My Story

My connection to wellness began long before I ever thought of it as “wellness.” I am a first-generation American, born to Indian immigrant parents. I grew up surrounded by Eastern philosophy and spiritual practices, many of which I am deeply committed to preserving so their true essence isn’t lost in the Western world.

At the same time, my childhood was far from peaceful. I grew up in an immensely abusive household and am now fully estranged from my family. I am a warrior of complex PTSD (CPTSD), OCD, anxiety, and depression. I share this not because I believe the specific diagnoses are always what matter most, but because I want to be transparent about the reality of my own healing. Much of my life has involved learning how to build myself back up, understand what love and safety really feel like, and cultivate the kind of self-love and self-awareness that I wasn’t given the tools for.

Alongside my personal journey, I took a highly academic path, earning my Doctor of Pharmacy degree and going on to work directly on medical teams as the pharmacotherapy expert treating patients in New York City. But I have never seen my scientific side and my wellness side as separate parts of myself. My culture, lived experience, and scientific training have all shaped the way I understand healing, health, and the whole person.

The wellness world can sometimes feel overwhelming, exclusive, or even like another place where we’re expected to be perfect. Gurus and influencers are everywhere. There’s always someone who seems perfectly healed, in the perfect clothes, sitting in a bed of flowers. I offer something different.

I am not a perfectly healed person teaching other people how to be perfectly healed. I’m a real person with a career, responsibilities, anxiety, and hard days. I believe my lived experience allows me to meet people with empathy and without judgment, wherever they are.

My approach to healing is rooted in the whole person. I weave movement, meditation, sound, creativity, self-reflection, ritual, and connection to create experiences that invite people to slow down, become embodied, and reconnect with their inner light.

I also believe these experiences belong everywhere. Healing does not only happen inside a yoga studio or during a 60-minute class. It can happen in a library, a coffee shop, a creative space, in nature, or while making something with your hands. My hope is to make wellness and mental health resources feel more accessible, approachable, and woven into real life.

Today, I live in the Hudson Valley with my partner and our two dogs, who have taught me some of my greatest lessons about unconditional love.

Everything I offer is shaped by the many parts of who I am: my culture, my education, my lived experience, my creativity, my own healing, and my belief that there are so many different ways to come back into relationship with ourselves.