Inside the minds of great yogis with Swathi Sathyaseelan

Vanakkam/ Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Audrey Verderaime on our 40th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Audrey : Audrey is an RYT 200 currently teaching for Harvard Recreation. She started yoga as a 14-year-old and pursued a teaching certification at 16, in part to assist in the ongoin...

Vanakkam/ Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Barkha Pandey Goenka on our 39th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Barkha : Barkha is a hatha yoga specialist from Kolkata, India. She is certified under YOGA alliance and has been touching lives through her purpose-driven sessions. With years of...

Vanakkam/ Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Desi Bartlett on our 38th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Desi : Desi Bartlett MS CPT E-RYT, has been teaching health and wellness for over 25 years. She is a dynamic motivator and widely sought-after international presenter and spokesperson. H...

Vanakkam/ Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Nikita Desai on our 37th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Nikita : Nikita Desai is a yoga instructor & the owner of Arya Yoga Studio. Her Asana practice began seven years ago following a skydive where she fractured her lumber spine &. wa...

Vanakkam/ Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Rupal Sidhpura Faria on our 36th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Rupal : Rupal describes yoga as a journey of absolute bliss that changed her life around three sixty degrees. Yoga made her an unfailing optimist and today she loves to play the r...

Vanakkam/ Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Anugraha Unnikrishnan on our 35th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Anugraha : Anugraha lives in Amsterdam and has been practicing yoga for over 20 years. She has been teaching yoga since 2008. Along the way she has been fortunate to have been ta...

Vanakkam/Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Dr. Nirja Gajjar on our 34th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Dr. Nirja: Dr. Nirja is a physical therapist, personal trainer, and yoga teacher. She was born in the Uk but raised in Pearl, Mississippi. As a fitness and wellness coach, she has alwa...

Vanakkam/Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Aisha Wahab on our 33rd episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Aisha: Aisha aims to educate on and guide you through restorative yoga for mindfulness meditation for a renewed, restored and better you. In addition to her passion driven purpose, she is f...

Vanakkam/Namaste/Hello Everyone! We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Niyoshi Marfatia on our 32nd episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Niyoshi: Niyoshi has been practicing yoga for 6 years & has been teaching yoga for 2 years. She did her teachers training in Ashtanga Vinyasa from Mysore, she is a certified aerial...

We are back with another episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis . On this episode, We spoke with Shruti Shah on our 31st episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Shruti: Shruti is an experienced yoga teacher who is certified by Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 800hr teacher. She received her certification from the Byron Yoga Centre in Australia and began practicing Iyengar yoga in 2011. S...

 We spoke with Gunjan Kamra on our 30th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! We are so grateful to have made it to 30 episodes! Thanks to all of you! About Gunjan : Gunjan Kamra is a celebrity yoga trainer and an advocate of yoga for great physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Gunjan quit her 8-year-long stint with the corporate to follow her dream. She founded “Equilibrium - Min...

We spoke with Praanvi Gupta on our 29th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Praanvi : Praanvi turned her passion into a flourishing career and has made history as the youngest certified yoga instructor in the world. Praanvi Gupta is the youngest yoga instructor at just 7 years. A big thank you Praanvi for joining us in our 29th episode of #insidethemindsofgreatyogis and for gi...

We spoke with Prerna Ramanathan on our 28th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Prerna : She is a Yoga Therapist by profession and conducts one on one sessions and personalizes each of her client's sessions to their needs. Bringing people's awareness to their innate power of healing gives her immense joy and satisfaction. She teaches and practices yoga as a way of life...

We spoke with Yukti Bhatia on our 27th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! About Yukti : She is a yogapreneur who built her brand name ‘Aroga’ and her trust among the yoga enthusiasts on the basis of authenticity, transparency, passion, and the experiences around life, trauma and healing that she continues to share with the people. An Internationally certified Yoga Teacher, (RYT-200...

  We are back with another episode of Inside the minds of great yogi's. We spoke with Shruthi Kumar on our 26th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga!  About Shruthi :  Shruthi is the founder of  Go Yogi LLC and is an undergrad at Harvard. When Shruthi noticed the problems of teen depression, suicide, and anxiety in American high schools, she knew she wanted to...

We would like to dedicate this episode to all the journalists, news reporters, and morning news anchors for all the work you are doing! After a long hiatus, we are so happy to be back! We spoke with Leslie Rangel on our 25th episode and loved hearing her perspective on yoga! We are also delighted to introduce our new host who will be joining Swathi → Sharnavi Sathyaseelan About Leslie : Leslie Ran...

Ever wondered what it is like to advocate for the importance of South Asian representation in yoga? Meet Angie: Angie Tiwari is a Wellness Educator, Writer, Coach, and teacher of Yoga, Meditation, and breathwork. In her work, she strives for more accessibility and inclusion, debunks yoga’s myths, and fights for South Asian representation. Her teachings provide insights into how you can apply ancie...

Ever wondered what it is like to do tarot reading and yoga? Meet Irene: Irene Lo (she/her) is a trauma-informed yoga asana facilitator and intuitive tarot reader, the creator of Irene Yoga Flow, and the co-founder and co-creator of the Womxn of Color Summit. She offers group yoga classes, workshops, and private 1:1 sessions in Vancouver. Online, she has a Patreon club for yoga and tarot enthusiast...

Ever wondered what it's like to be an ex-media professional and become a yoga teacher? Meet Nishtha: Nishtha Bijlani is a yoga teacher based out of Mumbai. She is an ex-media professional who turned to Yoga at a time when nothing else made sense. Through Yoga, she found her zeal back. She considers herself fortunate enough to have recognized her calling early on. It's been 6 years of practicing, t...

Ever wondered what it is like to have a passion for yoga? Meet Namita: Namita is from India and she’s been teaching Yoga for 12 years, practicing for almost 2 decades now. She studied law and graduated with a gold medal. In Bombay, she spent a couple of years editing legal journals for an international publishing company. Deciding to quit, she plunged into formal training to be a yoga teacher. She...

Ever wondered what is like to teach yoga to veterans and first responders? Meet Amber: as the founder and creator of Wonder Within, her vision and service lies deeply in a community of service. A core value she learned in the Airforce was service before self and that is rooted in her vision. Bringing healing to those least healable. Veterans and first responders are close to her heart as she serve...

Ever wondered what is like to be passionate about both science and yoga? Meet Abha:  Dr. Rajbhandari is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Rajbhandari obtained her Ph. D. in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied the role of the amygdala sub-regions in the regulation of...

Ever wondered what it is like to raise awareness for girls' education with the help of yoga? Meet Jordan: While embracing New York City’s fast-paced and driven yoga culture, Jordan Ashley recognized a need for service-based yoga; a need for experiences that give perspective to the self through selflessness. Feeling extremely blessed to not only be given the opportunity for education but to have a...

Ever wondered what it is like to be a devotee of god & be a yoga teacher? Meet Harpinder: Harpinder Mann (she/her) is a Sikh-Buddhist Punjabi-American yoga asana and meditation teacher currently living in Los Angeles. She is actively working to decolonize wellness by creating community and providing real accessibility to her ancestral practices for BIPOC as the co-founder of the Womxn of Color...

Ever wondered what it is like to teach yoga specifically focusing on Hip pain & Fascia? Meet Dr. Ariele: Dr. Ariele is a doctor of physical therapy, the founder of Yoga Anatomy Academy, and an interdisciplinary yoga teacher since 2001. She has created online courses with Yoga Journal on the subjects of Fascia and Hip health and she graced the cover of Yoga Journal Australia in 2018. Yoga Anato...