I am so grateful to all the teachers, gurus, mentors, and teachings that have guided me on this incredible spiritual journey over the last 28 years. I am also grateful to all my students and clients that have put their trust in me and shared their life stories, allowing me to learn how to put the giant knowledge of Vedic Astrology, Yoga, and Ayurveda into a book for personal growth and healing.
I spent my childhood engaged in the culture, traditions, and spirit of India. As the daughter of a United Nations diplomat, I left India with my family at the age of ten. We lived in Thailand, Switzerland, and England before I settled in the United States. In 1993, I returned to my Indian spiritual roots when I met my guru, Amma. I also began my formal studies of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Jyotish with Dr. David Frawley of the American Institute of Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I am passionate about integrating all the Vedic sciences as well as drawing from other models of knowledge like modern neuroscience, Jungian psychology, mythology, and functional medicine to help us better address present-day physical, mental, and spiritual problems. My book, courses, and one-on-one sessions are designed to help you incorporate Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology, and Yoga philosophy into your life and healing practices without having to change course on your unique healing journey or spending decades learning to become a professional in these fields.
My counseling approach to Vedic Astrology, which integrates Eastern and Western psychology, mythology and, science is born out of my experience mentoring thousands of clients from all over the world over the last two decades. I learned early in my practice that the greatest challenge Vedic astrologers face is employing the highly predictive system of Vedic astrology for self-knowledge and karmic counseling, not fatalism. I believe that the astrological matrix carries within it the potential to release us from our fate, even as it requires us to embrace it.
My approach to Ayurveda is also founded on helping my clients become stewards of our body, mind, karma and, environment. I favor a gradual introduction of changes in diet, medicinal herbs, lifestyle, and mindset, over the pill-disease model, or sudden transformations and extreme cures.
I choose to incorporate Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey in my book because I believe we are all companions on the same sacred Journey to retrieve and reclaim our samskaras created by accumulated experiences from present and past lives, ancestral memories, and cultural heritage embedded deep in the subconscious and bring them into a more harmonic relationship with our conscious awareness and experience.
Om Shanti,
Renu Namjoshi