2020-12-21
1 小时 4 分钟Hey, my guest today is Avanti Kumar Singh.
I have been fascinated with alternative approaches to healing and medicine pretty much my entire adult life, especially when so many millions of us are walking around with pain and inflammation and unease.
That doesn't seem to fare all that well with a more western approach.
But at the same time, I also admit I'm equally skeptical of a lot of solutions and practices and claims, which is why I have been deeply curious for many years about ayurveda.
And it's sort of a healing methodology or practice or philosophy system that has been practiced, refined and sustained for some 5000 years.
And I was really excited to sit down with my friend Avanti, a traditionally trained physician who experienced firsthand the limitations of western medicine both in her own life and in her patients lives, and then decided to leave behind a career in emergency medicine to begin a 20 year journey to study, research and experience traditional healing systems from a wide range of cultures.
That landed her back in Ayurveda and reconnected her with a sense of calling.
So a central tenet of Ayurveda is the notion that each of us has this innate ability to attain and maintain our own optimal health, and that when done correctly, the practice of ayurveda is as simple and natural as being in tune with your body as it moves through the seasons of your life.
I love this idea and I also struggle with it, which is why I'm so excited to share this conversation with you, to unpack some of the key concepts, including ones that at first didn't necessarily land as true to me with someone who is deeply studied and accomplished in both worlds.
Avanti is also the author of a wonderful new guidebook, the Health Catalyst, how to harness the power of Ayurveda to self heal and achieve optimal wellness.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
It's really good to be hanging out with you.
I've been so fascinated by the field that you have moved to for a long time, probably since the early two thousands when I started to get exposed to the world of yoga and then sort of like the bigger healing traditions in that space.
So I want to dive into a lot of ayurveda and the traditions, just traditional healing versus western healing with you also.
But what's fascinating to me is you started out your career actually in traditional western medicine, but in reality, it sounds like the doctor was sort of like the seed was planted for you to be a doctor when you were a little kid.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's a common story with a lot of south asian kids.
Actually, we're first generation.
It may not even be south asian, but that's my experience.