Some questions stay with you.

For twenty years in pulmonary and sleep medicine, I sat across from patients whose suffering was real — but whose tests were normal. Breathless with healthy lungs. Exhausted despite sleeping. In pain with no diagnosis to explain it.

I always knew something was missing. Medically - I couldn't figure out what.

A Different Kind of Medicine

Yoga found me in 2003, during my sleep fellowship — when I wandered into a class near the hospital. It did what I'd hoped: I felt physically lighter. But what stopped me was something I hadn't expected — a stillness in my mind I hadn't felt in years. I was curious enough to be driven to enroll in formal teacher training just to understand why.

That’s where I found Ayurveda.

I had assumed it was about herbs. What I discovered instead was a sophisticated science that had already mapped what modern medicine was only beginning to understand — circadian rhythms, the gut-brain connection, the microbiome, the profound impact of daily routine.

And most strikingly: that every symptom is a signal. Ayurveda can identify the beginning of imbalance long before any test would think to look.

My patients’ symptoms suddenly made sense.

So did my own.

When Practice Became Personal

The gap I'd been seeing in my patients — I was living it too. Chronic pain, persistent fatigue, mental fog — symptoms that had no clean medical explanation. At my lowest point I wondered whether I would be disabled within a few years.

What shifted everything wasn’t a diagnosis. It was commitment. Consistent, daily practice — not weekend catch-up sessions. The change was profound enough that I couldn’t keep it to myself.

Where Two Worlds Meet

I didn’t leave medicine. I expanded it.

My medical training gives me clarity on what modern care does brilliantly — and where it

reaches its limits. My Ayurvedic training gives me tools to recognise imbalance at its earliest stage, long before conventional medicine would call it disease.

Sukha-Asana is where those two worlds meet.

This is personalised wellness — not medical treatment. It’s for people who have symptoms without clear answers, who are tired of chasing fixes, and who are ready to understand how their own body works.

Not to replace your medical care. To address what it was never designed to reach.

My Approach

Safety. Individualisation. Self-empowerment through practical Ayurveda.

Background

Ayurveda: Master’s degree in Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Health · Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner

Yoga: Certified Yoga Teacher

Medicine: Board-certified physician · 20+ years in academic pulmonary and sleep medicine · Fellowship training in Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine · Multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and medical textbooks

Recognition: Castle Connolly Top Doctor · Exceptional Women in Medicine · Featured in Milwaukee Lifestyle Magazine