Dr. Jade Martinez, AyD, PKS, RYT-500

Green Door Holistics, LLC
Purpose
To provide the tools needed to take control of one’s own state of health and well-being.
To be a conduit through which the wisdom of Ayurveda flows.
To be the witness to celebrate the alignment of one’s True Self.
To be a companion on the Journey of Life via the path of Ayurveda.

Mission
To educate. To guide. To empower. To inspire.

The Story - It began with a heart attack

(or what everyone thought was a heart attack)
Jade was working 50-60 hours per week as an Accountant and Government Compliance Manager at a large company. He was married, had three small kids, and commuting to work one hour each way. He and his wife had just bought their first house. He was also traveling back-and-forth from Dallas/Fort Worth to London, UK to help onboard a new business acquisition.

One day, while Jade was at his desk, a sharp pain began to radiate up his left arm. He felt dizzy and out of sorts. The pain began to travel up his arm and to his neck. IT’S TIME TO GO TO THE ER!

While in the emergency room, Jade suffered two grand mal seizures. After many tests, the possibility of a heart attack was ruled out. Although, the seizures left him with facial tics and the loss of feeling on one side of his entire body. He underwent many tests: MRIs, CAT scans, stress tests, brain mapping, seizure studies, sonograms of his heart and arteries, blood work … . The only thing all those tests revealed was that he had higher than normal blood pressure and high cholesterol.

During the course of recovery, Jade saw four neurologists. Each one was baffled and could not provide an explanation of what caused the massive seizures. More tests were ordered. In the end, the doctors could only prescribe various [precautionary] medications; All of which had terrible side effects. The neurologists wanted to diagnose Jade with epilepsy. This wasn’t acceptable to Jade. Plus, this diagnosis would prevent him from working! His driver’s license would be revoked. He wouldn’t be able to fly on an airplane to the UK. If this wasn’t bad enough, the final straw was when his wife told him that she had enough. The medication was altering Jade’s mood. He became aggressive and intolerable. After some research, it was discovered that one of the medications is nicknamed “The Divorce Drug”. His life was falling apart in the blink of an eye. He asked his doctor to wait on the official diagnosis, to pause the medication, and to give him time to sort things out. Reluctantly, the doctor agreed.

It was divine intervention. You know how it goes: A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend … that lead Jade to his first yoga studio. The studio was offering a course in “Food and Visualization”. Jade had never stepped foot in a yoga studio before. He was surrounded by people he had never met and was uncomfortable. It was in this class that the word “Ayurveda” came up. “What is that?!” he thought. “It’s a form of alternative / holistic medicine.” explained the teacher. This sparked Jade’s curiosity and he wanted to learn more.

Jade enrolled into the California College of Ayurveda. It was an introductory course, but it provided him with the opportunity to find a practitioner that the college referred him to. He met with his practitioner regularly. She taught him 3 important things that changed his life: 1) What to eat for his unique body-type, 2) Use herbal therapy (which the practitioner formulated for him), and 3) How to meditate. Jade stuck to the plan and things started to shift. The tics occurred less frequently. Feeling started to come back. Where allopathic medicine failed, Ayurveda showed promise.

Course after course, year after year, Jade continued his studies in Ayurveda. He fully recovered and became the healthiest he had been in a long while. Even his blood pressure and cholesterol came back to “normal” levels! Doctors were shocked. Jade knew what he had to do: Share the wisdom and knowledge of Ayurveda with his family, friends, and community.