GLOW, my ayurvedic beauty course, opens officially today. Nine modules, thirty video lessons, and seven printable guides, built on the opposite premise to the one the cosmetics industry works from: instead of asking what type of skin you have, it starts by asking who you are and what is happening inside you right now.
What opens today
The course is pre-recorded and available in full from day one, so there is no cohort and no calendar. You watch at your own pace and access does not expire. The lessons are taught in Spanish, which matters for how you read the rest of this, so I have set out what that means for English readers at the end.
The framework it comes out of is the one I set out in the ayurvedic skincare routine. That article is the short, free version, and it is a perfectly good place to start. GLOW is what sits underneath it: the actual formulas, the variations by dosha and by season, and the judgement to know what to do when skin stops responding.
Why I built this course
For years, in consultation, skin turned up the same way every time. Not as the reason for the appointment, but as the thing a woman mentioned on her way out, almost apologetically. She had come about digestion, about exhaustion, about irregular cycles. And as she was leaving she would add that her face had been dull for months, or that she had breakouts she had never had before.
That order is exactly the reverse of the real one. Skin is a tissue built out of digestion, so when the foundation fails, the face is one of the first places it shows. What the industry sells as a cosmetic problem is usually a symptom read from the wrong end, and it is the reason an expensive product can achieve so little.
Skin is not the surface that needs fixing. It is where the body shows what it has been managing for weeks.
Ayurveda has treated it that way for centuries, which is why the big cosmetic houses have started leaning on it. The difference is that they sell the last step, and this works from the first one.
The nine modules
One and two: knowing which skin you are dealing with. It opens with the shopping guide, the question I get asked most, then moves through the ayurvedic typologies and a lesson specifically on ageing and vata, the dosha that governs how and when lines appear. There is a test to place your skin type and, from the result, a complete printable guide for vata skin (dry or mature), pitta (sensitive, irritable) and kapha (oily). What Ayurveda is covers the groundwork if the doshas are new to you.
Three and four: the routine, daily and weekly. Cleansing and make-up removal, hydration and nourishment, eye contour, manual massage, and massage with a kansa wand, the bronze tool used on the face. The weekly routine sits separately because it runs on a different rhythm: preparation, steam, exfoliation and mask. Facial abhyanga underpins that whole block.
Five: what goes in. Internal hydration and anti-ageing nutrition, which is where the routine stops being cosmetic. This is where ghee and digestion come in.
Six: Sleeping Beauty. A whole module on sleep, because skin repairs at night and no cream compensates for sleeping badly. You identify which dosha is disturbing your rest and work with anulom vilom breathing, an eye exercise, kansa massage on the feet, and nasya. It is the module people write to me about most.
Seven: what damages your skin. The main causes of ageing, with a section of its own on sun exposure.
Eight and nine, the bonuses. A three-day detox to do at home, with a guide and test for ama, the accumulation that dulls the tone. And a block on beauty as ritual: the history of beauty rituals in magic, a piece of work on reprogramming your own perception of beauty, and the full moon ritual. That last module is in no other skincare course, and it is the one people tell me they were not expecting.
What comes with the videos
Seven printable documents, made to keep in front of you while you are doing something rather than to read once. The shopping guide, covering what to buy and where. A complete guide for each skin type, vata, pitta and kapha, each with its own routine and formulas. The skin type test. The ama guide with its test. And the full moon ritual.
Who it is for, and who it is not for
It is for anyone who has spent years trying products without getting to the bottom of it, and for anyone who would rather understand their skin than follow instructions. No prior knowledge of Ayurveda is needed. The course is built from zero.
It is not for anyone after a result in a fortnight. Skin renews completely in about four weeks, and the tissues feeding it move more slowly, so this is a change of routine rather than a quick treatment.
And there is one case where the course is not the right tool: when skin is the signal of something larger. If the pattern follows your cycle, if you have had months of tiredness that will not lift, or if there is an underlying condition, what that calls for is an individual assessment. That is what an ayurveda online consultation is for, and on the hormonal side the framework is in hormonal health and Ayurveda.
Where things stand for English readers
GLOW is taught in Spanish, so enrolment is open through the Spanish site for now. I am not putting an English checkout up until the material itself is in English, because buying four hours of video in a language you do not speak is not a purchase, it is a refund waiting to happen.
What you can do today is the part that matters most anyway, which is finding out where your skin actually sits. The ayurvedic skin test is free and in English, it places you in one of the three patterns in a few minutes, and with that result the base routine gives you the daily structure without paying for anything. When the English edition is ready, I will announce it here.
This article is for informational purposes and does not replace consultation with a healthcare professional.