About Dr. Jupiter
How This Work
Found Me.
I am Ajah-Christine Fambo — known to my patients as Dr. Jupiter.
A Vaidya, an Ayurvedic physician. A filmmaker. An author. A mother. And someone this work found long before it had a name.
My friends named me Jupiter out of pure affection. My patients kept the name — because of how a session feels. Why Jupiter? →
The Root
Where This Comes From
I come from a long line of healers and wisdom keepers who sat with people in their suffering and helped them find the divine thread running through it.
As a child, I sat in silence with my grandfather — a guru and healer of many.
This work is rooted in something that arrived before any degree, any training, any credential.
Different sounds. Different centuries. Different continents.
Five names. The same meaning.What the names carry →
The First Calling — Science
Medicine claimed me early.
I thought it was asking me to stay.
The first years of my life were spent on a farm and in the presence of the Divine.
This was my first education — before any school, before any formal tradition, before I had language for what I was experiencing. It taught me that life has a force moving through everything that cannot be measured but can absolutely be felt. That plants carry intelligence. That the body knows things the mind hasn’t caught up to yet.
That knowing has never left. It lives underneath everything else.
Having lived across different countries and moved through different cultures, I eventually found my way to pre-medicine — beginning at George Washington University, where I entered an OB-GYN mentorship with surgical shadowing at George Washington Hospital. I then continued at the University of Maryland, and completed pediatric volunteer work at the National Institutes of Health. Medicine claimed me early. I thought it was asking me to stay.
It was only preparing me.
The Detour That Wasn’t
Storytelling and healing
are the same impulse.
I left premed. I earned an MFA in Film Directing and Writing from CalArts — and discovered that storytelling and healing are the same impulse, reaching toward people through different doors.
I moved to Manhattan. I worked as a video journalist at the United Nations, covering Prime Ministers and world leaders. I learned that the most important things happen not in chambers — but in the quiet interior of a human being trying to understand what they are here for.
I came back to California. I wrote and directed a feature-length film — Conscious Love — originally distributed by Gaia, now available on Amazon Prime. And in that season, I also became a mother.
What Motherhood Taught Me
I Know What It Is
to Receive a Soul.
Before I returned to medicine, I gave my child my full and undivided presence through his earliest years.
What I learned in that season — about how a soul settles into a body, about what a new life draws from the emotional environment it enters, about what it means to show up completely for a being who chose you — is woven into every session I hold now.
I guide my clients not only from clinical knowledge. I guide them from lived experience of this threshold.
I know what it is to receive a soul.
I have come to understand that some souls seek out their parents with intention — because those particular parents carry the specific conditions, the healing, the love, and the readiness that will allow that soul to arrive and bring its gifts fully into the world, for the benefit of all of us.
The soul is also the parent’s teacher. And the parent, the soul’s. The relationship moves in both directions, from the very beginning.
That is what this work prepares.
My film Conscious Love includes a chapter dedicated to parental love and the soul’s conscious arrival into a family. Originally distributed by Gaia, now available on Amazon Prime. Watch on Amazon →
I did not find Ayurveda. It found me — through my own body, through a voice I had spent a lifetime learning to trust.
The Voice That Brought Me Back
The ancient and the modern
are the same truth.
After completing Conscious Love, I heard a voice calling me back to medicine.
I returned to formal study — a Master of Sciences in Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. Concurrently, I sat with multiple Ayurvedic Masters and Gurus across lineages and traditions, earning their certifications in further studies of Ayurvedic medicine. I deepened ancient knowledge alongside modern Western science — neuroscience, genetics, epigenetics — because the ancient and the modern are not opposing languages. They are the same truth, spoken in different centuries.
I healed myself through this medicine first. Then I learned how to offer it to others.
I am also a writer and filmmaker. Writing, for me, is the same work as medicine.
Published
In Editing
The Credentials
A Practitioner Who Holds
the Whole Picture.
Integrative Fertility
Natural Conception · IVF · IUI · Surrogacy
Works alongside your OB-GYN and reproductive endocrinologist for emotional, mental, and physiological wellbeing. “We complete the picture.”
Academic · Ph.D. · M.S.
Academic Foundation
Ph.D. Holistic Fertility & Theology. M.S. Maharishi Ayurveda. Pre-medical at George Washington University and the University of Maryland. OB-GYN mentorship and surgical shadowing at George Washington Hospital. Pediatric volunteer at the National Institutes of Health.
Neurofeedback · EMDR · Trauma
Brain, Mind & Nervous System
Neurofeedback practitioner using brain mapping. Certified EMDR therapist and trauma professional. Peptide therapy consultation. Anti-aging — Modern & Ayurvedic.
Ayurvedic Medicine
Vaidya · R.A.A.P. · Multi-Lineage
Registered Advanced Ayurvedic Practitioner governed by WHO and AYUSH international standards. Further trained and certified by Ayurvedic Masters and Gurus across lineages and traditions.
Author · Filmmaker
Published Works
In Editing
Awakening Life · Healing Through Integration · The Historical Journey of Ayurveda
Expanding · Fall 2026
Embryology & Andrology
Beginning clinical specialty training in embryology and andrology at a leading academic medical center — closing the loop at the cellular level.
The Mission
The soul arriving free.
My life’s work is to protect that arrival — to ensure that when a soul comes into this world, it arrives free of the generational weight that was never its own. Free to walk directly into its dharma.
Everything I have learned — the Vedic medicine, the neuroscience, the epigenetics, the trauma work, the couples work, the film, the writing, the years of full presence with my child — is in service of one thing.
Humanity’s welfare has always been my drive. My love for humanity is woven through everything that I do — one individual at a time.
The Name
Why Jupiter?
My friends named me Jupiter out of pure affection.
My patients kept the name — because of how a session feels.
Men: Mars · Women: Venus · Babies: Jupiter
Three Ways to Begin
There is no wrong door.
Begin Here
This Begins With
a Conversation.
A free 15-minute discovery call. No protocol before anyone has listened. You share where you are. I listen — not to your labs, but to you.
Private practice in Valencia, CA · In-home visits throughout Los Angeles, Orange & Ventura Counties · Telehealth available worldwide
The Science and Soul of Becoming