Monica Yearwood founded Tri-Dosha Ayurveda in 2006 under the name Ayurvedic Bliss Therapies. Since then, Tri-Dosha Ayurveda has partnered with several prominent spas and healing centers in the Chicago area to help promote Ayurvedic treatment, detoxification, rejuvenation, and education. 

Monica is one of the few Ayurvedic practitioners in Chicago who has trained in both America and India.  She tries to remain as authentic to the treatments as possible, by doing mostly everything by hand, avoiding electric heat conductors and pumps whenever possible.  Her oils and materials are all natural and made according to Ayurvedic formula. Her products come from Tri-Health, Kerala Ayurveda, Banyan Botanicals, and Chandika Ayurveda.

Tri-Dosha Ayurveda specializes in:  Individual Consulting, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coaching, Ayurvedic Treatments, Anti-Aging, Weight Loss, & Panchakarma/Detox Programs, Workshops & Classes.

Ayurveda is good for anyone looking to develop a deeper experience of wholeness, healing and happiness.  At it's basis, Ayurveda is a lifestyle that emphasis alignment with the cycles of nature.  In it's more complex state, Ayurveda is a medical system used to treat disease. 

One of the most beautiful and unique aspects of Ayurveda is the level of self-responsibility it encourages and deems possible. Through the learning of some basic and easy to manage tools, it is possible to artfully apply balance in our mind and body. Ayurveda explains the relationship certain foods can have on the quality of our thoughts, as well as environmental shifts on our body, and even how our intentions can directly effect the outcome of our goals.Ayurveda is truly a practice of self-inquiry. Ayurvedic tools such as diet, body-work,yoga, and herbs are used to optimize inner contentment and balance. If you would like to read more about Ayurveda, please read: What is Ayurveda?, The Doshas, and other articles under the Media & FAQs tab.

About Founder

Monica began her Ayurvedic studies at Maharishi University of Management in 2002, and has completed programs in Ayurvedic theory, detoxification strategies, diet, and herbal applications. She was individually selected by one of America’s exponent teacher’s of Ayurveda, Dr. Light Miller, as a Panchakarma apprentice, and practiced directly under her at her clinic in Sarasota, Fl. he is a member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, and dedicated to the promotion of authentic Ayurvedic therapies in our Western world. Some of her articles on Ayurveda can be found in “Yoga Chicago.”

She has also studied with Dr. Mark Helpurn of the California College of Ayurveda, Dr. John Hagelin of Maharishi University, Vaidya Mishra of Prana Ayurveda, Dr. Don and Amba Stapleton of Nosara Yoga Institute, and one of the foremost Western Scholars of Buddhism, Lama Surya Das.  She has recently become a Sadhaka in training in the Wise Earth Ayurveda lineage led by Sri Swamini Mayatitananda.

She is a licensed massage therapist, certified yoga instructor, Panchakarma technician, and graduate of Dhanvantari Ayurveda from the Florida Vedic College.

Massage Therapist & Yoga Teacher                                         

Laurel’s lifelong passion for wellness and desire to study massage therapy quickly became a mandate after she began working with the vibrational healing effects of crystals. She sensed early on that massage therapy was the perfect base upon which to layer energetic healing modalities. While enrolled at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy, Laurel received the Reiki Master attunement and immediately began incorporating this energy healing, as well as crystals, into her treatments.