Our Teachers & Healers

The three teachers at Jivan Parivartan, a women-led yoga and healing centre in Tarkeshwor, Kathmandu. Maa Nisha Kabir founded the centre in 2021 and is its lead instructor.

A centre founded in the Himalayan tradition

Jivan Parivartan means “life transformation”. Maa Nisha Kabir started it in 2021 with one rented room in Tarkeshwor, giving one-to-one sessions. There was no advertising. Guests recommended it to each other. The company is registered in Nepal as Jivan Parivartan Pvt. Ltd. (No. 273462/078/079).

Today the family-run centre at Tarkeshwor-5, on the north-western edge of the Kathmandu Valley, has a practice hall, a healing room, a kitchen and a garden. There are no guest rooms yet. Most guests stay in Thamel, about 30 minutes away, and on-site rooms are opening soon.

Groups are small. Healing sessions are one to one or in groups of up to four. The -hour teacher training and the wellness retreats are taught in small groups. The Himalayan Luxury Retreat in Mustang takes ten guests at most.

A normal week includes the online morning meditation from 6 AM (Nepal time), healing sessions and training at the centre, and 1, 3 or 5-day wellness retreats. The centre is open Sunday to Friday, 6 AM to 8 PM, and closed on Saturday. More than a thousand guests have come to us so far.

Founder

Maa Nisha Kabir

Founder, Swamini & Lead Instructor

Maa Nisha Kabir left home at fourteen, and her search led first to her guru, Santa Kabir Das, and later to other teachers and traditions. She kept a Vipassana practice for six years, then spent two years alone in a cave in Mustang in silence and meditation. In 2021 she registered Jivan Parivartan in Tarkeshwor, starting with one-to-one sessions in a single rented room. She trained in Usui Reiki in 2017, has taught it at the centre since 2021 to more than 70 students, and still teaches every Reiki level and meditation intensive herself.

Credentials & Background

•Reiki in the Usui lineage: trained 2017, teaching since 2021, 70+ students
•Founder of Jivan Parivartan (registered 2021)
•Two years of solitary cave meditation in Mustang
•20+ years of practice: Vipassana, Ashtanga Mahayoga, Pranayama, silent meditation

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Sound Healing Therapist

Swami Anish Ji

Sound Healing Therapist

Swami Anish Ji is the sound healing therapist at Jivan Parivartan and teaches its Singing Bowl Training, both the 3-day basic and the 7-day advanced course. He learned singing bowl work with Maa Nisha Kabir in 2021 and has led more than 25 training sessions since, teaching in Nepali, English and Hindi. With a decade of experience, he also works on programme development and yoga philosophy at the centre.

Credentials & Background

•Teacher of the 3-day and 7-day Singing Bowl Training
•Trained in singing bowl with Maa Nisha Kabir (2021)
•Runs 60-minute sound healing sessions
•25+ singing bowl training sessions led

Swami Anish Ji teaches the 3-day and 7-day Singing Bowl Training, gives sound healing sessions at the centre, and co-leads the Mustang retreat with Maa Nisha Kabir.

Faculty

The Full Team

Three teachers, each with their own programs: Reiki and meditation, sound healing, and yoga teacher training.

Maa Nisha Kabir

Founder, Swamini & Lead Instructor

20+ years of practice in Vipassana, Ashtanga Mahayoga, Pranayama and silent meditation

Founder and lead instructor of Jivan Parivartan, with 20+ years of meditation practice, including two years in a Mustang cave. She has taught Usui Reiki since 2021.

Credentials

•Reiki in the Usui lineage: trained 2017, teaching since 2021, 70+ students
•Founder of Jivan Parivartan (registered 2021)
•Two years of solitary cave meditation in Mustang
•20+ years of practice: Vipassana, Ashtanga Mahayoga, Pranayama, silent meditation

Areas of Practice

•Reiki healing
•Reiki training
•Sound healing therapy
•Meditation and pranayama

Swami Anish Ji

Sound Healing Therapist

A decade of experience; 25+ singing bowl training sessions since 2021

Sound healing therapist at Jivan Parivartan and teacher of the Singing Bowl Training, with a decade of experience.

Credentials

•Teacher of the 3-day and 7-day Singing Bowl Training
•Trained in singing bowl with Maa Nisha Kabir (2021)
•Runs 60-minute sound healing sessions
•25+ singing bowl training sessions led

Areas of Practice

•Sound healing with singing bowls
•Singing bowl training
•Meditation
•Yoga philosophy

Anupam Chidananda

Yoga Instructor & Meditation Guide

Teaches the 200-hour YTT (philosophy, meditation)

Anupam Chidananda is a yoga instructor and meditation guide at Jivan Parivartan. His teaching covers meditation, mudra, mantra sadhana and yogic philosophy, and he leads the philosophy and meditation sessions of the 200-hour yoga teacher training.

Credentials

•Teaches the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (philosophy, meditation)
•Guides mantra, mudra and yantra sessions

Areas of Practice

•Meditation
•Mudra practice
•Mantra sadhana
•Yogic philosophy

Our lineage and philosophy

We teach yoga in the Himalayan tradition of Nepal and northern India. Meditation is the main practice. Breathwork (pranayama), mantra and mudra support it, and the postures prepare the body to sit still for longer.

In the 200-hour course, the philosophy and anatomy module covers the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Bhagavad Gita and the eight limbs of Ashtanga yoga. Reiki is taught in the Usui lineage by Maa Nisha Kabir, who trained in 2017 and has taught it here since 2021. The singing bowl courses are taught by Swami Anish Ji, who trained with Maa Nisha in 2021 and has run more than 25 training sessions since.

You do not need to be religious, or hold any belief, to study here. Reiki and sound healing are not medical treatment, so keep up any care your doctor has advised.

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