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When I was five years old, I looked at the world around me and knew that I wanted to be a pediatrician. Despite the struggles, my hardworking, immigrant parents supported me in these dreams. The scientific journey began as a child, collecting minerals from the desert landscape of Gallup, New Mexico, where I spent my formative years soaking up the traditions of the Diné Nation alongside the Vedic wisdom imparted in my family home.
My reading progressed in the pre-internet era, and I devoured anything I could get my hands on: everything from library books and encyclopedias to the nutritional facts and ingredient lists on food packaging labels. While I excelled at science fairs and spelling competitions, I also enjoyed gymnastics, dance, poety, watercolor, and theatre. I ran track, jumped hurdles, and in high school, I began kickboxing, in addition to reading palms and tutoring children.
At the University of Chicago, I was the college Organic Chemistry tutor for three years, while also running a Biochemistry Lab. I earned a sizeable grant that funded my MD/PhD, which I succeeded in graduating despite the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. In the months and years that followed that storm, I awakened to the healing gifts of Ayurveda that reside within my ancestral lineage, all while accepting one of the twenty seats available nationally for the Triple Board Residency, in which I completed medical training. Since then, I have devoted my life to humanitarian causes, first and foremost by cultivating an art of holistic medical practice that I am honored to share with the world.
Having lived through extraordinary tragedy, I understand the importance of spiritual living: honoring simplicity, nurturing each day with gratitude for the rising sun, bird song, fresh air and gentle breezes, sweet fruit, and the fragrance of juniper, rose, lavendar, and sage. Sacred songs are my deepest medicine, just as I am consciously aware that cosmic rhythms guide my very existence.
Thank you for taking the time to be here with me. I pray we may be in service to one another and the universal world at large. Jai Sri Mata.
