Sacred Juniper Ayurvedic Clinic
Lisa Ostler, RN-BSN • 500 E-RYT • Ayurvedic Consultant
Founder of Sacred Juniper Ayurvedic Clinic
Nurse • Ayurvedic Professional • Yoga Teacher • Advocate
For more than two decades, my work has centered around the human body, often during some of life's most vulnerable moments.
My nursing career has taken me through emergency and trauma medicine, public health, reproductive and maternal-child health, child fatality review, grief, violence prevention, and community-based care. I have spent years witnessing what happens when the body is asked to carry prolonged stress, trauma, loss, responsibility, and change.
That experience profoundly shapes the way I practice today.
I don't see the body as a collection of isolated symptoms.
I see a whole person.
My Work Beyond Sacred Juniper
My commitment to health and healing extends beyond the walls of my clinic.
In public health, I helped develop and coordinate Washington State’s first Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) program, bringing healthcare professionals and community partners together to better understand fetal and infant deaths and identify opportunities for prevention and systems change. My work with the program was featured in The JOLT in the article “Thurston County pioneers Fetal and Infant Mortality Review program.”
My work has also included Child Fatality Review and injury and violence prevention, examining the systems and circumstances surrounding the deaths of children and helping communities ask one of the hardest but most important questions: What can we learn, and what can we change?
Today, I also serve as a Community Representative with the Olympia Police Department Use of Force Review Board, bringing a civilian perspective to the review of critical incidents and police use of force. I also serve within Olympia's Community Policing work, where community representatives help bring public perspective into conversations about policing, accountability, and safety.
These roles may look very different from Ayurveda, but to me, they are deeply connected.
They are all about listening. They are about looking beyond what is immediately visible. They are about understanding the circumstances surrounding a person's experience.
As I entered perimenopause, everything I understood about my own body began to shift.
My cycle stopped following the map I had relied on for years. My emotional tides changed. I experienced exhaustion, inflammation, and a growing disconnection from myself.
One day, I looked at my reflection and realized I didn't quite recognize the woman looking back. That became a turning point. I had spent a career understanding physiology, caring for other people, responding to emergencies, navigating trauma, and holding steady in difficult spaces.
But I began to realize there was another kind of knowledge I needed. Knowledge of myself. Not simply my laboratory values or physiology.
My rhythms. My nervous system. My patterns. My energy. My needs. The parts of myself I had learned to override in order to keep going.
And so I began listening differently.
Ayurveda gave me a language for many of the things my body had already been trying to tell me.
Yoga brought me back to my breath and taught me, again and again, how to inhabit my body rather than simply use it.
Therapy invited me beneath resilience and into the places that still needed attention.
Ritual created space for meaning.
Travel, solitude, sisterhood, study, and time reminded me that transformation doesn't always mean becoming someone new. Sometimes it means returning to who you were underneath everything you learned to carry.
Sacred Juniper grew from that return.
The Heart of Sacred Juniper
Sacred Juniper is for people who know that something feels different, even when they cannot quite name what they need.
You may be navigating stress, overwhelm, burnout, grief, hormonal change, reinvention, emotional exhaustion, nervous-system dysregulation, or simply the feeling that you have become disconnected from your own body.
You do not have to understand Ayurveda before you come here. You do not need to know your dosha. And you do not need to decide which Ayurvedic treatment you need.
You begin by telling me what you are experiencing.
I bring together the different languages I have spent my life studying — nursing, physiology, Ayurveda, Yoga, nervous-system regulation, bodywork, and lived experience — and we begin there.
My work may include:
Ayurvedic assessment and lifestyle guidance
Personalized Ayurvedic bodywork
Marma therapy and therapeutic oils
Nervous-system education and supportive practices
Yoga, breathwork, and meditation
Seasonal nourishment and daily routines
Chakra and energetic work
Education that helps you better understand your own body
Why Science + Ayurveda?
I have never felt the need to choose between science and ancient wisdom. Nursing taught me to assess, question, observe, and understand physiology.
Ayurveda taught me to look at patterns, rhythms, digestion, environment, constitution, and the individual person experiencing the symptom.
Yoga taught me that we cannot fully understand a body without actually inhabiting it.
Sacred Juniper is where those paths meet.
I do not use Ayurveda as a replacement for medical care. I use it as another way of listening to the body and supporting the person living within it.
My Mission
I believe you deserve to understand your body. I believe there is wisdom in learning to recognize your own patterns rather than continually overriding them. And I believe healing doesn't always begin with doing more. Sometimes it begins by becoming quiet enough to notice what your body has been saying all along.
Sacred Juniper is a place where science, tradition, body, breath, intuition, and lived experience can exist together.
A place to be cared for. A place to become curious about yourself. A place to reconnect with the body you live in every day.
If you are overwhelmed, depleted, disconnected, or moving through a season of change, you are welcome here.
Welcome to Sacred Juniper.
Come as you are. We'll begin there.