Dr. David Williams has always been fascinated with the concepts of wellness, transformation, and meaning in life. After undergraduate studies at Colgate University, where he studied science, philosophy, and religion, and before medical school at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, he took a year to travel through Asia, concentrating on India and Nepal. Initially drawn there by the lure of the Himalayas, David was soon was entranced by the people, culture, and the path of yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine). He entered into Western medicine with the hope of one day being able to integrate the best of modern allopathic medicine with the principles of holistic medicine. Dr. Williams believes that the healing and transformative process comes from within when we are able to find balance and connect ourselves to the healing forces of nature, love, and spirit. In medical school David studied for a period under Dr. Andrew Weil, a pioneer of Integrative Medicine, at the University of Arizona. He then did his residency in Family Medicine in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he continued to learn and use holistic medicine, working with several doctors of Functional Medicine.
After residency, David focused his time studying and incorporating Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine into his practice of medicine as a Hospitalist in Northwest Connecticut. He became certified in Integrative Medicine under the Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine in 2009. He formally studied Ayurveda at the Kripalu Center in the Berkshire mountains, and was there certified as an Ayurvedic Practitioner. David has continued to travel to India where he has expanded his studies in Ayurveda at the Himalayan Institute, Punarnava Ayurvedic, and The Ayurvedic Yoga Retreat. David has been a visiting doctor at the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California where he performed Ayurvedic consultations for the participants in their programs. Dr. Williams moved to Maui in 2010 with his family in order to provide a nurturing environment for them to grow and has been planning on how to bring the Ayurvedic principles of wellness, balance, and bliss to the island.