More on my journey as a Yoga teacher

Born and raised in India, I feel intrinsically connected to Indian culture. Pursuing a path of spiritual evolution while unlearning cultural conditioning and yet holding an affinity for my homeland, is no small feat. I realized early in my adulthood that the various...

Online presence: Creating my first website.

In our interconnected world, online presence is no longer a choice but a necessity. However, putting myself on the World Wide Web was daunting for someone like me, a private person by nature. The fear of vulnerability, the risk of being hacked, the constant need for...

Minimalism

When I first heard the term minimalism, it sounded like a performative lifestyle choice made by people who had loads of money and cared for the earth, too, so they made a massive compromise to own fewer things. Only the few things they owned were worth more than...

Discovering my Mantra

Growing up life was not easy, I was an anxious kid, I just didn’t know I was anxious and mistook it for a bad personality. It felt like I was monitored, criticized, and disliked all the time. I lived outside my body watching over my shoulders and in the dark...

Meditation

What is meditation? It is the state of being in the here and now i.e. the present. Being in the present moment is a very hard exercise for me. My mind is always pre-occupied with the list of things I have to accomplish before the day ends. I wake up with a list in my...

Finding my space in the community

I came across a recent study on Yoga practice in the US, it was a worldwide study and survey. I focused on the insights from the study in the US. The findings did not surprise me. The study states that women of color form anywhere between 5 to 15 % of the community....