Awaken your wisdom with Ayurveda, intuitive guidance, and yoga.
You are a master storyteller, but first you need to master your story.
Our bodies weave epic tales. Through our pleasure, pain, stuckness, and mobility we experience the journeys that lead to deep self-realization. By writing the story of our strongest and weakest parts, we learn what it means to live, and how to live better.
BodyStory is a unique online program to document the experience in your skin. In six live classes (recordings will be available) you’ll be guided through practical Ayurvedic wisdom, creative journaling exercises, body-based practices, and Ayurvedic recipes to redefine your relationship with your body and fall in love with your purpose.
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“BodyStory was a truly transformative experience. Sonja beautifully weaves Ayurvedic wisdom with her own intuition in a way that creates profound connection to the ancient teachings.”
Our bodies are maps to understand our lives.
Your Body Is a Guide
You are a limitless expression of the Great Mama wrapped inside a physical temple. That physical temple — your body — is filled with signs about your purpose. All of the answers to the questions you have asked about your life are written on your skin.
Ayurveda offers a key to decode the language of the body — in fact, it is the best guide that has ever existed. Journaling is a time-tested way to make sense of the journey you’re on. BodyStory combines these two powerful practices so you can learn who you are — scars, surgeries, imbalances, dissatisfactions, and all. This is a journey of self-awareness, self-exploration, and self-love.
What You Will Receive:
- A safe group of likeminded people to witness your divine story.
- Weekly live classes filled with a modern application of the ancient Ayurvedic and yogic teachings.
- Weekly videos with Ayurvedic “unrecipes” to give you a template for eating and living well.
- The structure and support to develop a journaling practice as a tool for self-awareness.
- The chance to befriend your body and make sense of the experience you’ve had within it.
Join today to write the story of your skin.
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“Taking part in Sonja’s BodyStory class and sharing with her and others allowed my body and heart to have a more clear voice about its wants, needs and desires. Sonja created a sacred safe container for us to share openly and spontaneously.”
Register for
BodyStory: Hunger
Earlybird Discount Available Until Oct, 13th
Register for
BodyStory: Hunger & Satisfaction
Earlybird Discount Available Until Oct, 13th
Already a Nest member? USE THIS LINK to automatically apply your membership discount.
The topics from BodyStory are taken directly from our lived experience.
Try a bite of what happened last October.
BodyStory: Betrayal // October 2020
Upcoming BodyStory Courses:
In fall 2021, I’ll be offering BodyStory: Hunger. Emerge from the cave of a distant year and rediscover your hunger for life and how to harness desire to work for you.
Together we will explore the story of agni, a word that represents the fire element, a deity, and the digestive fire that is at the heart of Ayurveda’s teachings.
In spring 2022, we’ll dive into BodyStory: Satisfaction. Offered as a standalone course or as a follow-up from Hunger (you’ll get a discount if you sign up for both), we’ll explore the question of how to be happy with what you get.
In BodyStory: Satisfaction, we’ll write through the six tastes of Ayurveda, following them through the body to understand how these play out in our stomachs and hearts.
Already a Nest member? USE THIS LINK to automatically apply your membership discount.
“I have participated in several SevaMama online courses and each has enriched my life in a different way. With each course, I gain new insights and build my Ayurvedic toolbox.”
Register for
BodyStory: Hunger
Earlybird Discount Available Until Oct, 13th
Register for
BodyStory: Hunger & Satisfaction
Earlybird Discount Available Until Oct, 13th
Already a Nest member? USE THIS LINK to automatically apply your membership discount.
Who is BodyStory for?
This program is ideal for you if:
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- You are befuddled about how your digestion/body works but believe it is possible to feel better.
- Your body is struggling to cope with renewal of life after COVID, racial debt, #metoo, and the other social upendings we’re wrestling with.
- You want to develop new (and doable) digestive self-care habits from a place of genuine self-approval.
- You want to know how to direct your life from your body’s wisdom.
- You struggle with health issues, such as pain, anxiety, depression, or illness and want to know how you got here.
- You have difficulty asking for what you really want, or accepting how it is delivered.
- You want to learn Ayurveda as a way to accept and direct how your body functions.
This program is designed for those brand new to Ayurveda, as well as seasoned students looking to embody the teachings through storytelling. You don’t need any experience with writing or journaling to join!
The Journal
Karma yoga (on the path of motherhood)
I like the skins on sweet potatoes. I enjoy their texture and I like knowing that there are nutrients in them. I also don’t particularly like peeling them. It adds an extra step that is not necessary, which makes a difference in the limited time I have to cook us a meal. But she doesn’t like them. If I leave the skins on anything — sweet potatoes, carrots, grapes, even chickpeas — she sticks out her tongue and spits until the offending characters out of her mouth. Perhaps the texture is too much for her smooth baby tongue. Or maybe she doesn’t have the right technique to adequately grind the skins down with these new teeth of hers. My job is to smooth the rough road ahead of her, so I peel the sweet potatoes before I put them in the food we will share.
This too with love
I lived on Kauai for the past two years. During that time I never seemed to see the news. No one I knew had televisions and I almost never saw a paper. But as we are transitioning our life to Mexico, I have been stationed at my in-laws’ house in a suburban purgatory for a month. This is my vacation to the rest of the world. Here, the news is a part of life.
It’s not that I value being uninformed. Quite the contrary. It is that I value learning what I need to learn without taking a healthy dose of fear alongside it. It is possible to do this, though it does take a bit of work because everyone has a slant, including me.
How I learned to become an Ayurvedic baker (plus a recipe for cookies you can eat for breakfast)
When I was in my early twenties, I woke very, very early and hauled myself into a kitchen of a cafe in Boulder, Colorado. I flipped on the lights at 5:00 a.m., turned on the ovens, and spent my morning hefting gigantic trays of steaming muffins, pies, and cookies from back of house to front.
Baking has been in my DNA since I was born, and it was delicious fun to live out my childhood fantasies as a professional baker. But as much as I loved spreading the perfect cream cheese frosting on a carrot cake, this new direction kept appearing for me. At the same time I was learning to perfect my cheesecake recipe, I was learning about the effects of refined sugar on my body. I was whipping up layer cakes while doing candida cleanses, and suddenly it just fell apart. I left my job as a sugarplum drug dealer and sadly tucked my apron deep into the back of my pantry.
“On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure.”
The Bhagavad Gita 2:40