Living in Season with Melissa MacKinnon
Ayurveda, Yoga and herbal support for modern living
Living in Season with Melissa MacKinnon
Ayurveda, Yoga and herbal support for modern living
From Ageing to Sageing
In a world that feels like humans have become walking pathologies, identified by "what's wrong with me," Ayurveda offers an ancient and refreshing balm.
Ayurveda is translated as the "science of Life;" an at least 5000-year-old consideration of the dynamics of life and how to maintain balance with change. It's how life is so many things, more like a continuum than a series of boxes. And why and how our physical, mental and emotional “systems” are dynamic, not static. Ayurveda points to ways (practices) that align us with the cycles, the seasons, the diversity that is Life and we find ways of living more ease-fully in the present. There's not a single magic bullet but rather a table of possibilities. We honor and align our inner knowing with practices that nurture and sustain us as the complex human beings we are right now in this life.
Menopause is one of those great times of transition, of sageing into our wisdom years. It's more like stepping in to a new story. Yes, menopause is challenging, like moving from adolescence into adulthood in "coming of age." But it is not onerous or pathological. I am offering a three- class series on Ayurveda and Yoga for the Menopausal Years though MVP. It is free and in person at Inner Bliss Yoga and Wellness in Schenectady, NY, Sundays, January 24, 31 and February 7 from 3-4:30 pm.
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It's All Sacred: Our Approach thru Soil and Soul
Reconnecting our bodies & minds,
our sense of belonging to this Earth,
moving from Routine to Ritual
with Soil and Soul.
Grounded in ancient tools,
modern life and the living land.
Who I am
Hello! Melissa MacKinnon, here in support of lifestyles and ways of being that foster more connection, beauty and joy in our daily and seasonal living. My offerings draw from the ancient sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga as well as herbalism. I have been a certified Yoga instructor for over 30 years now, an herbalist for over 20 years and an Ayurvedic Health Counselor for 2 years. I spent the last 10 years rooted in the living land in upstate New York, USA, creating community urban farms with vegetable gardens, apothecary gardens, chickens, bees and people! Discovering Yoga's sister science of Ayurveda brought my work of the past thirty years together for me and I share this through my business, Living in Season. I offer one on one consults, workshops and weekly Ayurveda inspired Yoga classes. I understand this work as a remembering of ways of moving from routine to ritual, grounded in soil and soul. I would be honored to work with you!