🌿Hi, I'm Heena
I am a mother, author, meditation teacher, and guide in embodied self-enquiry.
I have studied extensively in the fields of meditation, self-enquiry, nervous-system awareness, and embodied healing.
However, my deepest learning has come through lived experience, and a long personal journey of healing, motherhood, meditation, and embodied awareness over the past three decades.
🌿My Story
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When I was five years old, my mother left to follow her spiritual path. I went to live with my father — loving in his own way, but emotionally reserved — and my stepmother, who struggled deeply with depression.
Growing up within emotional silence, and disconnection shaped both my emotional and physical wellbeing in ways I would only fully understand later in life.
On the day of my kidney transplant in 1997, I experienced a profound glimpse of deep stillness beyond thought.
That moment quietly transformed the direction of my life and awakened deeper questions around healing, suffering, and what it truly means to be alive.
That experience became the beginning of a lifelong journey of meditation, enquiry, healing, and embodied awareness.
Motherhood deepened this journey even further.
My grandmother, a deeply spiritual Hindu woman who held Satsang in West London, encouraged me to experience motherhood itself as a path of awareness and inner growth.
Through raising my children, Jamie and Sienna, I began to understand how deeply our own unresolved experiences, emotional patterns, and nervous-system conditioning can quietly move through family life across generations.
The realisation that these patterns could continue into the next generation became a powerful catalyst for healing.
Through this journey, I came to understand that what we carry from the past is often held silently within the body through tension, emotional holding, and protective nervous-system patterns.
Today, my work gently supports mothers in reconnecting with themselves through the body, bringing awareness to what has been silently carried, and rediscovering the quiet inner support that has always been within them.
Nearly three decades after my kidney transplant, a renal consultant at the Royal Free Hospital in London expressed surprise at the remarkable health of my transplanted kidney — something considered rare after so many years.
Our conversation about meditation, embodiment, and nervous-system awareness became part of what encouraged me to begin sharing this work more openly with others.
The Seven Layers of Inner Peace™ is a gentle embodied framework exploring the ways we reconnect with ourselves through the body, awareness, rest, and inner listening.
At the heart of this work is an invitation to listen more deeply to the body, allowing space for awareness, reconnection, and rest to emerge naturally.
My book, Fragrance of Freedom: Discovering Peace Through Mothering (Troubador Publishing), was published in 2023.
Often described as a gentle companion for mothers, the book explores motherhood through stillness, awareness, healing, and embodied presence.
The book is beautifully illustrated by my children, Jamie and Sienna, whose artwork brings further depth and tenderness to its pages.
Qualifications and Training
After graduating from university, I began my career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs in London.
Following a kidney transplant and the birth of my children, I embarked on a long personal journey of healing, meditation, self-enquiry, and embodied awareness that has shaped both my personal and professional life over the past three decades.
My path has included extensive study and training in meditation, psychology, trauma-aware practice, nervous system awareness, and conscious enquiry with teachers including Dr. Gabor Maté, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Rupert Spira, Mooji, Richard Miller, and A.H. Almaas.
Qualifications and Training
My work is grounded in nearly three decades of meditation, embodied awareness, trauma-informed healing, and self-enquiry. Â
Meditation, Trauma and Embodied Awareness
-  Compassionate Enquiry Professional Training — Dr. Gabor Maté (2023–2024, trauma informed)
- iRest Meditation Teacher Training and Self-Enquiry — Richard Miller & Stephanie Lopez (2022–present, trauma informed)Â
- Power of Awareness — Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield (2020)
- British School of Meditation — Teacher Training (2019) Â
Enquiry and Non-Dual Awareness
- Diamond Approach Training and Enquiry — A.H. Almaas & Karen Johnson (2021–present)
- Advaita Vedanta & Non-Dual Meditation Study — Mooji (2009–2016)Â
- Advaita Vedanta & Non-Dual Meditation Study — Rupert Spira (2016-present)
- A Course in Miracles Forgiveness Training — with Sandy Levy Lundeen (2002–2009) Â
Sound, Yoga and Embodied Practice
- Mantra & Sound Meditation Training — with Chloë Goodchild (2007–2009)
- Raja Yoga Meditation Teacher Training — Brahma Kumaris, London (2000-2003)
- Reflexology Training — London School of Reflexology (2003–04) Â
Psychology and Healing
- Psychology of Vision Teacher Training — Chuck Spezzano (2007–2010)
- Long-term study and practice in trauma-informed approaches, in-depth psychology, and self-enquiry  Â
Education and Writing
- Postgraduate Certificate in Writing — Middlesex University, London 2007
- BSc (Hons) Business Information Systems — University of Portsmouth, 1992
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