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"Time is the ornament of the Goddess" ~ Saundarya Laharī

Nectar of Time

Sacred Storytelling | Vedic Astrology | Ritual & Lifestyle | Bhakti
{Established by Kaya Mindlin & Michael Manzella in August 2002}

Our 2025 Jyotish Forecast!

January 4th, at 10am Pacific Time {taught Live & Recorded}

Feel inspired & ready to embrace & plan for the year ahead.

The annual Jyotish forecast helps you to feel ready for the year & orient the practical aspects of your life to the mystical shifts that are to come. 2025 is indeed going to bring some profound pivots, as a unique year in which a rare occurance takes place - ALL of the planets move into new signs! This is going to bring inner and outer change that will make 2025 a year to remember.

Join the Nectar of Time to access the FORECAST + midmonth Rāmāyana storytime with Kaya, teachings about the Sun [lord of your soul purpose] and more.

The 2025 Forecast is January 4th, at 10am Pacific Time. Class is 2 hours long and includes a Q&A time. The recording is available for members within 24 hours, as always.
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January inside the Nectar of Time
Every 1st Saturday of the month inside the Nectar of Time usually brings a forecast for that month, but the 1st Saturday of the YEAR brings with our 2025 Jyotish Forecast so you can orient to & envision the year to come. This two hour class covers all of the major shifts, sacred windows & eclipses of 2025, made meaningful for your life. You can use this class to envision and macro-plan your year to come, taking into account all of the aspects and values of your life to mitigate difficulty and receive boons. 
 
Mid-month Kaya will share teachings in celebration of Makara Saṇkrānti – the start of the Sun’s auspicious pathway. January is an auspicious time to orient to the sun – the lord of our universe & ruler of your soul path. 2025 is a unique year in which all of the planets will change into new signs, bringing both sacred endings and sacred beginnings. To honor the Sun for Mākara Saṇkrānti & the shifts of this year Kaya will share several short stories from the Rāmāyana in which the sun-ruled characters find themselves swallowed by fear & hopelessness. How Sita, Hanuman & Rām find hope & inspiration again will bless the listener with sacred tools & hope for times of shift. 
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What is the Nectar of Time...

"Kaya, you are a holder of the timeless tradition of mother as storyteller. It is eternal isn't it? Mother-as-storyteller and inter-generational wisdom whisperer." ~ Jyotish Master & Kaya's Teacher Hart DeFouw

A Sacred Synergy of the Full Spectrum of the Veda Tradition

Nectar of Time is firmly rooted in tradition & sacred stewardship. At the same time, this offering is unique due to Kaya’s ability to galvanize and alchemize various aspects of the full spectrum of the veda & tantra tradition into a devotional tapestry.  
 
Stories & teachings inside the Nectar of Time are unlike what you will find anywhere else, because they come alive in Kaya’s own understanding & approach. Through her vision you receive deep meaning through a personalized synergistic threading across jyotisha, āyurveda, kaṭhā [storytelling], śāstra [scripture]. Most importantly, rather than informational, Nectar of Time is transformational – with live Q&As and the personal touch of a teacher who is also a wife, mother & devotee of the divine mother.

Join Nectar of Time

One year container for $405
annual membership
Or Join MOnthly at $40/month
monthly membership

*This is a membership program designed to change your life over the course of time. Join anytime and cancel your membership anytime.  

Nectar of time is beautiful place to remember that we are part of something grand. I’m amazed how Kaya’s teachings are generous, uplifting, and ever nourishing. It’s never about what you must do, but how to find and live the magic in our daily lives. Nectar of Time helps ground me. It reminds me that all is a dance with everything that moves from the very cup of tea I poor in the morning to more important issues in my life. With Kaya, it’s never about information, though you get plenty. She shares wisdom, Vedic wisdom that it reaches your heart. You grow, you learn, you transform. It’s not a course that you take and move on to the next thing. It lingers with you, it stays with you, it supports you. You are not a consumer of information, it’s always about connection. And that is so rare in this modern world.
Ksenia
I love the Nectar of Time! Kaya is a fabulous teacher and shares her wisdom in such a nurturing way. Every session is shared in a way that makes it easy to understand and apply to my life. The sessions give me time and space to slow down and tune in. Building this time in to my monthly routine has been the perfect way to take a sacred pause. The impact these sessions have had on my life have been profound. It's changing the way I look at and I interact with the universe. Making conscious decisions to live my life in a more harmonious way has greatly improved my life. I look forward to each session and I’m so grateful to have such a warm and nurturing teacher!
Caryn
I spent so much of life pushing against forces beyond my control but Kaya shows a more calm, deeper more harmonious way through life - if we know what the cycles are, and the remedies and the practices that will support us. The teachings and stories in the Nectar of Time always come at the perfect moment. I might be right in the middle of the kind of struggle that Kaya is talking about, and she gives the remedies, practices, mantra to alleviate struggle and accentuate the blessings of the time. On top of all the beautiful wisdom, there is the community, and the feeling that you’re not alone, and that there are many people trying to live a life that is more harmonious and in tune with these beautiful wisdom teachings. It's such a gift and I cannot imagine living without it now.
Christine

Inside the Nectar of Time...

Each month’s offering is rooted in the vedic calendar. Here’s what’s included: 

  • Monthly Live Tea & Jyotish session – a forecast of the Vedic Astrology of the month so you can understand & plan the month ahead. 
  • Monthly Storytimes of Gods, Goddesses & Sages based on vedic festivals of the month. Kaya offers her storytelling, and reveals the hidden meanings behind the stories. 
  • Spiritual Sādhanas – such as mantra, āsana, yoga nidrā or devotional ritual depending on the vedic festival of the time
  • Suggested lifestyle practices such as āyurvedic self massage & recipes as well as daily chanting 
  • Bonus classes & storytimes for various festivals or extra Jyotish updates!
  • Access to our online sangha of over 250 members for sharing in conversation, connection & inspiration
  • Special gifts & bonuses from guest teachers and friends of Nectar of Time

“Storytelling, practices and teachings given at the right time are a healing remedy that allow you to entrain to time. Sacred is time, and sovereign is the one who knows how to wield it.” ~ Kaya

 
 The Nectar of Time container threads devotional stories, sacred rituals & vedic astrology into a divine tapestry that will change your life. Created as an ongoing membership in 2022, each month is unique due to ever changing astrological conditions interplaying with the cyclical nature of the vedic calendar. 

 

 

Features of Nectar of Time

Storytelling & Mantras & Sacred Celebration

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Each month focuses on a particular theme, divine form, or celebration of the Vedic calendar. Kaya shares storytime and sacred ritual honorings or practice attuned to cosmic configurations. 

Āyurveda Self Care & YOgic practiceS

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Bonus on-demand content each month from Kaya & guest teachers include āyurvedic lifestyle, recipes, āsana, prāṇāyāma, yoga nidrā open source sanskrit recitation, singing & scriptural teachings. 

Tea & Jyotish created by Kaya & Michael

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Kaya and her husband, Vedic astrologer Michael Manzella, create monthly live tea and jyotish sessions that are accessible and inspiring. The Live Q&As make the sharing even more meaningful and clear. 

+ ACCESS TO OUR ONLINE SANGHA OF OVER 250 Members

Experience your life journey guided and nourished by divine timing, and anchored in the breath of the cosmos, manifesting as the vedic calendar and its meanings. 

Join Nectar of Time

One year container for $405
annual membership
Or Join MOnthly at $40/month
monthly membership

**This is a membership designed to change your life over the course of time. Your selected payment method will be automatically charged at the end of each payment cycle as long as you wish to be a member. 

The Nectar of time has been an incredible support, especially for someone that is a student of Jyotisha. Every month I look forward to hearing Kaya's stories, wisdom and knowledge that can easily be integrated on the earthly realm.. The way I perceive other people has changed. This really has been the biggest transformation, to spontaneously be able to understand, perceive and feel the microcosm as the macrocosm and move away from old beliefs. I am very happy that Nectar of time is continuing and as always thank you Kaya for what you bring to light for us.
Gabriela
The Nectar of Time has been incredibly supportive and uplifting for me. I am more deeply connected to the rhythm of the cosmic order. The stories and lessons shared give me deeper insight on both a micro and macro level. The jyotish shared helps me understand and interpret experiences I am having and helps me navigate life's circumstances with more grace and assurance. Being part of the Nectar of Time community has been a profound blessing in my life.
Meredth
"I'm So appreciative of all the love and work you put into these monthly talks and the additional support talks you give throughout the months. On top of it all, you add additional stories and resources to deepen your topics! Plus we have all talks recorded! You are a wealth of gold! Thank you, thank you, thank you! So glad I found you and Michael!
Jaqui
Nectar of Time is an all-embracing guide in my every day life and my spiritual practice. Kaya shares Vedic astrology, ancient teachings, self-care tips and more in a way that allows me to apply these in my daily life. Especially the Jyotish insights and the way it affects our lives is so helpful to me. Though the teachings are complex, I never feel overwhelmed and we can always ask questions throughout the month. Kaya’s teachings help me in a lot of ways. But if I had to pick only one, it would be that I live my life with a lot more inner stability. I've established a healthy routine (with yoga classes and delicious recipes inside the program) and live in a more natural rhythm now.
Julia

Join Nectar of Time

One year container for $405
annual membership
Or Join MOnthly at $40/month
monthly membership

**This is a membership designed to change your life over the course of time. Your selected payment method will be automatically charged at the end of each payment cycle as long as you wish to be a member. 

Each month in the Nectar of Time is a living offering. 

Each month is a living offering...

  • Ganesha Chaturthi – Hidden meanings + mantras & āsana practices for Ganesha
  • Pitr Pākśa – Teachings & Practcies for the ancestors
  • Navarātri – Stories & practices for the goddess
  • Dipāvali – Celebration + deeper understanding
  • Eclipse Season – guidance & meaning for strange times
  • Vedic New Year – Honoring the Sun & Moon
  • Śivarātri – Shiva Storytime to deepen your spiritual journey + yoga nidrā practice to meet lord Śiva
  • Saraswati Jayanti – Stories, Mantra, and Meaning
  • Akṣaya Tritiya – Hidden meanings, scripture & suggestions
  • And so much more!!
I’m so grateful for finding my way to you. Your teachings are everything I've been looking for. The Feminine Divine teachings and stories in particular are absolutely beautiful and moving, I feel like a child in some ways, maybe because it feels so new to me... yet I have a great feeling that I have known these things deep in my past or all along some way..
Bridget
Each lesson held new gems and insights which has allowed a depth to grow over time in me. My entire practice is more joy-filled. The deeper integration of the teachings feels natural and connected to me. I had felt isolated for a very long time in my study and practice.. There had been shadows and wounds that I now see in a new light. I appreciate how you answer questions with ease, humor and honesty.
Tamsie

Nectar of Time created by Kaya Mindlin & Michael Manzella in 2022

My love for jyotish began with our early studies on the banks of the Ganges in India in 2002, continued under direct tutelage of Hart deFouw and grows day by day. 

My love of storytelling began in childhood, raised by performing artists. Reading vedic stories to my children further awakened this love and I began sharing festival stories and meanings with small groups in 2016 while pregnant with our second child. The stories are open source & timeless. But they are stewarded by culture I share them from a personal vision. 

Culturing my mind with the vedic teachings and devotional practices for 25 years, the meanings of stories are often now revealed in quiet reflection. Weaving my love of Jyotisha, Āyurveda, Yoga and Storytelling together in the Nectar of Time is my offering that I hope honors my teachers while delighting & supporting you in the right ways.

Tea & Jyotish segments & Vedic Calendar counsel r are under the advisement of Kaya’s husband, master Vedic Astrologer Michael Manzella. 

Michael has been advising clients internationally for 16 years, having been under direct & private tutelage of Hart deFouw since 2005. His skill, warmth, humor, depth and practical approach give you well needed insight and decision making regarding everything from work and family to finance and study to spiritual practice, relationships and more. 

Jyotish is for everyone! His diverse clientele range from actors & acupuncturists, healing practitioners and astrologers, farmers and teachers, Chefs and CEOs. 

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