Chetna means “
awareness” in Sanskrit
Pronounced cheth·nah meh·thah
I am a daughter of the Indian and South African diasporas. My pronouns are she/they.
As a multidisciplinary artist, alchemist, and creativity doula (a term my clients gave to me), I transmute cold, hard anxiety, depression, stagnancy and disconnection into golden awareness, creative life force, embodied trust, flow, beauty and purpose.
I know longing, anxiety, and depression intimately. Shaped by the experiences of immigration and assimilation, biracial marriage and divorce, disability and recovery from addiction, spiritual seeking, and the daily reclamation of life force energy, I also know resilience, awe, and the magic of radical self-trust and divine collaboration.
My education, training and work…
span social sciences, counseling psychology, liberation-oriented yoga, global cultural exchange through education, corporate leadership, media and entertainment, multidisciplinary healing arts, ceremony and ritual.
I continue to deepen my learning and praxis in compassion, cooperative leadership, culturally aware and strengths-based collaboration, wealth consciousness, and ecological frameworks—because embodying the person I’m here to be allows me to serve as a mirror for others to embody the people they are here be.
