My Personal Message August 2026 

For several months, I stepped away from constant online presence...

What looked like silence was actually a season of deep recalibration, travel, study, creation, and further transformation.

In August 2025, I moved from my California home and traveled by camper van (and other extremely fun vehicles) for 6 months, back and forth across the country, exploring different regions. I meditated, researched sites, created new wellness partnerships, and fine-tuned my retreat locations and scope of private practice. At my 30th year of being a physician, I stopped accepting new patients and reduced the Beverly Hills individual care private practice. After 15+ years of conducting extensive wellness travel, workshops and retreats, I intentionally reduced this schedule as well. Then, I stopped posting on social media for another 6 months, as I created my new homes and expanded wellness programs on both coasts.

Though I continued to visit and speak at retreat/wellness spaces, corporations and farms, I enjoyed tremendous silence and greater time to create between the events. I joyfully fulfilled the 2025/2026 programs, excitedly taught the last quarter of medical students/trainees/others the art and science of integrating Western and Eastern Medicine. After 23years, I stepped away from consulting with a community mental health organization where my integrative health approach was valued and encouraged from the very beginning.

I wished all well. I followed my own well-being programs and explored the science of different forms of art, music, laughter, and movement to further optimize my good health --and inject huge amounts of fun into my being.  I simplified my home life and connections, created more space, and received an expanded vision of the integrative wellness frameworks I have spent over 30 years building.

Long before integrative medicine, nutrition, holistic psychiatry, mindfulness, nervous system regulation and brain optimization became mainstream conversations, I was studying and teaching the connection between brain and total body health, emotional wellbeing, nutrition, spirituality, transformation, and optimal living/peak performance.

This next chapter is about bringing that work forward in a deeper, more immersive way. 

Over the coming months, I will be opening a limited number of online workshops, immersive in-person wellness experiences, speaking engagements and transformational retreats (on both coasts) focused on brain optimization, nervous system health, resilience, integrative brain-adrenal-gut health and whole-person wellness.

I invite you to join me.