The Services
"Every offering at Ayurveda Within is designed around one simple belief: real transformation happens when you are met exactly where you are — and guided, gently and precisely, back to yourself."
The Discovery Journey
Your first step home.
This is where we begin. In two carefully structured sessions, we lay the foundation of your Ayurvedic journey — discovering your unique nature, understanding what has moved out of balance, and giving you three clear, personalised lifestyle shifts.
Investment: R1,950The Discovery Session
75 minutesWe begin with a thorough assessment of your Prakruti — your innate Ayurvedic nature — and your Vikruti, what is currently out of balance. Together we identify the three most impactful lifestyle shifts for you right now.
Within 48 hours you receive a written summary of everything we uncovered — your constitution, what is currently out of balance, and the three shifts we chose together, with the reasoning behind each. Not notes from a session. Something to hold, return to, and live from.
The Follow-Up Session
45 MINUTES · 2 - 3 WEEKS LATERWe reconnect to review how the three shifts are landing in your body. What is working, what needs adjusting, what new awareness has emerged.
Available in-person in Cape Town or online worldwide.
Your Follow-Up Session is included in the R1,950 — there is nothing further to pay. I will send you a private link to book it at the end of Session 1.
The treatments below are being prepared with care — the space, the vessels, the oils. If you would like to be among the first, add your name below and I will write to you as soon as dates are available.
Coming Home Ayurvedic Treatments
Therapeutic treatments for body and being.
A suite of classical Ayurvedic treatments — time-honoured therapies that work directly on the physical body to address specific conditions and imbalances at their root. These are not spa treatments. They are precise, therapeutic interventions drawn from the oldest healing tradition in the world, each one selected and prepared according to your unique constitution and current state of health.
Treatments are open to all, though a Discovery Journey is recommended first to ensure every session is as targeted and effective as possible.
Available in person · Cape TownOn coming more than once
Most of these therapies were never meant to be taken singly. Shirodhara in particular does its work cumulatively — the first session settles you, the second and third go somewhere the first cannot reach. A single session is available, and some people want exactly that. But if you are coming for the effect rather than the experience, come three times.
Marma Point Therapy
45 MINUTES · R850Marma points are the places where flesh, vein, artery, tendon, bone and joint meet — one hundred and seven of them mapped across the body, understood in Ayurveda as the seats where prana, the life force, gathers and moves. Marma therapy works these points directly, with precise, sustained touch and gentle pressure. No oil is used. Wear something comfortable you can lie in. Who tends to come for it: those who feel scattered, held tight in the body, or disconnected from themselves in a way that rest alone is not resolving. People often describe feeling gathered and quiet afterwards, and more fully in their own body.
It is quiet work, and often unexpectedly moving. People frequently find that a point holds something they had not consciously known they were carrying.
The points chosen, and the order in which they are worked, depend entirely on you.
A course of three, taken within 21 days, is how this work is done — R2,300, paid in full at the first session.
Lepa
30 MINUTES · R450 EACHOne of Ayurveda's oldest external therapies — a freshly prepared herbal paste, applied warm to a particular area of the body and left to do its work. The herbs, their preparation, their temperature and their thickness are all chosen for you. You stay clothed apart from that area.
Who tends to come for it: those carrying heat, heaviness or tenderness in one part of the body, where something feels stuck or unsettled rather than spread throughout. People often describe the area feeling cooler, lighter and easier afterwards.
A course of three — R1,200, paid in full at the first session.
Basti
KATI · HRID · NETRA BASTI · 45 MINUTES · R850 EACHA small reservoir of warm oil is held over one area of the body, contained by a carefully made dough dam and kept warm throughout. It is among the most distinctive treatments in Ayurveda, and among the most restful. Nothing is taken internally. You stay clothed apart from the area being worked on.
- Kati Basti — over the lower back. For backs that ache, stiffen, or carry the accumulated strain of long hours seated and years of holding everything together.
- Hrid Basti — over the heart centre. For grief, for tightness in the chest, for the times when something needs to soften and has not been given the chance.
- Netra Basti — over the eyes, in a frame of dough. Deep rest for eyes that are tired, dry, and asked to look at screens for far too much of the day.
A course of three — R2,300, paid in full at the first session.
Shirodhara
The Sacred Oil Stream.
An experience that must be felt to be fully understood. A continuous, rhythmic stream of warm oil is poured slowly over the forehead — over the Ajna point at the centre of the brow — for an extended and deeply meditative period.
60 MIN TREATMENT · R1,400Two sessions R2,600 · Three sessions R3,600. Your oil is prepared for you and kept for your course, so the sessions that follow cost less to prepare — the saving is passed on to you.
There is very little to do. The warmth, the rhythm and the sheer steadiness of the stream give the mind something so simple to rest on that it tends, eventually, to stop reaching. Many people describe a state of conscious rest — awake, and yet profoundly still — and say it is the deepest rest they have known.
People who are tired in a way that sleep is not resolving. Those carrying a great deal, whose minds do not switch off at the end of the day, who feel stretched thin, or who have been moving at a pace they can no longer sustain. It is often chosen by people who find stillness difficult to arrive at on their own.
The oil is chosen for your constitution and for where you currently sit in relation to it, so no two sessions are quite alike.
These are traditional Ayurvedic practices, offered for rest, restoration and wellbeing. They are not medical treatments, and are not offered to diagnose, treat or cure any medical condition.
Please tell me beforehand if you are pregnant, currently unwell, taking medication, or recovering from injury or surgery. Some treatments are not suitable in these circumstances, and I would far rather adapt or reschedule than proceed.
If you are under the care of a medical professional, please continue to follow their guidance. Ayurveda works alongside conventional care — not instead of it.
Maintenance Sessions
For clients who have completed a Discovery Journey. Whenever you feel the need to reconnect — a season changing, something shifting, or simply wanting to be heard again — email me and we'll find a time. Whether that's two months later or a year. There's no need to start over.
Ayurveda Within Workshops
Workshops and group sessions are available by arrangement — tailored to the group, the occasion, and the topic. Whether you are curious about discovering your dosha, exploring Ayurvedic nutrition, understanding seasonal living, or diving into a specific area of Ayurvedic wisdom, a workshop can be shaped entirely around what your group needs.
Available for private groups, corporate wellness, community gatherings, and special events. Topics vary and are discussed in advance.
Available in person in Cape Town or online.
Not sure where to start?
Begin with the Discovery Journey.
It is designed to be the perfect first step — low commitment, deeply revealing, and entirely focused on you.