About AyurvedicYogi
AyurvedicYogi offers:
- Ayurveda Clinic consultations (Thursday and Friday)
- Ayurvedic treatments and massage (Monday, Thursday and Friday)
- Ayurveda Cooking, Beauty, & Kitchen Pharmacy Workshops
- AyurvedicYogi Detox weekends (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
- Private Yoga and Pregnancy Yoga sessions
Joanna Johnston (founder)
As a tourist in Kerala in 1999, a friend and I saw an Ayurvedic clinic in a sleepy backstreet. We went to see the old doctor in a little room. He asked us no questions but took both of our pulses. We were both amazed by what he was able to tell from this. For me, minor complaints and character traits. For her, the fact she had experienced a certain type of cancer, the effects of her allopathic treatment, and the fact that she no longer had cancer cells in her body. To say that it seemed like magic was an understatement and I made a commitment to study Ayurveda at some point in my life.
Yoga had kept me sane whilst reading Human Sciences at Oxford University, and I spent the next 10 years exploring different styles. After 5 years working in the City as an ethical investment analyst I was exhausted and quit to explore alternative ways to work. I had set up some yoga classes for stressed city workers which I’d really enjoyed so I trained as a Sivananda Hatha yoga teacher and then did the Advanced Yoga training. I love bringing yoga to different groups, as well as combining it with active sports. I’ve taught at two London drug rehabilitation projects, UK festivals, to corporate and children’s groups.
Broadening my focus to study Ayurveda was a natural transition which began with training as an Ayurvedic Nutrition Adviser with the Sivananda school due to a passion for tasty but healthy food! I have completed a BSc in Ayurveda with Manipal University, and after further training in hospitals and clinics in India, I am a full member of the UK’s Ayurvedic Practitioner’s Association (APA).
Dr Ketki Malwade
An experienced Ayurvedic doctor from South India, Dr Ketki is currently carrying out both treatments and consultations in the Bristol Ayurveda clinic. Following four and a half years of study on the BAMS in Ayurvedic medicines and surgery, Dr Ketki practiced in a home run dispensary and then a large civil hospital in Pune. She brings extensive knowledge of Ayurvedic home remedies and herbs, and offers traditional Ayurvedic warm oil massage (abhyanga) – the best thing for pacifying aggravated Vata common in city life! Dr Ketki will be returning to India in June 2010.
Marinella Benelli
Marinella is an Italian resident in England and offers Traditional Indian Head Massage and Kansa Vatki (KV) Foot Massage. After having closely discovered Ayurveda in Northern India at the end of 2008, she embarked on a new journey to become an Ayurvedic massage therapist. She completed her Traditional Indian Head Massage Practitioner’s course at the Bristol School of Holistic Therapies and then the Ayurvedic Kansa Vatki Foot Massage course at the London Centre of Indian Champissage International. She is currently enrolled on an Ayurveda distance learning course and is planning further massage training including Ayurveda Facial Rejuvenation Massage.
Sole Salido (Satya)
Over the last three years Satya has studied and worked within the holistic field in Ireland, Spain, India and Holland. She is a qualified Hatha Yoga Teacher, follower of the Bihar School Tradition, specialized in Pregnancy Yoga (British Wheel of Yoga) and Yoga for children and families (Rainbow Kids Yoga). She also trained with the International Association of Infant Massage as a Baby Massage Instructor and in India with Dr. Anita Rawandale in Ayurvedic Body Massage Technics. While living in Ireland, she discovered Yoga and Ayurveda, it became her passion and she left a succesful business career to study Yoga and massage in India. Her practice takes an interdisciplinary approach, emphasising the connection between the quality of the bodys energy and ones experience in the world.
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