Centre for Ayurvedic Mind- Body medicine situated at 57 Belvedere Road, Claremont, Cape Town. For Ayurvedic consultations with Dr. Suresh Vassen, information on our herbal healthcare products and beauty and skin care products call us on 021 6710307. Office hours is 8.30-4pm Monday to Saturday.Closed public holidays.

In his early days of practicing medicine, Dr Vassen noticed something peculiar: while patients were being prescribed medication for their ailments, few seemed to be improving. This led Dr Vassen down the path of integrative and complementary therapies, looking for the root cause of illnesses and combining traditional medicine with nutritional and lifestyle options to treating disease.

Today, Dr Vassen is the medical director of PRANA Medicine, which he founded. He has become renowned for his whole-person approach to treating disease.

Highlights

• Director and Founder of PRANA Centre of Wellbeing in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Medical Practitioner in Private Practice for over 25 years, incorporating community based practices.
• Lecturer / Trainer in Human Excellence, Life Coaching, Yoga Practice & Philosophy and Integrated Health for both Children and Adults.

Key Attributes

• Integrative health and wellbeing
• Collaborative approach
• Holistic world view
• Community and Social Responsibility
• Empathetic
• Humane
• Inspiring
• Compassionate

Dr Suresh Vassen provides an integrative approach to health and wellbeing for his patients, integrating Ayurvedic medicine, Yoga, Meditation and Self-Awareness. His primary focus is assessing the patient and disease holistically and integrating the physical body, senses, mind, energy and environment so that the innate healing response is strengthened optimally and sustainably. Dr Vassen is an Integrative Medical Doctor in private practice in Cape Town, South Africa. He qualified in 1986 with a medical degree from the University of Cape Town. He thereafter completed studies in Homeopathy, Ayurvedic Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. This led him to gain deep insight into the origin of illness and disease, thereby treating the patient that has the disease and not just the disease inflicting the patient. As complementary and alternative medicine continues becoming more mainstream, there’s no doubt that you’ll see more functional doctors in medical practices.

Dr Vassen’s approach to health care, is an approach characterized by a high degree of collaboration and communication among health professionals. What makes integrated health care unique is the sharing of information among others related to patient care and the establishment of a comprehensive treatment plan to address the biological, psychological and social needs of the patient. Dr Vassen collaborates and shares through regular lectures and facilitates workshops on Optimum Mind-Body Health, Integrated Living, Leadership and Human Excellence for both children and adults.

Previous lectures’ subject matter include:

Nutrition: Food as Medicine.

Perfect Weight Programmes.

Eliminating Toxins and maintaining healthy gut and digestion.

Enhancing Energy and Vitality and growing healthier with Ageing.

Overcoming Stress effortlessly.

Attaining Deep Relaxation response and Restful Sleep.

Understanding the heart of Heart disease.

Managing the Addictive mind.

Neuro-muscular and Neuro-respiratory integration exercises.

Maintaining a Youthful and Vital Mindset.

A Purposeful Life

Universal Philosophy of Money and Wealth

Ayurvedic head and body oleation massage therapies by skilled ayurvedic technicians

Yoga, breathing and meditation advice for individual constitution and imbalances

Ayurvedic medical consultations and pulse diagnoses for individualised treatments

Full range of high quality ayurvedic herbal remedies, facial and skincare products

Panchakarma programmes for deep cellular detoxification and rejuvenation

Ayurvedic perfect weight programmes

Perfect Health and Human Excellence lectures, courses and workshops

Dr Suresh Vassen

Qualification: MB.,ChB.(UCT), CED Homeopathy(France), Dip Ayur.(SAAMA), Dip Acup.(SA)

Practice Number: 1490745

Summary:

During the initial years of practicing medicine, Dr. Vassen experienced a lack of fulfillment and discontent when treating patients using conventional allopathic medicine, relieving symptoms only and not really improving the patient’s general well-being and quality of life. This lead him to the exploration and study of Ayurvedic medicine, Acupuncture and Homeopathy. He found great enthusiasm, delight and satisfaction in integrating conventional medicine with these natural modalities of healing. Integrative health and medical doctor focusing on the whole person, addressing health concerns from a physical, emotional, energy and spiritual perspective. Dr Vassen provides a caring individualized approach to develop a personalized prescription that will guide the patient on a course to health and well-being. When there is a medical illness that is influenced and triggered by the person’s perceptions, interpretations, attitudes or lifestyle choices, an integrative medical consultation can help the patient become an active and empowered partner of the healing process. The best use of an integrative doctor’s knowledge is to teach and guide patients how to heal themselves. Health is not simply the absence of disease, but a state of higher awareness that opens us to greater well-being, creativity, and joy. The role of a doctor is to support people in restoring health and balance in their lives and to educate patients to make healing choices for themselves.

The body and mind are inseparably connected. Both negative and positive thoughts, along with our deepest desires, create simultaneous physical reactions in the body. All of the healing traditions offer valuable tools, and the best treatment is one that uses the correct tool for the task at hand, including the practices of both conventional and complementary medicine.

Dr Suresh Vassen provides an integrative approach to health and wellbeing for his patients, integrating Ayurvedic medicine, Yoga, Meditation and Self-Awareness. His primary focus is assessing the patient and disease holistically and integrating the physical body, senses, mind, energy and environment so that the innate healing response is strengthened optimally and sustainably. Dr Vassen is an Integrative Medical Doctor in private practice in Cape Town, South Africa. He qualified in 1986 with a medical degree from the University of Cape Town. He thereafter completed studies in Homeopathy, Ayurvedic Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. This led him to gain deep insight into the origin of illness and disease, thereby treating the patient that has the disease and not just the disease inflicting the patient. As complementary and alternative medicine continues becoming more mainstream, there’s no doubt that you’ll see more functional doctors in medical practices. Dr Vassen’s approach to health care, is an approach characterized by a high degree of collaboration and communication among health professionals. What makes integrated health care unique is the sharing of information among others related to patient care and the establishment of a comprehensive treatment plan to address the biological, psychological and social needs of the patient.

Dr Vassen collaborates and shares through regular lectures and facilitates workshops on Optimum Mind-Body Health, Integrated Living, Leadership and Human Excellence for both children and adults.

Today, Dr Vassen is the medical director of PRANA Medicine, which he founded. He has become renowned for his whole-person approach to treating disease.