Engineer · Griever · Seeker · Healer

I'm an engineer by training, a healer by calling. For the last several years, joyfully both at once.

Science and spirituality have always coexisted for me. I grew up in a Gujarati Jain household in New Jersey, surrounded by Indian traditions, rituals, and a deep reverence for ancient wisdom. My family were engineers and believers, logic and faith lived side by side at our dinner table, and I never saw a contradiction in that.

But like many children of immigrants, my path was mapped out early: get good grades, get into a good school, get a good job, be financially stable. I followed it faithfully. Cornell for engineering. Two years in consulting. Then finance. Then a MBA at UCLA Anderson. Then tech startups. Then Google.

I was doing everything right. And I was quietly miserable.

The question that kept surfacing was: what's the point of money if you have no time or energy to actually live?

In 2009, my parents passed away unexpectedly. Overnight, everything I had built my life around stopped making sense. The first year I was going through the motions externally, but unravelling internally. I didn't think I would ever feel happy again. I got through that first year through mantra, spirituality, and therapy. Eventually I was able to study for the GMAT and decided to pursue business school as I didn’t see myself in my finance job long-term. Slowly, hope began emerging. Moving cross country was a fresh start, something I intuitively new I needed. After business school I moved back to NYC, this time working at tech startups. I encountered toxic environments, systematic issues, and felt defeated. I had done everything right, but it didn’t feel like enough. It all seemed pointless and arbitrary.

What brought me back was something I had carried my whole life without fully understanding it, the wisdom of my ancestors. Yoga philosophy. The chakra system. The healing power of sound and breath. Practices I had grown up around, but had set aside in the pursuit of achievement. Coming back to them felt like returning home after a very long time away.

I went to yoga teacher training. Then Nepal for advanced sound healing. Then Pranic Healing. Then deeper, and deeper still. Year by year, modality by modality, I began to understand that every tradition I was studying pointed to the same truth: we are energetic beings, and when our energy is blocked, everything suffers: our health, our mood, our relationships, our sense of purpose.

I still work at Google. I believe in data, in evidence, in measurable outcomes. And I also believe, from direct experience, that sound can shift your nervous system in minutes, that energy healing can reach what talk therapy sometimes cannot, and that the ancient tools my grandparents' generation lived by are exactly what many of us need right now.

In 2018, a few months after finishing yoga teacher training, I felt a clear inner calling to share what I had learned. I've been answering that call ever since.

In 2024 I co-founded Soul Tara with my husband to create practical tools to work with energy for the people who already feel it. Our products include guided journals and energy healing infused aura sprays and bath salts. All products are inspired by our rituals and routines as energy healers, we are sharing what we use for our own energetic maintenance.

Thank you for being here.