04/08/2026
I have never quite felt at home with the generic wellness imagery often associated with Yoga and Ayurveda.
The serene yoga poses, toned women, candles and neutral interiors may be beautiful, but they do not express the depth of what I am trying to teach.
Before becoming a yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant and Gaja Life Coach, I studied Social Anthropology. My own Anglo Indian heritage and that background taught me - seemingly instinctively - to look beneath the surface: to consider history, culture, context and the ways knowledge is interpreted and passed on.
This is why I am starting to use carefully sourced historical images connected with Yoga and Ayurveda to represent my Life Coaching work, as this is the lens through which I coach clients.
One of these images is on the front of my website and is the Ayurvedic Man, a Nepalese work created around 1800. The figure is surrounded by passages from the 'Bhāvaprakāśa, an important Ayurvedic text, and is believed to reflect collaboration between an Ayurvedic physician, Tibetan artists and a calligrapher.
It is not simply a decorative image. It represents medicine, art, language and cultural exchange.
This shift feels much more aligned with my work.
Yoga beyond āsana.
Ayurveda beyond lifestyle trends.
Coaching that helps us understand ourselves and live with greater awareness.
Yoga is the practice. Ayurveda is the lens. Coaching is the process.
Image: Ayurvedic Man, Nepal, c. 1800. Wellcome Collection.
I hope you enjoy this approach - I hope you feel this when I am teaching you in class, or workshops or in private consultations.
Peace & Love to all. x