Healing Rituals
She does it herself every morning and its free.
Suryas entire spa program which also offers Ayurvedic-influenced massages and facials is headed up by wellness visionaryMartha Soffer.
Can you talk about that and what it does?
This is our home-prep cleanse!
For five days, people eat a warm, cooked vegetarian diet and take a little ghee each morning.
Can you explain Ayurveda to someone unfamiliar?
Its about teaching people how they can apply in their own lives as a form of self care.
Can you give us an example of how this works?
If we feel overheated, even emotionally, we need to cool down.
If we feel sluggish and enervated, we need to energize.
And all of these things can be done through diet (i.e.
no spicy food when we feel overheated) or through temporary lifestyle choices (i.e.
no hot yoga during that time, too).
you could also indulge in treatments and products that are either cooling, calming, or energizing.
What are your most popular services?
Our most popular treatment at Surya is our 2.5 hourNourish + Restore.
It begins with a tender four-handed abhyanga massage using customized, herbalized oils.
They are cooked uniquely for each guest the night before their treatment, all night long and every night.
This signature massage is soft and slow.
Its a great treatment to move the lymph system, promote circulation, and calm the nervous system.
streams down on the forehead in specific patterns.
It puts you in a deep, transcendental state.
Are there any treatments you offer the might surprise people?
For me, our Pinda treatment is amazing.
We give this one to people who have lots of heat in their bodies.
What services do you do personally and how often?
But my heart and body loves the simple abhyanga and shirodhara (mentioned earlier).
Whats something free and accessible the modern person can do to improve their health?
Slow down and nourish the relationship you have with your body.
Listen to the signs that it gives you!
Walk us through a typical day for you.
I wake up early, and these days I do a little ceremony at sunrise.
It really helps connect me to the planet I live on.
After that, I scrape my tongue, dry brush, and do a quick self-abhyanga.
Thats the whole day and its a day I love!
