Panchakarma
A Rite of Deep Renewal
Personalized Ayurvedic Reclamation Retreats in Mendocino, California
The Experience
This is not a vacation.
This is a biological, emotional, and ancestral reset.
Your body has been memorizing stress for years — and for generations before you.
Through personalized Pancha Karma, trauma-informed bodywork, and nervous-system restoration, you are given the rare opportunity to clear stored survival patterns, rebalance organ systems, and return to your natural state of vitality, clarity, and wholeness.
Set on the wild Northern California coast, your retreat is a private healing sanctuary guided by Dr. Justine Lemos — Ayurvedic practitioner, cultural anthropologist, and somatic healer — combining ancient therapy with modern trauma science.
This work is deep.
This work is intelligent.
And this work is designed for real, measurable transformation.
Why Pancha Karma Works
(Ancient + Modern Science)
Pancha Karma is one of the world’s oldest systems of complete-system purification and renewal — and today, modern neuroscience and epigenetics confirm what Ayurveda already knew:
The body stores memory.
And the body can be retrained.
Your treatments support:
Liver and lymphatic detoxification
Gut-brain axis recalibration
Neuroplasticity + trauma release
Hormonal axis balancing (HPA/HPT)
Vagus nerve activation
Reduction in inflammatory cytokines
Improved emotional regulation
Reclaimed immune resilience
Reawakened libido + creative lifeforce
We are not just clearing toxins —
We are retraining safety in your body.
What This Work Actually Heals
This retreat supports deep-level healing for:
• Chronic stress, anxiety & nervous system dysregulation
• Emotional trauma & stored grief
• Autoimmune conditions & inflammation
• Hormonal imbalance & perimenopause / fertility transitions
• Digestive disorders, IBS & sluggish metabolism
• Brain fog, depression & mental fatigue
• Insomnia & adrenal exhaustion
• Addiction patterns & coping habits imprinted in the body
• Burnout, overwhelm & identity loss
• Repetitive relationship / life cycles rooted in trauma
This is not just detox —
This is repatterning at the cellular, subconscious, and ancestral level.
Many of these patterns live in:
– the vagus nerve
– the gut-brain axis
– fascia and connective tissue
– the womb, solar plexus, and heart center
– inherited DNA memory
Through your retreat, these patterns are safely released and rewritten.
Your Personalized Healing Container May Include:
Each retreat is custom designed according to your constitution, history, and current needs and may include:
🌿 Deep Ayurvedic Bodywork
Abhyanga, Marma therapy, Udvartana, herbal compresses, and womb/heart protocols to release stored patterning from tissues, fascia, and organs
🌿 Tibetan Cranial Therapy & Subtle-Body Healing
To unwind fear stored in the brainstem, vagus nerve, and limbic system
🌿 Trauma-Release Somatics & Breathwork
Guiding the body from fight / flight / freeze into regulation and presence
🌿 Targeted Herbal & Rasayana Therapy
For nervous system nourishment, hormone rebalancing, detox and tissue regeneration
🌿 Guided Meditation, Mantra & Nervous-System Repatterning
To rewrite deep subconscious belief + safety patterns
🌿 Ancestral Release & Emotional Integration Rituals
Clearing inherited grief, addiction patterns, and unconscious family contracts
🌿 Ocean + Forest Frequency Exposure
Mendocino’s negative ions, salt air, redwoods and silence actively recalibrate your brain chemistry
This Is Unlike Any Other Retreat or Pancha Karma Experience
Most retreats divide attention.
Most Pancha Karma clinics follow a formula.
Most “healers” see you for an hour… and move on.
This is not that.
During your retreat, you receive the focused care, attunement, and energetic presence of two dedicated practitioners / jyotishis for the entire duration of your experience.
You are not a client in rotation.
You are the sole energetic focus.
Traditional Retreats & Clinics:
• 1 practitioner for 6–12 guests
• Pre-set treatment schedule
• Generic protocols
• Limited emotional support
• Minimal astrological or spiritual insight
• Little trauma-informed care
• You “fit into” their container
Your Personalized Pancha Karma:
Two devoted practitioners/Jyotishis focused on you alone
Real-time energetic and astrological attunement
Fully customized treatments day to day
Continuous emotional and nervous system support before during and after your PanchaKarma
Trauma-informed, consent-based healing
Space for deep vulnerability & release
Your chart, your body, your lineage, your timing
Spontaneous ritual, medicine songs, ceremony, prayer & mantra as needed
Adjustments based on your dreams, body, and emotions — not a schedule
This is:
private • priestess-led • astrologically aligned • trauma-informed • lineage-rooted
It is more like an initiation than a retreat.
Accommodation & Setting
Guests may stay in the Pancha Karma Cottage, a peaceful and private sanctuary minutes from the ocean and historic Mendocino village — or select nearby accommodations that support rest, introspection, and integration.
(Accommodation is arranged separately.)
Your Healing Begins Before You Arrive — And Continues After You Leave
This is not a “3-day experience.”
It is a complete ceremonial arc of preparation, initiation, and integration.
Your Pancha Karma includes pre- and post-retreat appointments as part of your container of care, so your body and psyche are guided safely through every phase of the process.
✦ Pre-Retreat Preparation (Included)
Before you ever step into Mendocino, you will receive:
🌿 A private consultation + constitutional assessment
🌿 Initial Jyotish / timing attunement for your optimal retreat window
🌿 Personalized dietary + lifestyle guidance
🌿 Herbal + tea recommendations to begin the clearing process
🌿 Emotional / somatic preparation support
🌿 Intention-setting + ancestral inquiry exercises
This phase gently opens the body and psyche, so the retreat itself can work more deeply, safely, and effectively.
You don’t arrive “cold.”
You arrive ready.
✦ Personally Prepared Healing Food & Ceremonial Teas
Throughout your retreat, all food and teas are personally prepared specifically for you.
Not a generic menu.
Not a restaurant meal.
A customized medicinal diet, created from your dosha, your nervous system, your current emotional state, and the phase of your healing.
Your nourishment may include:
🍵 Custom herbal tea infusions
🥣 Dosha-specific kitchari / soups / broths
🌿 Detoxifying and rebuilding Ayurvedic spices
🍯 Rasayana tonics for tissue regeneration
🌺 Hormone-balancing and heart-opening blends
Each meal is:
• medicinal
• energetically charged
• intentionally prepared
• prayed over
• aligned with your healing arc
This is not just “clean eating.”
This is medicine in the form of nourishment.
✦ Post-Retreat Integration (Included)
After you return home, the work continues — and you are not left alone to “figure it out.”
You will receive:
✨ A private integration session (virtual or in-person)
✨ Continued lifestyle + dietary support
✨ Nervous system anchoring practices
✨ Protocol adjustments as your body recalibrates
✨ Emotional processing + clarity support
✨ Ancestral + karmic insight reflections
This ensures that what is released does not return…
and what is opened has space to root and grow.
This Is a Full Healing Continuum
Most retreats end when you leave the grounds.
Yours does not.
This is a complete arc of:
preparation → release → nourishment → integration → embodiment
You are held from the moment you say yes,
until your new rhythm stabilizes.
Your Guide
Dr. Justine Lemos, PhD is a scholar-practitioner of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Tantra with decades of experience teaching subtle-body therapies. She brings both academic depth and grounded clinical wisdom, guiding practitioners to embody Ayurveda as a living, breathing healing art.