Healthy Aging & Longevity Consultant
Midlife is not the beginning of the end. It is the beginning of your prime.
Dr. Alpa Raval, PhD, founded Prime Longevity Wellness for women who are done pushing through exhaustion and ready for a clear, science informed path forward. She doesn't just study healthy aging. She lives it.
PhD in Yoga Therapy
Yoga Alliance Certified Since 2010
MBSR Trained
Published Researcher
Midlife is not the beginning of the end. It is the beginning of your prime, if your body, brain, and nervous system have the support they need.
Dr. Raval works with women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who are done pushing through exhaustion, weight changes, brain fog, anxiety, and invisible stress. You have taken care of everyone else. Now you want a clear, science informed path to take care of yourself, without extremes, guilt, or one more quick fix program that does not last.
Prime Longevity Wellness serves women across Orlando, Winter Park, Lake Nona, and Dr. Phillips, in person and online.
Prime Longevity Wellness serves women across Orlando, Winter Park, Lake Nona, and Dr. Phillips, in person and online.
She doesn't just study healthy aging. She lives it. Dr. Raval is navigating the same midlife transition as her clients, so the guidance is pragmatic, compassionate, and grounded in real life rather than theory.
An Integrative Approach to Healthy Aging and Longevity.
Dr. Alpa Raval is an integrative healthy aging and longevity specialist with over two decades of experience at the intersection of yoga therapy, neuroscience, and lifestyle medicine.
At Prime Longevity Wellness, she helps midlife women:
At Prime Longevity Wellness, she helps midlife women:
Her work blends therapeutic movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and evidence based lifestyle strategies into practical, step by step support that fits into real life.
Why I built Prime Longevity Wellness.
Dr. Raval began her career in finance and accounting, but her life's work shifted when she experienced the deep impact of yoga and mind body practices on her own health. In 2001, she completed her first yoga certification. In the years that followed, she became a yoga therapist and later earned her PhD in the Science of Yoga Therapy, focusing on mental health, recovery, and the nervous system.
Working inside integrative medicine and healthcare settings, she saw two things very clearly.
Working inside integrative medicine and healthcare settings, she saw two things very clearly.
First
The nervous system is the missing link
In both prevention and recovery, the nervous system is where lasting change either takes hold or falls apart.
Second
Midlife women are rarely supported
Midlife women carry enormous emotional, physical, and caregiving loads, and are rarely given comprehensive, compassionate support.
Prime Longevity Wellness was born from a simple question. What if midlife women had access to the same level of science informed care, nervous system support, and therapeutic movement that changes lives in integrative medicine settings, without having to be sick first?
Training, Experience, and Published Work.
Over two decades of study, teaching, and research in yoga therapy, nervous system health, and healthy aging.
Certifications and Training
Practice and Experience
Speaking and Community
Prime Longevity Wellness provides coaching and education. Dr. Raval does not diagnose or treat any medical condition, and this work supports the care you already receive from your own physician.
Published Research in Mental Health and Yoga Therapy.
Dr. Raval has co-authored five peer-reviewed papers on yoga, balance, mental health, and human performance. Her research is available through reputable databases such as PubMed (National Library of Medicine) and ResearchGate.
PubMed indexed · 2021
Yoga as a Novel Adjuvant Therapy for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
International Journal of Yoga · PMID 33840980
Peer reviewed · 2023
A Novel System for Balance Improvement in Elderly for Mobility Enhancement
IRJMETS · Vol 5, Issue 6
Peer reviewed · 2022
Integrative Yoga Therapy for Mental Health
Journal of Yoga, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation · DOI 10.29011/2577-0756.001086
Peer reviewed · 2024
A Review Investigating Applications of Augmented Reality in Skill-based Training and Simulation
Co-authored with Florida Atlantic University
Peer reviewed · 2025
Applying Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Prompt Engineering for Image Recognition of Burmese Pythons
International Journal of Computers
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ResearchGate
How This Approach is Different.
This is not a one size fits all coaching program or a generic yoga class.
Integrative
Dr. Raval draws from yoga therapy, neuroscience, behavior change science, and lifestyle medicine.
Nervous System Led
You work with your autonomic nervous system so that change feels safer and more sustainable, not like another willpower battle.
Midlife Specific
Hormones, bone density, balance, sleep, mood, and cognitive load are addressed in a way that is relevant to women 40 and up.
Evidence Informed
Dr. Raval translates research into simple practices you can actually use, at home, between appointments, and in everyday life.
Compassionate and Practical
No shame, no perfectionism, and no all or nothing. You build a path that honors your season of life.
Not sure where to start?
A short clarity call is the simplest way to find out which kind of support fits the season of life you are in right now.
Who I Work Best With.
Dr. Raval is the right fit if you are a woman who:
You do not need to be flexible, fit, or good at yoga. You simply need to be willing to show up for yourself in a new way.
Live Your Next Decades with More Strength and Ease.
If you are ready to move from just getting through the day to living your next decades with more strength, stability, and inner ease, Dr. Raval would love to support you.
