The Story Behind the Work

THE STORY BEHIND THE WORK

A cookbook fell off a shelf in front of me.

I wasn't looking for it. I wasn't on a health journey. I was just in a bookstore when an Ayurvedic recipe book landed at my feet. I picked it up, read the back, and encountered a single word I had never once applied to my own life: balance.

I thought it was genius.

I bought the book. I read more. I made one lifestyle change, took one herb, and within a month, the debilitating PMS that had stolen years of my joy, my sanity, and my sense of self — simply disappeared.

I've been studying the Vedic sciences ever since.

The Training

I trained in London and earned my degree from Manipal University in India — one of the most respected Ayurvedic institutions in the world. My professors were Indian scholars who had grown up learning Ayurveda from childhood, carrying knowledge that was lived, not just studied. My internship was six months in Indian hospitals where Western and Ayurvedic medicine worked side by side. This was not a wellness certification. This was full, authentic, classical Ayurveda.

Thirty years later, I'm still learning. The Vedas are inexhaustible.

The Gita and the Terrible Boss

My deepest personal transformation didn't happen in a classroom. It happened in a car.

I had a terrible boss. Every day, I drove to work dreading what was waiting for me. On a whim, I started listening to the Bhagavad Gita on that drive. It settled me. It prepared me. It uplifted me. And somewhere in the daily listening, something began to shift.

I started to learn who I actually was.

I stopped needing to be what everyone else wanted me to be. I stopped caring what people thought. I became the top performer in the company — not by trying harder, but by trying less. The ego was quietly dissolving. My boss, who controlled everyone around her, couldn't control me. I was the only one in that office who felt free.

The Gita didn't teach me to escape difficulty. It taught me to stand in the middle of it and remain myself.

I should also say: my first profound spiritual opening came years earlier, in a church. That experience never left me. And over time, I discovered that the Vedic teachings didn't contradict what I had found there — they deepened it. There is a reason many scholars believe Jesus spent time in India studying the Vedas during the years the Bible doesn't account for. The wisdom recognizes itself.

Why This Work, Why Now

Perimenopause hit me during the worst chapter of my life. Traumatic events converged. I was working up to twenty hours a day. I had stopped walking my own walk — and my body let me know it.

Once I returned to Ayurveda, the symptoms disappeared.

And every woman I know is suffering.

I have watched women I love be told they are sick, declining, broken — when what is actually happening is one of the most powerful initiations a human being can undergo. Society convinced women that this passage is a disease. I believe it is a liberation. I believe that women who complete this initiation — rather than manage it into submission — carry a power that this world desperately needs.

I have the knowledge. I have lived it. Passing it on is my legacy.

That is why Sattvika exists.

— Eve