Mira Murphy is an Ayurvedic practitioner and yoga teacher on the Shankara wellness team who offers Ayurvedic consultations, pulse readings, and classes in yoga and Ayurveda.
Mira was exposed to yoga, meditation, and the Vedic sciences at a young age as the daughter of a world-renowned Yogini Rama Jyoti Vernon. In 2005, Mira completed her 200-hour yoga training at 7 Center’s Yoga Arts, where she had her first in-depth exposure to Ayurveda. She began her journey of Ayurvedic studies which led her to India in 2006 to meet with doctors of Ayurvedic, Tibetan, Siddha, and Unani medicine as well as tribal healers of India.
In 2007, she moved to Sedona, Arizona to work as the Ayurvedic Chef at 7 Center’s Yoga Arts where she cooked for yoga trainings and retreats and ran the kitchen and garden for seven years. During that time, she taught classes in Ayurveda and Ayurvedic cooking, led herb walks, taught yoga, provided nutritional consultations, and gave lectures in the community. With her passion for sharing knowledge of healing foods, she used Ayurvedic cooking as a healthy, creative, and delicious means to educate people about health and nutrition while balancing individual constitutions, organ systems, seasonal influences, digestive health, and providing deep nourishment through her food.
In 2015, Mira completed formal training in Ayurveda at the Ayurvedic Institute with Dr. Vasant Lad; completing graduate clinical training in 2016. She has been practicing Ayurveda since 2016, supporting clients using herbs, diet, and lifestyle practices tailored to their individual constitutional needs and health goals in her Ayurvedic consultations. She lovingly extends to her clients and students ways to integrate Ayurvedic and yogic principles in their lives, learn the language through which their body communicates with them, discover more physical and mental equilibrium, and deepen the ever-evolving and dynamic relationship with the self.
