Who You Are Becoming
You are stepping out of the role of a standard practitioner managing isolated symptoms and into your authority as an architect of deep, integrated recovery. By bridging clinical rigorousness with somatic intelligence and systemic care, you become the grounding presence your patients need to fully heal—moving from an observer of chronic patterns to a guide who facilitates true, baseline transformation.
Who this is for
You are someone who has built real expertise. And who knows, quietly, that expertise alone is not enough.
You may be a clinician who has started recommending things that are not in the guidelines. A practitioner who reads the neuroscience and recognises what you have always felt in the room. An educator who knows the curriculum needs to change. A leader who senses that the future of health looks nothing like its past.
Honoring clinical rigor. Expanding the architecture of healing.
And you are ready for the conversation that matches the complexity you already live inside.
Why this Conversation Matters
We are the most medicated generation in history.
And yet, chronic disease continues to rise.
Burnout among health professionals is increasing. Stress-related, autoimmune and metabolic conditions are increasingly common. Hormonal dysregulation is no longer rare.
Pharmacology saves lives. Acute care is indispensable. Yet symptom management alone does not resolve complexity.
The question is not whether medicine works. It is whether medication alone is enough.
Not a Medical Failure,
An Educational Gap
Bindu Institute was founded to address that gap.
Pills can suppress symptoms, interrupt acute pathology, and stabilize crisis. But they cannot cultivate coherence, emotional literacy, or relational intelligence — nor build nervous system resilience or anchor meaning.
Sustainable health depends on human capacities: presence, self-regulation, relational safety, systems awareness, embodied literacy. These are not soft skills. They are upstream determinants of health.
This is not an indictment of medicine. It is a recognition of fragmentation.
The Experience
This is not a conference session. It is an interactive, shared arena where your clinical edge meets a container of deep mutual recognition. Inside the MindValley University community, you are surrounded by a tribe of global leaders, practitioners, and systems change-makers who carry the exact same questions and longings you do. Here, you don't have to leave your deep wisdom at the door to be scientific; you finally find the collective belonging of peers who speak both languages fluently.
WPAE Tallinn brings a small, carefully convened group together for a live moderated roundtable: an evidence-informed peer conversation about what health requires when pills are not enough.
The Roundtable
A facilitated peer dialogue across health disciplines, exploring:
- Where pharmacology is essential — and where it reaches its limits
- The intersection of science, somatics, education, and wisdom traditions
- What future practitioners must be fluent in
- How whole-person care works in practice across different clinical context.
Followed by open dialogue and audience engagement.
Pathways & Closing
The program concludes with an interactive exploration of actionable next steps for your practice, followed by an open Q&A and networking session.
- Clinical Ecosystem Mapping Checklist:
Audit your current client intake and assessment practices to track chronic patterns across emotional, structural, and physiological baselines. - Somatic Resourcing Framework:
Implement two core somatic co-regulation tools into standard acute clinical sessions to immediately settle nervous system dysregulation. - Interdisciplinary Collaborative Network:
Connect with local and global systems leaders during the closing circle to establish permanent peer consultation and clinical referral pipelines.
Reserve your Space
Meet the Panel
Our invited speakers are physicians, somatic practitioners, and therapists who have already crossed the threshold from fragmented care to integrated systems thinking. But this table is intentionally circular. As they share their clinical and systemic frameworks, you are invited to cross that exact same threshold alongside them. This session is designed to break the barrier between expert and audience, calling forward your own lived clinical experiences, frustrations, and insights so that we can collaboratively map out the next architecture of health.
Suzanne Faith, PhD
Bindu Institute, Co-Founder, Chairwoman & CCO (Curriculum)
Moderator
With over 30 years of experience at the intersection of health, education, and human development, Suzanne holds a PhD in Counselling Psychology with foundations in Educational Psychology and Business. She has served as a university professor, clinician, and meditation facilitator and has co-founded innovative schools and learning communities across North America and Europe.
As a therapist specializing in somatic approaches and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, she supports individuals, families, communities and companies in cultivating resilience, and the inner capacities to thrive. She works with schools and organizations to design pedagogical frameworks and curricula that place emotional intelligence, wellbeing, and human flourishing at the heart of their vision.
Integrating evidence-based research with contemplative and wisdom traditions, Suzanne sees education and healing as pathways for expansion and authentic growth. Her leadership blends science, embodied wisdom, and visionary education to help people, communities, and organizations flourish.
LinkedIn: @Suzanne Faith Slocum, PhD
Instagram: @suzannefaithhealth
Website: www.suzannefaith.com
Jaini Shah
Founder of Eat Better. Think Better. Certified Rapid Transformational Therapist. WILDFIT Coach.
Jaini Shah is a health coach and educator who believes real change starts from the inside out. After navigating her own health journey with Hashimotos, learning to listen to her body, question the noise, and find clarity through food and mindset, she turned that lived experience into a calling. She's not here to tell you what to do. She's here to ask better questions alongside you.
Instagram: @eatbetter_thinkbetter, @mizz_jaini
Website: eatbetterthinkbetter.com
LinkedIn: @Jaini Shah
Maarten Huisman
Bodywork Collective / Human Garage · fascial work & embodied transformation
Maarten Huisman is a Human Garage Fascial Maneuver coach and a guide for embodied transformation. After fourteen years of burnout, having tried everything except antidepressants, he found that the shift came from embracing a whole new paradigm on life.
Instagram: @maarten_huisman, @bodywork_collective
Website: bodywork-collective.com
Dr. Antonia Tardue-Breiter
ENT, phoniatrics & MBSR
Dr. Antonia Tardue-Breiter studied Medicine and Music in Vienna, where she also earned a bachelor's degree in classical singing. Her time at the music university was what first led her to the body-mind-soul connection, since singing is vibration and can only unfold when those three are aligned, and her experience as a singer later shaped how she works with voice patients. As a young student, an accident left her without her voice for a time and introduced her to mind-body practices such as yoga and Feldenkrais, which motivated her medical doctoral thesis on posture and functional voice disorders in professional singers. During her ENT residency in Switzerland she took a course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) that had a profound impact on how she practises medicine, and she went on to become an MBSR teacher herself. Her desire is to bring mindfulness into medicine by teaching physicians and other healthcare practitioners, and to help create spaces that support the healing process in a more holistic way, which, she believes, has to begin from within.
Website: www.drtardue.com
Dr. Ann-Katrin Fritz
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital · pain, neuromodulation & anaesthesia
Dr. Ann-Katrin Fritz is a Senior Consultant Anaesthetist and Pain Medicine Specialist at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, with subspecialties in neuromodulation, ultrasound-guided intervention and pelvic pain. Over the years she has become increasingly convinced that treating illness is not enough, and that health has to be actively promoted, not just restored. That belief took her beyond conventional medicine into training as a hypnotherapist and Holobody health and lifestyle coach, so she could offer patients tools for sleep, metabolic health, hormones and mindset alongside their clinical care. She is currently setting up a private pain practice and building an educational platform to teach AI skills to fellow medics, because she believes the next generation of practitioners needs both better clinical tools and better ways of thinking about the whole patient. Her work sits at the intersection of rigorous evidence and genuinely holistic care, two things she does not believe should ever have been separated.
LinkedIn: @Ann-Katrin Fritz
Arnoud Demeyer
Revive DNA · longevity, genomics & biohacking
Arnoud Demeyer is a biomedical explorer, founder, speaker and longevity and genomics consultant based in Belgium. A certified Integrative Longevity and Biohacking Coach, he works with the relationship between body, mind, identity and consciousness, helping people move from self-care and optimisation toward self-actualisation and deeper questions of purpose and being. He calls this work Thrivespan, the inner game of a long life: the quality of being that becomes possible when biology, identity, consciousness, time and nervous system coherence come into more conscious balance, when achievement becomes wisdom and optimisation becomes integration. As a nutrigenomics researcher and consultant at Revive DNA, he also helps health, longevity and functional medicine companies build more personalised client journeys by integrating genetics, biomarkers, wearable data and health metrics into a fuller human picture, always beginning from a single question: what does this person really want?
LinkedIn: @Arnoud Demeyer
Alesha Carmela Prosperini Cumpton
Co-Founder & CEO, Bindu Institute of Wellbeing Science
Alesha Cumpton is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bindu Institute of Wellbeing Science, and the architect behind Bindu's three-part regenerative ecosystem integrating graduate education, organisational wellbeing, and an AI-powered learning platform. Trained as an industrial engineer at Arizona State University and holding an MBA from IMD Lausanne, Alesha bridges systems thinking, embodied leadership, and integrative health in everything she builds. An 800-hour certified yoga teacher, ceremonialist, and embodied practitioner, she has spent two decades at the intersection of neuroscience, ritual, and institutional design. She leads with the belief that reclaiming wholeness is both a personal and a collective act - and that education is the most powerful lever for systemic health transformation.
LinkedIn: @Alesha Carmela Prosperini Cumpton
Instagram: @aleshacarmela
Website: www.aleshacarmela.com
Be Part of the Conversation
When Pills Are Not Enough
A Live Roundtable on the Future of Holistic Health
July 29, 2026 · 6:00pm CET · Tallinn, Estonia · In person at MindValley University (MVU)
When Pills Are Not Enough brings clinicians, therapists, somatic practitioners, and holistic educators into one room to examine where conventional medicine is indispensable, where it reaches its limits, and what a more holistic model of care actually requires. We're looking for panelists who can hold that complexity - evidence-informed, tradition-literate, and honest about both.
If that's the conversation you want to be part of, we'd love to hear from you.
When Pills Are Not Enough
July 29th 2026 · 6:00pm CET · Park Inn Tribe Nest · Tallinn, Estonia · MindValley U
