What shaped me
My personal journey has been filled with change, transition, and questions of identity and belonging. I grew up as a third culture kid, living in India, Uganda, Sweden, Ethiopia, Venezuela, and Canada. This left me with a deep curiosity about where we belong, what makes a place feel like home, and how we stay connected to ourselves as our surroundings change.
I eventually became an immigrant in Canada and spent more than a decade building a life there. I studied and worked in roles related to social entrepreneurship, youth engagement, leadership, and team development, and eventually co-founded a non-profit designed to help young people build soft skills and a career that feels meaningful to them. I stayed in the non-profit education sector for the first eight years of my career and loved the mission-oriented work I had the chance to be part of.
Along the way, I moved through cycles of burnout, navigated the scarcity of the social change and non-profit sector, questioned deeply held societal and family conditioning, and explored different ways of reconnecting with my body, mind, and inner life.
Traveling and returning to India has been another chapter in that journey. It has given me an opportunity to reconnect with my roots, reconsider some of the stories and expectations I had inherited, and explore what it means to create a life that feels more intentional and true to myself.
These experiences have taught me that change is rarely linear. Sometimes moving forward asks us to pause, listen, unlearn, and return to ourselves before we can know where we want to go next.
What guides my work
My work has taken me across education, community building, entrepreneurship, organisational culture, and social change. I’ve worked with young people, educators, leaders, founders, and teams, designing programs and learning experiences that invite people to think differently, connect, and engage with new ideas and perspectives.
Over time, my work has moved increasingly towards the spaces between inner and outer change. I became interested not only in what organisations and communities are trying to change in the world, but in how we create that change: how we lead, relate, make decisions, navigate uncertainty, and sustain ourselves along the way.
Whether I am coaching someone through a personal transition, facilitating a group, designing a retreat or learning experience, or working with an organisation, I am interested in creating the conditions for people to reflect, connect, and move towards meaningful change.
The Soulful Return
All my experiences have brought me back to a simple belief: reflection and connection are at the heart of meaningful change.
Many of my offerings fall under The Soulful Return, a thread that runs through my work and my life. For me, it is an invitation to come home to ourselves, and to remember that coming home is not only an inward journey.
We can return to ourselves.
We can return to each other.
We can return to the land beneath our feet, to nature and its rhythms, to our communities, to our roots, and to the places and people that have shaped us.
In a world that often asks us to move faster, achieve more, and constantly become something new, returning can be a radical act. It asks us to slow down enough to listen. To notice the stories and expectations we have inherited, and understand what we’d like to unlearn. To create the capacity to sit with discomfort and the many unknowns of our life. To find our way back to the relationships, places, practices, and parts of ourselves that make us feel more whole.
I am continuing to learn how I can stay more connected to the world around me and to allow my wellbeing and sense of belonging to be shaped by my own practices, but also how I show up in my relationships, communities, and the environments I inhabit.
The Soulful Return is not a destination. It is an ongoing practice of remembering, reconnecting, unlearning, and choosing again.
A Practice of Learning
My approach has been shaped by both formal training and lived experience. I have trained in coaching, leadership, facilitation, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, and have continued to explore reflective practices, community building, learning design, and ways of supporting meaningful change in individuals, groups, and organisations.
Some of my deepest learning has happened outside formal training:
Building non-profits startups for a large part of my career
Creating communities, events and programs across Canada
Going through the process of unlearning, reconditioning and consciously rebuilding my life from a blank canvas
Learning to sit with uncertainty, discomfort and doubts
Many solo adventures across the world and time in nature
Devoting myself to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual growth
Writing and creative practices to understand my inner artist
and the many experiences that have asked me to slow down and pay attention to what really matters.
I see all of this as an ongoing practice. Rather than relying on one framework or modality, I draw from different experiences, practices, and tools depending on what a person, group, or organisation needs. I’m continually learning how to listen more deeply, hold space with greater awareness, and create environments where people feel grounded, connected, and able to explore what is possible.
Selected trainings and learning experiences
Culture Design
Leadership training
SkyPilot Leadership Course
Humanize Somatic Course
Trauma Informed Facilitation Training
200 Hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, Rishikesh, India
Meditation training
Vipassana meditation
Introduction to Buddhism, Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamshala
Coaching training
Facilitation training