My friends refer to me as the Monk who sold her Ferrari. In all honesty, I never had Ferrari and I am not any close to be a monk! But in all fairness to my friends, they have seen me evolving from an aspiring girl with big dreams in her eyes to make a difference in this world.

Academically holding Elect. Engineering, Masters in Science, Graduate in Software Exports and Post Graduate in Business Administration, I thought I have enough in my tool kit to make that difference!

After having a good 18+ years of run in the IT world of bringing visions into reality, I felt that there has to be more than this. All this while, one thing that stayed since my childhood was my experience with yoga. I was fortunate to be introduced to yoga practice in India and learning from teachers who believed in traditional path of yoga.

As the urge of making a difference outside of binary world was getting stronger, opportunity came my way and I plunged into action. In 2016, opened a Holistic Yoga Center, Dhyana Yoga Center, in Plano, a platform to bring all the yoga and healing modalities together to bring focus on the well-being. Keeping the momentum going for 3 years in the studio, life gave me another opportunity – to improvise and stay close to my objective. And so, I decided to move out of a brick/mortar space. Practicing the mantra of non-attachment, making my offerings mobile and thereby more flexible – and that vision gave birth to Dhyana Yoga Journey.

Living in the industry, day in and day out – I understand the deadline/peer pressure, long work hours, stress, anxiety and its ripple effects – physically, mentally and emotionally.

Practicing Yoga since my childhood and as a certified Yoga Teacher, I have learnt that yoga not only leaves a positive impact on the body, but it also positively transforms our perspective towards life situations. My goal is to bring this awareness and help my students to incorporate the yoga principles in their life for their well-being and cultivate happiness in all situations.

In my parallel universe, I continue to be a part of my binary (IT) world. Projects – Clients – Planning – Solutions – Teams, nothing changed all these years, except my perspective and that breath that reminds me all is well, keeping me grounded.

In gratitude, Shefali.