My father, the karma yogi
He had no yoga teacher. No mat. No certification. But at 70, he is still the most devoted practitioner I have ever known.
Reflections and writings
Thoughts on yoga, Sudarshan Kriya, sound healing, digital transformation and the karma yoga of everyday life.
He had no yoga teacher. No mat. No certification. But at 70, he is still the most devoted practitioner I have ever known.
In 2009, while working full time in IT delivering requirements for Fortune 500 clients, I experienced Sudarshan Kriya for the first time under Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar ji. Nothing was ever the same after that.
Most wellness businesses struggle online. Most agencies miss the soul of wellness. I live in both worlds and that changes everything.
After years of yoga and sound healing, I thought I understood the body. Rakkenho showed me there was an entire dimension I had been missing.
Deadlines, stakeholders, pressure, delivery. The corporate world is a demanding teacher. And it prepared me for the mat in ways I never expected.
Tibetan bowls, crystal bowls, gongs. People leave sound baths transformed. Here is what is actually happening in the body and brain during a session.
The gap between being a great teacher and running a great studio is enormous. Here is what I learned building Navyoga Wellness in Hyderabad.
You do not need an hour of practice or years of experience. You need one technique, practiced sincerely, every single day.
Templates are not cheaper. They are more expensive. They cost you the clients who never contacted you because your website did not reflect your actual value.
Stress, burnout, decision fatigue. The modern professional carries more than any human nervous system was designed for. Yoga is not an escape from corporate life. It is the upgrade it needs.
Your potential students are searching for you right now. The question is whether Google can find you. Most wellness websites make the same five mistakes that keep them invisible.
Most wellness practitioners are exhausted by social media. Posting every day, seeing little return. The problem is not effort. It is strategy.
In a crowded wellness market, the practitioners who stand out are not the ones with the most certifications. They are the ones with the clearest sense of who they are and who they serve.
Every wellness practitioner is chasing followers on social media. Meanwhile the most powerful, personal and profitable digital channel sits unused. Your email list.
When someone in Hyderabad searches for yoga, sound healing or a web developer, are you appearing? Local SEO is the single highest-return digital investment a small business can make.
A beautiful website that Google cannot read, cannot crawl and cannot trust will not rank. Technical SEO is the foundation everything else sits on. Most websites get it wrong.
Technical SEO gets your website found. Content SEO gives Google something to rank. On-page SEO is the bridge between the two. Get this right and everything else works harder.
My first salary was Rs.200 a month at an STD booth. My last corporate role involved delivering requirements for Barclays, Mastercard and Cisco. Here is what the distance between those two points actually taught me.