Feeling stressed or depleted with the Holidays fast approaching? Learn how the yogic discipline of Pryamanaya can be a powerful tool for calming the nervous system, increasing focus, and cultivating inner harmony. Join Dr. Akil to explore simple yet effective breathing techniques that can revitalize your body and mind.
If your mind has been racing…
If your chest has felt tight…
If the holidays already feel like “too much”…
you are not alone — and there is real support available.
On Friday, Dec 19 at 7pm ET, join us for The Power of Pranayama: Breathe Your Way to Balance with Dr. Akil Taher, MD.
Pranayama isn’t just breathing. It is giving your nervous system a chance to reset.
Research shows that simple, slow breathing practices:
🌬 calm your autonomic nervous system and lower stress
🌬 reduce stress hormones like cortisol and ease anxiety
🌬 improve heart-rate variability — a key marker of long-term mental, emotional, and physical resilience
Dr. Akil’s own transformation after bypass surgery gives him rare clarity, wisdom, and grounding. He teaches breathing not as a technique — but as a lifeline.
📅 Dec 19 • 7pm ET Facilitator: Cyd Notter
If you’ve been carrying too much, this space is here for you!
BIO: Akil Taher, MD is an Author, Heart-Healthy Speaker, Resurgent Physician, Septuagenarian Athlete, Whole Food, Plant-Based Lifestyle Movement Activist, a Holistic Health and Wellness Advocate, and a Recovered Bypass Surgery Patient. But, he hasn’t always been the epitome of health and wellness.
Raised in Mumbai, India and trained in family medicine at the Flower Hospital in Sylvania, Ohio, Dr. Taher has had an amazing career as a physician. He says, he was “an experienced physician, a couch potato, and a pampered consumer who feasted over the best foods without worrying about unhealthy consequences, because like many, I believed that, "Heart disease won't happen to me."”
In August 2009, at the age of 61, open-heart surgery knocked at Dr. Taher’s door and his world came crumbling down. It’s easy to see that it woke up his determination to do life differently and it ran deep with his deciding to completely change his life.
Today, much has changed for Dr. Taher. He’s overcome acute and chronic medical ailments to indulge in century cycling, triathloning, skydiving, hang gliding, scuba diving, white-water rafting, running marathons, and climbing mountains while still running a successful practice. He has turned into an eternal optimist, explorer, and adventurer and now shares his story and his wisdom with the world.
Dr. Taher says, “I reincarnated into a new life to stay true to the meaning of my first name, Akil−the "wise."