Chloe Haddad - Root & restore

Welcome back to Root & Restore. After four weeks of silence, I'm sharing where I've been: the behind-the-scenes truth of life as a small business owner who works with her hands.

Between a retreat, internship clients, school work, upcoming training in Austin, and the birth of a new collective called Within, I've been stretched thin. In this episode, I get honest about the cost of tending to myself while the social media and newsletters went quiet. I also share the daily practices that kept me grounded: early nights, nourishing meals, meditation, pranayama, and journaling.

We also talk about Vata season, why the shorter days call for rest, and how to avoid living in your head when life is full.

If you're trying to do it all, this is your reminder: you have permission to slow down, recharge, and take care of the most important person in your life. You.

Keep living in rhythm… not resistance.

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In this episode of Root & Restore, I’m reflecting on a season of life I’m only just beginning to understand — the transition from Mother into Crone.

Inspired by If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie, I explore the Maiden, Mother and Crone through the lens of Ayurveda,  from the grounding Kapha years, through the fire and doing of Pitta, and into the spaciousness and wisdom of Vata.

I share what it feels like to watch my children grow into their own lives, to loosen my grip on who I thought I was supposed to be, and to reconnect with my Celtic roots and the parts of myself that feel older and deeper than this lifetime.

And, of course, I talk about Africa, and the pull toward Namibia that has only grown stronger since coming home. A reminder that sometimes our dharma doesn't arrive as a perfectly laid-out plan. Sometimes it's simply the quiet voice that keeps calling us back.

Maybe aging isn't something we need to fight.

Maybe this season is an invitation to shed, remember, listen and trust.

To become less concerned with who the world thinks we should be... and more rooted in who we have always been.

🌿 Keep living in rhythm… not resistance.

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In this deeply personal episode of Root & Restore, I’m sharing reflections from one of the most meaningful experiences of my life — spending time with a Ju/’hoansi San community in Namibia. 🌿

Living alongside the community made me think about Ayurveda in an entirely new way. They may never have heard of Vata, Pitta or Kapha, or studied the Yamas and Niyamas, yet so much of their everyday life naturally embodies these ancient principles — living with the rhythms of the sun, using plants as medicine, moving with nature, taking only what is needed, sharing resources, caring for one another and finding joy in simplicity.

I share stories from our days learning to track animals, forage for food and medicine, make traditional jewelry and tools, sitting beneath an ancient baobab tree, singing and playing with the children, and our unforgettable final night gathered around the fire sharing music, dancing, stories, laughter and tears.

This journey left me asking a question I’m still carrying:

Have we become so busy learning how to be well that we’ve forgotten how to simply live well?

This episode is about Ayurveda, but even more than that, it’s about presence, connection, community and remembering how deeply we belong to the natural world. 🤎

If experiencing a journey like this calls to you, check out Track Craft UK, who facilitated this incredible experience and helped make our time with the community possible.

https://www.trackcraft.uk

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This week’s episode is a deeply personal reflection on intention, transformation, and trusting the path even when you cannot yet see where it is leading.

I share how the unraveling of my life six years ago became the beginning of something new, the quiet planting of a sankalpa, or heartfelt intention. From early mornings loading trucks at UPS, to yoga teacher training, massage school, building Root & Restore, and now preparing for a journey to Africa that has lived in my heart for eighteen years, this episode is about the discipline, surrender, and trust required to bring a vision to life.

We explore tapas, dharma, Ishvara Pranidhana, and santosha, the inner fire to keep going, the courage to return to your true path, the willingness to release the outcome, and the humility to receive what arrives.

This is a story of motherhood, rebuilding, manifestation, and finally stepping back into the woman who was there all along.

Plant the intention. Tend the flame. Trust the timing.

Keep living in rhythm… not resistance.

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In this episode, I reflect on my own use of AI through the lens of the Yamas and Niyamas. This isn’t about judging how anyone else chooses to use AI, but rather turning the mirror toward myself, questioning my intentions, how I use it as a tool, and whether that use feels aligned with my own values and yogic practice.

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Travel has a way of opening us up, but it can also leave us feeling scattered, depleted, and disconnected. In this episode of Root & Restore – An Ayurvedic Way of Life, I share how I keeps Vata balanced while traveling, drawing from my recent journey through Cornwall, Wales, and London. Discover simple Ayurvedic practices to support digestion, calm the nervous system, and stay grounded before, during, and after your travels. Whether you're boarding a plane or simply navigating a busy season of life, these gentle rituals will help you move through the world with more ease and return home feeling nourished, not exhausted. 

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Fresh from ten days in Cornwall and Wales, I’m recording this one still carrying the land in my body,  and that’s exactly where we’re going today. Into the gut. Into the belly’s ancient intelligence. Into what Ayurveda has always known and what modern science is only beginning to catch up to.

In this episode I share three moments from my time in Cornwall where my body spoke before my mind had words, a smell on a country lane that opened something deep, the Atlantic air doing what only the sea can do, and sitting across from friends I hadn’t seen in nearly twenty years and picking up mid-sentence, as if no time had passed at all.

We explore Manovaha Srotas,  the Ayurvedic mind-gut channel,  alongside Agni, our digestive fire, and what it truly means to digest life, not just food. Because Ayurveda has always known that we process experiences, emotions, and memories the same way we process a meal. And when we can’t,  when life moves too fast or asks too much,  we accumulate Ama. Undigested life.

This episode closes with a simple grounding practice to help you return to your body after travel, intensity, or fullness of any kind.

What are you digesting that isn’t food?

Keep living in rhythm… not resistance. 🌿

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Recorded live from England on the longest day of the year, this special Solstice episode is a tender pause in a fast-moving world.

I reflect on what we’ve quietly traded away in the age of the smartphone, the tethered phone on the kitchen wall, the Yellow Pages on the doorstep, the kind of presence that didn’t need to be practiced because it was simply… life. Through the Ayurvedic lens of Smriti — right memory — I asks whether our collective forgetting of slowness and togetherness is at the root of a loneliness epidemic no app can fix.

This one isn’t a protocol. It’s an invitation.

To linger. To look up. To remember what it felt like to be unhurriedly, beautifully with each other — before the whole world fit in our pocket.

The sun is at its peak today. Be in the light while it’s here.

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What happens when you spend thirty years becoming someone the world needed you to be… and then one day, you remember who you actually are?

In this episode I’m sharing something personal,  and weaving it through two of Ayurveda’s most profound concepts: Prakriti, your original nature, and Vikriti, the imbalance that accumulates when we drift from it for long enough.

This one is for anyone lost in a life that doesn’t quite feel like theirs.

Your Prakriti is not gone. She has never left.

Keep living in rhythm… not resistance.

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What if the most powerful healing on earth has been here all along… waiting inside you?

In this episode of Root & Restore, I take you deep into the ancient world of Panchakarma — the sacred five-action purification system at the heart of Ayurvedic medicine. Fresh from my PK1 training with the extraordinary Wahneta, she shares the therapies that have moved her most deeply: Abhyanga, Shirodhara, Svedana, Nasya, and external Basti,  including the heart-opening Hrid Basti for grief and loss.

She also reminded us of the Upakarmas the daily Ayurvedic practices (Dinacharya) that keep the body in rhythm between the big healings. Tongue scraping, oil pulling, self-massage, warm water, and the sacred art of simply slowing down.

If you’ve been feeling heavy, foggy, or disconnected from yourself — this episode is for you.

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