Raah De Healing

Meet Yashna

I am one of you.
Engineer. MBA. Fashion Retail Consultant. Mother. Still asking questions...

Yashna standing in a tree-lined park alley, smiling toward the camera

Hi. I’m Yashna

I studied Computer Science Engineering, went on to do my MBA, and built a career in fashion retail consulting.

For a long time, I was doing what many of us are taught to do — study, work hard, make sensible choices and keep moving towards the next thing.

And I liked that life. I liked working, learning, meeting people and building something of my own.

But life does not only happen through careers and plans.

It happens through the places you live, the people you love, the decisions you make, the roles you grow into, and the moments when what worked for you before suddenly doesn’t feel quite the same anymore.

Those were the experiences that slowly made me more curious about myself.

I didn’t arrive here because I had everything figured out.

I had questions too.

My story began with life happening.

Work changed. Cities changed. Relationships became deeper. New roles entered my life. Some decisions opened doors, while others made me stop and ask what I actually wanted.

There were phases when life moved exactly as I had planned, and others when I had to make choices without knowing where they would lead.

That is where the questions began.

Not because I went looking for spirituality.

Because I was trying to understand the life I was already living.

I knew how to solve problems. Life was less tidy.

Computer Science Engineering taught me to break a problem down and look for an answer.

My MBA and professional life taught me to make decisions, work with very different people and keep moving even when the answer wasn’t obvious.

But some of the hardest decisions I faced had nothing to do with work.

They came with change.

A new city. A relationship. Marriage. A different career direction. A new version of the future I had imagined for myself.

Life kept asking me to make choices before I could know exactly how they would turn out.

And I began learning that not every question can be solved like an equation.

Sometimes you have to live through it, listen to yourself, and allow the person you were to make room for the person you are becoming.

I didn’t arrive with everything figured out — I arrived with questions.

I had questions about work, relationships, identity, what I wanted next, and why a life that looked perfectly fine could still leave me feeling unsettled.

I wasn’t looking for someone to tell me who to become.

I was looking for ways to understand what I was already feeling.

And that is still what matters most to me today — creating a space where another woman can speak honestly, feel heard, and leave understanding herself a little better.

Close portrait of Yashna outdoors, looking toward the camera
Yashna seated in namaste on the grass beneath a large tree
Yashna in a quiet outdoor portrait
Yashna walking along a sunlit city street
Yashna in tree pose on a pink mat beneath a winter tree

This is how I got here →

2008–2012

I started with a plan.

I studied engineering.

At that age, life felt fairly straightforward to me.

Study hard.

Build a good career.

Work your way towards a good life.

I was practical, ambitious and much more interested in making plans than looking for signs from the universe.

I liked knowing what came next.

For a long time, I thought that was how life worked.

Close portrait of Yashna outdoors, looking toward the camera

2012–2014

Then I wanted more.

I went on to do my MBA.

Not because I had suddenly discovered some grand purpose.

I simply wanted to learn more, grow faster and give myself more choices.

I was still very much the person who believed that if I worked hard enough and made sensible decisions, I would eventually arrive at a life that felt completely right.

At the time, I didn’t question that very much.

Yashna walking away down a quiet street of pale green buildings

2014–2017

Work became a big part of who I was.

I entered the professional world and spent years working across different roles and environments, including consulting.

Deadlines.

Meetings.

Expectations.

Trying to do good work.

Trying to get better.

A lot of it suited me.

I liked responsibility. I liked solving problems. I liked being useful.

From the outside, I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing.

And for a while, that felt like enough.

Yashna resting on a park bench with an umbrella beside her

2017–2021

But life was getting bigger than work.

Over the years, I lived in very different parts of India — Jalandhar, Patiala, Dahod, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Goa.

Work changed.

Cities changed.

Relationships became more important.

Marriage became part of my life.

And slowly, the questions became more personal.

Not:

“What should I achieve next?”

But:

“Is this actually the life I want?”

I didn’t have a dramatic crisis.

I simply began noticing that doing well and feeling completely fulfilled were not always the same thing.

Yashna at a mountain overlook, standing by a railing under open sky
Yashna in a crow pose on a blue mat, with hills and temple roofs behind her

2021

Rishikesh taught me to slow down.

Yoga became real for me in Rishikesh.

Until then, so much of my life had been about doing.

Learning.

Working.

Planning.

Solving.

Yoga asked something very different of me.

Slow down.

Notice.

Stay.

It was one of the first times I began to understand that I could spend hours thinking about a problem and still not hear myself clearly.

Sometimes I needed to become quieter first.

2022

Then I learned to sit with myself.

Meditation sounded simple.

Sit still.

Close your eyes.

Be quiet.

For me, it wasn’t always simple at all.

I started noticing how quickly my mind wanted to solve something, judge it, plan what came next or simply move on.

Slowly, I became a little more comfortable not having an immediate answer.

That sounds small.

It changed more than I expected.

Yashna in namaste on a sandy garden path

2022

And I started noticing something I had done my whole life.

Breathe.

Of course I had been breathing my entire life.

But through yoga and pranayama, I began paying attention to it differently.

I noticed how different I could feel when I slowed my breath instead of trying to slow my thoughts.

It made something very simple feel surprisingly powerful.

Not everything had to begin in my head.

Yashna sitting against a tree with her eyes closed
Yashna in a low lunge on a yoga mat in a leafy park

2022–2023

Seeing more of the world changed some of my answers.

Travel had always excited me, but over time it began doing something else too.

I spent time across Europe, including Barcelona and France, and more than a month in Southeast Asia.

Different places showed me different versions of what a good life could look like.

Different ways to work.

To love.

To build families.

To use time.

To define success.

The more perspectives I encountered, the less certain I became that there was only one right way to live.

Yashna with her arms open on a high pedestrian bridge at dusk

2023–2024

Canada made one idea very personal.

I spent more than a year living in Toronto.

And during that chapter, one of the things I wanted most was to become a mother.

Manifestation was something I had heard about before.

But wanting something this deeply changed the way I thought about it.

For me, it became less about wishing for something and more about intention, belief, patience and learning to hold hope without knowing exactly how life would unfold.

It became personal.

Yashna facing a stone building on a cobbled street
Yashna sitting on a balance ball, hands resting on her pregnancy

2024

Then I became pregnant.

Suddenly, the future meant something different.

For years I had thought about work, ambition, travel, relationships and what I wanted to build.

Now I was becoming someone I had never been before.

A mother.

I was happy.

I was grateful.

And I was also stepping into something completely unknown.

Pregnancy taught me that two very different feelings can be true at the same time.

You can be deeply excited and still have questions.

2025

Motherhood changed more than my routine.

Becoming a mother changed the way I thought about identity.

You can love this new person more than you knew was possible and still miss parts of the woman you were before.

You can be grateful and tired.

Ambitious and unsure.

Completely in love with your child and still need something that belongs only to you.

I stopped seeing those things as contradictions.

I began seeing them as part of becoming someone new.

Yashna in namaste beside a large bougainvillea in bloom

2026

Eventually, the pieces started making sense together.

Engineering taught me to ask questions.

Work taught me responsibility.

Travel made me question the idea that there is only one right way to live.

Yoga taught me to slow down.

Breath taught me to notice my body.

Meditation taught me to stay with a question.

Manifestation changed the way I thought about intention.

Motherhood changed the way I thought about identity.

None of these things gave me every answer.

They simply changed the way I listened.

And somewhere in all of that, Raah De Healing began.

Yashna meditating with eyes closed, hills and temple spires behind her
Yashna standing in front of a lit fountain at night

Toronto

Yashna in namaste in front of the Louvre pyramid

France

Yashna with her arms open on a high pedestrian bridge at dusk

Southeast Asia

There was never one momentwhen everything suddenly made sense.

There were lots of small ones.

Yashna offering into a fire ceremony indoors with fellow practitioners
  • A place.
  • A conversation.
  • A practice.
  • A question.
  • A version of myself I had outgrown.

When I look back now, I can see how they connected.

At the time, I was simply living them.

Yashna walking away down a long tree-lined alley

I am one of you.

Not because our stories are the same.

But because I know what it feels like to change, question what comes next, and have to meet yourself again.