Hi again. It's been a minute.

Right now I’m somewhere over the Pacific, flying back from Sitka, Alaska. I just spent 2 dedicated weeks to my Ayurvedic + bodywork practice up on that beautiful Island! And now — It’s quiet up here. The kind of quiet that makes you want to write things you’ve been putting off.

This is one of them.

I’ve been away from this space for a few months — not in a graceful, intentional way. More like the kind where life gets very full, you think about returning often, and somehow the gap keeps widening anyway. So before anything else: I’m sorry. If you’ve been here, subscribed, waiting — thank you. I don’t take that lightly.

Life got genuinely big this winter.

I decided to create a home in a small town in Mexico. If you know anything about that process — finding a place, making it yours, building a life in a country that isn’t the one you grew up in — you know it takes more than you expect. More time, more energy, more of your heart. It was a beautiful undertaking and an all-consuming one. I wouldn’t trade it. But something had to give, and this newsletter was it.

On top of that, I spent a lot of this winter going inward. Tending to my own body’s health. Working on some patterns I know well in my clients and have been learning to recognize more honestly in myself — the overdrive, the self-critic, the perfectionism that can make showing up feel impossible if it can’t be done exactly right.

The practitioner and the patient are never as separate as we pretend. This work is ongoing. It doesn’t graduate. It just gets more honest.

I want this newsletter to be a place where you understand your body a little better after reading it. Where Ayurveda feels like something you can actually use — not an ancient system that requires a complete life overhaul, but a living framework for making sense of what your body is doing and why.

I am here to tap into those health concerns that often go unconnected or unexplained. How the body is this incredibly, beautiful, complex, simple, system that is always communicating and giving you those tools to understand!

I’ve taken sometime to come back on here, mostly trying to figure out how to fit all of my desires, passions, into a day, week, month :)

But, I am happy to be back!

Starting this week I’ll be posting regularly through the summer — on Pitta season, the solstice, the Fire Horse year, women’s hormones and heat, and everything I’ve been thinking about while I was being quiet.

Maybe it’s just me, but I guess I really like to introduce things…it felt too weird to just come back on without saying anything. So well, I guess then this is the announcement :)

A few things:
♡ podcast #10 of Not A Perfect Body is slightly late because of my travels. Hang on, it’s on it’s way soon :)
♡ The cooking blog with Fo has been paused as she has gotten a new, really amazing job, but it has required her undivided attention. I might do recipes myself, but at the moment, don’t expect our bi-monthly recipes, sadly
♡ Expect either a weekend wisdom OR a wellness tip every week! :)

Thank you for still being here. Really.

— Leah
Somewhere over the Pacific, heading home

Sitka, Alaska : 9:45pm at Whale Park