Judith Cash is an Integrative Health Coach, trained at Duke Integrative Medicine. Judith came to health coaching - and created Santosha - after a long and successful career as a nonprofit leader and government executive. She had spent more than 30 years at the helm of local and statewide nonprofit health care organizations, before moving on to senior public service positions in federal government.

Judith is also a long-time registered yoga teacher, committed for more than a decade to helping make yoga accessible for anyone who wants it. Judith has special certifications in prenatal yoga, yoga for kids, yoga for stress and trauma, and yoga for people with chronic pain. She has trained with Seane Corn, Beryl Bender Birch, Judith Hansen Lassiter, Lily Dwyer Begg, Jim and Kimberley Carson, and several other amazing teachers to whom she is deeply grateful. Practicing and teaching yoga, for Judith, fuels the flame, feeds the soul and nourishes the spirit.

Judith has led dynamic non-profit organizations through times of change and has been a senior federal executive at critical times in the history of the nation’s health care system. In these roles, she regularly faced multiple competing priorities, unrealistic deadlines, limited resources, and challenging personnel issues. She created visions and led boards through strategic planning. She resolved conflict; implemented change; raised money; managed operations, staff and budgets; changed policy; and educated senior political officials.

Like so many professional women, Judith is also a sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. And, throughout her career, she regularly heard (and often believed) some version of “career/family/health: choose 2 out of 3.” And, while not charmed by the myth of “everything, all at once,” she really did not want to have to choose. She wanted a vibrant, healthy life with, perhaps not “everything,” but indeed joy and fulfillment, in all three. By developing a clear vision of her optimal healthy self, identifying the really important changes and creating an action plan to make them, she did not have to choose only two. She’d love to help you describe your own healthy self… and get there!