Offered in-studio at Aurora Wellness Centre in Nanoose on Vancouver Island, Ayurvedic bodywork therapies support the health of your body, mind, and emotions — the true foundation of a full and vibrant life. These treatments promote systemic harmony, encourage deep tissue repair, and serve as powerful allies on your path to lasting wellness.
The Broad-Spectrum Benefits of Ayurvedic Bodywork | Ayurvedic bodywork offers deeply restorative support for a wide range of needs:
More Than Just Relaxation | The true power of Ayurvedic bodywork lies in reconnecting you with your natural state of balance and vitality. These therapies are grounding, nourishing, and profoundly healing from the inside out.
Align & Awaken | A sacred return to equilibrium and energy.
Marma point (vital energy point) activation across the head, hands, feet, and face to recalibrates the flow of prana (life force), soothe the nervous system, ease physical and emotional tension, and support the body’s innate healing intelligence. Each point opens a pathway to systemic harmony—calming the mind, improving digestion, relieving pain, enhancing sleep, uplifting mood, and regulating hormones and immune function.
Ideal for regular rebalancing or during times of depletion, transition, burnout, or emotional unrest. A deeply nurturing reset—restoring clarity, resilience, and connection to your essential self.
60 minutes: $130 | 90 minutes: $195
Face of Grace | Mukha Marma Therapy: Where beauty meets deep healing.
Facial massage with marma point (vital energy point) activation across the face and head to soften tension in the face, jaw, and scalp—releasing stress lines, emotional heaviness, and enhancing clarity, sleep, and sensory awareness. The facial points are intimately connected to the brain, hormones, digestion, sinuses, eyes, ears, and nervous system.
Ideal for those seeking natural facial rejuvenation, emotional grounding, mental calm, sharper perception, relief from chronic headaches, insomnia or overwhelm, and support through hormonal, seasonal, or life transitions. It revitalizes your natural radiance—leaving you clear, luminous, and deeply at ease.
60 minutes: $130 | 30-minute add-on to other treatments: $65
Radiant Reset | Clear stagnation, reclaim vitality.
A revitalizing full body therapy (udvartana) using herbal powders to exfoliate skin, stimulate circulation, clear stagnation, and support healthy weight and metabolism. This dynamic treatment aids weight loss, tones tissues, breaks up cellulite, and gently detoxifies while energizing body and mind.
Radiant Reset dispels heaviness, boosts lymphatic flow, and leaves skin soft, smooth, and glowing. Ideal for natural detoxification, metabolic support, or an energetic refresh. Note: Not recommended during periods of high stress, anxiety, or dryness.
60 minutes: $150
This treatment begins with a 30 minute facial marma followed by 15 minutes of nourishing herbal oil applied to the scalp (shiroabhyanga). This treatment is one of the best ways to calm the mind, improve sleep, and reduce stress and anxiety. It also improves hair growth and quality and strengthens the sense organs in the head - improving vision, hearing, taste, and smell. This is a great treatment to have whether you have hair or not!
Oil therapies are contraindicated when ama (metabolic toxins) are present. See **below for details
45 mins - $115
Ground & Glow | Root your energy. Awaken your radiance.
Warm foot soak to ground and detoxify, followed by abhyanga (herbal oil massage) and marma therapy (pressure point activation) on the feet, hands, and face—areas rich in nerve endings and gateways to full-body healing. This restorative treatment supports circulation, eases nerve tension, relieves wrist and ankle joint pain, and enhances hormonal and organ function. It softens tension, brightens the senses, and restores your inner glow—leaving you calm, clear, and beautifully rebalanced.
60 minutes: $150 | 90 minutes: $220
Localized basti is a powerful treatment that focuses the healing nature of oil and herbs on a particular area of the body. The healing happens with warmth, weight, and duration of time the basti is held. The basti begins with oil application to the head, ears, hands, feet, and area where the basti will be placed. A dough dam will be placed on the skin and warm herbal oil will be applied into the dam, where it will sit for 15 - 20 minutes. The basti’s provide lubrication, nourishment, energetic movement, and increased circulation at the sites they are placed.
Hrid basti: Heart basti (front or backside of the heart)
This is excellent for soothing emotions, grief and sadness, chest tightness, restricted breathing, collapsed chest posture, pains in the chest region, respiratory issues, and cardiac issues. It increases positivity, feelings of expansiveness, and peace. It strengthens the muscles around the chest and diaphragm and calms stress and anxiety.
Netra basti: Eye basti
This is excellent for reducing tension headaches and migraines, soothing dry and itchy eyes, improving vision, increasing concentration, relieving eye strain and twitching, smoothing wrinkles around the eyes, allergy relief, reducing dark circles, strengthening the eyes, and reducing redness, eye pain, blurry vision, and thinning eyelashes.
Kati basti: Low back basti
This is excellent for strengthening the nerves and muscles in the low back, relieving strain and tension, improving flexibility and circulation, reducing stiffness, sciatica, low back pain, stabilizing the low back, improving nerve function, disc issues, nerve compression, constipation, cramping, and reducing inflammation.
Manya basti: Neck basti
This is excellent for pain or stiffness in the head, headaches, numbness and tingling sensations in the face, neck, shoulders, arms, or hands, strengthening the neck, issues with the cervical spine, and whiplash.
60 mins - $160
Abhyanga & Snehan | Abhyanga — Ayurveda's deeply rejuvenating herbal oil massage — detoxifies, enhances circulation, regulates the nervous and hormonal systems, and supports the mind and emotions. It strengthens and nourishes the skin, muscles, and joints, softens deeply held tension, and builds resilience from within. Snehan, a slower and firmer variation, is often used when more grounding is needed.
Through intentional pacing and pressure, the treatments encourage absorption of oil through the skin to deliver potent herbal intelligence into your deeper tissues. They balance the flow of prana (vital life energy) to help you heal, regulate sleep rhythms, slow the signs of aging, and support long-term rejuvenation.
60 minutes: $150 | 90 minutes: $225
Requires initial consultation (book here), or pre-arranged discussion to assess your needs (email to arrange)
Existing clients - email to schedule
Udvartana is a treatment to promote circulation, dispel dullness and heaviness in the body and mind, reduce obesity and excess weight, and break up cellulite. It uses the application of dry herbs worked into the body tissues to dissolve fat, clarify the skin, and provide firmness to the body.
Dry powder therapies are contraindicated when there is excess dryness and high anxiety and stress
60 mins - $150
The royal milk bath is a treat! This rejuvenating, nourishing, luxurious therapy was designed for pampering the queens of India. Herbal boluses are soaked in warm milk and worked into the body. The herbs used promote glowing skin and the milk deeply soothes any skin irritation and leaves the skin feeling smooth, soft, and radiant. This includes a few minutes face massage at the end. Milk is cooling, so its best done in warmer weather and in the hot summer will help the mind, body, and heart stay cool, calm, and collected.
60 mins - $150
Sense Renewal | Awaken your senses. Nourish your perception of life.
Rejuvenate and strengthen the five sense organs—our sacred instruments of perception. Through marma (vital energy point) activation, warm oil rituals, and herbal applications, this treatment calms the nervous system, eases sensory strain, and renews your connection to life.
Includes herbal foot soak, anjana (herbal eyeliner), karnapurna (warm oil ear soak), hand and foot abhyanga (oil massage), facial oil with marma activation, and nasya (nasal drops) to clear the senses and sharpen awareness. Ideal for sensory overload, fatigue, eye strain, tension, and to age with clarity and calm. Return to the present moment—clear-eyed, open-hearted, and vibrantly attuned.
60 minutes: $150 | 90 minutes: $220 | 30-minute add on to other treatments: $75
Custom plans for issues like tinnitus, vertigo, joint pains, injury recovery, swelling, varicose veins, grief, tremors, menopause, perimenopause, menstrual issues, vision enhancement, blood pressure regulation, cellulite, stretch marks, weight loss, anxiety, nervous system disorders, and more can be provided with consultation.
**Oil therapies are contraindicated when ama (metabolic toxins) are present. Signs of ama include some or many of: excess weight (obesity), thick white coating on the tongue, lethargy, lack of appetite, delayed digestion, excess salivation, bad breath, and cloudy/white/phlegmy discharges. If you have some or all of these symptoms, a health consultation will help you clear out the metabolic toxins - helping you feel much lighter, brighter, and healthy, and bringing you to a place where the oil treatments won’t further impact the heaviness.
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