Born in India to a loving family, I had an interesting childhood with diverse experiences and challenges galore. Looking back I realise there were three things taking root within my mind at that young age
- That there is more to human life – there are mysteries about the human mind and the process of life which no one around me seemed to have the answers for
- Most people seemed unhappy. I could also sense a lot of fighting and friction over money in the world at large.
- I felt like a misfit despite the fact that I looked like an extrovert to most people. Yup, that was me!
Education ( as it was in conventional schools) made no sense to me, the world of adults looked like a bleak stressed world. I was lost. Dance and public speaking helped me find my inner expression in a world that increasingly felt disapproving and distant to me.
The world around me felt aggressive, hostile, and overwhelming. I found myself more and more withdrawn inwards. My health was constantly poor and I was suffering from some disease or the other at all times- Tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid, jaundice, tonsillitis- you name it and I had it!
The Journey within
By the time I was 16, I had my first taste of Depression. Like Robbie Williams, I would plaster a smile and make everyone around me laugh, while inside I was free-falling. Interestingly, I also became the agony aunt for all kinds of people very early on in life. Other ‘misfit’ spirits, kids from dysfunctional families, even older folks somehow felt ‘understood without judgment with me’
Nature, I realised , healed me and uplifted my spirits and so I began to spend a lot of time near trees, animals, and birds. A different energetic journey began and I found myself most at ease in the piles of autumn leaves, the roots of ancient strong trees, birds who seemed to be at ease in my presence, and all kinds of animals that I would rescue or nurture in public spaces.
As I entered College and started becoming popular for my public speaking, the emptiness inside started getting buried. National awards for public speaking, my photograph on the college prospectus – it was all happening but something inside me was crumbling.
Work Begins
My first formal job was with a multinational company quite understandably in the Customer Service Department. Understanding and Serving people came naturally to me and I was appreciated and rewarded for my work pretty soon. You know one of those people who just understand your problem and helps to solve it promptly – yeah that was me! 
Moving to other shores
I brought in the millennium in London. I moved there and studied for my MBA while I did all kinds of jobs to meet my expenses. Selling Home improvements, taking orders at Pizza Hut to doing market research for the second-largest Market research company to working for my university,– I did it all!
Living and surviving overseas was a far bigger education than any MBA promised. From this time began my life-long romance with traveling. I’m a traveler – not a tourist if you know what I mean. A month in Germany, some days in Belgium and Amsterdam, and another month in Australia- travel filled me up with expansion, exploration, and learning as nothing else did. Spiritually I began to come across various synchronicities in life- in fact, it became a way of life. One thing was clear to me by then – NOTHING IS RANDOM. There is a divine design beneath everything and if you are vibrationally in the same frequency, you will meet and manifest this possibility as a reality. Some dots began to connect.
It was 2007, my heart racing as my flight touched Indian soil and I breathed a sigh of relief and exhaustion. Leaving behind an abusive marriage & all my financial assets, I arrived in New Delhi with my 3-month-old infant in my arms and a total of Rs 3000.
The abuse in the marriage had taken a huge emotional & practical toll on me and I was a wreck but by now I knew one thing- Spiralling down was a luxury I could not afford. One look at my baby and I knew I had brought this life onto this planet and I am now responsible for providing for her. The next few months and years quickly taught me the value of reinventing myself and I picked up the first job I could get with a decent pay package. I rose fast and appreciation and recognition poured in.
It was 2012, I woke up one morning with Bells Palsy, facial paralysis for the uninitiated. I was devastated! Just as my life seemed to stabilize, everything came crashing down. My treatment involved physiotherapy and steroid-based medication. Steroids had multiple side effects on my health and in my desperation – I turned to the world of Alternate Healing and specifically Emotional Freedom Technique and the work of Louise Hay. Little did I know my life was going to change forever and that of Hundreds of people too. In 12 days, I had recovered fully and this shook me to my core. I realised This stuff is real! It works!’ So I began applying it to all areas of my life – My work, money, relationships- everything. My life began undergoing the most radical transformation I ever knew
By now people were already asking me How I managed to transform my life so much and I realised I had an inner calling to help people access the possibilities of their life. By now I was already an internationally certified Life Coach
I soon became a certified Workshop Leader of the internationally acclaimed You Can Heal Your Life Workshops of Louise Hay.
“We all have a destiny. Finding the courage to drive past the challenges, pains, and even the shortcuts of life to the deeper purpose of living is to thrive” TD Jakes
The moment I stepped into the vibration of How may I serve as an instrument of the source – my workshops and consultations took on a life of their own. It was as if an explosion had occurred and the sheer life force of it gave me the courage to leave behind a career of over 13 years in some of the biggest organizations in the world and answer that inner calling. One thing led to another and my work just kept spreading. Both, my inner journey and this deep calling were a powerful combination which could catalyse the life transformation of hundreds of lives.
By now lots of Lightworkers, Trainers, Healers were working with me to hone their skills, especially their coaching, facilitation, and skills to grow their work consciously. What began as my story of healing and life transformation, soon became hundreds of stories of life transformation through my workshops and coaching sessions.
Mindfulness entered my life quietly when I was least suspecting it to. Amidst the drama, clutter, and chaos, 10 days of silence in the Vipassana center led me within, bringing me face to face with all my inner turmoil and pain. My work with mindfulness became a journey inwards and I soon began sharing the gifts of this with my clients and participants all over the world.
Conscious Life Academy has been a fruit of a deliberate intention to make the gifts of mindfulness and conscious living available to anyone who intends to dissolve pain and suffering and embrace growth and expansion.
Louise Hay, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Shri Goenka, Thich Nhat Hanh, Baba, and many masters have been my own catalysts and teachers. I remain grateful to each one of them. At the end of the day, I am quite simply an instrument of the source and a teacher of love.