Sonal Taylor, MD
Rasayanawellness.net | 828-458-7576

My name is Sonal Shah Taylor MD.  I am a trained and boarded internal medicine physician.  I started my career with heart failure research then ultimately did 12 years of Hospitalist work.  During this time, I specialized in heart failure, critical care, diabetes and orthopedics.  I began training in functional medicine in 2010 when I contracted a severe bowel illness in Ecuador.  Ultimately, I diagnosed myself with small intestine bacterial overgrowth and treated myself successfully.  I am also licensed in American Integrative and Holistic Medicine.  I truly believe in root cause medicine rather than treating symptoms.  This first led me to functional medicine and then eventually to Siddha medicine.  I have started my training in Siddha Varmam technique with Pal Pandian in Tiruvinamallai in India.  This path is a complete path on its own for healing and addresses the body as a complex system of energy flows.  

I also have special interests in vitality and end of life care.  I did several years of end of life care in the hospital as well as ethics training for the chronic and terminally ill patients.  

I am trained in MDMA for PTSD through the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies.  I am deeply passionate about healing trauma as a bridge to help with treating long standing chronic diseases.  

I have been trained in mind body medicine techniques.  I am long-term meditator and find that my spiritual practice not only grounds me, elevates me and also helps me apply my healing in the best way possible.  I recently had the opportunity to do medical rescue for a spiritual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash which is at 17,500 feet.  

I also am a cofounder of a nonprofit to help children in the suicide spectrum on the Pine Ridge Reservation.  The name of the organization is Wakanyeja, Lakota word meaning children are sacred.  have worked for many years at the free clinics and have done relief work in Haiti.  I have a lifelong passion to serve others and passionate about helping the underserved.  I am also on the board for open path, an organization allowing access for affordable psychotherapy.