Welcome to Our Wellbeing Center
Wellness Center
The Sivananda Yoga Ranch Wellbeing Center is a wonderful addition to your yoga retreat or weekend getaway. We are open Thursday – Sunday. Please call for specific details or to make an appointment.
Our Wellbeing Center offers a variety of healing opportunities perfectly suited to help you feel rejuvenated, relaxed, and renewed. Our therapists are also yoga practitioners, dedicated to the lifestyle and teachings of our founders. The Yoga Ranch also has a traditional wood-burning Russian Banya Sauna to aid in your detoxification and relaxation. The sauna is open from 11am until 7pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Therapeutic Bodywork
Therapeutic bodywork promotes overall health, enhances your yoga practice, and supports a healthy lifestyle. Healing sessions are custom tailored to each client’s particular needs. Our caring and knowledgeable therapists are experienced in a wide variety of bodywork modalities. We combine Western and Eastern methods, ancient, and modern, to fit the needs and desires of the individual.
Therapeutic bodywork has a profound effect on the whole person; calming the nervous system, improving circulation, and strengthening the immune system. It is a powerful way to relax and heal.
Therapeutic Bodywork Sessions:
• 60 minutes – $120
• 90 minutes – $150
Ayurveda and Yoga
Ayurveda and yoga are the original holistic systems of care for body, mind, and spirit. Together, they allow for health as a basis for spiritual awareness, not just as an end unto itself. Ayurveda provides daily balancing practices for our mind-body senses that support the yogic path.
Ayurveda Oil Body Treatments (Bliss Therapy) – $175
The treatments consist of a brief assessment, an Abhyanga and Shirodhara treatment and ends with a sauna and shower. (Please note that the sauna is available only on Friday – Sunday or by prior special arrangement with reception.) The Sanskrit word ‘Sneha’ translates as both ‘love’ and ‘oil’ or ‘fat’. Ayurveda has for centuries used warm oil treatments to purify and nourish the body-mind-senses.
These treatments clear and balance the energy points (Marma) and channels (Nadi). They also balance the patterns of energy movements (Vayu) in the body-mind. This allows for the free flow of the body-mind’s innate intelligence bringing awareness, harmony, and self-healing.
Shirodhara
A Shirodhara is the application of a slow, fine stream of warm organic oil continuously poured on the third eye, then flowing over the forehead and scalp. Once again, the oil is mixed especially for you.
This treatment calms the mind by inducing slower brain wave function (Theta), which allows for deep relaxation. It also relieves tension and discomfort in the head, neck, and shoulders.
Shirodhara can alleviate headaches, anxiety, nervousness, and other stress-related symptoms. It allows for expanding awareness and produces feelings of well-being, balance, and joy.
Abhyanga – Ayurveda Massage – $125
An Abhyanga applies a combination of organic seed oils and essential oils or herbs, selected specifically for you, to the body-mind. The oil is applied by a single practitioner with light friction and gentle pressure with specific strokes designed to stimulate, clear, and balance the energy patterns of your body-mind.
The treatment stimulates lymph and blood circulation and supports hormonal balance. It helps strengthen all the tissues of the body, thereby supporting the immune system. And, it feels wonderful!
The Three Doshas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha
Pitta
The primary interaction of fire (metabolism) and water (flow and lubrication). Pitta metabolizes the nutrients in all cells. Pitta governs transformation and light, manifesting as digestion, assimilation, body temperature, intelligence, and discrimination.
Vata
The primary interaction of space (that which connects all) and air (that which creates movement). Vata provides for the movement of nutrients to all cells. Vata governs growth and life, manifesting as breathing, bodily movements, creativity, and flexibility.
Kapha
The primary interaction of water (flow and lubrication) and Earth (solidity). Kapha lubricates and maintains the structure of all cells. It governs maintenance and love, manifesting as body structure, lubrication of joints and skin, immunity, love, and acceptance.
Practical Ayurveda
Everything affects us on both the subtle and the gross levels. The way we engage, interact, and digest the world around us is through our five senses. Ayurveda teaches what may create harmony for us as an individual and how to integrate it through our five senses.
We learn how to make decisions about all aspects of life, and we see the relationship of cause and effect (obvious or subtle) for each of us. There are therapies and practices to balance each dosha and keep each dosha balanced.