Yogesh Karikurve aka Indieyogi is an ‘Entertrainer’- who uses dancing as a training tool. He has over 2 decades of experience working with various corporates in business roles. He wears various hats – Entrepreneur, Media and Entertainment faculty in Business schools, Travel blogger, Marathon runner, Photographer and Drummer.

His passion for dancing has led him to more than 30 countries where he has conducted Bollywood dance workshops. He was one of the first trainers for Latin Dancing and Salsa in India when he returned from a stint in the USA about 20 years ago. Since then he has trained different groups of people from corporates to housewives, children and senior citizens in Old age homes. He has judged several dance contests across the country and also in Stuttgart, Germany, where he was invited as a jury for the very first National Bollywood Dance competition.

He defines dancing as – Emotions in Motion!

“They asked me to write, I drew & when ‘B’ for butterfly, just flew. Was the first moment when I knew, this comes naturally to me.” – says Minkiana.

The favourite subject in school to be Art & Drawing, to stay out of class for extracurricular activities it all started from then for Minkiana. Taking this up seriously as a career into the Design & Events industry just followed with required certifications in Graphic Design, Multimedia & Events. A people person with an appropriate sense of aesthetics & a credential of providing quality services today she holds an experience of almost 2 decades working with Creative Design Studios, Publications, Event Organizations, Brands & Professionals.

As Pablo Picasso once quoted, “Every child was an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” So, let’s together, once again bring out the hidden artist from within and use art as an expression of your creative side to paint fearlessly beyond the canvas.

Shruti Murdeshwar is a media professional with over a decade of experience and was an anchor and producer for popular Bollywood TV channel – Zoom. She now lives in Singapore with her husband and son and has become a passion-preneur by taking up food blogging called –Tingling Palette.

Pankaj is the founder of Space Sculptors & an architect by profession but purely an artist by passion. Completed architecture in 1995 from Sir J J College of Architecture, University of Mumbai. He has worked with renowned architects like Talati & Panthaky and PG Patki. Been a part of small houses to high-end luxury projects like malls, hotels, celebrity mansions, recording studios, govt projects, auditoriums, museums and many more. Pankaj’s ideology takes into consideration the modernism of the society & their luxury design needs but the artist in him can’t stop but blend in some of his organic work. He suggests the use of recycled materials, upcycled products and elements like water and plants that come back to you as an integral part of your living. His inclination towards art, creating artistic products and craft material is clearly visible in the way he handles his work creating a “WoW” element for the clients too.

An ex-banker working with India’s no. 1 Pvt sector bank who turned into a professional Fitness Trainer. The journey began when at the age of 36, she was just 3 kgs short of hitting the 100 kg mark and bogged with a host of stress-related ailments. While working on healing herself and getting healthy, she discovered her passion for fitness and wellness. She trained and certified herself through professional fitness courses and started teaching Fitness and has never looked back.

She incorporates Yoga, Pilates, Functional training in her workouts, which help clients improve physical performance outside the gym. She guides clients to perform exercises properly and get maximum benefits. She is primarily working on pain management and rehabilitation from stroke and other trauma injuries.

The motto of her life is to spread awareness of the benefits of achieving a healthy body, mind and life on the whole through regular exercise.

Her clientele includes Gundecha Valley Of Flowers, Lodha Group, Think Healthy, Kamala Vihar Sports Club, Kalpataru Pinnacle, Raheja Exotica, Oberoi Exquisite & Fitness First to name a few.

Ajit runs The Happy High, one of India’s leading wine and spirit education and experiences co. He is a seasoned mixologist and sommelier and has worked in Mumbai and London for over a decade in wine and spirits. Ajit has trained over 5000 professionals and consumers in the last 10 years. Ajit was the only Indian to be at ESPAI Priorat 2017 in Spain, was selected to be a part of the Austrian Wine Summit in 2015 and also bagged the US Cochran scholarship in wines and spirits in 2016. He was the only Indian judge at the Michelangelo wine and spirit competition in South Africa in 2018.

His qualifications include WSET Advanced certified in wines and spirits 2009, WSET wine and spirit Educator since 2010, Maison Trainer – A 55 hr bartending program by Pernod Ricard running globally. 2015, Cognac Educator – BNIC (first and only wine educator from India) 2019

He has also written for publications like Times of India, Sommelier India, Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle, Living Foodz, Food Lovers, Business World Hotelier etc.

The duo chose to come together & have formed Triaum with a vision of restoring health & wellness.

Swapna has an experience of 17 years in corporates (14 yrs in IT) in leadership roles. She is an absolute fitness freak, QCI (Quality Council of India) certified Yoga professional and trained in basic self-defence.

Whereas, Preeti has done TTC from Santacruz Insitute of Yoga. Also, a certified QCI (Quality Council of India) level I & II Yoga expert. She has worked as a Yoga teacher at Yog Sadhana Kendra, Chembur. Alongside, also taken a professional training of a Makeup designer.

An acting graduate from Film and Television Institute of India, post which she has done Kranti Kanade’s Mahek produced by Children’s Film Society and has featured in London film fest and is part of the curriculum in Ohio University. Debuted in Tamil films and was nominated as best debutante after her film Siva Manasula Sakthi. Building strong on her career graph went on to do more films in lead, also starred in the Tamil remake of the popular film 3idiots directed by director Shankar. Anuya has also done few teleseries for Doordarshan, many episodics, short films and has also learnt sound recording, cinematography, direction, editing as part of the curriculum in FTII.

Besides, all the given Anuya conducts visiting sessions at FTII in improvisations, method acting character building, monologues and also concentration techniques and a holistic approach to acting.

An ex-corporate employee turned professional baker in love with classic chocolate cake! Backed with my degree in Nutrition and a Diploma in Patisserie and Confectionery, ‘The Bake Addict’ took momentum into a phenomenon of “Fun and Creative Baking”. My passion for baking which started with the humble cupcake led to the idea of setting up a venture wherein I could make kiddie fantasy birthday cakes a yummy reality. Over the years my clientele broadened to adults and eventually corporate clients. Sharing baking as a stress-busting and fulfilling experience with others is what I love doing now. By conducting fun-filled workshops and events in various places, I help my audience experience the joy of tactile therapy and personal achievement through a colourful and tasty journey. USP – customised baking, 3D cakes, Hands-on workshops and events.

Workshops conducted on cupcake decoration, chocolate confections, quick microwave mug meals and desserts, fusion snacks and sweets in Viviana Mall, Thane and Seawoods Grand Central Mall. Cupcake decoration for visiting children at the BKidz Flea Festival 2019, Juhu.

Jinita Pandya is an expert & mentor for Mumbai region for Belebi (A fitness workout specially for women). She is an International Licenced Zumba Fitness Instructor since June 2014. She conducts Zumba fitness classes at studio Fitness Groove [2019] & Yoga Hut [2014] along with Bollywood fitness classes too. An Internationally certified Zumba Toning Instructor & Zumba Step Instructor. Internationally certified Strong by Zumba Instructor which is an HIIT fitness programme. She has conducted multiple Zumba sessions with corporate and performed in events too. A Certified Power Yoga, Aerobics, Mat Pilate Instructor, has also conducted workshops for the same.

Jinita is not only and instructor but a judge and an award winning performer too [multiple dance & Garba competitions]. She has been a part of a featured programme on Garba on ZEE 24 Taas Marathi channel in 2017 and 2018. Lately, she has also attended workshops of Lavni King – Ashish Patil Sir (famous Choreographer) in June 2019 and Feb 2020.

Bhavika Dharod is a fashion designer, choreographer, a young entrepreneur managing two of her ventures – Twist & Tales Weddings & Events Agency and Bhavin’s Dance Academy, a renowned organization based in Thane, Mumbai for the last 20 years. It has more than 300 dancing stars who specialize in Bollywood Dance, Western dance, Zumba, HipHop, Bolly-hop & Contemporary Dancing and personally also a Yoga enthusiast.

In this fast-paced life, where all of us tend to find reasons why we cannot workout, Bhavika has made Yoga her way of life. It all started in 2009 when she was diagnosed with Endometriosis, an incurable ailment. In the process of finding solutions for this ailment, she discovered that Yoga can be a support to manage the deep pain she was in. That’s when she first experienced Yoga. She started practising traditional yoga with a renowned yoga expert Dina Joshi. Yoga turned out to be a boon for her as it built in a lot more energy and stamina to manage her hectic schedule and health concerns. From here there was no looking back, which created a deep desire in her of training and motivating people around her too. Practising & training yoga has become her way of life for a decade now. Her dedicated yoga practice has played a big role in giving relief to her complicated endometriosis surgery making it a success today. Bhavika says, “Yoga for me is not just workout, it is my way of life.

Courtney MacIsaac is a traditional Tantra yoga teacher based in Portland, Maine in the United States. She has spent time at Shri Kali Ashram, formally based in India, where she studied the science of tantra. Through the years of her practice she witnessed her body healing itself. Amazed at how efficient the practice helps you let go and heal, Courtney continues to share the practice in her hometown and abroad. Tantra Yoga is taught from an ancient tradition based on the subtle energy system. It teaches us how to relax and meditate our bodies. Tantra yoga is suitable for all body types. The practice shows us how to listen to our bodies and not push or strain ourselves into postures which can create stress in the body.  The tri dosha asanas work with your system to balance your prana and strengthen your immune system. The classes are suitable for all levels of students.

Claudia Iglesias, certified teacher in Iyengar Yoga (Junior Intermediate) and Filmmaker, was born in Santiago de Chile At 16 she fell in love with dance lessons and for her became a highly therapeutic experience. At 18 she started traveling in order to learn about the cultures of South America, soon after she emigrated to Berlin, where she lived for 14 years.  In Berlin she studied at the Berlin Film and TV Academy, dffB, graduating in 1997 as Director of Film and TV.

During her life as a student, it was not easy to pay for all her basic expenses or her dance lessons, but one day something happened, which today she remembers as magical. A good friend showed her the practice of Hatha Yoga and using the book of the renowned teacher BKS Iyengar she began her first approach to this ancient discipline. After some years she decided to go to a Yoga School, to deepen her knowledge. In 2005 and after experiencing multiple benefits from the practice, she then decided to leave her job as a Film Director of TV and concentrate herself only to teach yoga in order to deliver the feeling of happiness, balance and peace she found in her practice. In 2007, she opened her School, in Viña del Mar, Chile (wwww.yogaiyengarviña.cl). Claudia was a pioneer teaching Yoga Iyengar in her region.

Always faithful to the teachings of BKS Iyengar, she decided to join the strict certification processes of this method. This certification is granted by the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institut Pune, India and (RIMYI). As required by this method, Claudia promised herself to maintain a continuous training process to advance to the next levels of the practice.

Marijana Rodic, is a certified yoga instructor with a license from the Yoga Federation of Serbia (national branch association in the field of yoga, Republic of Serbia). Marijana first get to know yoga as a young student, and has been actively practicing the yoga lifestyle since 2006, and obtained the certificate at the accredited program of the International Academy for the Training of Yoga Instructors in 2012 under the guidance of a eminent yoga teacher, prof. Predrag Nikic, PhD.  At 2019, Marijana has started education on the program for yoga teachers under the auspices of the European Yoga Federation.Since 2012, through hers Yoga Studio Love, she has been launching various yoga programs: group and individual yoga classes in Serbian and English, for adults, for children, young adolescents and young people; meditative yoga classes; art yoga similiris classes; yoga in nature; corporate yoga classes. Since 2017, she has been professionally engaged in international programs as a yoga pedagogue, combining her professional experience from yoga and youth work.

In 2018, she launched her own program for young people Light Hearted Yogis – Yoga-Youth Work with children, Teens and young adults applying an interdisciplinary approach, using yoga and social education.

Kerry is a teacher, poet/writer, entrepreneur, traveller, yogi, and mother.  Yoga has taken her from New York in ‘99 to East Timor, to India, Peru, Sri Lanka and South Africa where she’s taught and studied. Through yoga, Kerry gained tools for expansion, creativity, trust, creating space between the shallow mind and vast breath. Kerry has been facilitating learning experiences that are both educational and experiential, from serious to playful, in the studio she founded since 2002, Indie Yoga, as a center for living yoga with personal responsibility and joy. Kerry is featured in magazines such as Women & Home, Destiny magazine and has written for Odyssey magazine, Complete Yoga, Yoga Awakening Africa, and Renaissance magazine, as both the subject and the author.

Kerry’s teaching revolves around integration of the inner and outer experience. She takes knowledge of the psychology of ‘mind’ and offers it up in a rich experience where yoga philosophy can be lived and learned through experience, and transformed into Independent Spirit and freedom, often expressed in poetic prose. I can’t wait to meet you, work with you, and inspire you.

Ali Hale Tilley first learnt some yoga at age 6 from my godmother, who was a popular yoga teacher in Christchurch. She planted the fertile seed that I too would teach yoga one day. As a young adult, Ali worked full time in the Fitness Industry, both in London and NZ. Over those 15 years, she qualified as a fitness trainer, and group exercise teacher. She also opened and managed gyms, and ran a NZ gym franchise. This experience gave her a comprehensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology, nutrition, and wellbeing.
Feeling the calling to teach yoga, I qualified as a yoga teacher in 2003. Then, to deepen her knowledge of traditional yoga systems, she travelled to India, met her Guruji, did the Mt. Kailash yatra, attended Kumbha Mela, and travelled to numerous sacred sites across India, Tibet, and Nepal. This year will be her 15th India trip. Over the 14 years of running her own yoga studio, Sadhana Yoga, Ali has taught around 6000 classes, and seen over 50,000 yoga students of varying experience levels. A need to extend her academic knowledge and critical thinking, led her to become an undergraduate at Victoria University in Religious Studies in 2009. Ali taught and ran her studio during that time right through doing Honours.

Then, in 2016, frustrated with the growing consumeristic expectations of some of her yoga students, Ali embarked on and finished a Master’s degree in 2017. Her thesis focused on consumerism in the New Zealand Yoga Industry.

Primarily a Civil Engineering graduate Ms Gowri Priya S has been training in the art of Bharatanatyam since the age of 6. She has performed at various cultural festivals across the country and is an accomplished Bharatnatyam artiste today.  She has choreographed and presented “Ariyaa…?” – A 60 minute Bharatnatyam group presentation with at Bangalore and Mysore in 2019 to a full house audience as a ticketed program. She has also choreographed ‘All for One’ a thematic dance theatre presentation as a special project for Aditya Birla Mutual funds. She is an avid painter and has learnt various art forms such as Mysore Traditional art, Oil painting, water colours.

DJ Rocky is musically blessed and Runners up of India’s Got Talent season 1, the only DJ worldwide to play about 15 instruments and performing unique acts like – “Liquid Drumming” – “Engaging LED Techno Dhol” – “Mesmerising DJ mixing”.
“Rocky’s Rythm Cafe” one of its interactive and live music learning and breathing act is the latest in my kitty which is the current flavour of the town including the above with claps and rhythm the sound that enthralls by creating a continuous loop of involvement and participation, and Eventually culminating in a state of happiness trance. DJ Rocky is an end-to-end full-on music entertainment package with over 1000 shows, acts and performances both across the Nation and International as well. Dj Rocky is also known to create & play music on unheard utensils.

Movement, Rhythm, Form – all have been part of Megha Desai’s growing up years as she started her journey first into classical dance followed by Folk Dance and Indian Contemporary. Movement and the Body piqued her interest in Yoga about 7 years ago and she decided to do her first Teacher’s Training Course from the Yoga Institute, Mumbai. She then pursued Ashtanga Vinyasa for 3 years under Deepika Mehta – a KPJAYI Teacher and there was no looking back. Her Yoga journey has been dotted with learnings from some of the best teachers from India and outside. She earned her second certification from the school of Yogacharya Bharath Shetty in Mysore. Megha Desai continues to carry the practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa along with training beginners and introducing them to Arogya Series, Pranayam, and Body Conditioning.

Abhishek Sankar, who made his debut as a Tamil actor through the film ‘Mogamul’, has acted in more than 25 films, 10,000 TV episodes, 60 stage dramas in Marathi and Hindi. Abhishek, who has a keen interest in filmmaking, has also made his mark as a Director, directing one feature film, 15 Corporate Films and 20 Short films.

He has also hosted over 650 television programs. While he has received various awards for his talents, National Film Award for the Best Film, Two National Awards for the Best Actor, Indira Gandhi Lotus Award, Tamil Nadu State ‘Kalaimamani’ Award, 4 Mylapore Academy Awards, Best All Round Rolling Trophy deserves special mention.

He stands out as a busy artist even today and has played key roles in upcoming films ‘Adangaathe’, ‘Ka Pae Ranasingham’, ‘Kapadathari’, ‘N4’ and ‘Miruga’.

Shweta Kanhai is an “Indian Abstract Expressionist” who excels in making highly textured Abstract Paintings and hosts various Art Webinars for Corporate Professionals, Students and Individuals with need for Healing through Art. She has owned an art studio named ” Estudio Divino” for the last 13+ years.

She is an Educationist and a Vocalist.