There is not enough bandwidth for you to dig into all the research to figure out what could else could be helpful for you and your patients.
It is not clear what can help.
Epigenetic changes have started long before we "feel" it.
Ignoring our own needs sets the stage for considerable imbalance.
We have been busy ignoring how to care for ourselves.
There is never enough time for self care.
Are you feeling that the current model of how we support chronic disease isn't robust enough? This is a very real concern for empathic clinicians. However, for the average clinician with their family and practice responsibilities, has a hard time taking time off to learn Ayurveda full time for several years. AND though it can sound appealing, it is just not feasible.
In the past, in your heart, there was something about Ayurveda that spoke to you. An inner whisper that woke up an innate awareness that healing might have a depth that was not covered in our overburdened medical curriculum. It takes time to understand how underequipped we are to teach people how to maintain their health. As time has progressed, you want to know more, learn more, and experience more peace and health in your own life too. Fortunately, after I took many years off to study Ayurveda full time, I have now created a leaning model that helps you understand how to use the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda to build health for yourself, your family and support your clients.
"This course in Ayurveda Foundations was transformative. It came at a time in my life where I really didn’t feel like I could fit anything else in."
And yet, it was exactly what I needed. I did it for me, and I AM SO GLAD I DID! SiriChand has curated the course in a way to make Ayurveda very palatable and understandable to the allopathic trained physician. And yet, it didn’t feel diluted or distilled in any way. I also loved that there was such an emphasis in self care (read more).
Ann MIng YEH MD
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Susan G.
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When I started medical training, I learned: MIND over MATTER and PUSH THROUGH: push through needing to sleep; push through needing to eat; push through needing to pee; push through needing to connect; push through needing time off; push through emotions; push through needing exercise.
Ignoring bodily urges sets the stage for imbalance from an Ayurvedic perspective but how easy is it change habits?
When I studied Ayurveda, I finally understood how to do this. I don't know a single clinician who has not at some point had the sense that they might be dealing with some degree of burnout and wondered how they might arrive through it.
The Maslach Burnout Inventory gauges levels of burnout and defines it as a syndrome of: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment in one's work. And we see this in all the industries with our patients.
Epigenetic patterns change when we have exhausted our resources and depleted our resilience. Over time, I started considering lifestyle based solutions to these subtle changes in about epigenetic mechanism because the institutional problems are shifting at a snail's pace, if at all.
What if healing is a different pathway from the way we learned or were exposed to?
MATTER OVER MIND!
By this, I mean what if managing our "matter" (our body) could provide more bandwidth to support our mind and the intensity of all the experiences that cross a clinician's and patient's path. Especially now. Honoring our need to move, eat, sleep, connect, and destress. To me this means, honoring our bodily urges, gauging our sense of purpose and looking at our daily lifestyle to provide nourishment.
Using just mindfulness for burnout, while practical, is like a swallow at the edge of a tornado. It can fly and perhaps avert disaster, but a massive force is just a wingspan away...
Ayurveda Offers Us An Effective Approach For Solving An Emerging Problem, Burnout... And When You Add These Techniques To Your Life, You Will Have More Resilience.
I have found that empathic and intuitive clinicians are also dealing with a particular type of fatigue. One they feel in their bones and from people around them. Connecting to a supportive community is a known element for creating health. And we make that a priority in the course with the emphasis on group connection.
Where are you on this continuum?
I am quadruple board certified in Internal, Integrative, Lifestyle and Hospice Medicine. I most definitely enjoy learning.
I have dedicated my entire adult life to discovering other routes of healing that include Ayurveda, Reiki, culinary medicine, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and creativity. This has been a life of discovery and I have guided hundreds of other physicians as a mentor since 2008 at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.
I have been invited to conferences, recognized as an innovator, and thought of as a leader in the field of medicine.
While I couldn’t possibly know everything about integrative medicine and Ayurveda, I have dedicated a significant amount of time to learning as my primary focus.
It has been a single point of focus for me for the last 30 years to understand healing in ways that acknowledges those who have come before us. I know A LOT—especially when it comes to finding new ways for clinicians to view their life and experience of healing as both a healer and in looking at themselves.
That's why I urge you to read this entire page all the way to the end--what I'm about to tell you,
I know that you may have thought, ‘There is no CME for this, it is not evidence based when it comes to medicine’, but what I told you is that there was evidence for it. Evidence based on thousands of years of study case by case, by case. That is now compiled and the basis from which modern lifestyle medicine has emerged. Please read this page to the end so that you can know and understand the healing power and capability of nature to nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
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In the time I've spent in the last 30 years of formal education, I have dedicated my life to a non-traditional path. I took 3 years off to create my own fellowship in Ayurveda, yoga, and mindfulness. There are only a handful of medical doctors who have made this dedicated inquiry to understand in depth these other ancient systems of healing. I did not just dive in for a weekend CME. I've learned that with over 20 years in clinical practice, I have an advanced understanding of how to practically integrate a vast and complex whole-person healing system such as Ayurveda with modern paradigms that are practical, thoughtful, and helpful to explore in this time where we are all looking more closely at how precise a role epigenetics plays in our health.
Success isn't about flashy websites, quality, or even a well-organized corporate structure. We have lost common sense in medicine. No one would give me CME for this course. No one wanted to invest in a model where care would be focused first on wellness and daily habits. This is antiquated thinking. An era whose time has come and gone. An era that patients themselves want to see shift. I am not offering a system that I DEVELOPED, I am sharing about a system that I deeply embrace and have used in my own healing.
One of the primary places to look for evidence around the validity of Ayurveda is the growing field of Lifestyle medicine. Enter epigenetics. "Broadly stated, the field of epigenetics attempts to provide an evidence-based understanding of how internally (eg, thought, perception, feeling, nutrition, movement, sleep, stress) and externally (eg, social relationship, shift-work, pollutions, light, stressor) induced lifestyle and environmental factors change our biochemical landscape." (Lee, 2019)
Thousands of years before modern paradigms, healers were closely observing the decisions that would walk them either away from health or towards health.
Clearly, everyone would love a personalized system of medicine, however the technology is just not there yet. What is there is a precursor system that would give you a blueprint of how to conceptualize future innovations. Ayurveda is that road map. Once I was learning it in depth, I realized that it was the treasure of a lifetime to have been given the time to sit in this knowledge.
Well, if you're like most Intuitive/empathetic visionary/pioneers, you're probably a life-long learner. You’ve gone to conferences to connect with others or started the online learning process. You’ve opted to continue in the educational journey.
With COVID, we have had to learn new paradigms. Especially when it comes to learning. I made a hybrid learning environment where learners can connect with others in community AND learn foundational principles. This all occurs in a nurturing pace that explores the depth of self-healing found in Ayurveda. And it is outside of the watchful eye of your place of employment.
Usually you will run into one of the following problems:
In this time post-COVID, clinicians have been pushed to the max. And the routines and elements we have been using are no longer working. While it is important to look at systemic issues in medicine and learn reframing techniques, we need more progressive, visionary solutions that open the door to new pathways of healing. New pathways that can drive innovation that looks at the whole person. Ayurveda can be a philosophic foundation from which innovation springs from. We can't fix the current problems with the same pathway that got us here. We need to explore and utilize ancient wisdom.
With current conventional paradigms, there is a paradigm that primarily focuses on treating disease once it has arrived. However, there are rich traditions that have investigated and explored how a daily routine can lead us to more depth of understanding about how all the small choices we make everyday can lead us towards health or away from health. True prevention is rooted in lifestyle choices. With the right knowledge, it is remarkable how very small adjustments can ultimately serve people in their health. Just as a ship leaving shore for a long journey will end up in an entirely different port with a small course correction, it is true that seemingly small steps implemented over time will lead to deep and lasting transformation. Ayurveda has an understanding of this at the body, mind, and spirit level.
If you wanted to study Ayurveda, most programs are several years long. And while that may ultimately be something you choose to do, you will benefit from my 30+ years of study and contemplation about what can be safely actionable in conventional practices. As clinicians are turning to self-care practices, new paradigms are emerging in really fascinating ways.
Solutions exist but the world of Ayurveda is not well-known in the West. Many doctors do not know anything about it...
Of course, you could always learn Ayurveda from a book or in a yoga teacher training course or even take several years off from practice to go study...
However, that comes with its own set of problems:
Up until now, you might have felt discouraging to find a reasonable way to learn Ayurveda because are limited options to learn and practically understand the wisdom in this beautiful healing system.
These options include:
There's never been a really great mentorship option—an affordable, easy-to-use option.
Fortunately, I've got a solution that does exactly that.
It's depressing, because up until now, it might have felt discouraging because there really have not been viable options to learn more and find the gems in this beautiful practice.
These options include:
There's never been a really great mentorship option—an affordable, easy-to-use option.
Fortunately, I've got a solution that does exactly that.
These could be reasonable short or long term solutions, but they are not always practical in situations such as time and expense of living away from home and away from work. As a clinician, your time and resources are probably already stretched with multiple commitments on your bandwidth. You may not have years to go and study with the recognized teachers. This was really clear to me when I took time off in 2011-2014. It was a long time to be away from clinical practice and I even had the concern that I might not be able to work again owing to regulations from malpractice. And reading about it in a book can be difficult to sort out because Ayurveda is really a living science passed from teacher to student.
Ayurveda is not currently aligned with our legal "standards of care" and many of the current ayurvedic courses do not take into account the regulations that MDs, DOs, NPs, and PAs have around incorporating these principles into their practices. With the remarkably busy schedules that clinicians have, as well as other demands on their time, I know how difficult it is to research and find a program that feels like a good fit that really sees the unique circumstances that allopathic providers have.
Learning from a book that will always be limited because Ayurveda is a living science.
Purely ayurvedic practitioners will not understand the scope of regulations that allopathic providers have.
Ayurveda Foundation for Optimal Vitality and Resiliency is the only program of its kind created by an Integrative MD for clinicians who are dealing with fatigue of body, mind and spirit and what to become resilient and vital.
The course can be a game-changing view on healing and health, even if you have never heard of Ayurveda. Learn to fine tune your empathic and intuitive nature by a medical system that embraces mind, body, and spirit will be so valuable.
Ayurvedic practitioners understood the value of building habits. Even if you feel you can’t create new habits, the course will take you through that journey first for yourself.
Even within the first few weeks, previous course participants have shared that their lives began to shift. With the experienital practices, we can let the mind and our thoughts reset and open doorways of awareness. That’s why I decided to offer this course. Now at this time, where we can have so much value.
But don't just take my word for it. Read the testimonials below from previous students.
Next PROGRAM STARTS Spring 2024
+ Sundays 9 am PST
+ Review the principles that we have been learning each week
+ Apply these principles with cases that we discuss
+ Connect with a community of healers, mystics and pioneers who see medicine in a holistic way.
+ Time TBD based on availability for Sunday afternoon or Wed
+ Learn to create a functional plant-based kitchen
+ Learn how to use Ayurvedic spices and flavors
+ Discover new cooking techniques that I have been sharing over the last 30 years with patients and physicians in medical conferences.
+ Thursdays 7 am PST
+ Taught by physicians and experts in Mindfulness and Self- Compassion
+ Bring the theories of Ayurveda deeper into your awareness as we explore the five senses and the role this has in your health and resilience.
+ Saturdays 7 am PST
+ Replays available
+ Taught by physicians and experts in Ayurveda and YOGA
+ Taylored to each week of the class to help you incorporate new Ayurvedic theories in practical ways
Feel grounded and focused for what the day brings, which is needed now more than ever.
Focus and be intentional about your actions that are creative problem solving through managing our unique constitution our highest self can emerge.
Have new tools for understanding how lifestyle can be individualized.
Explore your Ayurvedic body care program with products that are included.
You can easily accomplish all these things with Ayurveda Foundation for Optimal Vitality and Resiliency.
The people above have had amazing results with Ayurveda Foundation for Optimal Vitality and Resiliency.
You can too.
Imagine what it would be like to easily add an Ayurvedic daily routine to your day and understand how to adjust your life in the present. Imagine a new view on the origins of health that you can use with your current base of wisdom and knowledge.
Imagine being able to...
Because your time is limited, you need a Mentorship solution that's quick and easy-to-use.
Ayurveda Foundations creates a platform where vitality can emerge, and it is based on the wisdom found in Ayurveda.
You don’t need to have a background in Ayurveda to apply the principles immediately. The course has been created for beginners. There are also options to go in more depth if you choose.
You don't need to take 2 years off from your practice to implement and receive the benefit of these ancient teachings.
You don't even need to worry about drug herb interactions for client options as this course looks most closely at how powerful our lifestyle choices can be to create this!
As your guide, I will walk you through the steps to allow you to listen more deeply, create boundaries that you may not have been able to in the past, and expand your internal intuitive capacity.
With Ayurveda Foundations for resiliency, you will learn the Ayurvedic origins of vitality. As the sutra says, the purpose of Ayurveda is to protect the health of the healthy and return those who are sick to health.
My time is remarkably limited, and I offer 1:1 coaching to people who have taken the Ayurveda course. From previous participants these sessions can be life changing and help set the course for career direction.
Bringing vitality back to your career will be an incredible investment at this time. However, it is not just about continuing to have a steady revenue stream, it is about also having the ability to continue to serve and achieve your life mission --to fulfill that inner calling that asks you to walk the path of a healer.
Yes. It is for all clinicians. This course is geared towards female physicians where we will be looking into Ayurveda not only to impact our life, but the life of our patients in our relative medical practices. We'll have case studies we explore and geek out on all things medicine and share with our different practice backgrounds.
Yes!! Along with all the virtual classes, there will be a workbook pdf that includes all the recipes, course materials, and syllabus. We've done all the thinking for you, so you don't have to! If you would like to see the syllabus prior to starting, please send an email to info@drsirichand.com and I can provide a copy of it to you.
All of the sessions will be recorded and archived on the teaching platform for you to access at your own time and in your own pace. With that said, a core part of this course is experiential and community oriented. My hope is for you to attend as much "live" especially the group lecture where we'll break out into breakout sessions and apply the principles we talk about.
Yes!!! This is a foundational study of Ayurveda. No prior knowledge about Ayurveda is necessary. We'll go over the basic principles in our group class and how to incorporate it into your life.
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