Namaste. I'm Chaitali. 

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I'm an Integral Vedic Counselor, certified through the American Institute of Vedic Studies, with over twenty-five years of practice in yoga, ayurvedic lifestyle and meditation.

I teach yoga and guide meditation at Shankara Ayurveda Spa and the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina.

Integral Vedic Counseling is not modern therapy and doesn't replace it. It's an older approach: reading a persons life through the Vedic understanding of constitution, timing, and svadharma — what you're made of, what season you are in, and what is actually yours to do.

I work with women in transition, the quiet disorientation that arrives when a life that was supposed to work doesn't.

What is missing isn't insight; it's a framework old enough to hold what one is going through.

I take a few clients a month - it's the number I can hold while practicing seriously myself. I don't run a program, a course, or a membership. Sessions are one to one, and the aim is that you need fewer of them over time, not more.

If something here lands, message me and well talk about whether it's a fit.

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I am not anyone's guru and I hold no one's lineage. Rshika is not a title I wear — it is the name of women who came long before me, who were still enough to hear what was already being spoken, and whose direction I have pointed my life in.

 

I am a little further along one road, not standing at the end of it.​