Hi, I’m Molly

a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner with deep reverence for the home.

I collaborate with clients to infuse potent Ayurvedic care directly into your home by providing nourishing meals and thoughtful support when you need it most.

Let me come to you

• postpartum

• post surgery

• post burnout

• post major transition

• post loss of a loved one

• post introduction to Ayurveda

If you are needing extra rest, nourishment and rejuvenation, I’m here to help.

After our initial meeting, I will begin to implement the customized care and meal plan that best suits your unique needs for intentional nourishment, ritual and rest. This begins the steady stream of Ayurveda into your life, over a series of in-home visits.

Do you know what happens when you allow yourself to receive the gift of in-home Ayurvedic care? Deep integration, alignment and healing become possible.

ABOUT Me

As a NAMA Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, emergent strategist, yoga instructor of more than a decade and the co-founder of Cultivate Balance, I have worked diligently to build an Ayurvedic practice and educational platform that centers collective wellness and radical self care.

With a bachelor’s degree in Women and Gender Studies and more than 2,000 hours of Ayurvedic study and clinical experience at Alandi Gurukula, I am a lover of both learning and unlearning. I am humbled to share this ancient wisdom as it intersects with more contemporary movements of feminism, liberation and justice. 

My mission is to build individual and collective resilience as a key strategy for co-creating a more just and sustainable world. For me, this work starts at home. This is why I’m committed to serving my local Asheville community and the surrounding area.

Home centered

Discover the qualities that build, nourish and sustain.

I have always been deeply reverent for the home — any home. I love to host, to cook in other people’s kitchens, and to imbue care into any space I enter. With my earth and water nature, I orient very naturally to building and sustaining intentional, peaceful spaces.

The home is where we seek rest, refuge and nourishment, but sometimes these core pillars can feel unsteady or out of reach in our own spaces. I am here to help you transform this experience by allowing you to feel deeply cared for in your own home.

As an Ayurvedic Practitioner, I embed the holistic theory and practice of this ancient healing science into how I show up for you.

CARE CENTERED

Give yourself permission to receive.

If you are feeling scattered, overwhelmed, depleted, or exhausted, it’s time to to receive the care you need.

Watch the benefits unfold…

• greater potential to heal and repair

• enhanced energy and strength

• deep satiation and nourishment

• a feeling that rest is possible

• increased inspiration and clarity

• improved immunity

• greater ease in the household

• more calm, less stress

• potential for increased milk supply (postpartum clients)

what becomes possible for you

After just one session, you’ll begin to feel more at home in your body, more settled your living space and more aligned with your healing journey. By the time we’re finished working together, you will be inspired and empowered to continue the foods, herbs, and practices that were most supportive to you. Ayurvedic Care At Home is designed to offer ongoing integration that feels easy and enjoyable.

You are worthy of care.

Through our time together, I will offer you tools, recipes, remedies, and even checklists to stay in the gorgeous and flowing momentum that we have built together.

packages

Sustain Your Healing and Recovery

what you’ll get

Ayurvedic nourishment is the love language of the body.

Let these time-tested nourishment practices expedite your healing and recovery process, as you rebuild healthy tissue and restore energy.

• hands on routine and ritual guidance (daily, weekly, monthly and/or seasonally)

• home-cooked organic wholesome meals and treats curated to your needs. Including…

  • Ayurvedic classics (like ghee and kitchari)

  • personalized teas and tonics

  • easily digestible wholegrain sourdough breads and goodies (…cardamom buns or lactation cookies, anyone?)

  • custom herbal formulations, as needed

• healing body oils

opportunities for hands on learning

• self massage

• baby message

• belly binding

• cooking lessons + easy meal prep

• herbal tea blending

• ritual demonstrations

SINGLE VISIT OFFERingS

Bring Ayurveda Home

WHAT you’ll GET

Infuse your life with the magic of Ayurveda.

A unique visit may include…

• one-on-one or small group support

• personalized resources

• custom or diy tea blends

• custom herbal formulations

• take-home ghee

• recipe guide(s)

• Ayurvedic spice starter sit

• self care tools

• mind body type assessment(s)

Pricing will vary based on duration, ingredients, unique resources, tools, advanced preparation and travel time.

Ready to begin?

Let’s connect to see if it’s a good fit. Reach out by emailing me at molly@cultivatebalance.com or clicking the button below.

let’s cultivate baLance together

Ayurveda and Your Health

Ayurveda is an ancient system of health that focuses on the complete person including body, mind and spirit. This lived wisdom understands that people are more vulnerable to health conditions when vital energies of the mind, body and spirit are out of balance. Ayurveda thus teaches that by balancing the various mind-body functions with the rhythms and elements of nature, the natural intelligence of the body will automatically bring itself to wellness over time. Ayurveda is not a “quick fix,” and it is the individual’s intentional implementation of the appropriate Ayurvedic practices that brings about improved health and wellness.

Our Mission

Cultivate Balance is the joint practice of Certified Ayurvedic Practitioners Molly McConnell, ERYT and Sierra Brashear, MA. We are both graduates of the Alandi Ayurveda Gurukula 2000+ hour Ayurvedic Practitioner program, where we studied under world renowned Ayurvedic Doctor, Alakananda Ma. 

Our mission is to build individual and collective resilience through Ayurvedic Lifestyle Design as an emergent strategy for growing our capacity to embody the just and sustainable world we know is possible. Cultivate Balance provides personal consultations, virtual workshops, in-depth lifestyle programs, community wellness and consulting that support you (and your community) to nurture yourself so you can nurture the world.

Our approach to wellness invites a deep understanding and appreciation for your individuality, offering self care practices that inspire you to celebrate your strengths and overcome your challenges...so you can show up to do your life’s work. The focus is on nutrition, lifestyle routines and self care practices that support you in honoring the most balanced expression of your authentic nature. It is by reclaiming internal balance that your body can heal itself and lasting wellness becomes available.

Rooted in Ayurveda, our wellness systems weave ancient wisdom for holistic healing into the modern context. We seek to ensure this powerful knowledge is accessible to all who desire to embark on a journey of renewal.

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Gratitude to our amazing and talented photographers:

Aly Carlisle, Laura Bartzack, Kate Broussard and Jackie Nunnally.