I am AkshĀnanda.

A yogi from the Himalayas.

AkshĀnanda means Unending Bliss, which is a motto and an ideal I live by, as I flow in Eternal Bliss.

My spiritual journey started as a teenager in the late 90s, when my mother kicked me out of my room and turned it into a temple and healing room for her Reiki Healing sessions. Haha

The alternative healing community that gathered in this space was my first glimpse into the power of the spirit and the divine healing energy that is the universe, and permeates all beings.

A few years later as a young tech entrepreneur, I became a victim of my own initial success, and experienced a midlife crisis in my early 20s. I hit the existential wall at a 100 miles an hour, crashed and burned.

As I lay there in the embers of my destruction, a single question hung in the ashes; “Why.. Why me?”. You see I had always seen myself as the good guy. Never doing anything wrong to anyone. Then why was I the one subjected to this injustice.

The question kept resonating within me, as I put myself on the path of slow suicide, deciding that a quick end would be too easy, and that I deserved to suffer.

As I went down this dark path, diving deep into alcoholism and loneliness. I started to read a book I had been given by my mother years before. A spiritual book called The Power of Now, I had just leafed through and left unread, as I was too busy conquering the world of business.

Now that I had all the time in my despair and slow demise, I found, rather the book found me once again, allowing me to read it.

When I picked the book and started to read. One line caught my attention:

‘Meditation is to die before you die’.

This made sense to me, as I was infact on the path to death, and was drawn to this act of meditation to get a taste of death before dying.

And so started my meditation journey.

These were the early days of the internet, so I couldn’t find many resources on meditation or meditation schools online.

I started to read books on the subject, and started my hit and trial practice.

I met many guides along the way in the pages of the books that allowed me to read them, from Eckhart to Osho to Buddha to Gurdjieff to Krishnamurti, who shared bits of wisdom which I pieced together creating my mindfulness and meditation practice.

In the next decade, I started a few companies and recieved good success in the world of technology and business.

But this was different from the success I had gotten earlier, as there was a gap, a sense is detachment, that I maintained between myself and the work I was doing, a result of my meditation and yoga practice.

A decade later, I found myself being invited by the Himalayas to live here. This is where I truly came to life as AkshĀnanda.

Diving deep into my practice, supercharged by the divine vibrations of these mighty and deeply spiritual mountains. Meeting, working with, and learning from seekers, masters and healers from around the world who were drawn here just like I was.

I went from a thinking (cerebral) being to a feeling (heart) being.

During my time here I was asked by the Universe to start a healing center, and embrace my purpose as a Transformationist of human beings.

I am fortunate and eternally grateful to be allowed to live and grow here. And be a medium, a channel for sharing it’s timeless wisdom with seekers around the world using the internet.

And so the journey continues…

Om Shanti

AkshĀnanda