Winter Balance: An Ayurvedic Approach to The Season
Winter brings dryness, cold, and slower energy. In Ayurveda, this season requires intentional care to stay grounded, energized, and balanced. This workshop introduces seasonal practices for supporting digestion, immunity, and mental clarity.
Participants Will Move Through:
Understanding how winter affects the doshas and influences mood and energy
Tips on preparing simple, warming recipes and remedies for the season
Hands-on demonstration of winter self-care rituals for joints, skin, and digestion
Guided breathwork to cultivate inner rhythm and reduce stagnation
Creation of a personalized winter balance meal plan
Highlights:
Align your lifestyle with the season’s rhythms
Learn foods, herbs, and routines that nurture immunity
Practical tools to feel lighter, warmer, and more energized
Power in the Pause: Ayurvedic Daily Rituals for Vitality
In a culture that rewards constant motion, Ayurveda teaches something radical and deeply healing: pause creates power.
Dinacharya, the practice of daily Ayurvedic self care, is not about adding more to your day. It is about aligning with natural rhythms so your energy, digestion, hormones, and mind are supported rather than strained.
In this experiential workshop, we will explore simple daily rituals that help regulate the nervous system, strengthen digestion, and create steadiness in body and mind. These practices are small, doable, and meant to meet real life. Especially in seasons of transition, stress, or depletion.
You will leave with a felt understanding of how timing, routine, and conscious pauses can restore vitality and resilience from the inside out.
Participants Will Move Through
• Understanding the doshic times of day and why timing matters more than willpower
• Morning and evening Ayurvedic rituals that support energy, digestion, sleep, and hormonal balance
• Guided, hands on practice of simple self care including oil massage, tongue scraping, and breathwork
• Exploring how daily rhythms influence mental clarity, mood, and long term vitality
• Identifying one or two rituals that feel supportive and realistic for your current season of life
What We’ll Practice Together
• A grounding breath practice to reset the nervous system
• Abhyanga techniques you can easily do at home
• How to create a simple morning anchor and an evening wind down ritual
• Learning where to pause during the day to prevent burnout rather than recover from it
Who This Is For
This workshop is for anyone feeling depleted, scattered, hormonally out of rhythm, or disconnected from their body’s natural cues. No prior experience with Ayurveda is needed. These practices are especially supportive for busy caregivers, professionals, and anyone craving steadier energy and more ease in their days.
***Registration opens soon - email below to join the waitlist
East Street Solstice Market
Join me at The East Street Solstice Market on Saturday December 20th!
I'll be handing out tastes of healing kitchari, a nourishing traditional Ayurvedic dish used for centuries. You see me talk about it all the time and it is the centerpiece of the Equinox Cleanse that I host bi-annually. Never tried it? This is your chance to start a new (healthy) addiction.
I’ll also be there to answer your questions about Ayurveda and how to support your health this season. Bring your curiosity and leave with more info than you bargained for!
Plus, visitors get 10% off to use on many of my services:
1:1 Ayurvedic Consultations
Equinox Cleane (next one begins in March 2026!)
Online Classes
Come by, say hi, stay for the cozy and check out the many things Northfield, Vermont has to offer.
Bittersweet: Cooking for the Spring/Summer Transition
As we head into the hot summer months here in the Northern Hemisphere, our bodies require preparation for the heat to come in the form of food and herbs.
Nature, wise as she is, provides the things we need in abundance at this time and specifically in the form of bitter. Here in Vermont, our rolling green hills are studded with the golden dots of dandelion and as I ready my beds for the summer plantings, I am digging out deep roots of burdock - the earthy plant often burdening our sweaters in fall.
These bitter plants provide the liver and lymphatic system the cleanup we need after a long winter of storing fat and water. They open the channels before we are sweating beneath the beating summer sun.
The next round of crops we see emerge are sweet ones, rich in chlorophyl and betacarotene - both cooling to the blood. Foods like spring greens, spinach, beet greens, early spring carrots. This sweet flavor acts as a coolant in preparation for the summer heat.
But how do we cook with these foods? That’s what we will explore in this two hour virtual cooking class from my kitchen to yours.
I will show you some recipe staples for this time of year and as always, give you some foundational kitchen skills to build your confidence to be your own healer in the kitchen.
No special skills required. Access to a stove and basic kitchen tools is necessary. A simple shopping list will be provided 3 days prior to the event.
THIS IS A VIRTUAL EVENT - you will receive a zoom link upon registering.
There are limited spots available so that I am able to connect with each of you. Grab your spot below.
Spring Into Summer: A Seasonal Transition Dinner & Discussion
Join me at the cozy Willow Tree Journeys studio at Treehouse in Waterbury, VT for an intimate dinner and discussion around a seasonal multi course meal. We will dive into the ways to stay in balance as we transition from Kapha season to Pitta season and the foods you can choose as allies.
You will enjoy seasonal decor & tablescape by Goldenrod Designs, as well as mocktails and tea to go along with this bright plant based dinner.
Please notify us upon registration of any food allergies. BYOB.
$68 per guest | limited seats available
Reserve your spot here: https://www.willowtreejourneys.com/workshops
The Ayurvedic Kitchen Series: Medicinal Spices
Join Jacqueline Foster, Ayurvedic Health Counselor and Chef in this two part series on stocking your Ayurvedic Kitchen. Part two will have participants discovering the medicinal uses of many common household spices. Learn how to shop for and store spices properly and how to make a medicinal spice blend in this hands on demo. Participants will take home their own spice blend and learn how to use it in everyday recipes to support health this season.
Registration not required. This workshop is FREE and open to the public.
The Ayurvedic Kitchen Series: Healthy Fats
Join Jacqueline Foster, Ayurvedic Health Counselor and Chef in this two part series on stocking your Ayurvedic Kitchen. Part one will focus on healthy fats, why we need them, how to shop for them and store them and how to make ghee, the cornerstone of healthy cooking, at home. Guests will take home their own homemade grass-fed organic ghee.
Registration not required. This workshop is FREE and open to the public.
Building Immunity: Ayurveda for Cold Season
Are you tired of catching every cold out there, constantly under the weather? Ayurveda provides some simple dietary and lifestyle advice that helps us build immunity and stay healthy throughout cold season. Join Jacqueline Foster, Ayurvedic Health Counselor and Chef, in this informative discussion of what immunity really is and how we maintain it.
Registration not required. This workshop is FREE and open to the public.
Thali Night: An Evening Exploring the Six Tastes
Come experience a night of Nepali cuisine welcoming the new chef at Bombay Indian Cuisine, Chef Ranu. Traditional Thali plates are composed of the six tastes through different curries and dals making it a balanced, sattvic, meal according to Ayurveda. Jacqueline Foster, Chef and Ayurvedic Health Counselor of Matriarch Ayurveda will lead guests through a sensory tasting of each dish, exploring the six tastes and their effect on the body and our health.
$45 Prix Fixe vegetarian menu with option to add meat.
Limited seats available, RSVP today to reserve yours.