Eight Directions Wellness

Eight Directions Wellness Uma Jolicoeur. उमा Āyurvedic teacher and practitioner. Certified End of Life Care doula (UVM). (2011).

Longtime student of Vasant Lad, offering lineage-based teachings and seminars. Former faculty member, senior practitioner at the Ayurvedic Institute, NM. Umā Jolicoeur is a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner with over a decade of clinical experience in holistic health and integrative care. After graduating from the Ayurvedic Institute’s two program in 2014, she served as a clinic supervisor and facu

lty member until 2019 —assisting Dr. Vasant Lad in his classes and seminars while developing and teaching her own courses in Ayurvedic nutrition, lifestyle, herbalism, pulse assessment, and marma therapy. Umā’s work is also informed by certifications as a Reiki II Therapist (2010), End-of-Life Care Doula (2019), and through an internship with ethnobotanist and clinical herbalist William Siff, L.Ac. Beyond her clinical practice, she and her partner are building an all-natural earthbag home in Colorado, guided by the same principles of sustainability, simplicity and authenticity that inspire her Ayurvedic teachings. Rooted in her direct training with Dr. Lad, Uma’s compassionate, lineage-based approach honors classical Ayurvedic principles while supporting healing, resilience, and embodied living at every stage of life. She will begin offering online Ayurvedic consultations and in-person community workshops at the Āyurvedic Community Wellness Center in Spring 2026.

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This is basically the entire argument for meditation in two sentences. Someone cuts you off in traffic, your boss says something annoying, your kid pushes every button — and there's this tiny gap before you react. Most of us blow right past it. Meditation makes the gap bigger. You still feel the thing. You just don't have to be owned by it.

Now is the time to pick up a copy of the Dal Chawal cookbook I worked on! Another wonderful cookbook is the Rancho Gordo...
05/23/2026

Now is the time to pick up a copy of the Dal Chawal cookbook I worked on! Another wonderful cookbook is the Rancho Gordo Bean Book!

The fiber craze is pushing more people into the broad world of beans, as the U.S. bean industry looks to double American consumption of pulses by 2030.

It’s about time.
04/15/2026

It’s about time.

More medical schools are teaching students how to cook and use food as a tool for treating patients. It's part of a growing movement called Food Is Medicine. Think of it as a modern, research-backed version of “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” https://nyti.ms/4mEPpth

I’m far from a Luddite and use LLMs for certain tasks and research, but if we’re concerned about wellness- especially of...
04/02/2026

I’m far from a Luddite and use LLMs for certain tasks and research, but if we’re concerned about wellness- especially of our brains - this is worth reading.

By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

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