Traditional Integrative Wellness that Restores Mental Health & Physical Vitality
Ayurvedic Medicine |
Ayurvedic Somatics|
Yoga + Breathwork |
Energy + Mantra Healing |
Building Your Inner Nectar
Drop by Drop.
Ayurveda, a 5000 year old medicine system from South Asian, offers an integrative approach through the elements to compassionately tend to the body, mind, and spirit as whole unified system.
Whether mental health or metabolic conditions, chronic illness or chronic depression, genetic conditions or the impact of systemic harm, another way is possible to rekindle our inner medicine, our inner nectar (called Ojas or Soma in Ayurveda) drop by drop.
Elemental JoyModalities
For 1-to-1 & Groups
A wellspring of customized care with each person’s unique and innate elemental constitution as the guide (Dosha in sanskrit) , while cleansing over-accumulated elements (Shodhana), replenishing depleted elements (Rasayana), and restoring your inner nectar (Ojas / Soma) with a combination of:
Ayurvedic Somatics + Breathwork/Pranayama
Customized Herbal Formulas
Food Medicine Protocols
Daily and Nightly Rituals
Energy + Mantra Healing
Ayurvedic Bodywork
Ayurvedic Medicine Sessions
The list we humans deal with in heart, mind and body may be long, but are interconnected and treated as a unified system in this 5000 year old Medicine System. The practitioner will assess your unique bio-constitution (dosha), your innate elemental constitution (prakruti), and what is over-accumulated or depleted (vrikruti). With that as a guide you will be recommended an intial wellness plan that can be built upon, combining time tested food as medicine protocols, custom herbal formulations, floral or essential oil supports, daily and nightly self-nourishing rituals, ayurvedic somatics or breathwork , yoga asana and meditation for your specific constitution/ dosha and to address acute to chronic conditions (from mental health, to gut health, fibromyalgia, IBS, mental health, fibroids, cysts, endometritis, heart disease, eczema, thyroidism, loss of intimacy or libido, trauma recovery, that “thing” you can’t name but doesn’t feel right…). Ayurveda’s integrative natural supports ease the burdens on the body and mind, and potentially reverse conditions back to health.
Ayurvedic Somatics, Breathwork + Yogic Medicine
After an initial Ayurvedic Medicine and Dosha assessment, this is Elemental Joy’s foundation for healing at the intersection of your mental-emotional, energetic and physical anatomy, through embodiment practices of this 5000 year old traditional medicine. Tending to and balancing the nervous system, while dislodging emotions from specific organs, organ systems, channels (nadis), and energy centers(chakras / marma / acupressure points) through a combination of customized gentle physical practices, yoga asana, and breathwork/prananyama specific to your Ayurrvedic bio-constituition/dosha, you’ll be held in a compassionate container to release stuck emotions, replenish your nervous system, and begin unlocking pathways to your inner medicine, and genuine elemental joy.
Energy + Mantra Healing + Ritual Creation
Modern science has caught up to our ancestors - we are more than our physical bodies, our core nature, and essence of physical selves, is waves of energy. We are vibration. Healing of the body and emotions is directly linked to unblocking stagnant energy / prana/ qi / life-force. From receiving reiki or pranic healing, and mantra healing, to delving into karmic imprints, or creating daily or ancestral healing rituals, lets get you energetically aligned and nourished to support your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being.
Ayurvedic Bodywork
Snehana in sanskrit means both NUTURING LOVE and OILATION (to Oil Up!) and both are core to Ayurvedic Body Work! Pop-Up Clinics offer the range of heart-nourishing Ayurvedic Bodywork such as Abhayanga, Marma Chikitsa, Potli, Kati Basti, Hryddya Basti, Shirodhara, and Panch Karma process. Using warm herbal oils on the channels and ayurvedic acupressure points/ micro-chakras (marmas) on the full body or specific regions, this range of both gently cleansing (shodana) and rejuvenating (rasayana) modalities, cleanses stagnant and over-accumulated elements (dohsas) and nourishes depleted ones in the body, mind, spirit, and heart.
Customized Care Meets Community
ALL Membership tiers include seasonal 1-hr online community Ayurvedic Somatics & nervous system rejuvenation and/or Mantra Healing session.
WHY? We don’t heal in isolation, we heal in community. Memberships reduce the cost of individual care and allow folks with various financial means to access care and community. The space offers an opportunity to learn more theory and practice of Ayurvedic Somatics, Yogic Sciences, and Energy and Mantra Healing. Our time together invites us to dismantle feelings of isolation, stigma, and exhaustion of working with mental and physical health challenges alone, while growing self-compassion and compassion for other, and also receive community compassion and care at the same time.
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meet nisha ahuja (she/they)
Living with multiple chornic-illness (as in over FIVE) led nisha to seek out complementary and alternative care to allopathic (mainstream) medicine, which often left nisha feeling alienated and lacking embodied connection and agency, especially when treatment options presented were extremely invasive, would cause a domino effect of more health problems, or were simply non-existent. Alongside seeing how traditional medicines and yoga had become diluted, co-opted, and spa-ified in our colonized world, led nisha to seek out vigorous study in both formal schooling and gurukul training.
Now over a decade, nisha has supported hundreds as an Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner with compassion-centered and trauma-informed Ayurveda and traditional medicines that rejuvenate our innate self-healing abilities.
As a Registered Naturotherapy Practitioner and former co-director/founder of Soma Integrative Wellness, nisha’s mental health and trauma specialized practice of Ayurvedic Medicine, Ayurvedic Somatics + Holistic Yoga, Energy + Mantra Healing, and Embodied Racial Equity + Racial Healing, integrates traditional medicines and ancient practices that meet modern understandings of neuroplacticity and quantum theory into practical and tangible daily practices.
nisha is humbled by the opportunity to have studied with spiritual teachers from a young age, and to train in traditional medicines as an adult graduating of the Centre for Ayurveda and Indian Systems of Healing, (Advanced Ayurvedic Wellness Counsellor and Ayurvedic Panchkarma Therapist), following trainings in Reiki (Master Level) with Varsha and Ravi Hooja (Mumbai), Attmic Energy Healing/Pranic Healing with Manav Ji Sahaj, and Therapuetic Yoga at Swami Vivekanada Ashram (Banglore), and long time meditation student of Himalayan Buddhist lineages and root guru Minling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche.
With a 20+ year career as a physical theatre artist, published playwright, director, and choreographer, nisha continues her work as a voice over artist, and in film + television as an Intimacy Coordinator, sensitivity reader, and script/media consultant.
nisha’s practice is dedicated to dissolving the boundaries between traditional medicines, ceremony, spirituality, art, and social equity, as fundamental to our collective liberation.
