Pranām, beloved Souls!
Born and brought up mostly in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, I have been blessed with a spiritual family, and have grown up with yoga. My spiritual foundations are based on the
Advaita Vedānta philosophy and teachings of the spiritual master, Shri Rāmakrishna Paramahamsa, His spiritual consort and counterpart Holy Mother Sarada Devi, and His foremost disciple, Swami Vivekananda, the Cyclonic Monk of India. As a matter of fact, I have had my secondary, higher-secondary, and undergraduate education at the Ramakrishna Mission residential schools and college, staying at the Ashrama campuses for more than 11 years – age 10+ until 22+ years old. Thus, my virtual parents have been the monks of the Ramakrishna order at the Ashramas, raising me with the profound spirituality and philosophy of the wondrous country India.
I am a scientist by profession. I completed my Bachelors and Master’s degrees in
Statistics respectively from the University of Calcutta (2011) and the Indian Statistical Institute (2013). Then, I made the cross-Atlantic trip to the west, here in the United States. I acquired a doctoral degree in
Statistics and an MS degree in
Bioinformatics and Genomics at The Pennsylvania State University (2019), University Park, PA. Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Here in the US, I initiated my regular
yogāsana practice at the Lila Yoga studios since May 2016. Commencing in September 2016, I completed the 300-hour teacher training in May 2017 at the Lila Yoga Institute (a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School) studying with Yogacharya Erica Kaufman, the founder-director of Lila Yoga. Since August 2017, I have been teaching All Levels
yogāsana classes along with
Prāṇāyāma and
Sūrya Namaskār (sun-salutations) at the Lila Yoga Studios, State College, PA. Most recently, in June 2019, I will be completing my 500-hour yoga teacher training certification (RYT-500, Yoga Alliance), also from the Lila Yoga Institute. Yoga (Sanskrit word meaning Yoking / Unity) is a deep spiritual practice to me. Now having been offered, honored, and humbled with the profound responsibility of teaching the science of Yoga, my main focus is to develop an immense inner strength coupled with peace, compassion, and boundless love, so that we can gradually progress towards the path of gaining total clarity – to see life as it is! One primary and simple yet amazingly effective tool in this process is to be “Here and Now”. Thus, in my teachings, while we consciously journey through the yoga postures, we move toward developing into a “Peaceful Warrior” – a warrior in spirit, peaceful in heart.
My journey in Thai bodywork began during the Interfusion Festival 2017, from taking 5 hours of the Thai Massage workshops. This initiation and my association with Yoga led to my way to completing the
Vedic Conservatory 150-hours Practitioners Certification with Christy Thorndill, a
Vedic Conservatory teacher, with 20+ years of experience, and
Michael “Mukti” Buck, the founder-director of
Vedic Conservatory institute. I am certainly motivated to pursue my studies and complete the Official Vedic Conservatory Certification Credential.
My fascination towards playing with
prana have also led me to obtain my Reiki Master/Teacher and Crystal Reiki Master/Teacher certifications respectively in December 2017 and February 2018, both from the Lisa Powers Academy via Udemy. Moreover, I am engaged with the fascinating
pranic art of Qigong as well, mainly via online training resources of the Qigong Master Robert Peng.
My pastime activities involve exploring into nature, connecting authentically to living creatures (e.g. humans), photography, learning languages, reading (listening to) books (audio-books) on awakening our divine consciousness, drawings / paintings, origami, playing harmonica, writing, and participating/volunteering into festivals attended by like-minded spirits.
May we be blessed to flourish to the best version of ourselves!
#PeacefulWarrior #LoveLaughLive
|| AUM SHANTIH, SHANTIH, SHANTIH ||
