The Healthy Peaceful Podcast

Join me as I interview Dr. James Duffy, MD, a psychiatrist who specializes in:  Acupuncture, Body-Mind Therapy, Brain Health, Burnout, Herbs & Supplements Guidance, Huntington’s Disease, Integrated Care, Movement Disorders, Neurocognitive Disorders, Parkinson's Disease.   Multi-faceted, Dr. Duffy guides doctors in returning the healer to their work.  He currently focuses on working with i...

Join me as I interview Dr. James Duffy, MD, a psychiatrist who specializes in:  Acupuncture, Body-Mind Therapy, Brain Health, Burnout, Herbs & Supplements Guidance, Huntington’s Disease, Integrated Care, Movement Disorders, Neurocognitive Disorders, Parkinson's Disease.   Multi-faceted, Dr. Duffy guides doctors in returning the healer to their work.  He currently focuses on working with i...

Join me for a  fascinating interview with Barbara Slaine.  We dive deep into a topic that is often considered taboo:  death & dying.  Barbara shares her years of experience as an end-of-life doula, guiding individuals and families through this process.  She also touches upon her documentary film project - tracking the impact of training incarcerated and previously incarcerated individuals to c...

Join me as I interview prolific writer and healer, Robert Sachs, who encourages us to awaken our hearts in these troubled times -- not by sticking our heads in the proverbial sand, but by cultivating and practicing being awake in our own lives.   Today we explore the concepts raised in his book - PERFECT ENDINGS:  A CONSCIOUS APPROACH TO DYING AND DEATH.   Born in the U.S., Robert moved to England...

Today, I have the good fortune to chat with a fabuous guest, Melanie Sachs.   Melanie has spent many decades expanding the healing energy of Ayurveda throughout the world.  She is the co-author of 2 books along with her husband Robert Sachs:  Ayurvedic Beauty Care and Ayurveda Spa:  Treatments for Large and Small Spas.   Melanie's exploraton into alternative healing include years of study wit...

Join me as I talk with James Pace about EMFs (electromagnetic toxins) -- which include the invisible forces emanating from power lines, cell phones, appliances, and computers. Electromagnetic pollution directly causes or contributes to imbalance and disease. From the  perspective of SV Ayurveda, EMFs pollute and corrupt the nadis (vibrational channels), thereby disturbing mental, physical, sensory...

Today, I have the good fortune to chat with a fabuous guest, Karin Lubin.  While there is so much that Karin and I can focus on in today's chat, we connected due to my interest in the book, THE PASSION TEST, by Janet Attwood and Chris Attwood and we'll start by delving into how THE PASSION TEST can lead you to a more fulfilling life - actually a life that embodies the very core values th...

I have the great pleasure of introducing Durga Leela, the founder of the online learning platform and sangha called YOGA OF RECOVERY. Durga Leela is a person in long-term recovery, a certified Ayurveda Practitioner, yoga teacher and yoga therapist (IAYT certified) from the UK and now based in the US.  She has shared Yoga as a Recovery Pathway in several Recovery Conferences over the last 20 years....

In today’s interview, we focus on how Tom’s early life experience with Maharishi Mahesh Yoga (he spent 12 years on the Parusha program, a program designed by Maharishi for men who wish to dedicate themselves fully to the most rapid pace of evolving consciousness as possible) led to his later work in the field of helping create not only effective communication but appreciation and understanding acr...

Join me as I interview Dr. Judith Pentz, MD on her presciptive memoir, CLEANSE YOUR BODY, REVEAL YOUR SOUL - SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING THROUGH THE ANCIENT POWER OF AYURVEDA PANCHAKARMA THERAPY.  Dr. Pentz shares her personal healing journey, describing her trip to India where she underwent the 5,000 year-old Ayurvedic detoxification and rejuvenation therapy known as panchakarma (translated as "t...

Join me as I interview Laurina Carroll.  Currently based in the Chicago area, Laurina has been a teacher of Transcendental Medication since 1997.  She had the good fortune or working as an Ayurvedic Wellness Consultant in one of the Maharishi Ayurvedic Clinic in Germany, known as one of the most reputable in Europe.  Inspired by this experience, she moved back to the U.S. and studied Ayurveda more...

Join me in this third interview (see Ep . 38 & 41 for other interviews) with John Broome.  John is an Ayurvedic recipe and food product developer and recently released his first cookbook, Better Health through Taste:  Easy Transformation with Ayurveda.  I chat with John live from Mexico where he shares his continuing discoveries and challenges -- as he applies Ayurvedic principles to Mexican c...

Join me as I interview esteemed guest, Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar  -- a world-renowned Ayurvedic physician and medical astrologer who hails from a family of traditional Vedic healers in India. He holds a B.A. in Ayurvedic medicine and has completed a three-year M.D. (Ayurvedic Internal Medicine) residency at Pune University.   Dr. Suhas is a compassionate healer and expert clinician who directs the Ayur...

Join me as I interview Susan Barney who early in her healing journey discovered the connection between food and healing.  Susan became inspired by Dr. Gabriel Cousens's, MD, seminal book (a total of 880 pages) titled Conscious Eating and his commitment to including Ayurveda in a book otherwise focused on living (raw) plant-based foods.  What Susan discovered is that food is energy and while n...

Join me in this second interview with John Broome.  John is an Ayurvedic recipe and food product developer and recently released his first cookbook, Better Health through Taste:  Easy Transformation with Ayurveda.  Now, John is working on another Ayurvedic cookbook - same principles but focused on Mexican food.  John joins me on location from Mexico where he shares his discoveries and challenges o...

Join me as I interview Michele Jersak, who recently completed her Master's degree in Ayurveda at Maharishi University and is in the process of completing meditation teacher training.  With a career of over 20 years as a counselor in a community college environment in Minnesota, Michele has had the unique opportunity to see up close the challenges this demographic faces.  Many are the first me...

I have the pleasure of being interviewed by Guy Harvey, producer/creator of the podcast, Soul Family Chat.  Here, I share my journey from a legal career and founder of my own law firm to becoming a natural foods chef, traveling the U.S., and returning to wholeness with Ayurveda.  I've heard it said that our evolution is in the journey and no doubt, it's been an interesting ride!  Thank y...

Join me as I interview John Broome, author of the newly released Ayurvedic cookbook titled Better Health through Taste:  Easy Transformation with Ayurveda .  John is a recipe and food product developer and now also, a cookbook author.  He plans to release Ayurvedic superfood powders in a number of products in the U.S. market including superfood cookies and bars.  His cookbook is designed to make A...

Meet Emily Fitz Randolph, founder of Itihas Ayurveda in Los Angeles.  Emily describes her journey away and back to Ayurveda.  Having grown up in the heart of Ayurveda and meditation in the U.S. (Fairfield, IA), Emily moved to NYC -- ready to conquer the business world and that she did for 15 years.  She managed campus recruiting for the top financial service firms in NYC where she excelled in the...

Meet Sarah Priya Sookchand as she describes her journey to Ayurveda at the age of 23- which is one of  healing from auto-immune conditions (lupus and rheumatoid arthritis).  This was after 4 years of conventional medical treatment with some of the top practitioners in the U.S. and a protocol of pharmaceuticals.  She accompanied her parents on a trip to Trinidad ( where they were born and later emi...

Sultan Salah is an experienced practitioner and educator in the areas of Ayurveda, holistic healthcare, natural healing, and integrative medicine.  He has 6 years experience teaching and developing academic curricula and has developed 2 of the nation’s accredited degree programs in Ayurveda at Maharishi International University.  Sultan has studied Ayurveda for over a decade.  He's also recei...

Join me as I interview Amadea Morningstar, a shining star in Ayurveda and Food & Healing for 40 + years.  She is the creator of Ayurveda Polarity & Yoga Institute in Sante Fe, New Mexico.  She is committed to teaching both Ayurveda in all its holistic and component parts (everything is Ayurvedic!)  and polarity therapy, a hands-on healing system designed to enable the body to regain its na...

Join me as I interview Dilek Koksal.  Raised in Turkey, Dilek has been a student of Ayurveda since 2015 and is currently a teaching assistant at Maharishi University where she is also a student in the Master’s program in Ayurveda.  Dilek works in software and has degrees in computer science, finance, and computing.  She formerly founded a dance company in San Diego, teaching Middle Eastern dance. ...

Join me as I interview Martha Soffer, owner of Surya Spa (an Ayurvedic spa), located in Los Angeles.  Martha is a graduate of Maharishi International University and a practitioner of Ayurveda for over 30 years.  Her specialty is panchakarma, an Ayurvedic detoxification protocol designed to restore radiant health.  She is also the creator of a line of Ayurvedic personal care products.  We explore h...

Join me as I interview Gau Bodepudi, the creator of awakeninnerfire.com - where he  is creating community around the practice of agnihotra in Austin, Texas.  Agnihotra is an ancient Vedic technology; its purpose:  to heal individual and environment by attuning to nature’s rhythms.   Gau, a patent attorney, has taken on a new role:  documentary filmmaker. His project is titled The Sacred Fire:  A J...