Sarita Elizabeth Cox
Origins: I was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, home of Helen Keller, and from earliest childhood instilled with the love of nature and plants. Steeped in the traditional values of the Deep South, I was yet ready to see a different side of the natural world which so fascinated me. My love of nature and interest in living in close alliance with the natural world was nourished in the Colorado Rocky Mountains while a return to Alabama yielded a love of organic vegetable gardening and a path to study health and healing.
Travel: Much as my love of nature lead me to the Rocky Mountains, my love of culture, ethnography and travel lead me to other places around the earth. Interest in living in community, yoga and spirituality led me to California, where I lived in community directing an ayurvedic wellness center and taught in the western medicine department of Five Branches Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I incorporated meditative, reflective and spiritual lifestyle practices and studied with teachers of various eastern traditions. This interest in community, yoga and spirituality ultimately lead me beyond California to India where I was fortunate to work in an orphanage and medical clinic outside Deli. I continue to study Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture in apprentice and discipleship settings with the foremost teachers in the field while working to promote healthcare integration in the south. The teachings, poetry, words and thoughts of masters, mystics, prophets, saviors, saints along with the people, animals, plants and planet I know and continue to learn about have a deep impact on my life.
Professional: As a health care practitioner, I strive to meet patients where they are and engage in a healing journey together. As a teacher and educator, I lecture and write on the subject of wellness and health care. I believe that self-care and development, awareness, evolution and love are the principle techniques that promote health and healing.
Dr. Sarita Elizabeth Cox curriculum vitae
Article on Dr. Cox in Tuscaloosa Magazine
Article on Dr. Cox in Alabama Alumni Magazine
Article on Amethyst Biomat in Planet Weekly
Piglet: How do you spell love?
Pooh: You don't spell it... you feel it. - A.A.Milne
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body. - Plato
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
- Hippocrates
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. - Hippocrates
Health and well –being can be achieved only by remaining centered in spirit, guarding against the squandering of energy, promoting the constant flow of qi and blood, maintaining harmonious balance of yin and yang, adapting to the changing seasonal and yearly macrocosmic influences, and nourishing one’s self preventively. This is the way to a long and happy life. - Neijing
But there is more to life, a higher purpose, which is to know and realize who we are. By knowing who we are, we gain everything. A feeling of complete fullness, with absolutely nothing else to gain in life. That realization makes life perfect. -Mata Amritanandamayi
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- J Krishnamurti
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Dalai Lama XIV
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Naturopathic Doctor Acupuncturist
817 21st Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
205.310.7197
drsaritacox@yahoo.com