Dream Body
A month long guided group experience for women in midlife who want to lose weight by restoring sleep and rest.
No dieting, deprivation, trends or self-punishment required.
January 10- February 7, 2026
You’re gaining weight, you’re exhausted, your sleep is wrecked, and it’s showing up in a repeating cycle.
👉🏽You finally drift into a light sleep when your partner slips into bed late and wakes you. Now you’re wide awake, angrily staring at the ceiling while they snore peacefully beside you. You check the clock: 2:47 a.m. You know exactly how tomorrow will feel — heavy, foggy, and impossible.
👉🏽The alarm goes off just as you feel like you’ve drifted into deep sleep. You snooze twice, shuffle to the bathroom, and catch your reflection in the mirror. Your eyes are puffy — again. You tilt your head, pull the skin gently at your temples, and wonder when you started looking so much like your mother (love you, mom!)
👉🏽You pull on your favorite jeans — the ones that always fit — and they dig into your waist before you even zip them. You do the little hop, the wiggle, the breath hold… still tight. You sit on the edge of the bed and feel that mix of frustration and disbelief, wondering why your body feels like it’s changing without your permission.
👉🏽You walk into a work meeting you’ve prepped for all week. Everyone turns to you, waiting for you to kick things off, and suddenly, your mind goes blank. You can’t remember the name of the project you’ve spent hours fine-tuning. You laugh it off, make a joke — but inside, you’re rattled. This isn’t like you.
👉🏽You could eat a burger and a giant slice of chocolate cake and still feel strangely unsatisfied (but you don’t, because you’re white knuckling your way through).
👉🏽You buy all the herbal tinctures, supplements, and gadgets, including that expensive sleep ring to wear around your finger, and still, restorative sleep is elusive.
All the things you try to “get things under control,” like the juice cleanse that influencer swears by, intermittent fasting, cutting carbs, ditching sugar, and adding CrossFit, are actually making you feel worse.
Maybe forcing discipline on your body never truly worked in the first place.
And now, as you navigate your 40s, 50s, and beyond, your body is asking for something completely different:
Softness.
Rest.
Warmth.
And deep, actual replenishment.
Not punishment, or restriction, or “mind over matter.”
What if your body isn’t resisting you, but instead, is speaking to you, saying: “I need rest so I can release.”
That's exactly why I created "Dream Body" - to help you embody deeper ways to rest and nourish your body, so that excess weight can let go. Stuff we were never taught amidst the onslaught of hustle and diet culture.
Sleep and rest are the missing link in your midlife weight journey.
From an Ayurvedic perspective, disrupted sleep increases Vata (the air and ether elements), which leaves you ungrounded, overstimulated, anxious, and craving heavy, sugary foods as an attempt to self-soothe.
From a Western perspective, poor sleep dysregulates cortisol, leptin, and insulin, making it harder to lose weight no matter what (or how) you eat or exercise.
You wake up tired, wired, hungry, and inflammed — and your body holds on to everything.
No willpower plan can override a dysregulated nervous system and an exhausted metabolism.
But rest can.
Metabolism (digestive fire)
Hormone balance
Digestion
Mood
Cravings
Energy
Restorative sleep and a rested nervous system support:
Decreased inflammation
Emotional regulation
Clarity of thought
Focus
Ability to make supportive choices
Introducing Dream Body 🌛
A month-long guided group experience for women in midlife who want to release weight by restoring sleep and rest. No dieting, trends, or quick fixes—simply give your body the rest it needs so it can let go.
A month-long online group experience (run live on Zoom) to:
Reset your sleep so your body can release weight naturally, using simple Ayurvedic and science-backed tools
Nourish your body with gentle Ayurvedic practices to soothe your body and decrease stress
Quiet your mind and reduce cravings by creating rhythms that stabilize your nervous system and help you feel emotionally steady and physically grounded
Build a loving relationship with your body through warm, restorative rituals that cultivate softness, trust, and body-listening
Create sustainable change through rest, so the shifts you experience—better sleep, easier digestion, deeper calm, and gradual weight release—continue long after the program ends.
Dream Body teaches you how to find rest, nourishment, rhythm, and nervous system healing so that weight loss becomes a natural response, not a battle.
Right now, you might feel like:
Every bite ends up on your hips or belly
Your mind is buzzing even when your body is exhausted
You wake up sweating at 3 a.m.
You’re tired and wired, irritated and foggy
Caffeine helps you survive the day but sabotages your nights
Your body feels unfamiliar, unpredictable, and hard to “manage”
Imagine instead:
Falling asleep easily, staying asleep, and waking restored
Feeling grounded
Cravings calming down
Eating in a way that feels intuitive
Weight releasing because your nervous system is no longer in survival mode
Feeling more like yourself
“Maria Gabriela has helped me to get more quality sleep, be more at peace in my life, and overall feel happy in the skin I'm in. I wanted to lose weight, control my anxiety/depression without the help of meds, and improve my overall health. I knew that everything I was trying was not working and test results were showing signs of inflammation in my body. Over the course of my time thus far with her, I've lost about 25lbs without even trying. And while gradual, I've been able to easily sustain it. I've even been told that I exude a certain glow. I've changed for the better. I just wish I'd known years ago what I know now! “
-JoAnn Q.
Maria Gabriela changed my life. She helped me understand my body and build a relationship with my body. I've had sleep issues for 6 years and I thought I'd tried everything, but her ability to hold my anxiety, her Ayurvedic knowledge and her spiritual softness took me on a journey that dramatically improved my sleep (I now look forward to going to bed!), and most of all, I know I have the intuitive power to to be in partnership WITH my body, no matter what happens. I'm so grateful!
-Andrea E.
Hi, I’m Maria Gabriela 👋🏽❣️
Your Clinical Pharmacist Turned Ayurveda Health Counselor
I’m a certified Ayurveda Health Counselor, a doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.), a 200 hour certified yoga teacher, and founder of Intuitive Ayurveda. I help people in perimenopause and menopause feel better in their bodies using Ayurveda, science-backed tools, and intuitive coaching — so they can celebrate this phase of life instead of dreading it. The eastern and western perspectives of medicine each have something to offer us, and I understand this dance. My goal is to educate on Ayurvedic tools that can (and should) be individualized to each complex person. I strive to help my clients tune into the messages their bodies are sending them. Ultimately, I believe every person is the expert on what is best for them, and can be empowered to hone in on which tools they need to support themselves in mind, body, and spirit.
This group experience is for women in midlife and people in perimenopause ready to reclaim their energy, sleep deeply, and feel at home in their bodies.
This course is for you if:
You’re in perimenopause or midlife and feel like your body has changed overnight
You’re tired of trying the same old weight loss strategies that no longer work
You have trouble falling asleep, sleeping through the night, and wake up still tired
You want a compassionate, holistic approach
You’re tired of feeling foggy, puffy and inflammed
You would kill for a good night’s sleep (regardless of the weight)
Dream Body: The Practical Details
Five live meetings on Saturdays (all times in Mountain Time)- all sessions will be recorded
January 10th - 2- 4pm
January 17th- 10 am- 11: 30 am
January 24th- 2-3:30 pm
January 31- 2-3:30 pm
February 7- 2-3:30 pm
Every week will include time for check-ins, witnessing, and coaching. Each session will have a sprinkle of learning, but will mostly be experiential — in other words, we’ll actually be DOING and feeling our way through the practices TOGETHER.
There will also be a weekly invitation to commit to a practice consistently for five days between our sessions.
Week 1- Rest the Senses
Understand the connection between sleep, stress, and midlife weight changes
Evaluate your personal sleep and energy baseline
Create an evening wind-down ritual that actually fits your life and supports deeper, more reliable sleep
Experience what micro-rest feels like in your body so you can start building pockets of calm throughout the day
Week 2- Rest + Replenish the Rasa
Understand why your midlife body craves moisture, warmth, and nourishment—and how these qualities directly support sleep, hormone balance, and weight release
Discover an ancient secret to staying juicy, boosting immunity and supporting deeper sleep and weight loss
Explore key detoxification practices that are likely missing from your routine to support sleep and weight
Experience a simple ten minute practice for your nervous system that invites relaxation and metabolic ease
Week 3- Rest the Nervous System
Understand why aligning your bedtime with your natural circadian rhythms (Ayurvedic clock) leads to deeper, more restorative sleep
Embody simple breath-based techniques that cool the system, ease emotional intensity (toning the vagus nerve), and balance your masculine and feminine
Experience a nervous-system reset that quickly shifts you out of stress mode and into a state of ease
Explore a guided deep-rest practice that restores your energy, settles the mind, and supports every layer of your being (and can even be used to help manifest your deepest desires)
Week 4- Rest the Digestion
Explain key Ayurvedic principles of eating that support smoother digestion, balanced energy, and better sleep
Evaluate your ongoing patterns and tendencies around food, and how they may have changed during midlife
Understand why giving the digestion a break with for a few days with very simple food (no fasting, nourishing meals!) can reduce bloating, heaviness, and inflammation
Apply a gentle, easy-to-follow food reset that gives your digestion the rest it needs this week
Week 5- Rest + Celebrate to Integrate
Synthesize the key rest practices from the past four weeks and understand how they work together to support sustainable weight release
Reflect on your personal progress using the post-assessment to identify shifts in sleep, energy, digestion, and overall well-being
Celebrate your growth by engaging the senses in a mindful ritual that reinforces pleasure, presence, and embodied rest
Investment
$500
or 5 weekly payments of $100
Please note since course materials are provided upon enrollment, no refunds will be issued once purchased. The course material and recordings will be available for one year post the completion of the live course.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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YES please! This program is aimed at teaching you deep, restorative rest in midlife, which is much needed to help support hormone balance in the body regardless of whether you’re carrying excess weight.
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Even if your sleep is pretty good, learning deep rest practices can help ease stress, which is a contributing factor to unwanted weight gain.
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No. You’re welcome to join regardless of your menopause status and age. I will be focusing on women in midlife (late 30s, 40s and 50s) and people in perimenopause.
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No, I will weave in Ayurveda basics and keep it practical and applicable to our modern lifestyle.
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This will be a sacred feminine circle, so at this time, no. People with vulvas/experiencing the midlife change of perimenopause or beyond menopause are welcome.
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We will do everything in session together, so about 1.5 hours per week. I will also invite you to integrate one practice per week, and this may take 5 minutes to a half hour daily, depending on how much you’d like to do!
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All weekly Zoom meetings will be recorded so that you can watch them at any time. You can also submit questions ahead of time to me if you know you’ll miss a week.
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Whichever day you sign up, for example, on a Wedneday, the first payment of $105 will be charged, then it will continue automatically for the next four Wednedays following.
Still have questions?
Reach out to me directly at maria@intuitiveayurveda.com
You made it all the way down here and you’re ready to rest for that dream body! 🎉