Asha P. Gala, NBC-HWC,
Lifestyle Clinical Director, Ethos Primary Care

Asha Gala, NBC-HWC, is Lifestyle Clinical Director at Ethos Primary Care.  Over the past decade, Asha has worked as a lifestyle coach in New Jersey.  From designing and teaching lifestyle medicine classes, to facilitating support groups for patients healing from chronic illness, to providing one-on-one lifestyle counseling sessions, Asha offers not only professional support, but also personal understanding.

When Asha’s daughter was diagnosed with allergies in 1990, Asha and her husband – a PhD in industrial pharmacy – knew that conventional medicine would not help resolve the issue, but rather, would simply cover up the symptoms. The couple was determined to find a way to identify and heal the root problem. Not long after, Asha purchased a guide to buying and preparing natural foods, with the promise of improving one’s health. The book changed Asha’s life and that of her family – among other things, significantly resolving her daughter’s allergies. Asha then went on a mission to learn everything she could about the connections between diet, lifestyle, and health.

Years later, Asha had become a certified holistic health coach in New Jersey, through the Nutrition Education Institute of Joel Fuhrman MD, a doctor who focuses on reversing disease through nutrition. Asha then attended one of Dr. Weiss’s presentations on the connections between our diet, the health of the body, and the health of the planet, and she felt very much in alignment with Dr. Weiss’s vision and mission. Shortly after, Asha began working as the patient care manager at Ethos Health, deepening her work as a holistic health coach in New Jersey.

Asha became a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR Teacher), Training Level 1, through Brown University’s Mindfulness Center and is qualified to teach MBSR courses. She has also achieved National Board Certification as a Health and Wellness Coach.

In her own life today, Asha incorporates not only a Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diet, but also dance, meditation, music, and hiking, as tools for healthy and harmonious living.