Ellora Wellness

We strive to inform and inspire you to lead a creative, cruelty-free lifestyle, with our cafe/wine bar, boutique, dance and healing arts centers. All are vegan, organic, fair trade, and sustainably sourced. It’s the first of its kind, one-stop shop for all you need for home, body, and spirit. Pre-launch party May 7, 2016 in North Hollywood.

Vanessa Marsot

Ellora Wellness is the first of its kind, one stop shop for cruelty-free living, that supports our belief that people would choose affordable, attractive, healthy, or tasty options that were cruelty-free, if they were readily available. Ellora will provide organic, vegan solutions for the challenges our persons and environment experience on a daily level. And we believe that animals have as much right as humans to live lives of unhindered freedom from the threat of harm or captivity, and that it is possible to do so while enhancing the quality of life and joy for humans, fostering a more humane and healthful way of life, combined with the use of high quality and affordable goods and service.

In the cafe, we will source from local produce and our kitchen garden, and have primarily raw dishes that are not only tasty but also nutritionally sound. We will have students from culinary arts schools interning under our chef. In the boutique, we will have products for the home (bedding, cleaning products, furniture, home accessories, artwork, building materials), as well as body (bath and personal care products, cosmetics), and clothing that are all non-toxic and cruelty-free. Our products will be sustainably produced and without any harmful chemicals that damage animal and human health and the environment. We will source from fair labor and women-run businesses that utilize wind power whenever possible and pay fair living wages.

Our performing arts center will have dance, music, drama, the spoken word, and fine arts, along with yoga and fitness classes. We believe in the healing power of art and the creative drive that exists in all of us, that unleashes our true spirits and enhances stress management strategies and coping skills. We also honor the need for all of us to engage in a form of exercise that is life-affirming and enjoyable.

Our spa/healing arts center will have massage, Reiki, Ayurvedic medicine, along with a host of other healing modalities from around the world to counter the stress and toxins of the world.

Ellora is not just a store, cafe, or fitness/dance center, but a community hub, where you can feel a sense of belonging with others. We are a community that embraces individuals from all faiths, walks of life, and belief systems. At the cafe, you will not just be a customer, but will be part of a family, where you will meet other members of the community. You will have opportunities for meeting like-minded individuals in our nutrition and healing seminars, fitness/dance classes, and art workshops.

We just held a very successful one-day event that provided a “Taste of Ellora.” But in order to take the next step of opening a full-time facility, we need funding for rent and salaries for the chef and server. We already have products for the boutique, funds for supplies, and have the chef, dance teachers, and healing arts staff lined up and committed to working at Ellora. Now we just need an additional $10,000 to help us get to the final stage of opening the Center and keeping it running for 3 months, until we are financially self-sustaining.