Our Teachers & Healers

The people behind Jivan Parivartan, a holistic wellness and transformation centre in Tarkeshwor, Kathmandu. Trained in the Himalayan tradition across yoga, Reiki, sound healing, meditation and clinical hypnotherapy.

A centre founded in the Himalayan tradition

Jivan Parivartan (Jivan Parivartan means “life transformation”) is a holistic wellness and transformation centre in Tarkeshwor ward 5, on the quiet north-western edge of the Kathmandu Valley. We were founded to do one specific thing well: bring the depth of the Himalayan tradition (yoga, meditation, pranayama, mantra, energy healing) into a single centre where students and healers can train, practise and recover together, rather than scattered across a dozen different specialist schools.

The centre is intentionally small. We run our yoga teacher training in groups of four to twelve. Most one-to-one Reiki and hypnotherapy sessions are by appointment with the founders. The Mustang Luxury Retreat caps at eight guests. We have stayed at this scale because the work is personal: it is the difference between a student being seen and being processed.

The tagline is Empowering Healing. Inspiring Growth. Transforming Life. and the day-to-day reality is straightforward: morning meditation at 6 AM, one-to-one healing through the day, weekend programs in the valley, longer retreats in the Himalayas. More than eight thousand people have come through. Many come back.

Founder

Maa Nisha Kabir

Founder & Spiritual Healer

Maa Nisha Kabir founded Jivan Parivartan after a two-year silent retreat in the caves of the Nepalese Himalayas. Her path began at the age of fourteen and has been shaped by more than a decade of continuous sadhana, study with teachers in Nepal and India, and over six years of full-time professional healing work. As a Reiki Master and spiritual guide she has supported more than eight thousand individuals through one-to-one Reiki, sound healing, meditation and counselling, with a particular focus on chronic stress, anxiety and emotional trauma.

Credentials & Background

•Reiki Master (Usui lineage)
•Tibetan and Vedic singing bowl practitioner
•Two years of cave meditation in the Nepalese Himalayas
•6+ years of full-time professional healing practice
•Trained in meditation and pranayama in the Himalayan ashram tradition

Direct email: nisha@jivanparivartan.com

Co-Founder

Swami Anish

Co-Founder & Meditation Guide

Swami Anish co-founded Jivan Parivartan to bridge Eastern contemplative practice with Western therapeutic work. He is a meditation specialist, Reiki Master, sound healer and certified clinical hypnotherapist, and has spent more than a decade integrating these modalities into a single grounded approach to inner transformation. He leads the centre’s meditation programs, one-day transformation intensives and clinical hypnotherapy sessions.

Credentials & Background

•Reiki Master
•Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
•Tibetan singing bowl healer
•Meditation teacher in the Himalayan tradition

Swami Anish leads the One-Day Transformation Program with Maa Nisha, and offers clinical hypnotherapy sessions for students working with deeper emotional or trauma material.

Swami Anish, Co-Founder & Meditation Guide

Faculty

The Full Team

Each teacher and healer specialises in their craft, so you are always in experienced hands across yoga, anatomy, philosophy, energy work and contemplative practice.

Maa Nisha Kabir

Founder & Spiritual Healer

12+ years of continuous spiritual practice; 6+ years in professional healing

Founder of Jivan Parivartan, Reiki Master and spiritual healer with 12+ years of sadhana, including two years in Himalayan cave retreat.

Credentials

•Reiki Master (Usui lineage)
•Tibetan and Vedic singing bowl practitioner
•Two years of cave meditation in the Nepalese Himalayas
•6+ years of full-time professional healing practice
•Trained in meditation and pranayama in the Himalayan ashram tradition

Areas of Practice

•Reiki healing
•Sound healing therapy
•Meditation and pranayama
•Energy balancing and chakra alignment
•Holistic wellness coaching
•Spiritual counselling

Swami Anish

Co-Founder & Meditation Guide

10+ years guiding meditation, sound healing and Reiki

Co-founder of Jivan Parivartan, meditation teacher, Reiki Master, sound healer and clinical hypnotherapist.

Credentials

•Reiki Master
•Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
•Tibetan singing bowl healer
•Meditation teacher in the Himalayan tradition

Areas of Practice

•Meditation
•Clinical hypnotherapy
•Reiki healing
•Sound healing with Himalayan singing bowls
•Subconscious-mind work

Yogi Awdaitmani

Yoga Master & Yoga Therapist

5+ years in yoga teaching and yoga therapy

A Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from Anna University in Chennai, Yogi Awdaitmani combines a rigorous anatomical background with deep practical training under spiritual teachers across ashrams in Nepal and India. He leads classical Hatha and Ashtanga practice at Jivan Parivartan and designs the yoga-therapy components of the 200-hour teacher training program.

Credentials

•B.E. Biomedical Engineering (Anna University, Chennai)
•Trained in classical Hatha and Ashtanga lineages in Nepal and India
•5+ years of professional teaching

Areas of Practice

•Hatha yoga
•Ashtanga yoga
•Yoga therapy
•Yoga anatomy
•Pranayama

Anupam Chidananda

Spiritual Practitioner & Meditation Guide

Lifelong contemplative practice

Drawn to silence and solitary practice from an early age, Anupam Chidananda is a self-disciplined contemplative whose teachers have largely been the forests, rivers and mountains of Nepal. He guides students at Jivan Parivartan in self-inquiry, nature-based meditation and the foundational philosophy of yoga, emphasising direct experience over technique.

Credentials

•Long-form contemplative training in Himalayan environments
•Practical teacher of self-inquiry and meditation

Areas of Practice

•Self-inquiry
•Meditation
•Yogic philosophy
•Nature-based contemplative practice

Our lineage and philosophy

The teaching we offer comes from the Himalayan tradition, which is a living stream of practice that connects northern India, Nepal and Tibet. It is older than modern fitness yoga by several centuries, and the work it does is not the same work. We focus on what the tradition actually focuses on: pranayama as nervous-system regulation, mantra and mudra as attention training, asana as preparation for sitting, and meditation as the central practice the other practices are pointing at.

Two specific texts anchor most of the philosophy work in our programs: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (read alongside the eight-limbed path that gives our 200-hour curriculum its structure) and the Bhagavad Gita (read for the practical dilemmas of life rather than as a religious work). On the energy-work side, Reiki here is taught in the classical Usui lineage that Maa Nisha carries, and the singing bowl work is taught in the Tibetan tradition that Swami Anish has practised for over a decade.

You do not need to be religious, or convert to anything, to study here. The tradition welcomes practitioners from any background, and most of our students come without any particular spiritual orientation. What we ask is that you take the practice seriously while you are in it; this is the part that actually determines whether the work lands.

Come Practise With Us in Kathmandu

Yoga teacher training, Reiki, sound healing, meditation or a Himalayan retreat. Tell us what you are working with and we will help you choose.

Indian Himalayas Ashram Trained Instructors

Himalayan Mountain Views

Kathmandu Valley, Nepal