Ayurveda and Modern Wellbeing: A Science of Life for Contemporary Times

Dr. Akanksha is a BAMS-qualified Ayurvedic practitioner and Wellbeing Artist with 15 years of healthcare experience, currently practising at Harley Street, London and Canterbury. A growing voice for Ayurveda in the UK, she works simultaneously as an NHS Healthcare Management Consultant in digital transformation. She sits on the Executive Committee of the Ayurvedic Practitioners Association UK, is a member of the Ayurveda and Sustainability

Network at King's College London and contributor to its focus group on Ayurveda and Sustainability, and is engaged with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Indian Traditional Sciences. She was invited to the UK Parliament in 2025 on International Ayurveda Day. She holds an MBA in Hospital and Healthcare Management and is studying Brain and Behaviour at Oxford.

Healthcare systems across the modern world are confronting the same realisation simultaneously: that treating illness once it arrives is neither sustainable nor sufficient. Long- term conditions now account for the majority of healthcare burden in every developed country. Governments are redesigning health systems around prevention, personalised care, and community health. And in doing so, they are arriving, step by step, at principles Ayurveda built three thousand years ago. This is not a conversation about the past. It is an argument about the present: that a clinical science encoded in ancient Sanskrit has something specific and urgent to contribute to the most pressing health challenges of our time.