I became an Ayurvedic Practitioner because I needed one - And because, in a way, I was always going to.
You don't feel like yourself. I know that place intimately.
Ayurveda is not something I discovered. It is something I came home to.
My grandfather was an Ayurvedic practitioner in India. My grandmother managed his clinic. This wisdom has been in my family for three generations — long before I was born, long before I knew I would need it.
And yet it took moving to California, building a career as an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley, raising two sons, and being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis at 39 for me to finally find my way back to what was always there.
Sometimes the path home is the longest one.
In 2010 my diagnosis terrified me. I searched online and the screen filled with images of deformed joints. I was told I would need lifelong medication. I followed my doctor’s guidance — and I still do when I need to.
But having a diagnosis and truly understanding my own body turned out to be two completely different things.
That same year I found my way back to Ayurveda and yoga. Slowly — skeptically at first — something shifted. Not just in my body. In my understanding of my body. I began to learn its language for the first time. I understood my triggers. I recognized my early signals. I stopped being blindsided by my own biology.
Seven years after my diagnosis I stood at Changla Pass in India — 17,688 feet above sea level, one of the highest motorable passes in the world. My doctor had anticipated a decline in my quality of life.
I was standing on a mountain, breathing thin air, completely alive.
That was the moment I knew this was not just my story to keep.
I spent years as a Silicon Valley engineer — precise, analytical, problem-solving. I brought that same precision to understanding Ayurveda. And I noticed something.
The women who came to me were not lacking information. They were not lacking effort or discipline or willpower. What they were missing was a framework built specifically for their body — not a generic body, theirs.
So I developed The Ayu Method. A 3-month personalized program that gives women what conventional medicine was never designed to provide — a deep understanding of their own constitution, their own patterns, their own body’s language.
Not instead of the care they are already receiving. Alongside it.
Conventional medicine gave me answers. Ayurveda gave me understanding. They are not opposites — they are partners. And that is exactly how I work.
I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from MNNIT Allahabad and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. I spent 15 years as a Product Engineer in Silicon Valley.
I am a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner (CAP) through the Southern California University of Health Sciences — graduated 2024. I am NAMA certified as an Ayurvedic Health Counselor since 2019. I am a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200) — trained in both India and the United States.
I am also the author of The Power Within: A Journey of Courage, Healing, and Empowerment — a memoir about rebuilding your life from the inside out.
I live and practice in Encinitas, California — by the Pacific Ocean, by choice, finally.
If you are a woman living in the grey zone — somewhere between ‘I don’t feel good’ and an actual diagnosis — I want you to know: your body is not broken. It has been communicating with you this whole time.
I created a path back for women who have stopped feeling like themselves.
I would be honored to walk it with you.
What others say about working with Manjul:
If you are looking for an excellent health care practitioner, may I warmly recommend the Ayurvedic approach of Manjul Mishra. She blends updated medical knowledge in her practice with the best of the past. As a practitioner, she reigns supreme in her persona: knowledgeable, warm, caring, empathic, unhurried, and genuine. My experience with her was a memorable one.”
— Dr. Anthony Stachurski, Professor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Power Within — A Memoir
The Power Within is a memoir about rebuilding your life from the inside out — after an RA diagnosis, after years of putting yourself last, after deciding that this is not just how life feels now. It is the story behind The Ayu Method. And it might be the most honest thing I have ever written.