I am a working mother of two young daughters and an immigrant to the United States based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My mindfulness meditation teaching and IFS work stems from an aspiration to create a kinder, wiser, and more inclusive world for all who live in it.

Born and raised in Mumbai, India, I grew up immersed in diverse religious and secular traditions, and this inspired my inquiry into meditation. When I arrived at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC) in 2009, it was love at first breath. I have over 15 years of meditation training, including extensive silent retreat experience in the Early Buddhist Vipassana tradition at the Insight Meditation Society, advanced trauma-sensitive mindfulness certification through David Treleavan, and Level 1 training through the Internal Family Systems Institute as an IFS Practitioner. I was selected as an IFS Leadership Fellow in the first cohort by the Foundation for Self Leadership from 2022-2023. I hold a MA in Mass Communications from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Telecommunications at Arizona State University, and am currently in an M.Ed program to become a Licensed Mental Health Counselor at Cambridge College.

I teach meditation in Buddhist centers and mainstream organizations and universities in the Boston area. I also serve on the board of directors at the Insight Meditation Society and previously served on the board at the CIMC from 2012-2019. I integrate a business career of over 20 years in strategic communications in the higher education, non-profit, and publishing sectors at Harvard Business School, Oxfam America, and the Times of India into my corporate offerings.

My current work integrates mindfulness, 12-step recovery, and Internal Family Systems as a way to heal intergenerational trauma and transform structures of internal and external oppression. In addition to my corporate and university teaching, I am committed to sharing mindfulness with the marginalized and underrepresented, such as immigrants, people of color, and the economically disadvantaged. As a young woman in India, I saw firsthand the ravages of poverty and many injustices and inequities. My prior work includes teaching at a school for slum children in Mumbai, mentoring Navajo and Hopi students at ASU, and working on flood relief efforts in Haiti and a microfinance program in Mali, West Africa. I bring this sensibility to my mindfulness teaching, such as working with elders at the Cambridge Public Library, the Cambridge Health Alliance, and other local non-profits. I work with individuals 1-1 as a spiritual counselor or as an IFS practitioner as well.

I am deeply grateful to all my teachers, seen and unseen and deep bows to my two young daughters. My life and work is informed and inspired by: Shirin Darasha, Betty Burkes, Dipa Ma Barua, Thich Nhat Hahn, Ajahn Sucitto, Joseph Goldstein, Richard Schwartz, Tuere Sala, Christina Feldman, Bonnie Mioduchoski, Rob Burbea, Peggy & Larry Ward, and many other luminous beings.