Sanctuary ~
A Year of Living Ayurveda
Twelve Weekends. One Year.
In Rhythm with Nature and Your Nature
A year-long immersion in conscious living, community, and the wisdom of Ayurveda on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.
2027 Foundational Year now taking applications. Start any month.
The Invitation
There comes a point when more information is no longer feel sufficient.
You have read the books.
You have listened to the podcasts and watched You Tube.
You have explored different approaches to health, growth, and change.
Yet something still calls.
Not because you need more knowledge.
But because meaningful change rarely comes from knowledge alone.
It comes through practice.
Through reflection.
Through community.
Through the gradual unfolding that occurs when we devote time and attention to embodying learning.
Sanctuary is an invitation to spend a year exploring the wisdom and practice of Ayurveda in the company of others.
Together we gather one weekend each month to practice, reflect, discuss, and learn Living Ayurveda.
It is a beautiful opportunity to spend a year learning how to live with greater awareness, conciousness, intention, and connection.
A 200-hour Certificate in Foundations of Ayurveda Lifestyle will be awarded at the end of twelve months.
Over the course of a year, Ayurveda is explored not as a body of information, but as a way of living.
Together we will consider the rhythms of the day, the changing seasons, nourishment, rest, meditation, aging, nature, and the relationship between how we live and how we feel.
Each gathering offers an opportunity to step away from the pace of everyday life and return to questions that are often overlooked.
What nourishes us?
What depletes us?
How do we live in greater alignment with Nature?
How do we listen to what our body is telling us and respond with authority?
The teachings unfold within you gradually over time, allowing understanding to deepen through observation, reflection, discussion, and practice.
Over time, participants discover that the rhythms and practices of Ayurveda offer something increasingly rare in modern life: a sense of steadiness.
A steadier relationship with the body.
A steadier relationship with the mind.
And access to the deep well of wellbeing that the sages of Ayurveda have described for generations.
The Gathering
Each month, participants gather for a weekend in Roberts Creek on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.
Hosted in a private modern setting, a ten-minute drive from the Langdale ferry terminal, Sanctuary unfolds through the changing seasons.
As nature shifts from month to month, we explore the cycles and rhythms that shape both the natural world and our own lives.
Gathering in the same place with the same rituals, over time creates a continuity that is increasingly rare in modern life.
There is time for learning.
Time for practice.
Time for conversation.
Time for journaling.
Time for a mindful walk to the beach.
And time for silent meditation and relaxation.
In this way, the teachings of Ayurveda are not only studied, but lived.
Gathering together in this way offers something increasingly rare: the opportunity to learn at the pace of life itself.
About Francesca
My first yoga class took place in India in 1994.
Over the decades that followed, Ayurveda became an increasingly important lens through which to understand how the rhythms of daily life, the changing seasons, and Nature’s bounty shapes my life.
My relationship with Ayurveda is both personal and professional.
Ayurveda has offered me a way of understanding my own health as it played a significant role in my recovery from a chronic illness.
That experience changed the course of my life.
It deepened my respect for this widsom tradition and strengthened my commitment to living its principles rather than simply studying them.
Like many enduring traditions, Ayurveda reveals itself gradually. Its wisdom is not found in information alone, but through practice, lifestyle and lived experience.
Alongside more than three decades of personal practice, I have continued my formal study of Ayurveda through professional training and ongoing education.
Sanctuary was born from a desire to create the kind of space that has become increasingly rare in modern life: one that values depth over speed, healing conversation over consumption, and community over isolation.
It is an invitation to gather, to learn, and to spend a year exploring the wisdom and practice of Ayurveda in the company of others.
Training & Education
Certified: Ayurvedic Wellness Advisor, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counsellor, Ayurveda Yoga Teacher 300hr, Yoga Teacher 200hr
Saraswati Institute of Ayurveda and Yoga, American Institute of Vedic Studies, Durga Leela and Swami Hridyananda - Sivananda Vedanta
Yoga Teacher Training - Sandra Sammartino and Semperviva Yoga Teacher Training Foundational Cohort
Yoga Ashram Living 8 months