I left a clinical career in my mid-twenties to follow a question I couldn’t ignore. That question has shaped everything I have done since. I studied psychology and chemistry at the University of Edinburgh before training and working as an optometrist, including time at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Later, I completed a postgraduate distinction in marketing and events at the University of London. Since 2010, I’ve worked at senior levels of the Art of Living organisation under Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar as a teacher, programme director, consultant and event producer across the UK, Europe and internationally. Along the way I’ve been fortunate to perform at the Royal Albert Hall, the United Nations and all three World Culture Festivals, curated the Mind Body Spirit Festival, co-founded Sangha Global, and shared music and teachings with audiences ranging from intimate gatherings to global stages.
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Read the full story ↓From the clinic
to the practice.
I specialised in pre and post-surgical care
and paediatrics at Moorfields Eye hospital. The work was meaningful. I loved the precision of it. But somewhere in my mid-twenties I realised I could see the ceiling, and I wasn’t willing to intellectually peak before thirty.
I left to follow a different question. One I couldn’t answer from inside a consulting room.
That question led me
to a tradition.
I grew up surrounded by spirituality. It was part of family life long before it became my work. Like many people, I explored different traditions, teachers and ways of understanding the world before eventually finding the Art of Living, founded by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. What began as a personal practice became a professional vocation. For the past fifteen years, I’ve served within one of the world’s largest spiritual organisations as a teacher, programme director, consultant and event producer, working across the UK, Europe and internationally.
Three threads,
one practice.
Everything I do falls into three connected strands: Music creates the experience.Teaching gives it language. Writing gives it permanence. Together, they explore the same question from different directions, and are different expressions of the same lifelong enquiry.
I sing devotional music: My voice has carried across more than twenty countries: at the Royal Albert Hall, the United Nations, Wembley Stadium, Olympic Stadium Berlin, Ashrams around the world, the National Mall in Washington DC. I have performed at all three Art of Living World Culture Festivals, the most recent to a live audience of over 850,000.
I teach Art of Living programmes, Happiness Programmes, Sahaj Samadhi meditation, and bespoke offerings for individuals, organisations and communities.
I write. My first book is currently in development with Graham Maw Christie Literary Agency. Essays appear here, occasionally.
Alongside all of this, I co-founded Sangha Global, a consulting practice for the wellness industry. It is the work behind the work.
On lineage
Why lineage matters.
The Art of Living is a lineage tradition. It means the breath techniques, meditation practices, and philosophy I share have been transmitted through teachers, in person, for decades.
I did not invent any of it. I learned it the way it was meant to be learned, by sitting with people who knew more than I did, for a long time.
On holding both
The traditions I work within had a complete map of the nervous system long before neuroscience had language for it.
What the Yoga Sutras call vritti (the fluctuations of the mind) neuroscience now calls dysregulation. What teachers described as stillness, modern research measures as coherence. The vocabulary is different, but the territory is the same.
Rather than using science to validate spirituality, or spirituality to soften science, I’m interested in the fact that two rigorous traditions, working independently, have often arrived at remarkably similar observations about the human experience.
That is what this work holds.
— Bhavini
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