Prof. Mala Kapadia will join Dr. Claudia Welch and the Menopause Chronicles community for a rich, grounded conversation on vānaprastha and sannyāsa—the later āśrama stages that frame the second half of life in the Indian tradition. Joining from her Ayurvedic eco-village home in South India, Mala will reflect on how our engagement with the world transforms as we age. Work, family, and service may continue, but our orientation toward them often shifts.

Mala brings a wealth of insight drawn from decades of scholarship, practice, and deep integration of ancient Indian wisdom. Her recent publication, Sukha Sutra: An Indic Wellbeing and Happiness Guide for Flourishing, is being adapted into Higher Education curriculum in India. As Director of the Anaadi Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems and a leading voice in wellbeing and sustainability through indigenous psychology, she has inspired many with her compassionate, intellectually rigorous approach to personal and planetary flourishing.

In this session, she’ll share her own journey—how community involvement, academic pursuits, and service have evolved in her later years, and what these changes reveal about responsibility, contribution, and meaning. This is a rare opportunity to listen in on a dialogue that bridges personal narrative with cultural insight.

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