Ellen Kinsey
Ellen is co-founder and editor of Ayurveda Yoga Life. She is a 200-hour yoga teacher and an Ayurveda nutrition and lifestyle coach, and she writes about Ayurvedic oils, food, daily routines and yoga.
About Ellen
Ellen Kinsey is a 200-hour yoga teacher and Ayurveda nutrition and lifestyle coach based in the Austrian Alps. She has been a digital writer for 10 years. She first came across Ayurveda while researching how to look after herself, and she connected with its seasonality, its simplicity, the dosha system and how old and time-tested it is. About two years later it clicked, and Ayurveda became her reason to go to India and learn in Kerala, where it comes from.
Nature is one of the biggest teachers. That’s what drew me to Ayurveda.
Ellen
She started learning Ayurveda at the Sivananda Dhanwantari Ashram in Kerala, on the Foundation Ayurveda Wellness Course: a two-week intensive of theory and practical lessons, Ayurvedic massage lessons, three hours of yoga a day, satsang and meditation. It made her want to qualify as an Ayurveda coach, and it started her love for yoga as a practice.
Back home she joined the 2024 year-long course at The Ayurveda Institute UK and earned her Level 1 Ayurveda Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching certification. She was drawn most to Ayurvedic nutrition and the properties of different foods. In summer 2026 she completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training with Moksha Amazonica in the Peruvian Amazon: two intensive weeks plus more than 40 hours of self-study, covering methodology, anatomy and physiology, yoga philosophy, the Vedas and Ayurveda. Her favorite part was learning to build a whole class, from the ambience and music to the asanas and meditation. Ashtanga and Vinyasa are her favorite styles.
Her mornings take about 45 minutes: she brushes her teeth, scrapes her tongue, opens all the windows and steps outside for some morning sunlight. A glass of room-temperature or warm water comes before tea and breakfast, then rosewater and moisturizer, and about ten minutes of stretching, yoga, breathwork or journaling.
She is a new teacher: for now she teaches friends and family while she looks for a studio, and she would love a regular class, yoga and Ayurveda workshops, helping out at retreats and community events.
Latest guides from Ellen & Greg
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