Ayurveda Practitioners
Dr. Tanvi Gandhi ND, LAc.
Dr. Tanvi Gandhi is an NCCAOM® certified and CT-Licensed Acupuncturist and has received her doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from the University of Bridgeport.
She started her journey to help people stay healthy by studying Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics as an undergraduate student at UCLA and finished her Research Internship at National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C., where her love for Alternative and Complementary Medicine began. Through her own experiences and working with patients in various clinics and the community, she believes passionately in the ability of the body to heal itself and in the healing power of nature.
Since then, her study has taken her on a path of exploration of both western and eastern holistic therapies to bring her clients powerful healing experiences to enhance overall wellness.
She has done extensive research during her naturopathic thesis to explore the healing effects of Sound and Meditation. Her professional holistic training includes Traditional Chinese Medicine, Meditative Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Japanese Reiki, Craniosacral Therapy, The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® and Ayurvedic Marma Therapy. Dr. Gandhi is certified in Facial Rejuvenation with Virginia Doran. She integrates the above modalities to fit best her patients during her healing sessions. Always seeking the new healing practices for her clients, she continues her training in Ayurveda through American Institute of Vedic Studies. As a child, she grew up with Ayurvedic home remedies and was introduced to Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation and has continued her ongoing journey as a yogini.
Dr. Gandhi is passionate about empowering her patients with tools for self-healing, self-awareness and deep restoration. Whether her clients are looking relief from inflammation, pain, fatigue, energy imbalance, stress or tension relief, or need support in balancing their diet and lifestyle, her powerful techniques combine the best of holistic medicine practices and assist clients on their path to self-healing. She also offers group healing sessions as well as self-care educational and wellness workshops throughout various centers and studios in Fairfield County. She has achieved the certificate of fundamentals of Oncology Acupuncture from Memorial Sloane.
Dr. Gandhi is an active professional member of Connecticut Society of Acupuncturists CSAOM, Mayan Arvigo® International Association MAIA and Student Member of Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America AAPNA. She is on the team for Stamford Health Women's Chronic Pelvic Pain and is an iRest® Level 1 Yoga Nidra Teacher and part of the Teacher's Community Network for the Integrated Restoration Institute. She is also a wellness consultant for Transitional Living Program at the Silver Hill Hospital. Further, she is continuing her education at Columbia Narrative Medicine.
