Laura Plumb

About Laura

Laura Plumb is an Ayurvedic 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 the creator of its Ayurvedic Integrated Nutrition Consultant training.

Laura’s path to the Vedic sciences followed a first career in media that culminated as General Manager of Discovery Channel Europe. She brings forty years of meditation practice and nutritional study and thirty-five years of herbal study to her teaching. She is an E-RYT 500 and YACEP with Yoga Alliance, an Ayurveda Wellness Counselor and Practitioner trained through Kerala Ayurveda Academy, an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist, and a Jyotish consultant who trained with teachers including Jeffrey Armstrong, James Kelleher, and Komilla Sutton.

She is the author of the bestselling Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners, the creator of the 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, and the Times of India, and she has taught at Kripalu, Omega, the Shift Network, and the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh. She 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 Mission and its 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.