Dr. Usha Peri was born and raised in southern India and joined medical school at a young age of 16 in southern India at the prestigious Osmania medical college. After marriage she moved to Toronto, Canada, and then to Houston, Texas, where she completed her residency in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and her nephrology fellowship at UTSW Dallas. During this phase she had a great interest in reconciling the eastern principles of Ayurveda with western principles of allopathy in helping people heal. After graduation she settled down in the Lewisville, flower- mound area to practice Nephrology and internal medicine for the past 20 years. During this time, she noticed that a lot of the medical ailments that patients presented to her were related to chronic stress to which modern medicine did not have good root cause solutions. At the same time, she saw her practice grow significantly in size. She served in several administrative roles both at her company as well as at her hospitals during this period and gained a management degree in physician leadership from Navin Jindal school of management. Married for 28 years with 2 young adult kids and a dog, she understood the impact of stress at a personal level as well. Around 15 years ago, she came across the SKY breathing techniques taught by the Art of Living Foundation that touched her life profoundly and she felt like she found the perfect tools to deal with chronic stress. She not only practices this every day but now teaches these tools to youth and adults in the community as a pay-forward system on a voluntary basis. With these yoga based tools she feels like she found that holistic practice to health and well-being.