Bhava:
a full-hearted feeling of life with warmth, compassion, and kindness.
About the Studio
Bhava Studio is located in beautiful San Anslemo, California in the charming and bustling town center. We offer yoga classes, Ayurveda consultations, workshops, Ayurvedic herbs, and more.
Bhava is an embodied feeling of peace, compassion, warmth, and connection. The sanskrit root is bhu: to exist, be, become, prevade.
At Bhava, we embrace healing movement with self-compassion. We seek to reduce suffering. Here, we find peace and clarity.
About Ayurveda
Ayurveda and yoga are closely connected traditions that support one another. Yoga is a path to clarity, ease, and reducing our suffering. Through movement, breath, and stillness, yoga helps us soften effort, steady the nervous system, and experience more freedom in body and mind.
Ayurveda offers the practical tools that help make that freedom sustainable in everyday life.
Ayurveda is a holistic personalized system of well-being using the tools of food, lifestyle choices, and herbs. It teaches us how to care for the body and mind in ways that are responsive to our unique constitution and the changing seasons of life. Rather than aiming for perfection, Ayurveda encourages small, steady habits that build balance and resilience over time.
When practiced together, yoga and Ayurveda create a complete approach to well being. Yoga opens awareness and creates space for change. Ayurveda helps translate that awareness into daily choices that support digestion, energy, and emotional stability. At Bhava, we weave these two paths together to help you feel more at ease in your body, clearer in your mind, and better supported in the rhythms of life.
About James
I’m James, the founder of Bhava Yoga & Ayurveda. I’ve spent decades studying and teaching yoga, meditation, breathwork, and Ayurveda, always with an emphasis on practices that feel accessible, compassionate, and grounded in real life. Over the years, I’ve come to trust that healing happens most naturally when we slow down, listen closely, and treat ourselves with kindness rather than force.
My teaching is shaped by working with people from many walks of life, including those navigating stress, major life transitions, recovery, and the changes that come with aging. I’m especially interested in nervous system regulation, steady embodiment, and simple daily practices that build clarity and resilience over time. I care less about pushing limits and more about helping people feel safe, supported, and present in their bodies.