ConnectAyurvedic Doctor · Teacher · Mentor
Rooted in classical Ayurveda and decades of clinical practice, Cory helps you restore physical rhythm, recognize the deeper patterns beneath suffering, and return to greater clarity, purpose, and trust.
Co-founder, Hale Veda™ · North Shore, HawaiʻiFormer faculty and clinical supervisor, The Ayurvedic Institute™Former director of Panchakarma, Vasant Institute of Ayurveda, Pune, India
The whole pattern
Your health is shaped by the conditions of your daily life. Digestion, sleep, energy, emotional patterns, beliefs, relationships, environment, and purpose all contribute to the larger pattern.
Cory's process begins with the precision of Ayurveda: listening to the body, restoring enough rhythm for clarity to return, and noticing where your choices may have moved away from your nature or deeper knowing. The aim is not endless self-improvement. It is a more honest, sustainable relationship with your health and life.
“Some people come to me because their digestion is failing, their nervous system is exhausted, or their body is in pain. Others come because they know something in their life is no longer true. Often, these are not separate problems.”— Cory
Cory's process
Ayurveda gives Cory a way to enter through the body, discern the larger pattern, and move toward the underlying cause with precision. Her work unfolds through three interconnected territories—addressing what requires care now while remaining attentive to the life in which healing must take place.
Begin with the physical reality of what is present. Cory looks closely at symptoms, constitution, digestion, sleep, energy, pain, and the body’s history of adaptation. Nothing is bypassed or explained away—but the symptom is not assumed to be the whole story.
Restore the conditions that allow the body to regulate, repair, and respond. Food, rest, daily routine, herbs, movement, therapeutic care, and other practices are shaped around the person’s actual needs and life—not imposed as a rigid ideal. Rhythm creates the steadiness from which deeper change becomes possible.
With greater stability comes the clarity to see the larger pattern. The work may turn toward beliefs, relationships, responsibilities, identity, purpose, and the places where life has moved away from what is deeply known to be true. Healing then becomes more than symptom relief—it becomes an honest return to right relationship with oneself and one’s life.
Consultations · Mentorship · Teaching
You may come to Cory seeking care for your health, greater discernment in your studies or professional practice, or a teacher capable of bringing depth and clarity into a larger conversation. Each path is grounded in careful observation, direct guidance, and respect for your capacity to participate in the work.
Understand your symptoms within the fuller context of constitution, digestion, sleep, daily rhythm, environment, emotional life, beliefs, relationships, and the life being lived.
Private consultations, bodywork, and Panchakarma are offered through Hale Veda™.
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Think more clearly, practice more responsibly, and embody what you have learned through a highly individualized, application-based relationship.
For serious practitioners and students ready to bring preparation, honesty, humility, and a willingness to be challenged.
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Bring clear, substantial, lineage-grounded Ayurveda into schools, conferences, retreats, trainings, organizations, and community programs.
Select invitations for professional and public audiences.
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The way I practice
Healing is not something I do to another person. My role is to listen carefully, recognize the larger pattern, and create the conditions in which the body, mind, and life can move toward greater balance.
I begin by listening—to the symptoms, the history surrounding them, and the life in which they developed. I trust the intelligence of the body and look for the whole pattern rather than assuming that physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual concerns are separate. Rhythm creates the clarity to hear what is true, and presence is part of the medicine.
Ayurveda names the distance between what we know and how we are living as prajñāparādha—an offense against wisdom. I approach that distance without blame or magical thinking, but with compassion, responsibility, and specific practice. Sometimes the deepest medicine is an honest change in how we are living.
I bring knowledge, clinical experience, observation, and direct guidance. The person I am working with brings their lived experience, discernment, willingness, and capacity to participate in change. The work happens where those forms of intelligence meet.
“Hold knowledge with confidence. Hold conclusions with humility.”
Meet Cory Tixier, AD
A clinician. A teacher. A lineage carrier.
Cory Tixier is a NAMA-certified Ayurvedic Doctor, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist, Licensed Massage Therapist, educator, and mentor whose work has been shaped by decades of disciplined study, clinical practice, teaching, and service.
Her immersive training began at the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico under Dr. Vasant Lad. Invited onto the faculty before graduation, she went on to teach, supervise clinical care, practice Panchakarma, and guide developing practitioners for seven years. She later led the Panchakarma Therapist Training Program at the Vasant Institute of Ayurveda in Pune, India.
Cory brings the rigor of a clinician, the steadiness of a long-practicing teacher, and the directness of someone who believes that healing knowledge must become usable in real life. Today, she serves clients, mentors practitioners, and teaches from the North Shore of Oʻahu.
Follow Cory's pathStudied with Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Ramkumar, Mukunda Stiles, Robert Svoboda, and Claudia Welch
A life in practice
Cory's authority comes not only from what she has studied, but from the years she has spent applying that knowledge in clinics, classrooms, training programs, communities, and her own life.
New Mexico
Seven years teaching, supervising clinical care, practicing Panchakarma, and mentoring students at the Ayurvedic Institute under Dr. Vasant Lad.
Pune
Led the Panchakarma Therapist Training Program at the Vasant Institute of Ayurveda, developing curriculum, teaching international students, overseeing client care, and supporting a traditional clinical training environment.
New York City
Founded and led the Ayurveda Academy at the Integral Yoga Institute of New York, creating a professional pathway for yoga teachers to become certified Ayurvedic Health Counselors.
Oʻahu
Co-founded Hale Veda™ and Ayurveda for the People™, expanding access to Ayurveda through private clinical care, practitioner education, and community-based health programs.
Mentorship for practitioners
Private one-to-one mentorship is for serious students and practitioners ready to think more clearly, practice more responsibly, and embody what they have learned. The relationship is selective, application-based, and shaped around your actual practice, questions, cases, responsibilities, and next stage of development. Cory brings decades of clinical observation, teaching, supervision, and direct experience. You bring preparation, honesty, humility, and a willingness to be challenged.
Serious students may be considered. General health consultations are booked through Hale Veda™.
Teachings and service
Cory teaches Ayurveda as a living system—clear enough to use, deep enough to respect, and never simplified beyond recognition. Drawing from clinical education, curriculum development, practitioner training, community health, yoga therapy, and spiritual practice, she teaches with clarity, substance, and warmth.
Advanced study
Select small-group study in clinical skills, Marma, women's health, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, Panchakarma preparation, dinacharya, and practitioner ethics.
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Select schools, conferences, retreats, professional trainings, organizations, and committed learning communities.
Invite Cory to teachCommunity health
Community clinics, public education, mentorship, and healing resources built on the belief that education is one of the most powerful forms of medicine.
Explore the community workWho this work is for
You value clear guidance, lineage, and the discipline of steady practice.
You are willing to examine both your daily habits and the life those habits are supporting.
You want a trusted authority who will be compassionate, direct, and honest about what real change asks of you.
You are not looking for a hack, a performance, or someone to do the work for you.
From the journal
Cory's essays extend the conversations that begin in clinic, classroom, and mentorship.
These are reflections on how the body communicates, how knowledge becomes embodied, and how Ayurveda reveals the relationship between health and the life we are living—through rhythm, clinical practice, consciousness, responsibility, dharma, and the difficult but necessary work of living in closer relationship with what we know to be true.
Read the essaysFrequently asked questions
Cory's private Ayurvedic consultations are offered through Hale Veda™, online and on the North Shore of Oʻahu. Hale Veda™ manages clinical intake, booking, and follow-up care.
It is primarily designed for practitioners, yoga teachers, bodyworkers, and serious students with an established foundation. A deeply committed student may also be considered when the mentorship is a clear fit.
No. Panchakarma is highly individualized and requires assessment, preparation, and careful guidance. The first step is a consultation or application through Hale Veda™ so Cory can determine whether it is appropriate and when.
Yes. Cory's care and teaching are inclusive and individualized. She works with discerning clients and committed students of all genders who are ready to participate fully in the process.
No. Ayurveda remains the foundation. Cory may explore beliefs, identity, relationships, purpose, and spiritual well-being when they are relevant to the whole pattern, but she never reduces illness to thought alone or suggests that someone is to blame for being unwell.
No. Cory's work is educational and complementary. It is not a substitute for diagnosis or treatment by a licensed physician, and she encourages appropriate collaboration with medical providers.
Begin here
Some needs begin in the body. Others emerge through a practice, a profession, or the recognition that an old way of living can no longer be sustained. You do not need to know the entire path before taking the next step. Begin with the work that is asking for your attention now.
The body is always communicating. Healing begins with listening.
Private consultations are booked through Hale Veda™ in Practice Better. Mentorship, speaking, and teaching inquiries may be sent to info@corytixier.com.
