The Healing Catalyst

Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, both integrative medicine physicians, are building the Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi, a weekly audio prescription for women in perimenopause and menopause. It’s physician-led, science-backed, built around your biology and your mind-body constitution, your dosha.
Weekly Health Rx just wrapped a five-week series on metabolic health, discussing how hormone shifts in perimenopause and menopause drive downstream effects on your metabolism: your energy, your weight, your inflammation.
This is a small piece from week three of the series.

Connect with Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh:
Get Dr. Kumar-Singh’s Weekly Newsletter: https://avantikumarsingh.substack.com
Follow Dr. Kumar-Singh on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
Order Dr. Kumar-Singh’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

More Resources:
Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you.
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Explore more at myarvasi.com

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The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Originally published 02/28/23.
In this episode, Ayurveda and Yoga Therapist Indu Arora joins Dr. Avanti to discuss the benefits of sleep, rest, and Shavasana. Indu explains the difference between rest and sleep from an Ayurvedic perspective and explores the various sleep stages and their correlation to meditation. The focus of the conversation is on Shavasana's ability to help individuals "undo" and "unlearn" by giving space for emotions and discomfort to arise, and consciously working towards letting go through breath and reducing sensory overload. Indu shares different ways to practice Shavasana, when and how to do it, and five simple steps to practice it effectively.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
Rest vs. sleep from an Ayurvedic perspective
The correlation between sleep stages and meditation
The emotional and spiritual benefits of Shavasana
Conscious goals of letting go and moving inwards through breath
5 simple steps to practice Shavasana

Connect with Indu Arora:
Website: www.yogsadhna.com
Instagram: @induaroraofficial
Book: SOMA: 100 Heritage Recipes for Self-Care

Connect with Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh:
Get Dr. Kumar-Singh’s Weekly Newsletter: https://avantikumarsingh.substack.com
Follow Dr. Kumar-Singh on Instagram: @avantikumarsingh
Order Dr. Kumar-Singh’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
Explore more: avantikumarsingh.com

More Resources:
Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you.
Visit and Subscribe to the Weekly Health Rx.
Explore more at myarvasi.com

Explore More of The Healing Catalyst Podcast:
Leave a voice message for Dr. Kumar-Singh
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The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.
Mentioned in this episode:
Come join us at the Weekly Health Rx at weeklyhealthrx.substack.com

Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, both integrative medicine physicians, are building the Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi, a weekly audio prescription for women in perimenopause and menopause. It’s physician-led, science-backed, built around your biology and your mind-body constitution, your dosha.
Weekly Health Rx just wrapped a five-week series on metabolic health, discussing how hormone shifts in midlife affect your metabolism: your energy, your weight, your inflammation.
Here's a small piece from week one of the metabolic health series. Head to the Weekly Health Rx and subscribe for more.

Connect with Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh:
Get Dr. Kumar-Singh’s Weekly Newsletter: https://avantikumarsingh.substack.com
Follow Dr. Kumar-Singh on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
Order Dr. Kumar-Singh’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

More Resources:
Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you.
Visit and Subscribe to the Weekly Health Rx
Explore more at myarvasi.com

Explore More of The Healing Catalyst Podcast:
Leave a voice message for Dr. Kumar-Singh
Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Originally published 9/9/25.
In this episode of The Healing Catalyst, Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh sits down with world-renowned sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus—better known as The Sleep Doctor—for a deep dive into the science of sleep. Together, they unpack the power of what Dr. Breus calls sleep chronotypes: your genetic “sleep personality” that reveals whether you thrive as an early-rising lion, a steady bear, a creative night-owl wolf, or a restless dolphin. These chronotypes, hardwired by your genes and hormones, offer a blueprint for aligning your lifestyle with your natural rhythm—transforming everything from your energy and productivity to your mental health. Much like Ayurveda’s doshas, they mirror the unique mind-body patterns that shape how we move through the world and what we need to stay in balance.
This conversation goes beyond theory, sharing practical, real-life strategies for better sleep—from setting consistent wake times and managing caffeine and alcohol, to leveraging the power of daily movement. Along the way, Dr. Breus and Dr. Kumar-Singh explore the surprising connections between sleep, anxiety, and hormonal shifts—and why understanding your unique chronotype may be the ultimate key to unlocking deeper rest and a more vibrant life.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
(01:37) Introduction to Sleep Hygiene
(07:51)What is a Chronotype
(16:11) How Your Hormones Impact Sleep Quality
(16:56) Understanding Your Hormones to Have Optimal Sex
(18:53) How to Create a Routine That Cues Your Body to Go to Sleep
(26:11) How Ayurveda Aligns so Closely with the Chronotype Methodology
(35:46) Dr. Breus’ Five Step Plan to Improve Sleep Quality
(37:17) How Alcohol Affects Sleep and Best Practices For Sleep When You Drink
(40:00) How Consistent Exercise Improves Sleep
(40:51) Morning Routine Recommendation: The Three 15’s
(43:19) Sex and Sleep
(46:20) How to Best Use Sleep Trackers
(52:58) Dr. Breus’ One Tip: Wake Up At The Same Time Seven Days A Week

About Dr. Micheal Breus:
Michael J. Breus, Ph.D., is a double board certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist. He’s the founder of sleepdoctor.com and the author of four books. His most recent book Energize! was named one of the top books of 2021 by The Today Show. He is an expert resource for many major publications, doing more than 400 interviews per year. He’s appeared on Oprah, The Doctors, and in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. Dr. Breus has been in private practice for 23 years and was named the Top Sleep Doctor of Los Angeles by Reader’s Digest.

Connect with Dr. Michael Breus:
Instagram: @thesleepdoctor
Website: https://sleepdoctor.com/
YouTube: @TheSleepDoctor
Book: Sleep Drink Breathe
Chronotypes quiz: https://chronoquiz.com/

Connect with Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh:
Get Dr. Kumar-Singh’s Weekly Newsletter: https://avantikumarsingh.substack.com
Follow Dr. Kumar-Singh on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
Order Dr. Kumar-Singh’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

More Resources:
Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you.
Visit and Subscribe to the Weekly Health Rx.
Explore more at myarvasi.com

Explore More of The Healing Catalyst Podcast:
Leave a voice message for Dr. Kumar-Singh
Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Podcast episode production by Dante32.
Mentioned in this episode:
Come join us at the Weekly Health Rx at weeklyhealthrx.substack.com

Most of us think grief only happens when someone dies. But what about the loss of a body that doesn’t feel like yours anymore? A relationship that quietly became something different? A future you had counted on that is not coming? The uncertainty of the world right now, the instability, the feeling that something has shifted and nobody asked if you were okay with that? That’s grief too and most of us have never let ourselves call it that.
Most of us are walking around carrying grief we have never named. And we can’t move through something we can’t see.
In this episode, Dr. Avanti sits down with David Kessler, one of the world's foremost experts on grief and loss. He spent years working alongside Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and has since helped millions of people understand what grief really is. His definition is simple: grief is a change we did not want. And when you look at it that way, so many things you have been quietly carrying finally have a name.
Together they explore why grief lives in the body, not just the mind. Why what so many of us are feeling about the world right now is real grief and deserves to be treated as such. What it actually means when people say grief is love with nowhere to go. And how meaning begins to emerge inside grief, not after it.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
(07:56)What is grief and why is it far more common than you think
(13:18) What "grief is love with nowhere to go" means in real life
(15:39) How grief shows up in the body and where you might be holding it
(21:11) Why the heaviness you feel about the world right now is grief
(41:03) What being stuck is actually telling you
(44:45) How to find meaning inside grief, not just after it
(47:40) One practice to start moving through what you are carrying today

If you have been carrying something heavy and never had the words for it, this episode will change that.

About David Kessler:
David Kessler is one of the world's foremost experts on grief and loss. He spent years working alongside Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and is the author of seven books, including his latest bestseller Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief and its companion workbook. His first book, The Needs of the Dying, received praise from Mother Teresa. He runs Tender Hearts, an online grief support community with more than twenty-five grief groups, leads one of the most respected Grief Educator Certification programs in the world, and is the founder of grief.com.

Connect with David Kessler:
Website: grief.com
Instagram: @IAmDavidKessler
Facebook: @IAmDavidKessler
Tender Hearts: davidkesslertraining.com/tenderhearts
Traumatic Loss and Grief course: davidkesslertraining.com/traumatic-loss-grief

Connect with Dr. Avanti:
Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube
Follow Dr. Avanti on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
Get Dr. Avanti’s Weekly Letter: avantikumarsingh.com/join-my-newsletter
Leave a voice message for Dr. Avanti

Resources:
Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you. myarvasi.com
Order Dr. Avanti’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.
Mentioned in this episode:
Come join us at the Weekly Health Rx at weeklyhealthrx.substack.com