"Nikita is a mirror for deep transformation"

Capable. Ambitious. Dependable.

I became the person others trusted to lead, create and carry responsibility. From the outside, my life reflected purpose, achievement and contribution. Yet beneath everything I had built was a quiet recognition:

I was living through an identity shaped partly by expectation, rather than entirely through conscious choice.

Questions of identity had accompanied me since childhood.

Growing up between British and Indian cultures, I often felt that I belonged fully to neither. At sixteen, I changed my name. At eighteen, rather than following the expected path to university, I travelled alone to India.

That decision began a decade immersed in Indian classical dance, spiritual study and yogic philosophy, and deepened the question that has shaped my life:

Who am I beneath the identities the world has given me?

When I returned to the UK, I founded a dance school. Over the next twenty years, I taught thousands of students, built an award-winning community, performed internationally and opened a studio of my own.

Within days of opening its doors, a serious health crisis led to major lung surgery and a chronic diagnosis.

I adapted and continued.

Capability carried me through, but it also became so closely connected with my identity that I struggled to imagine who I might be without it.

In 2025, shortly after my fortieth birthday, I closed the studio and entrusted the dance school I had spent twenty years building to its next chapter.

With it, several familiar identities fell away:

The teacher.
The business owner.
The performer.
The high achiever.

Without those roles directing every decision, I had to meet the person beneath them.

That crossing became the foundation of Journey from Karma to Dharma™, the central theme of my TEDx talk and the inspiration for my forthcoming book.

Today, I work with accomplished individuals navigating a similar threshold: the space between an identity that has carried them successfully and a future that has not yet fully taken form.

My work draws upon more than two decades of movement, embodiment, spiritual practice, creativity, entrepreneurship and identity enquiry.

These are not separate modalities. Together, they form one integrated body of work and give me different ways to perceive and meet the person in front of me.

My gift is not only seeing the pattern. It is knowing how to meet it.

I do not tell clients who to become or ask them to follow my path. I offer a steady mirror for what may be difficult to see from inside their own lives, and a carefully held space in which their own truth can become clearer.

Not so that they become more like me. So that they become more fully themselves. Watch my TEDx talk below.