OUR PEOPLE
  
Our faculty has numerous years experience working in the business arena and has also studied the Indian scriptures under the direct guidance of their guru’s.
 
• Pawan Malik (click to see resume)
 

Pawan is the principal promoter and shareholder of Inner Challenges, a life coaching company that looks to bring the wisdom of Indian spiritual tradition into our day-to-day existence. As part of this initiative, it has set up Shreyas, a boutique Yoga retreat in Bangalore, India. At Shreyas, Yoga can be learnt and practiced by all, irrespective of age, health and faith. Shreyas subscribes to the view that you do not need to compromise on your creature comforts to get access to authentic teachers and teachings from this eternal, vibrant and universally applicable philosophy.

Pawan was Managing Director, Bankers Trust, a US investment bank, and left a full time career to pursue his studies of the Indian scriptures in 2000. Pawan practiced Yoga at the Jiva Mukti School of Ashtanga Yoga in New York. He is a qualified yoga teacher from the Vivekananda Yoga School in Bangalore teaches yoga and mentors select executives on professional and personal issues.

  
• Shankar Narayan (visiting consultant)
 

Shankar Narayan studied B Tech Electrical Engineering at the prestigious Indian institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and has 15 years of industry experience managing international turnkey projects. He was an advisor to the Chairman and Managing Director of the Minerals and Metal Trading Corporation, India prior to resigning to pursue his spiritual studies.

   
 
He is a disciple of Sri Anna Subramanian (grand-disciple of Sri Ramakrishna) and Swami Poornaananda, Srisailam (grand-disciple of Swami Nityananda), has spent over 25 years studying/practicing the Indian Scriptures and possesses an in-depth knowledge of the teachings.
 

He currently teaches Yoga Vedanta to Management students and Executives of various public/private organizations. Every Sunday, he delivers an exposition of the Bhagavad-Gita at a temple in New Delhi.
 
  
Rucha Sukhramani (Director of Yoga)

Rucha is a qualified Therapeutic Yoga Instructor from the Vivekananda Kendra, India and has done her Bachelors in Physical Education with a major in Yoga from LNIPE, Gwalior. She was a founder member, responsible for setting up the Yoga Center in Manipal Hospital, in Bangalore. She worked there as a therapist, teaching asanas and meditation techniques. She has also been involved with treating patients in her private practice for the last 8 years.
Krishna Prakash (Facilitator, Researcher and Content provider of workshops)
Krishna Prakash is a Corporate Trainer with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Sri Sringeri Sharada Institute of Management, New Delhi. He was an IT Analyst and Lecturer in Management Studies before taking up Corporate Training and has run numerous workshops on creativity and communication skills.

 
• Nidhi Sood (Web Strategist and Content Developer)
 

Nidhi is a web designer and editor, with an Economics degree from Delhi University. She has formerly worked as Creative and Marketing Manager for a Women's portal with a strong focus on women's independence and personal growth. Nidhi wrote, edited and collated articles on a diverse spectrum of topics like alternative healing, law, careers, travel, inter-personal relationships etc. she was also responsible for designing the website, its marketing and interaction with its members, both online and through career-oriented workshops and seminars.
 
Since January 2002, she has been working with Inner Challenges as the content developer and website administrator.
 
• Shiv Malik (Director and visiting consultant)

Formerly, the Chairman & Managing director of Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation, India (“MMTC”), he is now the chief advisor to James Martin & Company as well as a member of the governing board of the Centre of Excellence & Training of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (“MTNL”).
He has over 25 years experience working in the private sector, 9 years in the public sector and 5 years as a management consultant. He is a highly respected public speaker on management subjects such as transformational leadership, change management etc.