September 16 thru October 21Love Season
An Ayurvedic Journey into Deep Nourishment & Connection
What becomes possible when we support one another in deep nourishment and care?
We ask a great deal of our bodies.
We work, move, create, care for others, pursue the things we love, and keep going. And over time, the body may begin asking for something different—not more effort, but more nourishment.
As summer gives way to autumn, the accumulated heat of the season begins to peak and overflow. The winds pick up, increasing dryness, and we may feel the effects of a summer spent moving, doing, and being active. For some, this seasonal transition brings fatigue, digestive disturbance, joint discomfort, allergies, or changes in the skin.
Ayurveda views this transition as an important time to slow down and nourish.
Love Season offers a space to do just that.
Over six weeks, we'll explore an especially beautiful Ayurvedic approach to caring for the body through snehana—traditional practices of oleation.
We'll learn, receive, give, rest, reflect, and share together.
Love Season is a process of deep nourishment, accomplished through coming together in community.
Snehana: The Practice of Nourishment
In Ayurveda, snehana refers to practices of 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.
What happens when we offer the body something very different from what we so often ask of it?
Less demand.
Less striving.
More warmth.
More softness.
More receiving.
Through traditional practices and the experience of being cared for by one another, we'll explore nourishment not as another task to accomplish, but as a way of relating to our bodies and to those we care for.
A Practice of Giving & Receiving
Some traditional oleation practices are much easier—and often more enjoyable—to experience with another person.
Throughout Love Season, you'll have opportunities to both receive care and learn to offer care, with demonstration, guidance, assistance, and supervision 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 receive care?
What does it feel like to offer care?
What becomes possible when we practice both?
Partner practices will be 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 reciprocity as well as self-care.
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, I knew my body needed nourishment and restoration. During the depletion and demands of perimenopause, I found myself in a similar place.
I knew these practices could help.
But sometimes I simply didn't have the energy to gather the supplies, administer the oil, and clean everything up afterward.
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 caring for ourselves didn't always have to mean doing everything alone?
Now that dream is becoming a reality, and I'm delighted to invite you to be part of it.
A Seasonal Practice for the Body You Want to Keep Living In
Many of us want to remain active and engaged for a long time.
We want to hike, ski, walk, dance, work, create, travel, play, love, and participate fully in our lives as we grow older.
That requires more than asking the body to keep performing.
It asks us to develop a relationship with the body that includes nourishment, restoration, attention, and care.
Love Season is for those who want to explore a different way of supporting physical vitality and longevity—one that doesn't begin with fixing what's wrong, but with tending to what we already have.
Ayurvedic practices are subtle and natural. They unfold like the rhythms of nature: a flower blooming, grass ripening to seed, morning dew settling on the Earth.
The practices are gentle. The changes may be imperceptible; then suddenly, we realize something has shifted.
The Six-Week Journey
Each week we'll explore a different realm of the body through traditional oleation practices, guided experience, relaxation, 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 a deeper 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, taking action, and relating to the world.
We'll explore traditional oleation practices for these areas and experience what it means to offer care to the parts of the body that do so much for us.
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, 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—and 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 can return to because they nourish you.
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 instruction and 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.
These practices will be specially tailored to each session, supporting an embodied experience of what you're learning about the body and its interconnected systems through the wise and ancient lens of Ayurveda.
Reflect
You'll have quiet time for reflection and noticing your own experience.
Share
We'll gather for discussion, questions, and conversation.
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.
Come and receive their expert guidance and love for this practice.
Why practice together?
We may know that rest would help.
We may know that nourishment 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.
Love Season offers a different kind of structure.
For 90 minutes each week, you don't have to organize your own self-care. You simply arrive, participate, receive, give, learn, rest, and reflect.
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 and want to learn how to nourish it differently.
You want to support your physical vitality and ability to remain active as you age.
You're curious about traditional Ayurvedic approaches to caring for the body.
You're drawn to hands-on, experiential learning.
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're curious about practices that invite warmth, softness, slowness, sensory nourishment, and deep rest.
You value community and the experience of practicing alongside others.
You're ready to make nourishment and restoration 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.
Registration Details
Love Season
An Ayurvedic Journey into Deep Nourishment & 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.
Make Love Season Real.
Love Season is an in-person experience, but nourishment doesn't have to end when you leave the studio.
During this same seasonal passage, PranaBeing will also offer a 40-Day Seasonal Passage online—a separate experience with deep-rest practices, recipes, seasonal guidance, and other supportive home practices designed to help you attune to the transition into autumn.
The two offerings are intentionally complementary:
Love Season gives you a place to gather, receive, give, learn, and practice together.
The 40-Day Seasonal Passage gives you ways to extend that seasonal attention into your everyday life.
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.
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 nourish 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.