"When I was chasing little tribal children with scurvy and night-blindness fifteen years ago, I never thought that my early experiments to use their flora and fauna to heal and sustain their families would turn into a life of my dreams."- Vilasi Venkatachalam
Vilasi Venkatachalam founded Ancient Wisdom, Modern Solutions® as a natural outcome of her search for solutions in every dimension of her life and that of her clients. The cornerstone of all endeavors under this banner is using healing traditions or principles in the modern context.
Vilasi is a Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist and a Biochemist. With undergraduate degrees in Zoology, Botany and Chemistry and a graduate degree in Biochemistry from India, she came to the United States looking for Nutrition Programs that could create curricula and training around the student.
She was also the pilot fellow in a National Cancer Institute funded Innovative Curriculum in Cancer Nutrition. This experience was based on using the concept of "Functional Foods” as an adjunct to Medicine. She presented at a workshop for the European Association for Cancer Education on the topic- "It is not just Coffee, Tea or Milk- a case for nutrition as an adjunct therapy for cancer treatment" and there began the journey.
This journey involved many different efforts and settings based on the philosophy of Healing Principles of Food. A large part of the past 5 years was spent on changing the food service in healthcare to a more a healing platform. In her final stop before taking off on her own, Vilasi was instrumental in creating the Nutrition Component of the Integrative Medicine Program at Morristown Memorial Hospital/Atlantic Health.
Vilasi can be reached at thehealingchef@optimum.net or vilasi@wisewomaninstitute.com
“I was grinding the green henna leaves with clumsy enthusiasm of a nine year old, bubbling with excitement when with each motion of the grinding stone squeezed out more orange colored juice that tinted my hands. I was worried that when I finally made the little dots on my palms, they may not be visible because of the orange tint. I always had this feeling around plants and traditions and rituals associated with them. I am still entranced by the stories of the past and the myths and rituals woven around things. I replay history with emotions the characters would have felt and the stories have a very different twist and intensity.” - Foreword, Traditions of My Ancestors. Vilasi Venkatachalam
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Solutions
Bedminster, NJ
Phone: 908-326-3962
Email: vilasi.venkatachalam@gmail.com
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