Laura Plumb

Laura Plumb is an Ayurvedic practitioner and educator, Vedic scholar, Jyotish consultant, yoga therapist, and author, and a core member of the Gaja Collective faculty. She leads the Level 2: Ayurvedic Integrative Nutrition Counselor Certification and teaches in the Meditation & Mindfulness Instructor Certification. She is the founder and director of VedaWise, which offers clinical Ayurvedic services and professional trainings, and is the creator of the Ayurvedic Integrated Nutrition Consultant training.

Laura’s path to the Vedic sciences followed a career in media that began at the Discovery Channel Europe, where she became General Manager, and went on to write and produce documentaries, particularly on world cultures and wisdom traditions.

Laura brings forty years of meditation practice, nutritional study, and herbal study to her teaching. She is an E-RYT 500 and YACEP with Yoga Alliance, an Ayurveda Health Counselor (AHC) and Ayurveda Practitioner (AP) trained through the American Institute of Vedic Studies and Kerala Ayurveda Academy. She is also an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist and a Jyotish consultant who trained with teachers including Dr. Jeffrey Armstrong, Dr. David Frawley, James Kelleher, and Komilla Sutton.

She is the author of the bestselling Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners, the creator of the Spirituality & Health video course The Medicine in Your Kitchen and the television series CleanseVeda and Divine Yoga, and was named one of Spirituality & Health’s 100 Trailblazers of Yoga & Ayurveda.

Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, Well+Good, the Times of India, and Banyan’s Insight. She has taught at Kripalu, Omega, the Shift Network, and the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh, among others.

Laura also serves on the faculty of the Sevanti Institute, is a contributing educator with the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine, and directs the nonprofit Sophia Camp for Girls.

At Gaja, Laura leads the weekly live seminars of the Level 2 nutrition certification, teaches the science of mantra meditation in the meditation programs and Soul Intentions, and guides the mindfulness practices in Meditation & Mindfulness Foundations.