Evidence-Based Holistic Medicine Rooted in Ayurveda.
For more than 25 years, I've helped patients and physicians understand the connections between digestion, metabolism, stress, relationships, and long-term health.
Academic appointments
- Fellowship Faculty — Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
- Director of Medical Ayurveda Programs — Sonoran University
- Founder & CEO — Welliva Health
A fresh perspective on medicine.
Ayurveda is a complete system of medicine — holistic, deeply individual, and used in its entirety. Its principles were never meant to be a single path for everyone. Discovering your own practice is a journey of self-knowledge, and along the way the path to healing reveals itself.
Ultimate well-being asks for more: joining conventional treatment and diagnostic tools with the complete system of Ayurveda. My goal is to build a bridge between two worlds of medicine — Ayurveda's understanding of how imbalance unfolds is so rich that, together, they reach a far greater understanding than either holds alone. As an author, practitioner, and speaker, I work to give physicians, practitioners, and patients the tools to approach healing as the holistic, individual path it truly is.
I'm dedicated to care that does more than fix a problem — care that harmonizes body, mind, and spirit, addresses the symptom while seeking the root cause, and embraces the pursuit of self-knowledge.
Healthcare has become complicated.
We live amid endless information, wearable devices, supplements, diets, and advice that points in every direction. Yet real clarity about our own health can be surprisingly hard to find.
My work is to bring that clarity — recognizing patterns, understanding root causes, and creating change that's sustainable and genuinely your own.
Three questions at the heart of my work.
Understand the story
Your history, your relationships, and the stresses you carry. Health is never separate from the life around it.
Understand the physiology
Digestion, sleep, inflammation, metabolism, hormones — read together, the way the body actually works.
Build a sustainable plan
Simple, practical, and realistic — designed to live with you for the long term, and to grow as you do.
A complete system of medicine, 5,000 years in the making.
Ayurveda is a whole system of health, with a remarkably rich understanding of how imbalance and disease unfold. I practice it in its entirety — and bring it together with conventional treatment and diagnostic tools, because Ayurveda's view of the body is so deep that, side by side, the two reach a far greater understanding than either holds alone.
Wherever you're coming from, there's a path in.
Patients
Personalized consultations grounded in your constitution, your history, and your daily life.
Consultations →Healthcare professionals
Education, mentorship, and case consultation that translate Ayurveda into clinical practice.
For professionals →Organizations
Speaking, curriculum development, and program design for integrative medicine.
For organizations →Two decades of practice, teaching, and writing.
Three books
On the practice of Ayurveda, culinary medicine, and a psycho-spiritual approach to grief and loss.
Explore the books →Peer-reviewed publication
A collaborative integrative and Ayurvedic approach to autoimmune hepatitis. Advances in Integrative Medicine, 2022.
Read the paper →Medical education
Primary Ayurveda curriculum for Weil Center fellows, Medical Ayurveda programs at Sonoran University, and a 15-hour CME course for healthcare professionals.
More about Amita →Welliva Health
Founder and CEO of Welliva — a prevention-centered, evidence-based model reimagining how whole-person care is delivered and covered.
Visit Welliva →You should never have to choose between two worlds of medicine.
Conventional treatment and diagnostic tools excel at emergency medicine, diagnostics, and life-saving interventions. Ayurveda is a complete system of medicine for everything that surrounds them — the everyday work of living well, and understanding how health unfolds across a whole life.
Each holds a vital place, and my work brings them together — so you have the full strength of both.
From the laboratory to a new model of care.
- 1992
A beginning in science
Studied mathematics, computer science, and physics at Memorial University of Newfoundland — a mind trained to look for mechanism and evidence.
- 1994
Ayurveda, in India
Classical training at the Maharishi School of Vedic Medicine and Sanskrit Studies in Bangalore, followed by degrees in Ayurvedic medicine.
- 2001
Clinical practice
Founder and clinical director of Ayurveda Consulting — now more than 25 years caring for patients in metabolic and mental health.
- 2018
Teaching physicians
Fellowship Faculty at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, teaching Ayurveda to integrative medicine fellows.
- 2025
Curriculum & academia
Director of Medical Ayurveda Programs at Sonoran University of Health Sciences, building physician-focused education.
- 2025
Systems innovation
Founder and CEO of Welliva Health — reimagining how prevention-centered, whole-person care is delivered and covered.
Recent essays
Back to Basics
In an age of endless health information, what have we forgotten? On the difference between cultivating health and chasing the fear of disease.
Read →When Opposites Exist at the Same Time
An Ayurvedic psycho-spiritual perspective: two opposite truths can be real at once — and learning to hold them is a sign of health, not contradiction.
Read →The Forgotten Meal
Spoiler — it's lunch. Why your main meal belongs in the middle of the day, where ancient Ayurveda and modern chrononutrition quietly agree.
Read →Let's understand your health at a deeper level.
Whether you're a patient, a clinician, or an organization, there's a way to work together.
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