Michelle Dexter Garber, MPH, CAWC, CPAM, RAP
Ayurveda keeps me young!
Background and Experience
Michelle Dexter Garber is a Registered Ayurvedic Practitioner with the Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North American (AAPNA). She is an educator, author, speaker, Medical Intuitive, and Reiki Healer.
Michelle has over 15 years of practical experience in health sciences, which has given her the expertise needed to bridge Eastern and Western medical traditions. In the future, Michelle hopes to collaborate with physicians in creating changes to the mainstream healthcare system to make the patient experience positive, reduce unnecessary testing, and improve treatment success rates.
In the 1990s, Michelle provided clinical support for several concurrent antiretroviral phase III studies for many of the medicines that have since changed the landscape of HIV/AIDS treatment on a global scale. She also provided support for one of the first HIV vaccine phase III studies in the United States.
In recognition of her professional status, Michelle was accepted to the University of Liverpool's MPH program for health professionals, where she earned her Master of Public Health degree by investigating the effectiveness of meditative therapies in the treatment of anxiety and depression.
Michelle studied Indian Philosophy at George Washington University with the renowned scholar Alf Hiltebeitel, where she wrote a thesis on Ayurvedic practice in America and was awarded the Harry Yeide Prize for her scholarship. Michelle studied Anatomy and Physiology at the University of California Berkeley, and Ayurveda with teachers including Dr. John Douillard, Dr. Shekhar Annambhotla, and Diane Finlayson.
Michelle completed a program with Swami Sadashiva Tirtha, the author of The Ayurveda Encyclopedia, to become certified as a Medical Intuitive. Additional trainings in Reiki and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) have allowed Michelle to incorporate these into her professional healing practice.
Michelle has published research on water contamination by pharmaceuticals and personal care products, the environmental effects of the Green Revolution in India, and the cultural health implications of agricultural change in the Amazon Basin.
Michelle's educational background enables her to practice the full range of Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda is a complete medical system which uses healing tools such as herbal medicines, Yoga, meditation, spiritual practices, energy healing, music and art therapy, dietary modifications, and crystal healing.
Health Revolution Ayurveda is named for the radical shift in health that Michelle personally experienced through adopting these Eight Aspects of Ayurveda:
1. Dosha-balancing Diet
2. Herbal Medicine
3. Meditation and Breathing Exercises
4. Chanting and Sound Healing
5. Yoga (poses and philosophy)
6. Panchakarma (detoxification therapy)
7. Pranic Healing (energy healing, very similar to Reiki)
8. Dinacharya (Ayurvedic daily self-care routine)
The guiding principle of Ayurveda is balance, and this is Michelle's foundational principle in her work. Michelle teaches her patients how to create revolutionary health shifts by individually creating balance in their lives. Major shifts happen when balance becomes perceived as a necessity rather than a luxury. In the Health Revolution Ayurveda program, gentle daily exercise, healthy eating, and meditation become necessities for whole health rather than luxuries indulged in only during vacations. It is then possible to experience the fullness of what Ayurveda has to offer: physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health.
Michelle Dexter Garber is a Registered Ayurvedic Practitioner with the Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North American (AAPNA). She is an educator, author, speaker, Medical Intuitive, and Reiki Healer.
Michelle has over 15 years of practical experience in health sciences, which has given her the expertise needed to bridge Eastern and Western medical traditions. In the future, Michelle hopes to collaborate with physicians in creating changes to the mainstream healthcare system to make the patient experience positive, reduce unnecessary testing, and improve treatment success rates.
In the 1990s, Michelle provided clinical support for several concurrent antiretroviral phase III studies for many of the medicines that have since changed the landscape of HIV/AIDS treatment on a global scale. She also provided support for one of the first HIV vaccine phase III studies in the United States.
In recognition of her professional status, Michelle was accepted to the University of Liverpool's MPH program for health professionals, where she earned her Master of Public Health degree by investigating the effectiveness of meditative therapies in the treatment of anxiety and depression.
Michelle studied Indian Philosophy at George Washington University with the renowned scholar Alf Hiltebeitel, where she wrote a thesis on Ayurvedic practice in America and was awarded the Harry Yeide Prize for her scholarship. Michelle studied Anatomy and Physiology at the University of California Berkeley, and Ayurveda with teachers including Dr. John Douillard, Dr. Shekhar Annambhotla, and Diane Finlayson.
Michelle completed a program with Swami Sadashiva Tirtha, the author of The Ayurveda Encyclopedia, to become certified as a Medical Intuitive. Additional trainings in Reiki and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) have allowed Michelle to incorporate these into her professional healing practice.
Michelle has published research on water contamination by pharmaceuticals and personal care products, the environmental effects of the Green Revolution in India, and the cultural health implications of agricultural change in the Amazon Basin.
Michelle's educational background enables her to practice the full range of Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda is a complete medical system which uses healing tools such as herbal medicines, Yoga, meditation, spiritual practices, energy healing, music and art therapy, dietary modifications, and crystal healing.
Health Revolution Ayurveda is named for the radical shift in health that Michelle personally experienced through adopting these Eight Aspects of Ayurveda:
1. Dosha-balancing Diet
2. Herbal Medicine
3. Meditation and Breathing Exercises
4. Chanting and Sound Healing
5. Yoga (poses and philosophy)
6. Panchakarma (detoxification therapy)
7. Pranic Healing (energy healing, very similar to Reiki)
8. Dinacharya (Ayurvedic daily self-care routine)
The guiding principle of Ayurveda is balance, and this is Michelle's foundational principle in her work. Michelle teaches her patients how to create revolutionary health shifts by individually creating balance in their lives. Major shifts happen when balance becomes perceived as a necessity rather than a luxury. In the Health Revolution Ayurveda program, gentle daily exercise, healthy eating, and meditation become necessities for whole health rather than luxuries indulged in only during vacations. It is then possible to experience the fullness of what Ayurveda has to offer: physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health.
Sara Rossio, LMT
Sara is a Licensed Massage Therapist in the State of Maryland.
Since 2010 Sara has done massage for many different types of clientele, in a variety of environments, including Best of Baltimore wellness centers and spas including a Forbes 4-star spa, and local private practices. Sara has worked for and alongside highly experienced therapists who have shared their knowledge with her, and she has done extensive additional trainings in massage techniques and energy work, including Myofascial Release Massage, Reiki and Quantum-Touch.
It is difficult to find a massage therapist in the US who knows how to do authentic Abhyanga. The reason for this is that in order to know what type of Abhyanga to give and which herbs/oils/aromatherapy to use, you have to be an Ayurvedic Practitioner so that you can create the Abhyanga that will be healing for the individual. Abhyanga is a "prescribed" Ayurvedic therapy. Since it requires a lot of education to be an Ayurvedic Practitioner, and since we have to learn Abhyanga in order to practice, most of us in the US are not going to go back to school again to become Licensed Massage Therapists. And most Massage Therapists don't end up going back to school to become Ayurvedic Practitioners. So in the United States, it's very difficult to find authentic Abhyanga.
Abhyanga is supposed to be an essential healing treatment offered in every Ayurvedic clinic, and people in the US get to offer it when Ayurvedic Practitioners and Massage Therapists team up! Here at Health Revolution Ayurveda, Michelle and Sara have partnered to offer you the most deeply healing Ayurvedic massage in Baltimore.
Since 2010 Sara has done massage for many different types of clientele, in a variety of environments, including Best of Baltimore wellness centers and spas including a Forbes 4-star spa, and local private practices. Sara has worked for and alongside highly experienced therapists who have shared their knowledge with her, and she has done extensive additional trainings in massage techniques and energy work, including Myofascial Release Massage, Reiki and Quantum-Touch.
It is difficult to find a massage therapist in the US who knows how to do authentic Abhyanga. The reason for this is that in order to know what type of Abhyanga to give and which herbs/oils/aromatherapy to use, you have to be an Ayurvedic Practitioner so that you can create the Abhyanga that will be healing for the individual. Abhyanga is a "prescribed" Ayurvedic therapy. Since it requires a lot of education to be an Ayurvedic Practitioner, and since we have to learn Abhyanga in order to practice, most of us in the US are not going to go back to school again to become Licensed Massage Therapists. And most Massage Therapists don't end up going back to school to become Ayurvedic Practitioners. So in the United States, it's very difficult to find authentic Abhyanga.
Abhyanga is supposed to be an essential healing treatment offered in every Ayurvedic clinic, and people in the US get to offer it when Ayurvedic Practitioners and Massage Therapists team up! Here at Health Revolution Ayurveda, Michelle and Sara have partnered to offer you the most deeply healing Ayurvedic massage in Baltimore.