Welcome to Prana Veda

Hi friends! And welcome to Prana Veda eeeeek

It’s sweet seeing you here. If you want a little story about me and this and how it all came to be, keep reading. 

I guess we can start here, on education, interests, and life purpose. I have always been called to the medical field. In high school and for the first two years of college, I was leaning towards pursuing a path that was high energy, high stress, and high reward. I fantasized about a job as a Labor and Delivery Doctor and all the cool moms and sweet babies I would meet. I volunteered at hospitals, on medical trips in Tijuana, and started climbing the mountain of prerequisites I would need to apply to a medical-related grad program. Simultaneously however, my interests in herbalism, nutrition, cooking, women’s hormones, spirituality and eastern medicine worked its way to the forefront of my interests. Years of chronic (yet undiagnosable) health issues led me to seek out my own natural health solutions. The more I learned, the more I wanted to know. And as I learned about eastern medicine in my own time, I was also getting the scientific and western perspective in my classes at university. This blend of science, anatomy, and metabolism in my college courses fueled one part of my brain. But the creative, spiritual, and energetic side of healing fueled the other. And that’s really what Prana Veda is all about: using a blend of science and spirit, to get your mind, body, and soul aligned. 

After graduating from Cal Poly with a BS in Nutrition, I travelled to New Zealand where I worked on farms, met people with vastly different stories, backgrounds, and ideas, and tapped into a part of myself I hadn’t met yet: someone with total free will. I learned how to grow my own food and make tinctures with herbs from the garden. Bread was broken around dinner tables of strangers and soon to be friends. I spent countless hours talking to and learning from other travelers. Hearing new perspectives refreshed my mind and gave me glimpses into the infinite potentiality that being alive offers. And portals to higher selves were unlocked. The distance from familiarity and comfort required my most outgoing, trusting, and open self to step forward. 

I moved back to the Central Coast of California last June. I had no real plan, but I did have a very clear sense of my priorities.

My priorities being: 

• Find a job I am deeply passionate about 
• A way to make money that involves my creative and intuitive side just as much as it does my analytical one
• Work with open-minded, down to earth people 
• Help others heal 
• Be surrounded by my best friends
• Live a grounded, centered, and conscious life
• Take care of my body and prioritize my health
• Learn and implement more eastern medical principles into my routine
• Connect with like minded people in my community 
• Play outside as much as possible
• Devote more time to creating art and nurturing hobbies

Alongside this list came a deeper sense of trust, in myself and the universe. I realized that if I couldn’t find what I wanted, I could create it. I better understood the meaning of the grass is greener where you water it. I felt uninhibited, unhurried, and undoubtful of the process. And as if all at once, I felt my energy start to flow in a steady stream. And slowly, Prana Veda came into existence. 

The name Prana Veda combines two Sanskrit words: Prana, meaning life force energy, and Veda, meaning knowledge or wisdom. It started with a simple concept of wanting to work alongside others to support and facilitate healing, whether that be through nutrition guidance, one on one coaching, somatic movement, recipe creation, or energy work. I am so looking forward to seeing how Prana Veda evolves, I know that there are many twists and turns in the road ahead. But for now, I hope to bridge the practical aspect of living well with the spiritual sense of feeling good. 

I plan to continue to share blog posts as often as I feel called to, with topics ranging from spirituality, nutrition, recipes, women’s health, or anything else that feels good and fun. Thank you for reading and see you next time!

Tessa