Interviews ​with experts in wellness

Who are they? What they do? What excites them? What inspires them?
How did they find their profession? ​What did they learn on the job?
What's their new venture?

Dr Marc Cohen | Dr Ajit Singh | Dr Christo Miliotis | ​Dr Vijay Murthy | Samantha Doyle
​Dr Sanjay Raghav | ​​Dr Siby Chiramel | Dipika Delmenico | Dr Rammanohar P | Dr Eeshani Bendale

dr marc cohen

Dr Marc is a medical doctor, university professor, author, poet, entrepreneur, wellness trailblazer and perpetual student of life, trying to coax the world towards worldwide wellness. Spent more than 30 years practicing and researching holistic health and published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and many books and technical texts on wellness and natural medicine. Author of the illustrated children’s books “Love & Everything”, “Bing & Bang Begin” and “The Beautiful Mare and the Boy Who Gave Thanks“, Founder of the Extreme Wellness Institute and Co-Founder of the Bathe the World Foundation, and co-owner of Extremely Alive Wellness Tonics and Maruia Hot Springs. You can find him on linktree.

dr ajit singh

Vaidya Ajit graduated in 1978 from Punjabi University and worked for the Government of India for 19 years. He has been practicing and teaching in Australia and New Zealand for the last 25 years. With his 43 years clinical experience he is presently the most experienced ayurvedic Doctor and teacher in Australasia. He is Director of the Australasian Institute of Ayurvedic Studies in Brisbane and Planet Ayurveda in Auckland, the only totally equipped traditional Panchkarma centre in Australasia. Vaidya Ajit relocated to New Zealand in 1996, after working for the Govt of India in various positions in both Ayurvedic hospitals and pharmacies, with a passion to teach authentic Ayurveda in the West. Apart from running a Wellness Centre, he is involved in teaching Ayurveda in Australia and New Zealand. 

Christo miliotis

Specialist in gut health. Director, Holy Cow it's Organic. Sell organic farming and gardening products that work as alternatives to chemicals we have a whole range of fertilisers, soil conditioners, compost accelerators, organic pesticides and organic fungicides. Researcher and developer of organic farming and gardening products. Biodynamix - Developed a range of organic farming and gardening products which includes an organic fertiliser that is a weed killer too, the organic pesticide that increases photosynthesis, an organic fungicide and a compost accelerator.

Dr vijay murthy

Dr Murthy is an ayurvedic doctor and naturopath as well as a popular international speaker and health educator. Dr. Vijay Murhty holds a PhD in public health research.​ Dr Murthy provides complementary health care by integrating 22 years of clinical and research experience as a director and practitioner of AYUWAVE Ltd. In his London based practice, Dr Vijay Murthy helps individuals attain their best possible health potential alongside preventing and managing a wide range of chronic illnesses. This unique combination of traditional healing modalities within a scientific and research framework, enables the clients to experience the most up to date approaches to health available today. 

samantha doyle

Samantha Doyle is Founder of Samantha Doyle Healthy Living, her wellness coaching business, which aims to inspire and educate women to transform their health. With a decade in the industry and certifications in personal training, nutrition, and yoga, she continues to learn and educate others. A devoted yoga teacher, Samantha integrates kirtan and mantra meditation in her workshops to provide a holistic approach to yoga. Known for her ability to simplify the complex concepts of Ayurveda, she makes this ancient knowledge available for everyday health seekers.

Dr sanjay raghav

Currently working as therapeutic Director, Gawler Foundation Yarra Valley living center, the director, Dandenong Neurology and consultant Neurologist, Monash Health Dr. Raghav has deviced a Yoga and wellness program for Parkinson s Disease. Dr. Raghav has over 20 years experience in health and medicine. He presents “the role of Ayurveda in Neurological disorders”.

dr siby chiramel

Dr Siby is the current President of CanSurviveCentre Malaysia Berhad. Known simply as Cansurvive, this is a non-profit organisation that provides guidance and compassionate community support for patients who suffer from cancer as well as their family and friends.
       In 2017, DrSiby published a book called ‘Knowledge of Life: Tales of an Ayurvedic Practitioner in Malaysia’. Far from being a textbook on Ayurveda, the elements of storytelling are used to feature some of the more common diseases among Malaysians.
       He has also been appointed as a member of the Malaysian Quality Accreditation (MQA) Council of Government of Malaysia. He was most recently listed as one of the most successful people in Malaysia in a publication by the British Media Publication House.

dipika delmenico

Specialising in: Womens Health. Family health. Health in Leadership.
​Dipika Delmenico is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Anthroposophic Naturopath and Visionary Changemaker. Dipika works with all kinds of people but has a particular focus on women's health, pedagogical health and heart-centred conscious leadership. For 25 years she’s worked with thousands of clients globally with Ayurveda and human-centred medicine. She’s the founder of Conscious Woman Rising, holistic practitioner mentorship and heart centred leadership programs. Dipika is the Best selling author of The Ayurvedic Woman and Shine Your Light. Dipika works therapeutically with Sanskrit Mantra and resonance as medicine of our future. She’s integrating and bridging physical with spiritual sciences for embodied healing potential. Working with the wholeness of woman – her cycles, seasons and life transitions – establishing and integrating rhythm is fundamental for wellness.  Locally and globally, when womankind is well, we all thrive! Dipika is also the founder of Conscious Woman Rising, dedicated to sustainable feminine leadership for consciously evolving our world. She is the founder of The Radiant Woman Wellness Programs, presents, teaches global programs and trainings, including The Mentorship Program for holistic health professionals.
You can learn more about Dipika www.dipikadelmenico.com

dr rammanohar P

Dr. P. Rammanohar is the Research Director of Amrita School of Ayurveda. He received BAMS degree from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, in 1991 and MD (Ay) degree from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, in 2001. He has been contributing in the field of Ayurvedic research since the last 30 years. His publications include research papers in indexed journals and chapters in books.
He was honored with the Ayurveda Marga Pravarthaka Award by the L. Mahadevan’s Ayurveda Foundation in 2014 and Vaidya Sundarlal Joshi Smriti Sodha Puraskara by the Mahagujarat Medical Society in 2015. In 2016, Poonthottam Ayurvedashram bestowed the Bharadvaja Puraskaram Award to him for contributions to research in Ayurveda. In 2017, he was honoured with Dr. C. Dwarakanath Memorial Award by IASTAM for contributions to contemporary interpretations of the principles of Ayurveda. In 2021, he was awarded the Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar Healing Honor 2021 by Rethink India for facilitating Integrative and Preventive Medicine and positioning Ayurveda as a Whole Medical System. He has made research visits to United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Latvia, Russia, Denmark, Belgium, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand and Sri Lanka for the promotion of Ayurveda.
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dr eeshani bendale

Dr. Eeshani Bendale is the first Ayurvedic doctor to get admitted to the University of Oxford, UK. She completed her B.A.M.S (Bachelor in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery) from Tilak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Pune (M.U.H.S.). She is a University topper in Dravyagun (Ayurvedic Phramacology and Materia Medica) and is a Gold Medallist in Swasthavritta (Preventive and Social Medicine). Currently, she is pursuing an MSc in Nanomedicine from Swansea University Medical School, Wales, UK and an MSc in Evidence Based Healthcare from the University of Oxford, UK. She is known for giving talks related to Ayurved on various national and international platforms and for creating awareness about the need of authentic propagation and research in Ayurved. In her second year of BAMS, she delivered a speech on "The Principles of Ayurved" to doctors and scientists in Guadalajara, Mexico. In the past few months, she has given talks on Ayurved in association with the Oxford South Asian Arts Society, the Young Leaders Podcast, an initiative of the Trust of International Foundation for People’s Welfare and Development and Jignasa, a Pan India initiative for affordable and quality AYUSH education. In her final year of BAMS, she collaborated with a researcher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the development of a module based on speculative design. ‘Nava-Samhita’ (the new compendium) is a project about using alternate timelines to drive scientific research in Ayurved, which was largely suppressed during different colonial rules over the Indian subcontinent.

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