Eshita Desai | Art of Living Faculty
“A successful person has the following qualities: A smile that doesn’t die; patience, fearless mind; self-confidence and love for everybody.”
-Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar
A firm believer and follower of the aforementioned quote, Eshita desai is a scintillating personality who serves as a full time ‘Art of Living’ faculty.
Although she pursued Chartered Accountancy (foundation level gold medalist) in her earlier years, she decided to walk the path of spirituality and contribute to Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar’s mission of spreading smiles. She has been a part of the Art of Living organization (an organization which operates globally in 156 countries and has impacted the lives of over 450 million people) for more than 21 years now and it was in 2011 that she was blessed as an Art of Living faculty. Since then, there has been no looking back. She is a certified Utkarsha Yoga (art excel), Medha Yoga (yes), yes+, Sri Sri Yoga, Prajna Yoga, Happiness program/ Online Meditation and Breath workshop, Corporate program and a Wellness program faculty. At present, she is also the State Youth Coordinator (SYC) for Gujarat.
In the 10 years of her beautiful journey as an Art of Living teacher, she has conducted 250+ Art of Living Course for teens, youth and people of all ages and has transformed more than 15000 lives (and still counting) through it. With her excellent communication and interpersonal skills, she has touched and inspired nearly 100,000 people (and still counting) through her sessions and seminars in different schools, colleges, universities, corporate companies and other institutions all over Gujarat. Her efforts have enabled thousands of these to embrace the happy and healthy way of lifestyle and many have even overcome their chronic ailments.
Eshita Desai is also an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner and a CST (Craniosacral therapy) practitioner. So apart from teaching the Art of Living programs, she is also into counseling and healing. She has a history of providing personal counseling and therapy sessions to diverse people.
In addition to all this, she is a trained Bharatnatyam (with 7 years of complete training) and Kathak dancer, an extremely soulful classical and devotional singer, a potrait painter and a yoga teacher. Having forayed into a plethora of fields, she is truly versatile and dynamic by nature.
She is inspired by Gurudev Sri SriRavishankar, the founder of Art of Living and a humanitarian working relentlessly to propagate the old Sanskrit saying of ‘vasudhaivakutumbhkam’. Along with him, it is also the happiness and smiles that she is bringing to innumerable people’s faces, that keeps her going.
Event Organised
Yuva Rang, one of Gujarat’s biggest youth event, held on December 3, 2018 was organized and hosted by Eshita Desai alongside the Art of Living team. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar graced Yuva Rang with his presence and also addressed and inspired the audience with his pearls of wisdom. Governor Shri O.P. Kohli also attended the event as the Chief Guest. The event reverberated with unmatchable joy and wisdom, which was experienced by more than 25000 youths from different schools, colleges, universities, NGO’s and institutes across Gujarat. Many from the audience also shared that Gurudev’s words helped them find direction in their life.
Founder - Team Yuva
She has formed Team Yuva, a team in which 100+ volunteers are actively working under her guidance. Team Yuva is basically a platform open for all those who are young and young at heart, where they are given the opportunity to participate in different Seva projects and serve humanity and the society at large. The team is also contributing its bit in the Art of Living programs by organizing it and taking care of various other aspects of it. Hence, the volunteers are inspiring people to meditate and strengthen their mental and physical health. All of this has been possible only under the leadership of Eshita Desai and because of her ability to inspire and lead by example.
Activities By Team Yuva
Team Yuva has collectively executed innumerable seva projects, for instance- Blanket Drive 2019 and Blanket Drive 2020, Tree Plantation, Food Distribution Drive, and visit to the Old Age Home to name a few. As many as 2000 needy people were wrapped in the blankets of warmth and love, in both the years. Under the Tree Plantation Drive, a huge number of saplings were planted in permissible public areas and in the gardens of the volunteers’ residences to build a greener society. In their visits to the orphanage, old age home, school for the blind and school for the handicapped, the volunteers interacted with the people there and also distributed a few goodies to make them feel loved and included.
Founder - Grace Band
She has also founded Grace Band, a band that spreads joy, happiness and devotion through music and singing. The band performs musical evenings and satsangs all over Gujarat on various occasions of celebration. The band has also been committedly conducting weekly Saturday satsangs open for all young and young at heart people since the past 8 years. The members of this band are Art of Living graduates, some of them are even Art of Living teachers, and have explored and enhanced their creativity and talent through Art of living.
Introductory Sessions And Workshops
In addition to conducting Art Of Living courses, she has conducted a number of Introductory sessions and different workshops, that range from free to paid and offline to online ones. She has herself organized many such sessions and has also been hosted by schools, colleges, universities, corporates and other various organizations for the same. Through these short sessions, she aims to introduce the audience to the path of spirituality and the power of Sudarshan Kriya besides giving them brief insights into a wide range of topics.
Online Courses
The corona virus pandemic brought the world to a standstill. A world wide lockdown was imposed, in light of which almost everything was shifted to the online platform. This lockdown also brought with it high levels of stress and anxiety which the world was unprepared for. In an attempt to help people combat this emotional turmoil, Eshita Desai relentlessly conducted Online Meditation and Breath workshops besides other online sessions. These online courses saw participants from distinct parts of the country and the world. A lot of participants shared how experiencing the courses online and interacting with people from distinct cultures was an experience to remember.
Accolades
Eshita desai was nominated under the category of ‘Soul Transforming Coach’ and was felicitated with the ‘Women of Wonders Award 2020’ (WOW 2020).
