A monthly gathering designed to create space for real conversations, meaningful connections, and shared wisdom — each featuring inspiring women who are shaping the wellness landscape.
Join Sue as she sits down with these women as they share their story. They will talk about what it is they practice, why they do what they do, and how that can bring more wellness to YOUR life.
Each month will feature a curated menu of small bites from HER Kitchen, thoughtfully designed to complement the evening’s theme. We highlight ingredients with wellness benefits in mind to truly nourish you from the inside out.
Ayurveda for Longevity + Vitality - Creating Rituals with Ancient Wisdom with Vella of Vella Ayurveda
This month we’re learning about the world’s oldest holistic medical system that focuses on balancing the mind, the body and the spirit to promote overall health: Ayurveda.
• What is Ayurveda
• Understanding the different Energy Types and how that impacts individual wellness
• Ayurvedic Practices for nutrition, digestive health, sleep, movement and nervous system regulation
• How Ayurveda can support women through hormonal and life stage changes
WHEN: May 20th, 6pm
WHERE: HER Kitchen - 1442 Hertel Ave, Buffalo, NY 14216
COST: $10 per person - includes small bites and samples
Vella of Vella Ayurveda
I am an Āyurvedic & Tantric Practitioner and the founder of Vella Āyurveda — A Sacred Sanctuary for Healing & Ritual.
My work is held within the living pulse of lineage and shaped by formal study in Āyurvedic medicine, Tantric and Vedic tradition, and the ancestral roots that inform this path. My work is rooted in classical Āyurvedic medicine, lineage-based study, and lived devotion to this path as a daily practice. I offer care that honors rhythm, timing, presence, and relationship, creating space for healing to unfold organically rather than through force or prescription.
My practice is grounded in classical Āyurveda, with a strong emphasis on individualized assessment, seasonal and rhythmic care, and cultivating safety within the nervous system. Rather than focusing on symptoms alone, I attend to digestion, elimination, daily routine, emotional processing, and the subtle body as interwoven aspects of wellbeing. Care is paced and responsive, shaped by what is present rather than by rigid protocols, allowing change to emerge in a way that is sustainable, intentional, and integrated.
Navavāda is the guiding framework of my work. Rooted in the understanding that healing unfolds in stages, it reflects a nine-door pathway through which the body, nervous system, and inner life reorganize over time. Rather than rushing transformation, this framework allows care to be relational and responsive.
My path has been shaped through trauma healing, single motherhood, ancestral remembrance, and years of immersion in Āyurvedic and Tantric study. Āyurveda is not something I practice part-time or professionally separate from my life. It is how I eat, rest, organize my days, tend my home, and relate to my inner and outer worlds.
My Āyurvedic education includes study within the Śaka Vansiya lineage — one of the most ancient and respected medical lineages preserved within the Vedic texts. My work is also informed by Himalayan yogic and transcendental traditions, including the study of Kriyā through Sattva Yoga Academy in Rishikesh, India.
My work weaves Āyurvedic psychology, Pañcakarma principles, ancient therapeutic traditions, mantra, marma, breath, ritual, and relational presence. I create containers that are sensory, grounded, and attuned — spaces where people feel seen, respected, and met in their wholeness.
Empowerment is central to my work. I do not position myself as the healer. I see my role as a companion, mirror, and guide — holding space for beings to remember their own capacity for insight, regulation, and transformation.
