Rama Pemmaraju Rao MD is a board-certified physician
who specializes in Internal Medicine and Psychiatric Medicine. He is currently assistant clinical professor
at University of Alabama Medical School/Children's Hospital in Psychiatry/Child
Psychiatric Medicine. He also deals
with primary care medical issues as well.
He continues to deepen his process in training and
education in Integrative and Complementary Medicine. His lifelong goal is to bring the best of East and West into the
medical setting, to afford optimal healing.
His ultimate vision is to create a broad new paradigm in health and
medicine through teaching, education, and through the manifestation of new
clinic models that blend the Orient and the Occident.
Dr. Pemmaraju Rao is a native Texan born in San
Antonio, Texas, and whose parents and ancestry are from South India. He has blended the best of East and West in
his life and has seen first-hand issues in the human condition that warrant a
broader outlook and approach to health and healing.
He completed medical training at Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston, TX, and continued residency in Medicine's Psychiatry, and
Child Psychiatry at Baylor Affiliated Hospitals, Harvard Medical School
(Children's Hospital), and Dallas Presbyterian Hospitals.
Dr. Pemmaraju Rao appears regularly on television
and radio for all affiliates in Birmingham, Alabama, on health, healing, and
spirituality.
He has had a lifelong background in Yoga and its
practices. His deepest dream is to
convey the teachings and principles of spirituality and healing inspired by the
ideals of a number of meditation masters he has personally followed throughout
the world.
His original Guru is Swami Satchidananda who is his
most revered personal master and mentor he has known since childhood. Swami Satchidananda is the Guru and founder
of Integral Yoga© who came to the United States in the sixties and whose
teachings are well known throughout the West.
Dr. Pemmaraju Rao's spiritual journey has further
led him to the intimate quest of the heart and the search for the Divine
Mother. In this process, he has been
extremely fortunate to receive the direct energy, guidance, and grace of a
number of different embodiments of the Divine Mother around the world.
These women have included Mother Meera
(Dornberg/Thalheim Germany), * Mata Amritananda (MaCenter/San Ramon, CA), Suma
Ching Hai, Gurumayi ChidvilasanandaTM (Siddha YogaTM
lineage, South Fallsburg, NY), Karunamayi Vijayeshwari (SMVA Trust NY), and
Anandi Ma (Dhyan YogaTM, Antioch, CA).
He is also particularly grateful for the Guidance of
Master Subramaniya of the Saiva Siddhanta San Marga Temple in Kaui, Hawaii.
Dr. Pemmaraju Rao's philosophy of life is that we
are forever growing and learning on the path to enlightenment. He feels there is nothing that is "not
spiritual" if we simply shift our focus, increase our contemplation and
introspection, as well as deepen our insight.
Real spirituality, he feels, is truly being one's Self and accepting
everything about others and ourselves in every given moment. We must be who we are and learn and grow
from wherever we are. One cannot ignore
issues in Psychology 101 and claim to be spiritual. He constantly looks to the enlightened masters as examples of
what we must all become. In fact, he
feels we are already enlightened.
Ultimately everything reveals itself to us in its own time when we
approach and return to God or Source directly within our own beings.
It is a matter of uncovering layer by layer
"that which we are not in order to experience the enlightened
state." Ultimate perfect health is
the experience of enlightenment; everything we do represents our quest for
health and healing through life's journey of Self-Realization and unfolding.