"Vilasi" Vilasavathi Venkatachalam M.Sc., MS, RD

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"Vilasi" Vilasavathi Venkatachalam Quick Facts

Main Areas: Food and Healing, Worshops, Presentations, Product Line Design-Food
Career Focus: Business Owner, Speaker, Speaker, Author, Workshop Delivery
Affiliation: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Solutions

Vilasi Venkatachalam was budding Zoologist and Botanist. Knee-deep in water, collecting star-fish specimens, one day, she realized that she did not want to spend the rest of her life with seaweed between her toes. Under the wise counsel of her Biochemistry Instructor, she got a Masters in Biochemistry.

During her graduate work, she was on a trip to a very poor, rural, tribal belt in West India, testing out nutrition assessment techniques. She was struck by the pointlessness of the exercise, when there no solutions for the stark deficiencies and children suffering from night blindness. That was the beginning of her quest to use food as medicine, especially looking the local, edible vegetation.

She came to the United States to pursue a second masters in Clinical Nutrition and trained as a Registered Dietitian. This was followed by training in Cancer Nutrition funded by the National Cancer Institute at New York Institute of Technology. During her time there, she was also an adjunct instructor teaching Nutritional Biochemistry to undergraduates and dietitians.

In 2008, she founded Ancient Wisdom, Modern Solutions, a company of consultants whose purpose is to bring solutions for health, vitality and longevity. The programs are based on the Science of Food as Medicine and Healing Traditions of our ancestors. They design culturally sensitive educational materials, menus and programs for Healthcare, Corporations, Medical Practices, Wellness Centers and other businesses. They have an extensive professional and community education agenda.

Vilasi is an enthusiastic speaker and teacher whose passion is anthropology, ethnobotany and healing principles of food. She conducts seminars, experiential workshops and immersion programs, and has a private practice.

Her prior experiences include professional and community education; managing nutrition services in hospitals, outpatient and long-term care settings in NY and NJ. She also has extensive experience in program development, grant preparation and the design of culturally sensitive educational materials. Her work has been acknowledged in local and national print media.

Other Programs & Highlights

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Solutions is a company of consultants whose purpose is to bring Solutions for Health, Vitality and Longevity.

Our programs are based on the Science of Food as Medicine and Healing Traditions around the World.

We design and deliver culturally sensitive products, programs and educational materials to Healthcare, Corporations, Physicians and Medical Practices, Non-profits, Community Service Organizations, Wellness Centers and other businesses

Getting Started With "Vilasi" Vilasavathi Venkatachalam

"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