A letter, kept as he wrote it

A young anesthesiologist at the height of western training sits down to learn Kundalini yoga from the beginning. The practice came three years before the faith, and it never left. Everything that follows starts on this mat.

The beard, the turban, the name. He took his vows and has kept them through every clinic, every conference, every skeptical first impression since. Patients learned quickly that the turban was the least interesting thing about him.

He founded the first holistic pain program in the Southwestern United States, inside a conventional hospital. Acupuncture and meditation on the same chart as anesthesia. Nobody was doing this. He was doing this.

A university teaching hospital in Arizona recruited him to direct a program with stress medicine in its name, inside the department of anesthesiology. The integration of east and west was no longer his argument. It was his job description.

He founded the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation and has led it as president and medical director ever since. Three decades of funding peer reviewed research, training practitioners, and telling families the most radical thing in medicine. There are things you can do.

Warner Books published Brain Longevity, his case that the aging brain deserved a program, not a shrug. More books followed, Meditation as Medicine, Food as Medicine, The Pain Cure. He did not chase the conversation. He started it.

The supplements he formulated for his own patients, vegan capsules with no fillers, went online for everyone else. Long before clean was a category. They are still made to his original formulations, and he still takes them himself, every day.

His wife Kirti has taught yoga for three decades. They built a shared life around a shared practice, and the work you see on this site has her hands in it everywhere. Some collaborations get announced. This one just gets lived.

The kitchen table version of the man. The one who shows up in the family photographs, not the bylines. This is what the whole person, mind, body, and spirit, was always for.

Still writing, still teaching, still leading the foundation, still on the mat most mornings. The question he started with has never changed, and neither has his answer. Pay attention to the whole person.