Awakening Agni – Igniting your Inner Fire

Arti trained as an Allopathic physician in Uk. An extensive amount of travelling, research and clinical practice unfolded into various third world countries, to take the practice of medicine to a new level of understanding and application in places which were extremely underesourced. A new paradigm of the human condition revealed itself. Growing up in Africa, the indigenous systems were a constant source of fascination for healing. This ignited a desire to explore other ancient healing systems. Travelled far and wide to acquire knowledge of traditional systems. My humble beginnings of that journey started with a fascination with China, where I engaged in an in-depth study of acupuncture at Nanjing University of Traditional Medicine. Here I acquired the necessary opening into the mind-body-spirit dimension of the human system, while completing a Diploma in Acupuncture. This allowed an application of this intricate science into my clinical practice, and so began the journey of the understanding the self-healing dimension of the human system. Thereafter, the pursuit of the Sanskrit language led itself into a Masters in Ayurvedic medicine at Middlesex University in Uk. This opened the wisdom of the system under the tutelage of my Ayurvedic guru Raghavan Thirumalapad in Kerala. To further understand the human system, an undertaking of a teacher training in yoga allowed to evaluate how to mobilise the physical system to improve its receptivity to this core aspect of well-being. As these layers unfolded it deepened the yearning to understanding the purpose of this life. Through that inquiry a spiritual guru, Sadhguru jaggi Vasudev, opened a whole new dimension. A joyous and a most purposeful journey awakened, and since have been immersed into that sense or servitude, surrender and humility; the three tenets which guide a sense of freedom and constant learning. This led to a full time voluntary vocation at the ashram for the last 8 years in the rejuvenation center. The rejuvenation center is a beautiful composition created by Sadhguru which is a marriage of three traditional Indian sciences of Ayurveda, siddha and yoga. After embracing the more subtle and expansive sciences, a very natural and organic unfolding lead itself into an inquiry into how sound also plays an instrumental part to one’s wellbeing. Hence, I started an undertaking of vocal training within the Classical Hindustani genre. As an extension to this, I am also currently engaged into a Teacher Training program on Healing Vedic Chants at the Krishnamacharya Institute (Chennai, India). Together with this offering I have also been trained in the use of tuning forks and understanding the frequencies of sound as a healing tool. The beginning of 2019 took me to the deeper echelons of the Siddha system, which has its origins seeped into the Tamil culture of South India. A profound system of healing, known as Varma, has been imparted by a very humble Siddha master Pal Pandian. Keeping these experiences enlivened and making it an offering a further engagement of a PhD in integrative medicine is currently being pursued to be completed within the next 2 years. The return back to UK this year has been a journey of culminating all these manifold branches, which has led to the birthing of a community interest company. The basic ethos of it is to be of service to the multitude aspects of health and wellbeing for the wider landscape of the community. The services are basically an integration of the wisdom of many traditional systems and holistic approaches to health care.