I'm Sugandhi, and It's My Good Fortune To Guide You Towards the Radiant Health You Deserve
BA Women's Studies from University of Colorado, Boulder
Diploma of Acupuncture from Pacific Rim College, Victoria, BC
Board Certified Registered Acupuncturist in BC, Canada
Cultivating the Art of Nourishing Life
I believe health isn't just about your physical body: it's about your entire well-being. Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
The greatest joy in my life is helping women like you get and stay healthy so you can focus on living your life and doing what you love. You have better things to do than be sick, stuck at home with period issues or dragging yourself through your day because you feel awful.
Conventional medicine falls short in truly understanding and serving women. Most doctors offer few options except pills and invasive procedures. This can leave you feeling isolated, disempowered and like you’ve lost control of your body and your future.
My approach is different - I aim to deepen your connection to yourself, your body and the untapped healing potential within you. Health is your natural state.
At the core of every health issue is disconnection—be it from nature, from ourselves or sequestered emotions, or from each other. Signs, symptoms and struggles are actually clues telling you what is out of balance. You just need the right guide and key to learn how to unlock those clues and address the root issue they are pointing too.
I have been studying yoga, meditation, qi gong, herbal medicine and holistic nutrition formally and informally since my teens. When I was 18, I began practicing a traditional lineage of qi gong under a master who was also a 23rd generation physician of Chinese Medicine.
This opened my eyes to the beauty and potency of Chinese Medicine and its Daoist roots that seek to keep the internal systems of the body harmonized with each other, the individual harmonized with their community and society, and humans harmonized with Nature. Only through harmony can we shine in health.
Chinese Medicine offers us a comprehensive and time-tested key by which to interpret and make sense of the signs. Which is why I’ve devoted my life to understanding its depths and offering that back to my patients.
Using Chinese Medicine, Holistic Nutrition and other somatic techniques, I’ve helped hundreds of women balance their hormones, reduce their pain, reduce their medications, improve their periods, improve their mood, improve their digestion and - most gratifyingly - bring new life into this world as mothers.
I also use my expertise as a coach to help you stay on track and not only figure out what’s actually going on, but how to build healthy habits that will keep you radiant and vibrant well into the future. As James Clear says, we don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems. I’m here to help you build realistic systems to live a radiant life.
In addition to my online work with women, I split my time between in-person acupuncture practices in Maui, Hawaii and volunteering with the charity, Embracing the World, in Kerala South India. There I live with and gain inspirtion from my Spiritual teacher and inspiration, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (aka Amma the Hugging Saint).
I believe in miracles. But I believe miracles happen when we put in the right effort and find the right support to help us get to the results we can’t get ourselves.
I can't wait to help you achieve the health and wellbeing you deserve.