Title: laidback rebel

Gender: Female

Age: 59

Sun Sign: Virgo

Chinese Sign: Metal Tiger

Location: mumbai, maharashtra

I dont like to use labels to describe myself but well - ok, sometimes they are necessary to communicate what you do, to others. I have worked as a copywriter in an ad agency, as a teacher of the deaf, a publications officer with the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature - earlier the World Wildlife Fund) a freelance journalist and for the last 13 years have been  working as a psychotherapist.

My experience in the earlier fields convinced me that change has to first  take place at the individual level before it can  be felt in the world. From my own experience of psychotherapy I learnt that therapy    is an important aid to self awareness and therefore a step in one's spiritual development.

Apart from conducting workshops and personal sessions  on self awareness, on communication and learning to listen,   I write off and on as well. My book “Bombay to Eternity - memoirs of a laidback rebel” was published in 2004 by Penguin Books, India. I have tried to describe my own journey in life in this book and also what led me to become a therapist.
 
I do believe that a major  reason that human beings destroy so much of what is valuable and beautiful in the world (including each other) can be traced  back to a lack of awareness - lack of awareness of themselves as individuals and also of their relationship to the earth and to life generally. Maybe this is why in the last several years I have decided to work as a therapist and to help people join me in the battle to stop vandalising  our home.

At a more  down to earth level,  I am involved in a project near Bangalore which goes by the name of Timbaktu Collective.  These friends of mine have a great place,  where they practise organic farming, have some creative water management schemes, have started a  banking system for women and initiated schooling for underprivileged children. Now, the group I work  with (Basicindia)  has decided to connect up with Timbaktu. In the next couple of years we hope to set up a centre for like-minded people - for east to meet west,  a place where people can come to rest and regenerate themselves and also find a new way to live in this world. Work is already underway.


For more information on our projects and reflections check out:
www.basicindia.net

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