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⸺ VISHUDDHA SPEAKER SERIES

Bring Your Work

to Light

Vishuddha Living Medicine Speaker Series gathers some of the most thoughtful, innovative physicians in the country. If your work belongs in this conversation, we want to hear from you.


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The physicians who would benefit learning about your work are not always able to find it. They are reading, searching, scrolling waiting for a voice with the depth and creativity to cut through.

⸺ The Community 

Who You'd Be
Speaking To

A living community of physicians who came to medicine with a whole heart and intend to keep it that way.

Vishuddha is not a passive webinar audience. It is an active membership community, female integrative and lifestyle medicine physicians on one side, and a broader community of wellness enthusiasts on the other, united by the tension between conventional medicine and the deeper knowing that brought them here.

From the clinical side, they are rigorous. Spiritually curious. They have read the research and sat with patients in the hardest moments. They come looking for speakers who can meet them at that intersection: clinically credible, personally honest, and genuinely transformative.

Presenting inside Vishuddha is not exposure for its own sake. It is an invitation to contribute to something being carefully built. We also offer the option to share your work with our broader public community and welcome any body of work including reflection and personal writing. 
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AUDIENCE · TRACK ONE

Physician Incubator

Female integrative physicians building independent practices, reclaiming creative authority, and designing careers outside the conventional system. High engagement, high discernment.

AUDIENCE · TRACK TWO

Courses & Community

A broader community of healers, wellness practitioners, and health-conscious seekers drawn to integrative and lifestyle approaches to whole-person living.


COMMUNITY MODEL

Monthly Membership

Speaker events are included in membership, no additional registration fee. This means engaged attendees who chose to be there, not passersby who clicked a free link.

Your expertise

deserves an audience.

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⸺ CURRENT INQUIRY

What We're
Exploring

These are the living threads inside Vishuddha right now. Our ideal speaker applications sit at the intersection of clinical credibility and lived wisdom and bring something the community cannot Google.

We appreciate nuance and moving beyond either/or conversations.  Also, we are delighted to create spaces where our beautiful work such as books, works of art and creativity can reach others who would enjoy it. It is increasingly challenging to carve a niche alone on social media. Bring your beautiful works to us to enjoy.  

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Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine

Root-cause approaches, systems biology, and the clinical translation of evidence-based integrative practice with lifestyle medicine and primary prevention. The mechanisms behind food, sleep, stress, and belonging as primary levers of disease prevention and how to actually use them in practice.

02

Traditional Healing Systems, Yoga & Somatic Practice

Ancient frameworks for constitution, rhythm, and embodied healing — brought into clinical and personal practice.

03

Mental Health, Trauma, Coaching & Psychiatry

Nervous system regulation, trauma-informed care, identity and physician psychology, and the inner life of healers.


04

Business, Leadership & Career

Building independent innovative practices. Financial literacy for physicians. Creative reinvention beyond conventional medicine.


05

Spirituality, Ritual & Meaning

The invisible architecture of a healing life. Death, purpose, beauty, devotion what medicine forgets to teach.


06

Writing, Creativity and Expression 

If your work doesn't fit a category above but engages in a creative journey... in any form. We should love to hear about that too. 

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⸺ PREVIOUS TOPICS

Built for practitioners
with something to share.

Vishuddha is a peer-based professional space moving physicians from private expertise to visible presence. 

Our name comes from the throat chakra: the seat of voice, truth, and authentic expression. That's what we're here to cultivate.
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Beginning and Nurturing Stillness Practices

Sep 6 · 11am PT

A live, podcast-style session that blends the science and soul of stillness. Dr. Keyashian guides us through a short experiential practice and shares how to begin and sustain stillness in daily life, supporting…

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Nissa Keyashian, MD
Psychiatrist · A Mindful MD
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Tracy Peng, MD
The Ten Components of Healing Childhood Trauma
Adverse childhood experiences and trauma as risk factors for chronic illness; framework for deep healing.
Aug 10 Recorded
Tracy Peng, MD
Integrative Psychiatrist
www.tracypengmd.com
Integrative psychiatrist, formerly UCSF Osher Center for 20 years.
Laura Grangeia, MD
Dismantling Good Girl Physiology
Most high-functioning women have never considered that their exhaustion, inability to rest, and relentless internal pressure might have a physiological explanation rooted in how they were conditioned. This talk maps the biology of good girl conditioning: HPA axis dysregulation, inflammation, and long-term disease…
Aug 20 Recorded
Laura Grangeia, MD
Emergency & Lifestyle Medicine
wholewellbeinglm.com
Emergency and lifestyle medicine physician teaching the biology of "good girl" conditioning, burnout, and reversal.
Priyanka Venkataraman, MD
Reconnection: Remembering and Returning to Self in a Dysregulated World
This session invites participants to explore how nervous system patterns shape reactivity and disconnection. Through the PAUSE framework and guided reflection, we move from judgment to awareness, creating space between trigger and response. The focus is not on fixing, but on remembering and reconnecting with the self…
Aug 25 Recorded
Priyanka Venkataraman, MD
Wayfinding Moms
wayfindingmoms.com
Physician and founder of Wayfinding Moms; nervous-system regulation, reconnection, and the PAUSE framework.
Marissa Toussaint, MD
Why Patients Don't Follow Diet Recommendations: The Role of Cultural Foods in Dietary Adherence
Nutrition guidelines often fail to account for the food traditions of many cultures, leading to limited patient compliance. Dr. Toussaint reviews what happens when patients replace their usual diet with an idealized version and why that approach fails, and shows how small changes to cultural meals improve dietary…
Sep 2 Recorded
Marissa Toussaint, MD
Obesity & Culinary Medicine · Anise Medical
www.flambeaukitchen.com
Physician and author, board-certified in obesity and culinary medicine; owner of Anise Medical.
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Nissa Keyashian, MD
Recording coming soon
Beginning and Nurturing Stillness Practices
A live, podcast-style session that blends the science and soul of stillness. Dr. Keyashian guides us through a short experiential practice and shares how to begin and sustain stillness in daily life, supporting clarity, resilience, and mind-body healing.
Sep 6 · 11am PT
Nissa Keyashian, MD
Psychiatrist · A Mindful MD
nissakeyashian.com
Psychiatrist and creator of A Mindful MD; guides sustainable stillness practices for busy clinicians.
Petra Beumer, MA
Recording coming soon
Beyond GLP-1s: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Emotional Eating
A trauma-informed approach to emotional and behavioral eating that goes beyond GLP-1 medications. Drawing on decades of mindfulness and mindful eating practice, this session explores the nervous-system roots of food behaviors, why willpower-based interventions fail high-functioning women, and how present-moment…
Sep 10
Petra Beumer, MA
Mindful Eating Institute
mindfuleatinginstitute.net
Founder of the Mindful Eating Institute; trauma-informed approaches to emotional eating and food behavior.
Janice Santos, MD
Recording coming soon
Integrative Medicine in Urology
Integrative Medicine applied to the management of Interstitial Cystitis/PBS and chronic pelvic pain, recognizing it as a central sensitization syndrome. Identifies multifactorial contributors, neuroinflammatory, hormonal, psychosocial, and lifestyle, and reviews current evidence for dietary modification, mind-body…
Date to be confirmed
Janice Santos, MD
Integrative Urologist
theintegrativeurologistmd.com
Board certified Urologist, fellowship trained in Pelvic Floor Medicine and Integrative Medicine. Founder of The Integrative Urologist MD.
Meenakshi Gupta
Recording coming soon
Gut Health Beyond Diet: How Digestion, Mind, and Daily Rhythms Shape Metabolic Health
This talk reframes gut health beyond diet, highlighting how digestion, metabolism, daily rhythms, and the mind interact to influence overall health. It introduces an Ayurvedic lens to identify early functional imbalances through patterns in appetite, energy, sleep, and stress. Attendees gain practical strategies to…
Date to be confirmed
Meenakshi Gupta
BAMS, MD (Ayurveda)
ayurroots.com
AyurRoots founder
Bertina Hooks, MD
Recording coming soon
Talk details being confirmed
This talk explores what happens when physicians outgrow the identities medicine gave them and must rebuild from the inside out. Bertina shares practical lessons from leadership, personal adversity, and career reinvention that help physicians move beyond burnout, fear, and limitation into aligned work and authentic…
Date to be confirmed
Bertina Hooks, MD
Pinnacle Business Academy
www.pinnaclebusinessacademy.org
Physician and founder of Pinnacle Business Academy; coaches physicians through reinvention beyond burnout.
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Trauma-Informed Leadership
Associate Chief, Palliative Medicine at Tulane.
Date to be confirmed
Sonia Malhotra, MD
MS, FAAP, FACP, FAAHPM · Tulane
Associate Chief, Palliative Medicine at Tulane.
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The Wellness Equation: Ayurveda + Nutrition = Sustainable Self-Care
In this talk, attendees discover daily and seasonal Ayurvedic rituals to stay grounded and balanced; nutrition strategies to boost energy, support hormones, and enhance vitality; time-saving self-care practices tailored for busy lives; and how intentional self-care builds resilience in the workplace and in life. A…
Date to be confirmed
Gauri Junnarkar
MS, BAMS, RDN, LD, CDCES, LMT · AyurNutrition
www.ayurnutrition.com
Nutrition Ayurveda and wellness expert; founder of AyurNutrition; RDN, Certified Diabetes Educator, Ayurveda Practitioner and Panchakarma Specialist with 17+ years in Integrative Health.
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TBD, 20-min scoping call pending
Topic direction not yet locked; Siri Chand requested a short call before finalizing title/summary because Simran submitted multiple possible directions. Panel format is on the table.
Date to be confirmed
Simran Malhotra, MD
DipABLM, CHWC · Wellness By LifestyleMD
coachsimranmd.com
Triple board-certified physician (internal medicine, hospice & palliative care, lifestyle medicine); certified health coach; BRCA1 previvor; founder of Wellness By LifestyleMD.
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40 Years in Wellness: What Matters, What Doesn't, and What We Got Wrong
A rare long view on four decades of clinical wellness practice. Dr. Trattner examines what has changed and what remains foundational, and, drawing from clinical experience and her own navigation of chronic illness, addresses patient overwhelm and how to separate meaningful care from trends. She looks at evaluating…
Date to be confirmed
Elizabeth Trattner, AP, DOM
Doctor of Oriental Medicine · Helia House
elizabethtrattner.com
Integrative physician with 30+ years in clinical practice and 40 years in wellness; trained at the University of Arizona; founder of Helia House.
The programme Season at a glance
10 Aug The Ten Components of Healing Childhood Trauma Tracy Peng, MD · Integrative Psychiatrist 20 Aug Dismantling Good Girl Physiology Laura Grangeia, MD · Emergency & Lifestyle Medicine 25 Aug Reconnection: Remembering and Returning to Self in a Dysregulated World Priyanka Venkataraman, MD · Wayfinding Moms 2 Sep Why Patients Don't Follow Diet Recommendations: The Role of Cultural Foods in Dietary Adherence Marissa Toussaint, MD · Obesity & Culinary Medicine · Anise Medical
6 Sep Beginning and Nurturing Stillness Practices Nissa Keyashian, MD · Psychiatrist · A Mindful MD Live
10 Sep Beyond GLP-1s: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Emotional Eating Petra Beumer, MA · Mindful Eating Institute Pending
TBC Integrative Medicine in Urology Janice Santos, MD · Integrative Urologist Pending
TBC Gut Health Beyond Diet: How Digestion, Mind, and Daily Rhythms Shape Metabolic Health Meenakshi Gupta · BAMS, MD (Ayurveda) Pending
TBC Session details being confirmed Bertina Hooks, MD · Pinnacle Business Academy Pending
TBC Trauma-Informed Leadership Sonia Malhotra, MD · MS, FAAP, FACP, FAAHPM · Tulane Pending
TBC The Wellness Equation: Ayurveda + Nutrition = Sustainable Self-Care Gauri Junnarkar · MS, BAMS, RDN, LD, CDCES, LMT · AyurNutrition Pending
TBC TBD, 20-min scoping call pending Simran Malhotra, MD · DipABLM, CHWC · Wellness By LifestyleMD Pending
TBC 40 Years in Wellness: What Matters, What Doesn't, and What We Got Wrong Elizabeth Trattner, AP, DOM · Doctor of Oriental Medicine · Helia House Pending
Details How the series works
Format
Live & recorded
Each session runs live for questions and community. Recordings drop into your library the same week.
Cadence
Every few weeks
A new speaker roughly every 2–3 weeks, spanning trauma, breathwork, culinary medicine, women’s health, leadership and the physician’s voice.
Community
Women in medicine
A supportive space for physicians and clinicians exploring integrative practice, healing, and career reinvention.
Access
Members-only library
Full recordings, chapter notes, and speaker resources live in the LearnWorlds hub for the length of the series.
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⸺ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

The Speaker
Experience

A relational approach to sharing our knowledge that begins in presence, where awareness and compassion guide how we care for ourselves, one another, and the world

A PREPARED ROOM
The team reviews all applications personally. If you're invited, the community will be looking forward to your work before you speak.
LIVE OR RECORDED FORMAT
45–90 minute live virtual session. Can include talk, Q&A, workshop elements, or panel conversation - it depends what you might like to share. 
RECORDING & REACH
Sessions are archived for members. We handle all communication within the community and you can bring your expertise. 
VISIBILITY
Talks are available to clinicians on our app and in social media shares that help bring visibility to your work and endeavors. 

We review every application personally.
If your work is a fit for our community, you'll hear from us within one week.
Thank you for taking the time to share. 

A word from our founder,
Dr. Siri Chand Khalsa MD MS

I built Vishuddha because brilliant women were doing important work without the infrastructure to be heard. Most of us don't have a marketing team behind us. We are in midlife, tending to many things evolving at once.

What we do have is each other. This community exists so we can find each other, learn from each other's worlds, and amplify what we are each building — together.

Board-certified in integrative medicine. Trained in Ayurveda, culinary medicine, and mindful leadership. Still learning. Still showing up.