HealthyBraja
My Name is HealthyBraja, Ayurvedic Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach for better life.
Do you ever get lost in thinking about how to be truly healthy? Me too, all the time!
Do you ever wish to give the best nutrition to your kids and keep your family away from artificial, so called natural sources of nutrition? I understand you!
If you’re thinking like me, you want to craft a healthy life and get absorbed in a natural way of living and nurturing your family with nutrition.
But perhaps you: Need the right starting point, direction and path, Have no clue about how to get there, Feel distracted with the plethora of options being bombarded at you.
You’re at the right place!
You’re talking to Braja, the health conscious “HealthyBraja”, trying to introduce you to the easiest way possible to become and live healthy in this complex, modern age by choosing to make your food the medicine!
My Transformation to ‘HealthyBraja’
The Early Days
After graduating from Mumbai University as a Biotechnologist, I moved to New York city with my husband. Together, we took on the next adventure of becoming parents to the apple of our eye, our beautiful baby boy, in the year 2013. I was a MOM now!
A Mom's Challenge
The journey of being a mother has been such an enriching experience. The ride got a bit bumpy when my son developed food allergies at the mere age of 5 months. We spent months visiting various specialists, doctors, hospitals, and diagnostic labs with not much success. I’ve moved around a lot since then, always in search of an ideal situation, free of allergies, disease and a smooth life.
Discovering Ayurveda
The burning desire to eradicate the allergies of my son led me to the precious over 5000 year old, ‘science of life’ from India – Ayurveda. Ayurveda widened my horizons about the idea of medicine. It wasn’t just a drug – disease model but was a combination of medicine, lifestyle management and mindful eating, each of which are incomplete without the other. My thirst to dive deeper into the science of Ayurveda and it’s practical application increased multi-fold as I kept referring to resources provided by one of my most talented doctors, Dr. Marianne Tietalbaum in Cinnamonson, NJ. This led me to one of the most beautiful event in my life, which was, meeting my beloved and respected teacher Dr. Vaidya RK Mishra, who came from the Shankya Vansha Ayurveda (SVA) lineage.
Getting Authentic
Soon I got into learning about the authentic application of Ayurveda from Vaidya-ji and took the “Global Pulse & Marma” and “The Cellulite Management” courses under his personal guidance. Meanwhile, I met another of my teachers Divya Alter from Bhagavat Life Institute, NY who led me into a vigorous 250-hour “Ayurvedic Nutrition And Culinary Training” (ANACT). I drenched myself in this pool of knowledge and practical experience, under the guidance of these qualified and able teachers.
Giving back to Society
By this time I had started seeing major improvements with respect to the allergies of my son. It was time for him to join school! Something that always kept bothering me was managing the right meals at school for him. I knew I wanted to help a school design Ayurvedic meals to provide the right nutrition not only for my son, but also to other children, our most valuable future generation in their very important years of growth and development. The right food not only helps kids develop their body optimally, but also their mental and emotional quotient. Increasing their immunity to go through seasons and phases is an added benefit too!
This meditation slowly converted into a passion to contribute positively towards kids. And guess what? By the divine arrangement we moved to Toronto, Canada where I met a good friend and Director of the school “Vedic Roots Montessori Academy (VRMA)”, Dr. Sonam Agarwal, who was very welcoming to the idea of giving kids the best nutrition. Thus I was now a passionate Ayurvedic Meal Planner for Kids at the school, creating balanced, inviting, and kid-friendly Ayurvedic meal plans. I helped the school set up an Ayurvedic kitchen – the first of it’s kind in North America! Training the first line of cooks, facilitating Ayurvedic food summer camps, writing guidelines for diet for the flu season, etc. are some of the things I got to contribute in the lives of the little budding flowers of our future.
Experience is the Best Teacher
In 2019, we welcomed our daughter into our lives. It has been a unique experience to now live through the various stages, from preconception, pregnancy, postpartum, infant care, to starting solids and more, by applying all the knowledge of Ayurveda that I have learnt all these years. With theory transforming into practical application, there has been so much growth in the Ayurvedic wisdom book of my life. I faced many challenges through all the phases of bringing our littlest munchkin in this world, starting from conception, very low iron count, gestational diabetes, my baby lagging a bit behind in growth, to delivering a relatively smaller baby and everything in between. It wasn’t easy but when I look back, I feel so happy to share with all of you that I could overcome all these challenges by applying what I have learnt, mainly by making dietary adjustments. I could deliver a happy, healthy baby normally without much medical intervention!
Finally..
This journey has only increased my desire to share my life-changing experiences of incorporating the principles of SVA Ayurveda in life and help many more experience the magical touch of this magnanimously rich science of Ayurveda coming from the ancient texts written by the seers of knowledge (the Rishis). I believe strongly in creating a life you love, and furthermore, that doing so should be easy! So here I am, Braja who has now transformed into HealthyBraja to share and connect with all of you!
HealthyBraja – Nurturing with Nutrition
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