Position: Partner
After having worked as a clinical researcher for many years, and as a medical data analyst in the corporate world, Vardhini saw first hand the stress associated with daily involvement in the corporate realm. She wanted to investigate how to truly connect the mind and body for living a well-balanced and healthy life.
Vardhini was born in India and had been exposed to the daily practice of meditation since childhood, but had not realized the depth of its impact until she moved to the United States and began working here. That’s where she noticed the fast-paced lifestyle where we keep on going to keep up with life, never taking time to pause! She realized how important the pause really is to well-being and fulfillment.
Vardhini’s passion is to empower people to learn how to meditate, grab life by the horns, and lead the world with compassion. She says, “P A U S E and P O W E R up !” As a professional meditation teacher and facilitator, and while serving as a MERG Asian Diversity Leader at the Mayo Clinic, she shares meditation and its benefits. She has seen many of her students, including Mayo Clinic employees, mitigate pain, manage stress, reduce medications, embrace life, and create balance with meditation and mindfulness, even while going through various diagnoses including Parkinson’s and cancer.
She also loves to teach mindfulness in the corporate sector, and as an MMI Mindfulness@Work Trainer, delivers programs that give employees ways to recharge during the workday.
As a researcher herself, she dives deep into the myriad of research findings available that proves the benefits of meditation and shares practical applications with her students.
She is a popular public speaker on topics such as Pause 2 Power Up; Demystifying Meditation; What’s your Why?; and Stress Relief Mechanisms of Meditation Practice, and is determined to inspire people everywhere to develop their own mindfulness practice so they can experience the amazing results of meditation and mindfulness at home or at work.
She is grateful and thankful for all her teachers Swami Chidatmananda, Sarah McLean, and many others that guided and inspired her into the Meditation/Mindfulness path. Vardhini also teaches in Bangalore, India.