Dr. Deepthi Sudhakar, M.D.
Interventional Cardiologist · Yoga Instructor · Wellness Director
The Cardiologist
The heart, as practice
At Rich Routines, Dr. Deepthi Sudhakar leads the heart-opening meditation that closes the golden hour. A rare thirty minutes led by a working interventional cardiologist — grounded in the science of the heart and the discipline of stillness.
Practice
Interventional Cardiologist
Sharp & Scripps Health
Leadership
Director of Wellness
ACC California Chapter
Training
Certified Yoga Instructor
Meditation & Mindfulness
Dr. Sudhakar practices interventional cardiology at Sharp and Scripps Health — a specialty where seconds matter and stillness is the rarest luxury. She also serves as the Director of Wellness for the California chapter of the American College of Cardiology, leading meditation and mindfulness initiatives for medical staff and community groups.
Her work sits at the intersection of two things most people keep apart: the clinical understanding of the heart, and the ancient practice of steadying it. She is a certified yoga instructor whose teaching integrates cardiovascular physiology, breath regulation, and embodied presence.
— Deepthi Sudhakar, M.D.
- ✦ Nervous-system regulation grounded in cardiac science
- ✦ Breath & heart-rate variability practices
- ✦ Guided stillness for high-performing minds
- ✦ Mindfulness rooted in embodied medicine
In the room
Guided stillness, backed by science
Deepthi's meditations are held in the language of the body — the vagus nerve, the parasympathetic response, the coherence between breath and heartbeat. She teaches what she knows firsthand as a cardiologist: that the heart responds to attention.
Expect a thirty-minute guided practice, a singing bowl or two, and the kind of grounded presence that only comes from someone who has stood at the edge of the ICU and still made time for stillness.
What She Teaches
“The heart is not a metaphor. It is a muscle, an organ, a rhythm — and it responds, measurably, to how we treat it.”
“Mindfulness is not soft. It is one of the most precise interventions we have for the nervous system. It just doesn't come in a syringe.”
“My patients don't need more information about their hearts. They need a felt experience of what a calm one feels like.”
“I bring meditation into the medical spaces I work in because I've seen what it changes — in the staff, in the patients, in the room itself.”
The invitation
She stole my heart
Deepthi guided a heart-opening meditation for a Consortium Holdings private members club I'm a part of in San Diego. I fell in love instantly and I knew she was someone I wanted to always keep close.
I don't usually speak up in rooms, but she radiates this energy that makes you excited to participate in the world.
— Eva, founder of Rich Routines
