Weekly Gatherings September 16 thru October 21Love Season
A Journey into Recovery & Nourishment Through Connection
Exploring the Ayurvedic practice of using oil to replenish the body
What if recovery could be something you practice—not just something you do when your body finally forces you to stop?
We ask a great deal of our bodies.
We work, play, train, practice, care for others, pursue the things we love, and keep showing up.
We know how to work hard. We know how to be disciplined.
We know how to push through when something matters to us.
But recovery is a practice, too.
As we grow older, many of us begin to recognize that staying active and engaged for the long term requires more than asking the body to keep performing. It requires learning how to listen and care for the body that makes everything else possible—in ways no one taught us in our 20’s and 30’s.
As summer gives way to autumn, Ayurveda recognizes a natural invitation to shift our relationship with activity—to bring more warmth, softness and grounding into our daily rhythms.
Love Season is an opportunity to explore that shift through simple Ayurvedic practices and the experience of giving and receiving care in community.
You don't need to know anything about Ayurveda to participate. You simply need curiosity and willingness to experience something different.
Over six weeks, we'll explore an especially beautiful Ayurvedic approach to health and longevity called snehana—traditional practices of applying oils to the key areas of the body for the purpose of deep nourishment and restoration.
We'll learn, receive, give, rest, reflect, and share together.
How Love Season Came to Be
For the past seven years, I've studied and practiced a variety of Ayurvedic healing protocols with teachers whose knowledge and experience have deeply informed my practice.
I've also experienced firsthand how difficult it can be to practice them when you need them most.
After riding my bicycle more than 4,600 miles around the Rocky Mountains in the Summer of 2021, I knew my body needed to be nourished and replenished.
During the depletion and demands of perimenopause, I found myself in a similar place.
I knew these practices could support me. But sometimes I simply didn't have the energy to gather the supplies, administer the oil, and clean everything up afterward.
Sometimes knowing “what to do” doesn’t help. Sometimes what we need is support to receive.
That's when the idea for Love Season was born:
What if we could come together in community to learn and share these precious practices?
What if we could bring the same commitment we give to our work, our practice, our training, and the people we care for—and direct some of that commitment toward caring for ourselves, together?
What becomes possible when we support one another in deep nourishment and care?
Now I’m inviting you to be part of making this dream reality.
What if caring for ourselves doesn't have to be something we do alone, in addition—and sometimes in opposition— to all of our other commitments?
Snehana: The Practice of Nourishment
In Ayurveda, snehana refers to oleation—working with oil and its qualities of warmth, softness, lubrication, and nourishment.
The Sanskrit word sneha also carries the meaning of love, affection, tenderness, and care.
Love Season explores this beautiful intersection.
Oil is one of Ayurveda's most tangible ways of working with these qualities, giving us a sensory experience of lubrication, softness, and nourishment seeping in directly through our skin.
You'll learn traditional practices, understand their Ayurvedic context, and have the opportunity to notice what happens when you give the body sustained attention and care.
You don't have to believe in the practice before you experience it.
Come curious.
Learn what the tradition says. Experience it for yourself. Notice what you notice over the course of the six weeks.
What happens when we offer the body warmth, softness, and space to receive?
Reciprocity Magic
Some practices are much easier and more enjoyable to experience with another person.
Throughout Love Season, you'll have opportunities to both receive and learn to offer care, with demonstration, guidance, and assistance from Chanda and Erin.
Each practice will be taught step by step. No previous experience with Ayurveda or bodywork is necessary.
This isn't training to become an Ayurvedic practitioner or massage therapist.
Instead, we're exploring something more intimate, simple, and accessible:
What does it feel like to offer and receive care in the context of supportive community?
Partner practices are approached with attentiveness, respect, communication, and clear boundaries. Everyone will have the opportunity to receive, and you'll be supported in making choices about your comfort and participation.
In this way, Love Season becomes a practice of deepening connection with ourselves and others.
A unique aspect of this experience is that together, we can support one another in accessing levels of nourishment that we can’t achieve alone.
The Love Season Journey
Each week for six weeks, we'll explore a different realm of the body through guided experiences of traditional snehana and relaxation practices, reflection, and conversation.
Week One- September 16The Senses Part 1
Nasya & Netra Tarpana
We begin with the gateways through which we experience the world.
We'll explore nasya—the practice of oleation for the nose and sinuses—and netra tarpana—a traditional practice for nourishing the eyes.
We'll expand our understanding of these sensory gateways, how to care for them throughout our lives, and how Ayurvedic practices can support a more embodied relationship with the senses.
Guided relaxation will complement the experience, allowing the body to receive the nourishment of herbs and oils while you settle into an embodied experience of Ayurvedic wisdom.
Week Two- September 23Feet, Hands & Head
Pada, Hasta & Shiro Abhyangam
Our feet, hands, and head are constantly involved in sensing, moving, interacting, and receiving input from the outside world.
We'll explore traditional practices of nourishing these areas with oil to relieve joint pain and relieve the pressure of doing, offering an opportunity to experience what it feels like for these parts of the body that do so much for us to rest and receive.
Week Three- September 30Low Back & Low Belly
Kati, Nabhi & Yoni Snehanam
We'll turn toward the center of the body, exploring variations on traditional practices for the low back, womb, and belly. These are areas where we often carry the physical and emotional demands of work, stress, and life.
One of my teachers shared that if we can only apply oil to one part of the body, the belly is where we should focus. This is due to the importance of the navel center governing our digestion and energy.
This gathering invites grounding, softness, vulnerability, and a deeper quality of settling as we experience the comfort of warmth and unctuous nourishment in the lower centers of the body.
Week Four- October 7Knees
Janu Snehanam
The knees support our movement through the world, our power to achieve what we need to achieve. Knees do so much for us here in the land of mountains!
We'll give the knees some love while exploring traditional Ayurvedic and contemporary approaches to supporting their health, mobility, and longevity.
Week Five- October 14The Senses Part 2
Karna Purana
The ears are an important sensory gateway, and their relationship to balance, the nervous system, and our experience of the world may be more significant than we realize.
In this deeply soothing and grounding session, we'll explore karna purana—the traditional Ayurvedic practice of full oleation of the ears.
We'll allow the practice to support an inward journey into stillness, listening, and rest.
Week Six- October 21Bringing it Home
Abhyangam & Review
Our final gathering turns toward integration.
We'll review the practices we've explored throughout the season and learn abhyangam, the traditional Ayurvedic practice of full-body self-massage with oil, including variations for different circumstances and conditions.
You'll leave with a deeper understanding of snehana and practical ways to continue incorporating nourishing oleation practices into your own life.
The intention isn't to give you another list of things you should be doing; it's to help you discover practices you naturally return to because they nourish you.
Practices that help you recover.
Practices that help you replenish.
Practices that help you care for the body you want to keep living in.
The Rhythm of Each Gathering
Each week follows a simple, spacious rhythm.
Arrive & Settle
Choose a flower from the Lotus Wei Sacred Collection and arrive in the space.
Learn
We'll explore the practice for the week—its traditional context, how it is practiced, potential benefits, and important considerations and contraindications.
You'll learn both simple versions for home and everyday application and the fuller practices we'll experience together.
Experience
You'll be guided into the practice with hands-on assistance. Everyone will have the opportunity to receive.
Rest & Receive
We'll allow time for the body to settle and integrate through guided meditation and/or sound healing.
Complementary practices will be tailored to each session, supporting an embodied experience of what you're learning.
Reflect
You'll have quiet time for reflection and noticing your own experience.
Share
Discussion, questions, and conversation will be welcome at various times throughout each session to help you cement your knowing.
Close
We'll clean up together and close the space.
There is no need to rush from one thing to the next.
The rhythm itself is part of the practice.
Meet Your Guides
Priti Chanda Klco, IAYT and AWC, and Erin McIntire, LMT have more than 30 years combined experience with movement and body-based therapies and have both been benefitting from the personal practice of oleation for decades.
Together, they bring extensive experience with hands-on care, Ayurveda, and the lived practice of recovery and longevity within vibrant and demanding lives.
Come learn from their experience, receive their guidance and care, and explore the practices for yourself.
Why practice together?
Desert Milkweed - Safety
Pear Blossom - Belonging
Bee Orchid - Interconnectedness
We may know that rest would help.
We may know that recovery matters.
We may know that slowing down would be good for us.
And still, it can be surprisingly difficult to create space for these things on our own.
Most of us don't need another reminder that self-care is important.
We need time, structure, and other people to help us actually do it.
We know how to commit to the things we consider important.
We make time for work. Training. Study, practice. Family.
Love Season asks you to bring that same commitment to recovery.
For 90 minutes each week, you don't have to organize your own self-care.
You simply arrive. Learn. Receive. Give. Rest. Reflect. Connect.
And you're doing it alongside other people who have made the same commitment.
Care becomes something we practice together.
Love Season is for you if…
You've spent years asking a lot of your body through work, training, movement, adventure, or simply the demands of life.
You want to remain active and engaged as you grow older—and recognize that longevity requires recovery as well as effort.
You understand discipline, but haven't necessarily applied that discipline to caring for yourself.
You're curious about Ayurveda but don't know much about it.
You're curious about traditional practices but prefer to experience something for yourself rather than simply being told what to believe.
You're drawn to hands-on, experiential learning.
You've experienced enough of life to know that the body doesn't always respond to being pushed harder.
You're interested in practical ways to support recovery, restoration, resilience, and physical vitality.
You want to deepen your capacity to both give and receive care.
You spend much of your life caring for other people and recognize that you need care, too.
You want self-care to feel nourishing rather than like another obligation.
You value community and know that showing up alongside others helps you follow through.
You're curious about practices that invite warmth, softness, slowness, sensory nourishment, and deep rest.
You're curious about making recovery and replenishment a more intentional part of your life.
No previous experience with Ayurveda or oleation practices is necessary. Both experienced practitioners and those new to these practices are welcome.
Love Season is for those who want to explore a different way of supporting physical vitality and longevity by tending to what we already have.
This isn't about optimizing yourself. It isn't another health protocol to add to your list. It isn't about becoming better at self-care.
It's about learning to notice what supports you—and developing practices you can return to when your body needs them.
Ayurvedic practices are often gentle and subtle.
They don't necessarily announce themselves with immediate, dramatic effects. They invite us to work with qualities—warmth, softness, lubrication, steadiness, rest—and to notice how the body responds over time.
Sometimes the shift is gradual, unfolding like the rhythms of nature: a flower blooming, grass ripening to seed, morning dew settling on the Earth.
The changes may be imperceptible; then suddenly, we realize something has shifted—we feel different. We’ve come to a totally new place in our lives without even realizing it, simply by following a path with openness and sincerity.
The practice is learning to notice.
Registration Details
Love Season
A Journey into Recovery & Nourishment Through Connection
Six weekly gatherings
90 minutes each
September 16 – October 21
Wednesdays • 5:30–7:00 PM at PranaBeing • Salida, Colorado
Love Season Commitment — $540
Experience the full six-week journey. This is the recommended way to experience Love Season, allowing the practices to build upon one another and creating a consistent rhythm of nourishment throughout the season.
$90 per gathering when you commit to all six.
Single Session — $125
Individual sessions are available when space allows for those who cannot commit to the full six-week journey.
Space is intentionally limited so there is room for individualized guidance, partner practices, and a meaningful experience of community.
Yarrow - Vitality
Make Love Season Real.
Love Season is an in-person experience, but fully utilizing the opportunity of the season doesn't have to end when you leave the studio.
During this time, PrānaBeing is also offering an Autumn Passage online—with recipes, seasonal guidance, deep rest and other supportive home practices designed to help you attune to the transition into fall.
The two offerings are intentionally complementary:
Love Season gives you a place to gather, receive and give.
The Autumn Passage gives you ways to extend that seasonal attention into your everyday life and continue to learn and practice with a wider online community.
Love Season participants will have the opportunity to add the online Seasonal Passage at a special participant rate.
Come Receive. Come Give. Come Home to Yourself.
Your body has carried you through a lot.
Love Season is a chance to give something back.
A practice of recovery.
A practice of care.
A practice of giving and receiving.
Autumn asks something different of us.
A little less outward striving.
A little more grounding.
A little more warmth.
A little more care.
Love Season is an invitation to explore what it means to care for the body you've asked so much of—and to discover how much easier care can become when we give and receive it together.
Join us for Love Season.