⸺ VISHUDDHA SPEAKER SERIES

Bring Your Work

to a Room

Ready for Depth.

Vishuddha 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.

VISHUDDHA SPEAKER SERIES · MEMBER COMMUNITY

⸺ 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.  

01

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.
Topics covered already include:

Topics we have explored: 

01
Culinary Medicine Basics
02
Narrative Medicine & Writing
03
Mindfulness & Yoga Foundations 
04
DPC Start Up Principles
05
Managing Career Shifts
06
Seasonal Routines 
Season 1 · May – October 2026
The Living Medicine Series
01
Nourishment
Food as medicine, culture as context
Marissa Toussaint, MD MPH
CCMS DABOM · Anise Medical
Why Patients Don't Follow Our Diet Advice: The Role of Cultural Foods in Real-World Outcomes
Ashley Koff, RD
CEO · The Better Nutrition Program
Why We All Need Weight Health
Gauri Junnarkar, MS BAMS RDN
CDCES · AyurNutrition
The Wellness Equation: Ayurveda + Nutrition = Sustainable Self-Care
Sarita Subramaniam, MD
FM · Geriatrics · Obesity · Culinary Medicine
How Lifestyle Medicine Can Positively Impact Aging and Help Maintain Function
Open Slot — May · Speaker being confirmed
May 4–25
Weeks 1–4
02
Women's Health
The feminine body, reclaimed
Rashmi Kudesia, MD MSc FACOG
DipABLM · Reproductive Endocrinology
Fertile Soil: Exploring Culinary and Lifestyle Medicine in Preconception and Fertility Care
Janelle Evans, MD
OB/GYN & Urogynecology
Lifting Up Menopause: A Full-Body Approach to Midlife
Dana Gibbs Clark, MD
Integrative Hormone & Thyroid Specialist
When "Normal TSH" Isn't Normal: Why Guidelines-Based Treatment Is Imperfect for So Many
Open Slot — June · Speaker being confirmed
Jun 1–22
Weeks 5–8
03
Ancient Wisdom
Roots, rhythms, whole-body systems
Meenakshi Gupta, BAMS MD(Ayu)
AyurRoots · Classical Ayurveda
Gut Health Beyond Diet: How Digestion, Mind, and Daily Rhythms Shape Metabolic Health
Elizabeth Trattner, AP DOM
Chinese Medicine & Integrative Practice
40 Years in Wellness: What Matters, What Doesn't, and What We Got Wrong
Robin Rose, RN-FNP-MD
Family Medicine · RENOLOGY
Transforming from Kidney Failure to Kidney Success with Integrative Medicine
Janice Santos, MD
The Integrative Urologist
Ancestral Remedies for Urologic Diseases: Integrative Medicine in Urology
Open Slot — July · Speaker being confirmed
Jun 29–Jul 20
Weeks 9–12
04
The Nervous System
Regulation, roots & recovery
Laura Grangeia, MD
Emergency & Lifestyle Medicine · Mind-Body Coach
Dismantling Good Girl Physiology: HPA Axis, Conditioning, and Long-Term Disease Risk
Petra Beumer, MSc
Mindful Eating Institute · Trauma-Informed Care
Beyond GLP-1s: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Treating Emotional Eating and Improving Long-Term Outcomes
Priyanka Venkataraman, MD
OB/GYN · Life & Parent Coach · Wayfinding Moms
Reconnection: Remembering and Returning to Self in a Dysregulated World
Tracy Peng, MD
Integrative Psychiatrist · UCSF Osher Center
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Trauma, and the Path to Whole Healing
Open Slot — August · Speaker being confirmed
Jul 27–Aug 17
Weeks 13–16
05
Mind & Meaning
The interior life
Nissa Keyashian, MD
Psychiatrist · Yoga, Breathwork & Meditation
Beginning and Nurturing Stillness Practices: Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Breathwork
Michelle Flowers, MD
Psychiatrist · Neuroscience & Spirituality
Gratitude: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science for Well-Being
Elham Raker, MD
Pediatrician & Certified Parent Coach
The Pathophysiology of Our Triggers and How to Manage Them
Open Slot — September · Speaker being confirmed
Aug 24–Sep 14
Weeks 17–20
06
The Physician's Path
Healer, heal thyself
Bertina Hooks, MD
Internal Medicine · Physician Executive & Author
From Burnout to Reinvention: How Physicians Rebuild Identity, Purpose, and Power
Simran Malhotra, MD DipABLM
IM · Hospice & Lifestyle Medicine
The Physician as Patient, Mother, and Entrepreneur: A Journey of Whole Healing
Eliana Megerman, MD
Emergency Medicine · Novelist
Physician Writers: Healer and Storyteller — Loneliness, AI, and the Creative Life in Medicine
Richa Agnihotri, MD FRCPC DipABLM
Pediatric Lifestyle Medicine
Creating an Environment in Which Children Can Thrive
Open Slot — October · Speaker being confirmed
Sep 21–Oct 26
Weeks 21–26

⸺ 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.