Dr. Raam Pandeya
President & Kayakalpa Master Practitioner
Dr. Raam Pandeya, the President of Kayakalpa Alchemy Foundation, comes from the Siddha Nath lineage of India. Trained from childhood in Vedic and Pre-Vedic sciences, Yoga, and Tantra he has received medical degrees in Ayurveda, Siddha Medicine and Homeopathy.
Leaving academia behind, Dr. Raam spent many years as a wandering sadhu (monk) perfecting his practice of Tantra and Rasa Shastra (Indian Alchemy) After many years spent interacting with prominent yogis, mystics, and medical scholars of his time he introduced ancient Kayakalpa techniques of revitalization to the West in 1979. Since then, he has worked on thousands of people from all walks of life with various health challenges, gaining recognition in the medical community as a groundbreaking and avant-garde practitioner.
Dr. Pandeya has been affiliated with the prestigious Hindi Sahitya Sammelan university of Allahabad India conducting the only Indian authenticated degree courses in Ayurveda available in North America before focusing his energies solely on the training and teaching of Kayakalpa.
Sophia Pandeya
Foundation Director & Lead Kayakalpa Therapist
Sophia Pandeya has been personally trained by Dr. Raam Pandeya and brings 36 years of experience and profound expertise to her Kayakalpa practice. She is currently the Lead Therapist at Kayakalpa Foundation.
Prior to working with Dr. Pandeya she had a background in Shiatsu and reflexology. She has a Vaidya Visharad (Doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine) degree from Hindi Sahitya Sammelan Universty Allahabad India. Sophia has worked on Dr. Pandeya’s documentary film projects as well.
She was the writer and narrator on his documentary “Kayakalpa, Investigating Immortality.” She appears with Dr. Pandeya in the Discovery Channel documentary, “Alternative to Migraines.”
Tara Pandeya
Beauty Alchemist
Tara Catherine Pandeya is a dancer, choreographer, Fulbright scholar and trained dance ethnologist. She is on faculty at Dominican University’s LINES BFA Dance program and serves on Stanford University’s Center for Movement, Medicine & Dance board. A touring alumna of Cirque du Soleil on a five-year global tour, she has also performed with Tajikistan’s National Dance Company and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project. Her movement work has been featured by the BBC and Dance Magazine, and the chief dance critic for the New York Times, Alastair Macaulay, called her “nothing less than electrifying Ms. Pandeya.”
Tara’s expertise in formulating hair and skin care products for Kayakalpa Foundation’s Siddhi Line is informed by her lifelong passion for holistic beauty practices as part of a broader commitment to natural wellness, longevity, and a balanced lifestyle. Shaped by a family lineage of wellness and holistic living through her father, mother, and stepmother, she brings her own lived practice and knowledge of maintaining beauty, hair, and skin health as a daily discipline developed over decades of international touring across 40 countries and extreme climates from Siberian winters to Gulf summers. These experiences include 12-hour performance days in heavy stage makeup and restrictive costuming that placed constant strain on her hair and skin, alongside continuous travel and shifting environments and diets. Through this, she has maintained consistency and care under sustained physical demands, grounding her approach in lived experience and discipline, and reinforcing her belief that health is beauty and beauty is a daily practice.
Kabir Pandeya
Junior Therapist
Kabir Pandeya has been steeped in Kayakalpa since birth, imbibing knowledge as alive practice from his parents Dr. Raam Pandeya and Sophia Pandeya. He began his formal training three years ago after earning his certification as an EMT from Santa Rosa Junior College. He currently practices alongside his mother Sophia Pandeya. Kabir’s passions include permaculture, organic gardening and world cuisine.