GURU PURNIMA

Sunday 10th July 2022

2pm till 8 pm 

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(All times are in BST(British Summer Time))

Seema Bhatia

(Hong Kong)

2.00 pm

Host Introduction 

Seema Bhatia

Seema was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. Her culinary interests developed at an early age founded on a family food business. Extensive travels in Africa, India and South East Asia have allowed her to follow her culinary passion and grow her knowledge on the effects of food on the mind and body. Using secret skills handed down from grandmother to granddaughter with the belief that you are what you eat she draws from the ancient practices of Ayurveda and Mayan wisdom, curating healing spice blends, immunity enhancing yogic teas, self care prescriptions and other wellbeing foods. Ones thought process and method breathing  can positively or negatively impact ones mental and physical health. Seema is a qualified Breath, Water & Sound teacher with The Art of Living.
Her intertwine of diet, breath work, meditation and self care prescriptions nourish the mind, body and soul and put one on a journey of greater wellbeing allowing one to live their  life to the fullest. Seema has successfully shared her skills and knowledge with corporates and individuals over many years in Hong Kong and Singapore and is now based in Oxford.
Seema  is passionate about  music and dance and she enjoys producing and hosting kitchen episodes.

(India)

2.05 pm

108 Suryanamaskar Group 

Paying tribute to their Guru

Visiting India Live Online

Global Audience welcome to

come and  pay respect and offer 

gratitude to their Teacher

Veena Pani

(UK)

2.40 pm

Kona Veena Pani 

 

Students of Swara Villu paying

tribute to their Guru

 

Shrii Gautam

(UK)

3.05 pm

Shrii Gautam

Resident Singer

Shrii Gautam trained in Indian classical music in Calcutta a singer and performer.
Shrii works with Bollywood music companies like T-Series, Shemaroo, and others in Hindi, Punjabi, and Bengali music.
Shrii is passionate about
semi – classical, Ghazal, Devotional, and Bollywood songs.
Shrii has performed in various Bollywood concerts and live shows in the uk including Solo Bollywood Concert with an orchestra at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Dr Honey Kalaria

(India)

3.20 pm

Dr Honey Kalaria

Bringing Gurupurnima Messages 

and tour  of  Ashram 

Live from India

Dharti Vasani

(UK)

3.45 pm

Dharti Vasani

Resident Singer

Dharti Vasani is a primary school teacher and an artiste trained in Hindustani Classical music. Her musical journey started when she was very young.
Dharti has been performing on stage since her school-college days. Learning different aspects of Indian music has always been fascinating to her. She has been a performing artiste on various stages and musical forums across India and UK.

Dr Lalit Sodha

(UK)

4.00 pm

HOST

Dr Lalit Sodha

Lalit Sodha, D.C. graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Toronto, Canada in 1990.He also qualified with the Spine Research Institute of San Diego in the Masters Program in Whiplash Injuries (1994), hence has a keen interest in treating patients with whiplash injuries. Lalit Sodha, D.C. also prepares medical-legal reports for insurance companies and their patients.

Over the years, he has had the privilege of treating numerous singers, dancers and performers at Wembley Arena before and after performances.

Medha Nainegli

(India)

4.00 pm

Medha Nainegli

Medha is the co-founder of Arsha Samyoga School of Yoga and Vedanta. She has completed her 500 hours Yoga Teacher Training. She has completed her Master’s degree with Distinction in Yoga. She worked for over 1 year at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore (NIMHANS), as a yoga therapist, offering yoga classes for patients with psychiatric issues.
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She has completed several Advaita Vedanta texts under Acharya Ravi Easwaran ji and is currently studying the Upanishads.

Shivani Attri

(Dubai)

4.15 pm

Shivani Attri

Shivani Attri hails from Himachal Pradesh and is now residing in Dubai. She has a bachelor of science degree. Having worked in Aviation initially and aspiring to become a Pilot, she attained Pilot License, but as destiny would have it, she got fully involved in the pursuit of Vedanta and became a full-fledged Yoga and Vedanta teacher after acquiring Advanced Teacher’s Training from Sivananda Ashram.
She is taking online classes, teaching Vedanta and Bhagavadgita, and has to her credit for successful completion of more over 1,000 webinars on Vedantic teachings.

Girish Jogia

(U.K)

Girish Jogia

Singer

Girish Jogia is the founder of Shree Ganesh Bhajan Group. With the blessings of Maa Sarswati the group has been performing live for last ten years. Performances include:
Bhakti Sangeet, Bhajans for all occasions, Hanuman chalisa, Golden oldies from Bollywood, Mehfil’s, Karaoke, Garba, Sangeet night and live singing during the wedding ceremony.
During this pandemic year they have featured many times on Healing our Earth.

Global Audience welcome to

come and  pay respect and offer 

gratitude to their Teacher

Suchetha Satish

(Dubai)

5.00 pm

Suchetha Satish

Resident Multi-Voice Singer

Suchetha Satish is a Double World Record Holder for Most Languages sung in a concert and the Longest live Singing Concert by a child artiste.
Suchetha, just 16, is passionate about singing and aims to become an international performer just like her role model Shreya Ghoshal.
Suchetha sings in more than 132 languages!

Deepti Kataria

(Egypt/India)

5.30 pm

Deepti Kataria

Resident Panelist

Deepti is an Electrical Engineering graduate, and  is the first female president of Indian Community of Egypt. She is reader of various ancient Indic scriptures .
Deepti is fluent in Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Arabic and used to be the physics head of department in Cairo. She has been a resident of Egypt for over 20 years. 
She has published her papers on various international platforms (including South Africa / India).
Being a mathematician and science enthusiast she has regularly been  invited as a public speaker  in Universities and on Egyptian National TV.

Global Audience welcome to

come and  pay respect and offer 

gratitude to their Teacher

Sharron Rose 

(U.S.A)

6.00 pm

HOST 

Sharron Rose

Sharron Rose, MA, Ed, winner of the Filmmaker of the Year Award from the 20th World Congress on Qigong, Tai Chi TCM, Daoism and Natural Healing, is the director/ producer of the forthcoming documentary series, Quantum Qi: The Taoist Art of Nurturing Life. 
 
As a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies to conduct extensive research into the art, culture and spiritual traditions of North India, she became the first American disciple of Kathak Queen and early Bollywood star, Sitara Devi.
 
Sharron has lectured, performed and presented her films in numerous universities, spiritual centers, cultural organizations and museums and was a consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of The Path of the Priestess: A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine. and is currently completing a cd, The Nectar of Bliss dedicated to the healing power of the Divine Feminine in cultures throughout the world. 

 

Shri Hemang Bhai

(UK)

6.00 pm

Shri Hemang Bhai

Residential Priest

Shri Hemang Bhai, a Hindu Priest from London, is Speaker & Spiritual guide. He was born in a family of Hindu Brahmin priests and began studying the Vedic scriptures in an Ashram (hermitage) & learned ceremonies there in India.
He loves to share the divine wisdom of our Vedic culture, especially the message of Lord Krishna and Hindu Values

Zuleikha

(USA)

6.30 pm

Zuleikha

Zuleikha is an international performer and educator whose work inspires dynamic creativity and rejuvenation through the profound art of movement. Renowned for her global work with women, children and families, “storydance” performances, innovative classes, and collaborations celebrating the poetry of Rumi, she is also the creator of Take a Minute™, an exercise program to increase vitality and resilience. Founder and executive director of The Storydancer Project, a non-profit organization that serves girls, women, children and families facing challenging life circumstances, Zuleikha is a recipient of several awards for her outstanding work in the world promoting positive personal and social change.

Antonia Minnecola

(USA)

Antonia Minnecola

Homage to the Guru: Sitara Devi and the Benares Lineage

Antonia Minnecola is a Kathak dancer, the disciple of India’s celebrated dancer/filmstar/personality/legend Sitara Devi, with whom she studied for nearly three decades, originally under the auspices of two American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowships. 
Antonia has appeared in major festivals and tours worldwide, including the Bay Area’s Other Minds Festival, Stanford Lively Arts, SF Ethnic Dance Festival, SF Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the Auckland Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and Morocco’s Sacred Music Festival. Twice a recipient of the Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for Choreography, she has employed the Kathak style to present contemporary dance works, often collaborating with artists of different genres. As a soloist, she is often accompanied by tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, and appears with his touring ensemble “Masters of Percussion”. 

Prakriti Das

(Nepal)

Daniel Christensen (Prakriti Das)

Daniel Christensen (Prakriti Das) started studying drumset in 1978, with private lessons from Cary Nasatir in Oakland California and then graduated from the Percussion Institute of Technology in 1982. In 2014, he went to South Asia for the first time to continue his music studies after 22 years as a small-time drumset player and 14 years as a small-time tabla player.  As he walked the ghats of the Ganges river in Banaras, India, people used to ask him what his profession was. 
 He had had many music teachers and mentors along the way and many yet to come. ..  Shashanka Bakshi, Shanti Shivani, Sharron Rose, Shyam Kumar Mishra, Homnath Upadhyay and Achyut Ram Bhandari.  Now he spends his time sometimes in Kathmandu with his Nepali wife and sometimes in a cottage in Hawaii, practicing and playing.

THANK YOU 

Technical Director –  Nishit Kotak 

Luxembourg Producer/Host – Kiran Robinson

Kitchen Episodes Producer/Host – Seema Bhatia 

Production Director/Anchor  – Dr Honey Kalaria

Health Episodes Producer/Host – Dr Rajeev Gupta

Mauritius Co-Ordinator/Host – Saivani Samboo

U.S.A Co-Ordinator/Host – Sharron Rose

Host Director – Simran Ahuja 

Creative Director – Sarita Menon

Media Team – Kesh Morjaria 

Host Team –  Seema Bhatia, Dr Lalit Sodha and Sharron Rose

Back Up Team –  Dr Lalit Sodha, Dr Sheila Dobee, Dr Milen Shah,         Dr Wai Ching Lee, Shivali Ruparelia, Ravi & Sushma Bhanot,           Shivani Vithlani and Dr Ju Lee Tay

Facilitator Team – Various

Channel Partners – Hindu Forum of Europe, MentalHealth_Connect, Hindu Matters in Britain, Enrich, Sanskruti, Simran Ahuja Official, Diwali in London, Bhakti Sagar TV, Sarita Sabrawal Official and many more.

Special Thanks : Strategic Web Success and www.inndus.co.uk

 

Host Conclusion

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