Meet Joy Luria…

Creator of Aahana Organics and Ayurvedic Practitioner & Teacher at the Dasha

Joy Luria brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of many different modalities of the healing arts.  Joy has been on the quest for knowledge of health and wellness from an alternative view all of her life.  She was informally introduced to the principles of Ayruveda under the guidance of Guru Chandra, at 14 years old.

After experiencing first hand the healing benefits of this ancient practice, Joy began studying with Guru Chandra. After 6 years of internship, Joy sought out a formal education under Dr. Vasant Lad, at the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico (now located in Asheville, NC). In conjunction with her Ayurvedic training, Joy did an herbal internship under Dr. Kevin Spelman. She then moved to Miami in 2000, where she had a private Ayurvedic practice. Joy attempted to provide whatever her client wanted after discussing possible options: dietary advise, herbal preparations, skin care, body work/ marma therapy, and more. Shortly after realizing people did not have the time or sometimes desire to prepare truly healing meals to nourish their bodies, she began an Ayurvedic Food Delivery Service available only to her private clients. She furthered her knowledge of the body's systems by studying midwifery at The International School of Midwifery under Shari Daniels. Joy worked as a Florida State Licensed Midwife at the Miami Maternity Center until 2006, where she practiced her midwifery, taught alternative medicine, and pre / post partum yoga. 

In 2004, Joy fell in love with Homeopathy while utilizing its benefits personally during her own pregnancies. Her natural thirst for knowledge led Joy to get her Clinical Homeopathic Certification through The American Academy of Clinical Homeopathy, Inc.  Joy received personal training and instruction under the late Luc Chaltin, founder of Newton Homeopathics.  Since Luc's passing, Joy now works closely with Marjorie Roberts, the President of Newton Homeopathics. In 2006, Joy began working on a patent with the intention of combining homeopathy with color cosmetics. Her goal was to produce not just an acceptable, non-toxic make-up, but a truly beneficial line. The Anila line was designed to create total wellbeing. A woman could put on her lip stick multiple times throughout the day knowing it was "coded" to tell her body to detoxify the organs and rejuvenate the body. The patent was approved in April 2015. Joy looked for a strategic partner to launch the Anila Line, but a year later, with no secured partnership, she decided to turn back to her Ayurvedic roots. Working with private clients, Joy did as she had always done, made herbal products to order by customer request.  Over the last 9 years, she has taken her 36+ years of knowledge and formulated a brand new tridoshic herbal skin care line. Joy's beloved, hand-crafted herbal products are finally available to the public. The Aahana Organics skin care line utilizes over 30 oils, 6 mushrooms and 60 herbs from around the world to provide your skin with healing attributes, nutrition and balance. Her new Ayurvedically based, Aahana Organics Skin Care Line, provides everything you'll need from start to finish for your daily cleansing and rejuvenating routine. Ayurveda may be 5,000+ years old, but Joy’s approach is novel. Truly, skin care as well as herbs have never been approached in such an all inclusive narrow and broad manner. Joy is a knowledge seeker, a forever student and a practical teacher who aims to share all of the knowledge she's gained over the course of her life.  Aahana Organics Product line consists of:  Soaps, Masks, Hydrosols, Serums, Creams, Deodorants, Pain & Injury Treatments, and Specialized Products

Joy moved to Gainesville last year with her family. Continuing the pursuit of both knowledge and the ability to offer an array of options to her clients, she is in the process of obtaining her massage therapy license.