Jahnava

About Jahnava

My work is rooted in Sanātana Dharma and the path of devotion, shaped through sustained study, reflection and lived devotional practice. I engage the Bhagavad Gītā and the Indic epics as living wisdom, guiding not only inner life, but how one meets work, responsibility, leadership, and human complexity across personal, professional, and organizational contexts.I serve through Jahnava Academy, where this engagement takes form as carefully held learning journeys. These include scriptural study, storytelling from the epics, Sanskrit mantra recitation, and contemplative inquiry. The emphasis is on listening, reflection, devotion, and dialogue, not techniques to be mastered, but wisdom to be lived with.At the heart of my work is supporting individuals in cultivating a living relationship with Krishna not as an abstract ideal, but as a source of clarity, steadiness, and inner orientation in everyday life.Writing is central to my practice. I write alongside lived experience, allowing insight to unfold through contemplation, devotion, and ongoing study. This writing informs how learning spaces are held and how reflective journeys are designed within the academy.My professional journey began in software development and product work, engaging deeply with systems, design, and problem-solving. Over time, life itself invited deeper inquiry, gradually turning my attention toward inner discernment and learning rooted in wisdom traditions.I continue to work as an educator, learning consultant, coach, and homeschooling mentor, designing highly individualized learning programs where standard educational models prove insufficient. I am a Cambridge-certified facilitator and an ICF credentialed ACC, using coaching frameworks as supportive structures for inquiry while allowing wisdom traditions and lived reflection to remain primary.I live, study, write, and work at the intersection of devotion, discernment, and disciplined learning, holding these as lifelong practices rather than fixed roles. If you feel drawn to reflective dialogue, learning journeys, or contemplative exchange around this work, you are welcome to reach out via DM.

Experience

1. Founder and Wisdom Guide

   Jahnava Academy

   Oct 2023 — Present

   At Jahnava Academy, learning unfolds through reflective guidance, storytelling, contemplative practice and scriptural exploration rooted in ancient Indic wisdom, approached as living knowledge rather than abstract philosophy and grounded in a conscious relationship with Krishna as revealed through the Vedic scriptures.The work supports meaningful inner shifts, helping individuals and groups develop clarity, discernment, and inner steadiness in how they live, work, lead and respond to responsibility and pressure. Engagements span individuals, families, communities, educational institutions and organizations, with learning shaped by lived contexts rather than fixed formats.This work is grounded in contemplative inquiry rather than quick solutions or performance-driven frameworks. Reflective workshops, mentoring conversations and thoughtfully designed learning journeys support ethical seeing, mature response and grounded decision-making across personal, professional, and leadership contexts.Practices such as mantra meditation, Sanskrit mantra recitation and story-based transmission are offered as lived disciplines, supporting attention, remembrance and inner orientation. Scriptural engagement unfolds through discourses, guided discussions and learning dialogues, allowing Indic texts, especially the Bhagavad Gītā to be encountered with depth, relevance, and continuity in everyday life and work.Curricula and learning journeys are designed and adapted for individual, family, community, institutional and organizational settings, shaped by specific needs, cultural contexts, and stages of life rather than standardized models.The academy’s work is held as a collaborative and reflective process, allowing understanding to unfold over time, in rhythm with each learner’s readiness and life context.Professional coaching conversations are held within ethical and professional boundaries, including ICF-aligned frameworks when appropriate.

Education

• Erickson Coaching International

  ACSTH, Coaching

• Indian Montessori Organization

  Training, Early Childhood Education through Montessori Philosophy

  2008 — 2009

• Co-Active Training Institute

  ACTP (Accredited Coaching Training Program) - Fundamentals, Balance, Process and In the Bones, Professional Coaching

  2006 — 2006

• World Story Telling Institute

  Story Telling

• Bharathidasan University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

• University of Cambridge

  CIDTT, Education

• Bharathidasan University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  1994 — 1996

• Gurukula (Sri Ramanuja Sampradaya)

  Religious Studies - Sri Ramanuja Vaishnava Sampradaya, Vaishnavism

• Asianic Psychologists Press

  MBTI Training, MBTI Psychometrics Profiling Step I and II

  2008