Laura Plumb

10/12/2026

Feeling this as I head to the airport. Don’t want to leave. Kerala is love, beauty, wisdom, nourishment, healing. I could stay another week, month, lifetime.

But home calls too. Family, garden, earth - the piece of nature we tend, which tends us, the place that gives belonging…

Oh Kerala, you have given us so much! Thank you 🙏🏽 Thank you to my teachers, remembered with every step I take through your homeland, through the embodied songlines of the Ayurveda Vidya. Jai Ma Jai Guru!

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Jeanette Winterson quote shared from
Trivarna Hariharan

10/08/2026

This is a great list of Ayurveda educators, inlcuidng a couple of my own teachers in the top 11 spots.

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10/07/2026

Ayurveda = CARE

A truth so often overlooked: The essence of Ayurveda, beyond all the lists and practices, protocols and complexities - what to eat, when to eat, how to eat, what spices are best, which herbs for your body type, hot to this and how to that - fundamentally Ayurveda is about the deep relaxation that returns you to your generative source.

Ayurveda is a consciousness-based approach to wellness, a spiritual medicine that recognizes the phenomenal self-generative and regenerative healing power in everything that lives.

Knowing that relaxation is essential for any healing to occur, Ayurveda seeks to relax you to your core, where you can not only access the deepest and most potent healing but you can even untie the knots of your karma.

Have you every felt this loved, this held, this fully rested?

It is the essence of Ayurveda, and the gift of Yoga too. “Tada Drashuh Svarupe Vasthanam” ~ YS 1.3

Imagine the world if the deepest relaxation into Love was our highest goal.

I am so grateful for Ayurveda, for its preservation across time, to the people of Kerala, to all my teachers - and all the Vaidya and therapists who help so many heal, and remember Love is at the heart of it all.

🙏🏽💛🍃

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10/04/2026

Venus moved to Libra on September 2, where it is in dignity. One month later, on October 3, at 14:15 Libra, Venus turned retrograde.

Meanwhile, we had a full moon on September 26th in Uttara Bhadrapada Nakshatra in Pisces.

Venus represents feminine attraction, beauty, desire, intimate relations, and the wife or beloved in a man’s chart, among other things.

Venus is called Shukra in Sanskrit, the same word Ayurveda uses for the reproductive tissue.

The archetype representing Venus is Lakshmi, the Devi of beauty, fecundity, abundance.

Moon is mother, mothering, also mind, our subtle body, our watery nature, and hormones.

In the USA chart, Venus is in Ardra Nakshatra, the star of sorrow, and the star of storms. Ardra is intense, raw, stormy. Ruled by Ardra, it can be destructive, but it can also be about dismantling.

Add to that Venus is conjunct Mars and aspected by Saturn. We have some collective karma here.

However, the USA chart, Venus is also conjunct Jupiter, in Ardra as well, so there is potential to grow towards the light, to awaken to enlightened relationships, as a country, as a culture.

Libra, where Venus is spending most of last four months of this year, is on the US’s 11th house of ideals, aspirations, auspiciousness and strength.

This Venus retrograde transit began in the wake of that full moon in Uttara Bhadrapada, which was conjunct Saturn in Pisces, the sign of healing, wholeness, unity, as well as big emotions! It is really stirring up a collective fury, but also it seems a reckoning.

There’s so much here that suggests dismantling, justice and an awakening to true relationship, in harmony and with respect for women, for children, for people of color, for nature, the land, the animals, the earth, for life in all its biological expressions.

It’s time.

Jaya Lakshmi!

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10/03/2026

This gallery was written, created and shared by Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer

I am sharing it because it feels so important to know that what we are grappling with now is not normal, however pervasive.

It is not how healthy people behave, even if these people have power, privilege, wealth, authority.

Jane Doe needs justice. But it’s bigger than that. Our world needs healing.

From Delhi through the US all the way to Australia, women are rising in solidarity, demanding respect.

If we are going to create a world that is safe and just for women and children, we need to know it is possible. We need to remember that once we lived in harmony with nature, with one another, with all life. And we can do it again.

We can heal. I’ve dedicated my life to it.

I too was a Jane Doe. It will all have been worth it, if we can say we were the last.

I hope to see this in my lifetime.

🙏🏽

God bless you my dear sisters. Keep fighting the good fight.

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Thank you

09/22/2026

Autumn begins…

In Ayurveda, Autumn is considered Vata season. It’s the season of winds, of leaves scattering, and sunlight receding.

It is the season for warm, gentles spices; grounding foods - baked, roasted or steamed; tonics and teas that extend that warmth and grounding, full body oil massage every morning, epsom baths in the evening for good sleep, and movement that harmonizes the inner winds, stabilizing Prana, while bringing joy, freedom and inspiration.

There are only three months now until the winter equinox, followed by a new year. Do we really have to hurry up and get it all done?

What if we are intentional instead in our self care, in slowing down, in growing up mindfulness and deep, compassionate connections, in soulful creativity?

What if Autumn never meant to be fast? A time to get it all done? But a time to reap the harvest and enjoy the feast, slowly and in good company?

What if we are meant to live, love, heal, enlighten, create, and make beauty… more than just produce? What if you and everything here is already enough, and now is the time we get to settle into the abundance?

Let me know how you will be loving you, and this one precious world, this season.

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09/15/2026

This is such a beautiful quote as we enter the season of wind.

Vayu, the power of wind, scatters seeds for winter food and spring growth to come. Prana, the power of consciousness and life vitality within, gives radiant health when its flow is free, unencumbered and harmonious.

In autumn as the Sun recedes, we keep our inner winds strong with warmth, grounding meals, daily Abhyanga, gentle exercise, balancing breath practices, and all the things that help us feel serene, sumptuous and whole.

Then it feels as if we are the trees, whispering the harmony of heaven.

Be well,
Laura

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09/11/2026

We slept and a new moon was born. September’s new moon is in the Nakshatra of Purva Phalguni, star of “all majestic pleasure”, prosperity, love, joy, and sensual delight.

Purva Phalguni symbolizes the joy of creation, artistic expression, and the pursuit of happiness.l, whose fulfillment can cause desirelessness and asceticism. It’s the feeling of wholeness so fully, that there is no longer anything that could make it better.

With its ruler Venus currently including our in Venus, this is a good time to take relationships seriously.

NEW MOON PROMPTS
🌙 Is there a relationship in your life that could benefit from this loving energy?
🌙 Are you letting yourself be fully, playfully, wildly loved?
🌙 What is your connection to fully embodied love?
🌙 How do you relax? Is there one thing you could improve your rest? Are you willing to do that one thing?
🌙 How do you feel when you are deeply rested?
🌙 Do you give yourself time for play? Sensual delight? Creative exploration and freedom?
🌙 What is your relationship to joy?
🌙 Can you give yourself permission, and find ways, to enjoy more?

Love and new moon blessings,
Laura

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