FLO Lucknow, under the leadership of Chairperson Ms. Simran Sahni, hosted an unforgettable evening, “Mind, Body and the Soul of India,” at Hotel Taj Mahal. It was not just a wellness talk; it was closer to a civilisational conversation: about who we are, what we have always known about health, and why so many of us are only now finding our way back to it.
The evening brought together two institutional pillars — Shri Sudhanshu Trivedi, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, whose parliamentary voice gave the session national significance, and ApolloMedics Hospitals Lucknow, represented by MD & CEO, Dr. Mayank Somani, whose medical leadership added clinical authority. ApolloMedics’ involvement reinforced FLO Lucknow’s growing partnership with one of the city’s most trusted healthcare institutions.
Shri Sudhanshu Trivedi opened as the keynote speaker with an address that set the tone immediately. He spoke about India not as a country with a wellness tradition, but as a civilisation that was built on one, where the integration of mind, body, and spirit was not a lifestyle choice but a foundational understanding of what it means to live well.
His argument was not sentimental. He drew lines from ancient texts to present-day science, from cultural practice to clinical outcome, building a case that India’s approach to holistic living is not something to be recovered from the past but recognised as still alive, still relevant, and still
offering something the modern world is actively searching for.
On the other hand, Dr. Mayank Somani took the baton from there and brought it into the hospital. As the head of ApolloMedics Lucknow, he sees daily what happens when the mind-body connection breaks down — and he spoke about that with the directness of a clinician who has run out of patience for the separation between mental and physical health in how medicine is practiced and experienced.
His session gave members a medical framework for what Shri Trivedi had articulated philosophically — and the two perspectives together created something neither could have achieved alone.
Key Takeaways
- Shri Sudhanshu Trivedi’s keynote reframed India’s civilisational wisdom as a living, clinically relevant framework — not heritage to be preserved, but insight to be applied.
- Dr. Mayank Somani bridged ancient Indian philosophy and contemporary medicine with the authority of a clinician who treats the consequences of ignoring this connection every day
- The mind-body relationship is not a wellness trend — it is a medical reality, and India’s traditions understood it long before modern science confirmed it.
- Personal wellness and national identity are not separate conversations — a woman who is whole in mind, body, and spirit contributes differently to everything around her.
- Bringing a parliamentarian and a hospital CEO onto the same platform created an intellectual dialogue that members described as genuinely unlike anything they had attended before
- 180+ members experienced a session that demanded reflection, not just reception — the kind of event that changes how people think, not just how they feel for an hour.
- India’s holistic approach to living — integrating the physical, mental, and spiritual — offers a framework for wellbeing that modern healthcare is increasingly validating.
- A healthy woman is not just a personal asset — she is a social and civilisational one, and FLO’s commitment to member wellness reflects that understanding.
- The Health, Wellness & Life Skills Committee continues to raise the intellectual bar for what wellness programming within a professional organisation can and should look like.
- Mind, Body and the Soul of India closed FLO Lucknow’s May programming on a note of depth and meaning — a reminder that the most important investment a woman can make is in understanding herself fully.
Impact & Outcome
180+ FLO Lucknow members gathered for an enlightening session, Mind, Body, and the Soul of India. It promised something substantial and delivered it. Members left Hotel Taj Mahal that evening carrying the particular weight of a session that had asked something of them — not just their attention, but their reflection.
A healthy woman, both speakers had suggested in their different ways, is not just good for herself. She is the foundation of something much larger. That idea, once heard properly, does not leave quickly.