological one. We explore how grief, anxiety, or past experiences may have conditioned certain patterns in breath, posture, and thought - and how the body's biochemistry mirrors that internal narrative. Through gentle inquiry and regulation of vāta (the governing principle of the nervous system), we begin to unwind stored responses and rebuild emotional stability from a cellular level outward.
An Ayurvedic consultation is ideal for anyone who wants to:
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Understand the root causes of recurring physical or emotional symptoms rather than only manage them
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Restore consistent digestion, energy, mood, and sleep patterns
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Support hormonal and nervous system balance without suppressing natural signals
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Safely unpack emotional stress or trauma through embodied awareness and regulation practices
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Build resilience to life's demands through rhythm, nourishment, and nervous system repair
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Learn daily practices that sustain long-term clarity, vitality, and inner steadiness
This approach blends evidence-based physiology with classical Ayurvedic psychology (manovijñāna) to create individualized, trauma-informed care - for those who wish to participate actively in their healing, not simply receive a treatment plan.
"THIS WORK IS TRAUMA INFORMED AND COLLABORATIVE. WE MOVE AT THE PACE YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM CAN SAFELY INTEGRATE, CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF CURIOSITY RATHER THAN CORRECTION. THE GOAL IS TO RESTORE HARMONY - PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, AND EMOTIONALLY - WHILE STRENGTHENING YOUR OWN ABILITY TO SUSTAIN WELL BEING IN DAILY LIFE."
SESSION RATES + CONTINUITY OF CARE
Each client session with Mātāji extends far beyond the time we share together. Every consultation includes several hours of dedicated preparation before your appointment and detailed charting afterward - reviewing your history, analyzing patterns, and composing a plan that is clinically sound and tailored to your life.
Initial Ayurvedic Consultation - $225
90-minute live session + 3 hours of individualized care (pre + post)
Your first consultation establishes a comprehensive understanding of your constitution, imbalances, and physiological rhythms. You'll receive a written summary with targeted dietary, herbal, and lifestyle guidance, developed from both Ayurvedic diagnostics and modern biological insight.
Community Care Fund: Accessible Healing for All
Mātāji Ayurvedic Healing is founded on the principle that authentic care must be both sustainable and accessible. True healing thrives in community - when one person finds balance, the entire web strengthens.
To uphold this principle, a portion of every full-rate session contributes to a Community Care Fund that supports clients who are navigating financial hardship. These sponsored sessions offer the same depth of preparation and personalized care at a reduced rate, ensuring accessibility without compromising integrity.
Clients who feel called to contribute may also add a small amount to the Community Care Fund at the time of booking. Each contribution - no matter the size - directly supports another person's access to care, sustaining a circle of reciprocity and compassion. Healing expands when we uplift one another.
This fund exists so that no one is turned away from the path of restoration. For those in need:
If you wish to apply for a sponsored session, please reach out through the contact form. A limited number of reduced-rate sessions are offered each month as funds allow.
Time
Your session fee reflects approximately 4.5 hours of total professional care, not just the time spent together. This includes intake review, diagnostic assessment, charting, custom plan development, schedules, recipes, recommend herbal allies, and delivery of info to client. Every client receives individualized attention grounded in both Ayurvedic principles and modern biological understanding - ensuring your care is as precise as it is holistic.
Session Format
All sessions are offered in-person or virtually.
Payment is due at the time of booking. Community Care Fund support and payment plans are available for those experiencing financial hardship.
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Read MoreInitial Consultation: 3 hrs Pre/Post Consult. Intake HH, Charting, Documentation and delivery)
1 hr 30 min
225 US dollars
How to Prepare for Your Consultation
Preparation begins with awareness, not perfection. The purpose of this session is to meet you exactly where you are - to observe your unique physiology, environment, and mental-emotional landscape without judgment. To support that process:
1. Fill out all intake paperwork the best you can.
Bring any questions you have, to our session. I am here to help you in every way. Be sure to submit all docs to me within 48 hours of our session, so that I can prepare for our time together in an informed capacity. Unlike a traditional practitioner, you have me one on one for 90 mins.
2. Observe your daily patterns.
A few days before your appointment, notice your digestion, energy, sleep, cravings, and emotions. Subtle patterns reveal valuable information about metabolic rhythm, nervous system tone, and adaptive stress responses. This will also help you answer the questions and inquiries on your intake paperwork.
3. Eat and rest normally.
Avoid fasting or altering your diet the day of your session. Ayurveda assesses your natural state; changes in food or sleep can mask important diagnostic cues such as appetite, pulse, and face, tongue and nail appearance. Come as you are. This space is safe, honest, and completely transparent.
4. Minimize stimulants before your appointment.
Reduce caffeine, nicotine, or other activating substances for several hours prior. This allows an accurate reading of your baseline physiology and nervous system regulation.
5. Create a calm environment.
If meeting virtually, find a quiet, uninterrupted space with good lighting. Bring water, a notebook, and anything that helps you feel centered. The session is both clinical and contemplative - a space for information and reflection.
6. Arrive with curiosity, not preparation.
You don't need to "have it all figured out." Sometimes the most valuable insights come from what feels confusing or unresolved - physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Mātājī's role is to help connect those threads with clarity and compassion.
7. Emotional readiness matters.
Because Ayurvedic consultations address not only digestion and hormones but also stored tension, grief, or trauma, you may notice feelings arise during or after your session. This is normal. The nervous system releases information as it feels safe. Gentle movement, hydration, and rest afterward help integrate the process.
You Don't Have to Take Our Word for It
We respect the privacy of our clients. Due to the nature of our work, not all will be pictured,
but many still want their voices heard and we really respect that.
"Jen exudes compassion and empathy. It's clear that she is a natural-born healer. I could feel the calming, warm energy that surrounded her; she seemed to glow at times. The level of care she provides to those seeking natural, healthy, and holistic alternatives to modern allopathic medicine is beyond reproach, treating people with love as if they are her own family."
Sophia J, Full time student