My Journey to Yoga Therapy

My yoga journey began as a child when I used to go with my mom for yoga courses in Goa, India. Growing up, I also have memories of people doing yoga poses on the beautiful Goa beaches. I vividly remember someone doing Tree pose standing in the waves!!

I graduated as an Architect and at 22 years of age got married and joined my husband in Muscat, Oman. Since then, it has been a roller coaster ride, as we moved pretty much every year to Indonesia, France, Aberdeen, Dubai, Nigeria, Venezuela, Oman, Boston, Houston - along the way learning new languages, cuisines, cultures, having my pregnancies, 2 babies and doing multiple yoga and spiritual courses. Between yearly moves I was lucky to soak into so many good things about the various cultures.

At 27 years of age with 2 little kids was my most spiritual learning year. That year, I was fortunate to get Reiki 1 initiation in Dubai; over the years, this was followed by Reiki 2 in Goa, Reiki 3 in Dubai, and then finally becoming a Reiki Master a few years ago. That same year, thanks to my mom, I did the 3-week Siddha Samadhi yoga course in Goa where I first got initiated into meditation. That was followed by the Art of Living basic course in Oman. Over the years, I was blessed to do 10-15 Art of Living courses including: 3 basic courses, Sahaj meditation course,

3 advanced meditation courses in Guruji Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s presence, teacher public speaking course, Leadership course,

3 Yoga courses, and more.

Of all of the courses, The Sahaj meditation course completely changed me and I felt the grace of God. I have been practicing that meditation regularly for 21 years now and it is magic every time. I can’t express my gratitude, it is overflowing.

I was also blessed to do the Shaktipath from Siddha Yoga (Gurumai- Swamy Chidvilasanad) in Pune with 100 plus people. One of the Kendra for Siddha Yoga in Pune is at my in-laws’ house. Every week, they have Satsang and Guru Geeta there.

Few years ago, I trained to do Chinese massage using aromatherapy and that year I also attained certification as a Hypnotherapist! For 3 years I had the opportunity to do yoga demonstration in Swamy Mukundanada’s Yoga sessions.

In 2015 I did a one year course with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and am a certified health coach .The same year I attended advanced pranayama course, with Swamy Vidhyadhishanand and received initiation from him into the Kriya Laya meditation.

YICC course 2017 with Vyasa was the one of the highlights of my life. With dedicated teachers Vishwaroop ji and Smitha ji and a great group of co students I got my teachers training certificate. It was a very different experience and our group is still so connected.

Yoga, Reiki, and meditation have been a blessing to me and they have been a part of me now for more than 21 years. Every cell in my body is grateful and wondering how I am so lucky to have it all come to me. I sincerely pray that it reaches all the people in this world. It has helped me tremendously while raising my kids, particularly in some of the countries where we lived, which did not have good medical facilities.

My interest in the Yoga Therapy course was because I felt the need to know and understand more of how to apply yoga to help others. I want to gain specific insights into this vast knowledge to be more effective. I feel God has provided me opportunities very easily in life. It is my humble prayer to him that with all that he has given me, others can use it too. I want to learn more and to share this knowledge with others, to help them help themselves.