Pooja Karkera
500hrs Certified Yoga & Wellness Coach, International Certified Meta Mind Alignment Trainer, Therapeutic Art/Movement Facilitator, Creative Drum Circle Facilitator, Spiritual Counsellor & Reiki Healer
Pooja Karkera has completed her 500hrs RYC TTC from Yoga with Srinatha, Mysore & 100hrs CCY from Kaivalyadhama, Mumbai; 75hrs Pre and Post Natal Yoga & Garbhasanskar TTC under the guidance of Dr Nutan Pakhare from the AYG Academy, Mumbai.
Along with her Yoga qualifications, she is also a certified International Meta Mind Alignment Trainer, an Art-based Transformational Therapy Facilitator and Coach, a Creative Drum Circle Facilitator, a Speech & Drama Teacher and a Reiki Healer.
Her spiritual and professional journey began at a very young age leading to her having 20+ years of practice in Meditation & Healing. She also has 12+ years of experience being a professional Corporate Trainer specializing in Applied Behavioral Sciences.
Pooja has been personally trained and coached by internationally renowned Motivational Speaker, Master Behavioral Trainer, Management Consultant, Happiness Coach and Leadership Guru Avinash Ananda and the Master of Emotion Management Varsha PG. This training has been exhaustive and includes mindset management and skill sets enhancement training. With the guidance of her mentors, Pooja has trained corporate professionals from organizations like Al Grosso d.o.o.(Serbia), Mako Market(Macdeonia), Klikovac d.o.o.(Montenegro), thyssenkrupp, Sutherland Global Services, Visa, Marsh, Worley, Emerson, Roche, Invesco Mutual Funds, Nuance, Bank of America, Bank of India, The Raymond Group, Airtel, Mahindra Insurance and others.
Pooja takes every opportunity to work and contribute at community centers and organizations wherever she travels. In the last 15 years she has worked with NGO’s like Giants Group of Mumbai, CPAA – Cancer Patients Aid Association, CanKids…KidsCan (NGO for cancer kids), Dignity Foundation (Senior Center), Night Shelter for Street Children, King George V Memorial (Home for Destitutes), and others in Mumbai; IShaPrema Niketan in Pune; Tibet World, LHa, LIT, Yongling school in Himachal Pradesh; Fremont Senior Centre (California), We Pre- School (Atlanta) in USA.
Pooja Karkera is known for her love for travel and authentic aware-full living practices which she seamlessly weaves in all her teaching sessions. She is extremely passionate about the philosophy of life and she lives it through her experiences of learning from traditional and ancient teachings of Yoga, Meditation, Vedas, Tai Chi, Chakra and Reiki Healing. She's constantly upgrading and evolving her studies to discover the unknown through her curiosity and loves to share her findings in a way that helps people, from all walks of life, connect with themselves and their inner truth.
It is this curiosity that gave birth to Vrikshanam. The seed of this initiative was planted decades ago, but today with her experience and desire to be of service to the society that she wants Vrikshanam to be that home, where everyone is free to be their honest self.