Dr. Jyothi Prasad

Dr. Jyothi Prasad is a qualified traditional Ayurveda Doctor from India. She graduated with Bachelor's of Ayurveda medicine from Bangalore University and learned Yoga system from SVYASA. She further continued to study Nutrition and Dietetics from renowned Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.

She started her practice in Bangalore integrating Ayurveda, Yoga, Nutrition, and healthy lifestyle practices to restore the health of her patients. Her approach towards healing is to balance the energies in our system using classical Ayurveda preparation, Panchakarma detox, Yoga, Nutrition, and incorporating healthy lifestyle habits that relaxes and improves mental health. She says that ‘Our mind can be a magical tool to bring about healing’ emphasizing mental health as the priority in the process of healing a person.

After successfully practicing for 10 years in India, She moved to London, UK with her family where she started teaching Yoga for children at school encouraging a wholesome routine from an early childhood. Later, she moved to California, USA where she started teaching and practicing Ayurveda. She worked as Ayurveda and Yoga faculty for students of Doctorate of Ayurveda program in AUCM (American University of Complementary Medicine) at Beverly Hills. She also practiced at the Sanctuary Wellness Center, Tustin and worked as a Ayurveda faculty in Niramaya Ayurveda School at Tustin, CA for students of Ayurveda health counselor program. She was involved in preparing the study materials and planning the course curriculum for the Ayurveda health counselor’s program. She has participated in many of the events creating awareness about Ayurveda, nutrition, and healthy lifestyle. She is featured in a podcast on backtothesourceradio.com titled ‘Golden Nectar’ talking about the benefits of Ghee from an Ayurveda perspective.

After about 10 years living outside India, She is now back in Bangalore practicing and teaching Ayurveda online and supporting her students in the US.

While in the USA, She had a chance to refresh her knowledge studying the ancient literature, Astanga Hrudayam written by Vagbhatacharya. She began to realize that over the years of what she knew about Ayurveda came directly from this amazing literature that was written around the 15th century AD. This book is written entirely in Sanskrit in the form of verses or shlokas. The majority of the books that are available today on Astanga Hrudayam provide the translation of the Sanskrit verse in different languages with very minimal comments on the topic of the book. For a beginner who is trying to learn Ayurveda, this seems insufficient to understand the comprehensive meaning that the original author wants to convey. As she says that while she was a student of Ayurveda she found it hard to get into the deeper meaning that this book carried. Through the years of practicing Ayurveda and reading different books on Ayurveda she now understands that everything that anybody knows about Ayurveda is sourced back to this ancient literature. Hence, she decided on presenting this book in a detailed format so that even the beginner of Ayurveda can understand it very easily.

Meanwhile, coincidentally, she had an opportunity to teach Astanga Hrudayam Sutra for Doctorate of Ayurveda Students. Through the interactions with students, she learned how to write better and express this book, so that students gain highest knowledge from the literature and obtain maximum benefit of learning Ayurveda directly from its source.

She continued to work on the book, Comprehending Astanga Hrudayam Sutra preparing the manuscript for about 9 years now and her first book Comprehending Astanga Hrudayam Sutra Part 1, featuring wholesome lifestyle practices is now available on Amazon. She further continues to work on her other volumes to be available soon. For her latest updates follow her on https://www.facebook.com/jyothi.srinivasan and https://www.instagram.com/astangahrudayam/ or write to her on astangahrudayam@gmail.com