Stri Wellness students and teachers from a graduating cohort gathered together around an evening fire circle at the Uttarkashi campus
Est. 2018

Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science

Stri Wellness is India's first Yoga Alliance USA registered school dedicated to the complete spectrum of women's wellness — from fertility to menopause, and every sacred stage in between.

A Stri Wellness graduating batch of yoga teacher trainees together in namaste
2018 Founded
The Stri Wellness Story

Born from a Vision to Heal Women, Wholly

Stri Wellness was born from a powerful idea — to create a space where women can find balance, heal, and thrive through life's transformational stages, using the wisdom of yoga and holistic living.

The vision came into being in 2018, rooted in years of learning, teaching, and personally experiencing the profound benefits of yoga. After years of freelancing as a yoga teacher, our founder Nisha Ahya recognised a deep need: a dedicated space designed specifically for women's wellness — one that blended modern science with the depth of ancient yogic practices.

What began as a focus on prenatal yoga — supporting women through the unique physical, emotional, and psychological terrain of pregnancy — quickly evolved into something far larger: a mission to accompany women through all phases of life. From preconception to postpartum, from hormonal transitions to menopause, Stri Wellness stands as a sanctuary of transformation.

At its core, Stri Wellness embraces the philosophy that yoga is more than physical exercise. It is a practice that nurtures the body, mind, and soul. Through pranayama, meditation, relaxation, and mindful living, every programme here helps women address change — physically, emotionally, and psychologically — from the inside out.

Today, Stri Wellness is not just a school or a wellness centre. It is a movement — empowering women to heal, grow, and rediscover their strength and potential, one breath at a time.

School Accreditations

Our Credentials & Recognitions

Stri Wellness holds the highest international and national accreditations in yoga education, ensuring every programme you join carries global recognition, rigorous standards, and genuine depth of training.

Stri Wellness — Women's Yoga Gurukul

RPYT — Prenatal Yoga School

One of India's first schools registered as an RPYT — Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training school — a rare and prestigious designation for pregnancy yoga education.

Stri Wellness — Women's Yoga Gurukul

RCYS — Children's Yoga School

A Registered Children's Yoga School, authorised to certify teachers in the specialised art of teaching yoga to children and teenagers aged 3–17.

Stri Wellness — Women's Yoga Gurukul

YACEP — Continuing Education

Authorised as a YACEP provider, offering accredited continuing education hours that count towards Yoga Alliance renewal for registered teachers globally.

Nisha's Personal Journey

The Woman Behind the School

The Years Nobody Talked About

A Body in Pain, a Girl Told to Wait

Since her teenage years, Nisha lived with PCOD — irregular periods, unexplained weight gain, and a body she didn't quite understand. Every time she sought answers, she was met with the same dismissal: "It's normal. Once you get married, it'll sort itself out." So she did what so many girls are taught to do — she pushed it aside, carried on, and let the years pass with the problem quietly worsening. It wasn't dramatic. It was just the slow erosion of not being heard, not being seen, not knowing that her body deserved better.

The Breaking Point

When Life Fell Apart — and Stillness Found Her

A significant financial loss brought Nisha to her lowest point — and into depression. It was in that darkness that she found Vipassana. For the first time in years, she sat still with herself. She listened. Not to a diagnosis or a prescription, but to something quieter and far more honest. That ten-day silence cracked open a door she hadn't known existed — one that led inward, toward the root of everything that had been unwell for so long.

The Turning Point

One Doctor Who Said Something Different

Curious again about her hormonal health, Nisha finally consulted an endocrinologist in Mumbai — a woman who changed everything with a single, radical act of honesty. Instead of writing a prescription, she said: "I could give you medication. It would help for now. But it won't heal you. Go home. Fix your diet. Move your body. Come back in three months." That conversation planted a seed. Nisha began running. She began practising yoga — not as fitness, but as medicine. In three months, she had lost 7 kg. Her periods, regular for the first time in memory, began to find their rhythm. In six months, she was 13 kg lighter and had crossed the finish line of her first half marathon. Her body — the same body she had been told was just difficult — was healing.

2014 — The Leap

Leaving the Corporate World to Follow the Call

Before yoga, Nisha had built a career she was good at — Pan India Visual Merchandiser with Skechers, a role that took her across the country. But something had shifted permanently inside her. In 2014, she quit. She packed her curiosity and travelled to Rishikesh and the Sivananda Ashram in Madurai, surrendering to the depth of yogic learning. It was not a career pivot. It was a homecoming.

The Scholar Years

Science Gave Her a Language for What She Already Knew

Nisha went on to complete her M.Sc. in Yoga & Naturopathy, becoming an internationally certified Yoga Therapist (IAYT) and a certified Hormone Health Specialist. She also trained as a certified Aerial Yoga Teacher. Each qualification deepened what she had already understood in her bones — that the body heals when it is truly understood, and that yoga, taught with scientific rigour and compassion, is one of the most powerful healing tools we have. Today, she is a PhD scholar in Yoga, still learning, still asking questions.

2018 — The Beginning of Stri Wellness

Because No Woman Should Have to Wait as Long as She Did

Nisha founded Stri Wellness with one driving intention: to give women the knowledge she never had as a girl. If she had understood her hormones earlier — if someone had taught her the connection between breath, movement, and her endocrine system — she would not have spent years suffering quietly and being told it was normal. Stri Wellness exists so that no woman has to go through what she did — dismissed, unheard, and without the tools to heal herself. Through yoga, hormone science, and functional anatomy, Nisha now teaches what she wishes she had been taught. And she does it with the authority of someone who has lived it.

Today

Still Running. Still Teaching. Still Curious.

With 12+ years of experience teaching Functional Yogic Anatomy, Hormone Science, Pranayama Science, and Hatha & Vinyasa, Nisha continues to run half marathons, host the BreathMath podcast, and share her knowledge on her YouTube channel @scienceandstillness — where she bridges the science of yoga with the stillness of practice. She is a woman who healed herself, and then built a school so others could too.

Nisha Ahya in practice

She Didn't Find Yoga.
Yoga Found Her When She Needed It Most.

What Nisha carries into every class, every training, every conversation is not just expertise — it is lived experience. She knows what it feels like to be dismissed, to be unwell without answers, to be told your pain is normal. And she knows what it feels like when the body finally begins to heal — not because of a pill, but because of practice.

That knowing is what makes her teaching different. She doesn't teach from a textbook alone. She teaches from her body, her history, and her deep belief that every woman deserves to understand the science of herself.

12+
Years Teaching
5000+
Women Guided
“I know what it feels like to suffer in your own body without answers. I also know what it feels like when yoga gives you those answers. My intention is to share this science — both human science and yogic science — with as many women as possible.”
— Nisha Ahya, Founder, Stri Wellness
The People Behind Stri Wellness

Our Team

Portrait of Yogini Vidhi Punjabi

Yogini Vidhi Punjabi

Sound Healing · Reiki · Acupuncture

With an M.Sc. in Yoga & Naturopathy and a Diploma in Acupuncture, Vidhi brings the healing dimensions of energy, sound, and the body's innate intelligence together. She is known for her work with Himalayan Singing Bowls, Reiki, and energetic healing — holding space where women can truly restore and realign.

Portrait of Yogi Utsav Rufus

Yogi Utsav Rufus

Ashtanga Teacher · Kids Yoga Teacher · Child Psychologist

Utsav brings a rare and powerful combination to the Stri Wellness community — the discipline of Ashtanga yoga, the playfulness of children's yoga, and the depth of child psychology. As a certified Kids Yoga Teacher and Child Psychologist, he understands how young minds and bodies learn, move, and heal. His classes create a space where children feel safe, joyful, and genuinely connected to themselves.

Portrait of Dr. Renuka D. Anvekar

Dr. Renuka D. Anvekar

Ayurvedic Physician · Early Childhood Expert

With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Renuka is a distinguished Ayurvedic physician who graduated with top honours from the Government College of Ayurveda Medicine, Bangalore. She specialises in maternal wellness, early childhood development, and serves as guest faculty at KYM (Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram).

Portrait of Dt. Tanvi Sampat

Dt. Tanvi Sampat

Nutrition Specialist · Garbh Sanskar Healer

A senior dietician specialising in child and pregnancy nutrition, Tanvi blends modern nutritional science with holistic healing modalities. As a certified Garbh Sanskar healer, she nurtures the connection between mothers and their babies — fostering health that begins even before birth.

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Saloni Borsaniya

Social Media & Community Voice

As the creative voice behind Stri Wellness, Saloni infuses clarity and connection into everything she shares. With a deep passion for wellness storytelling, she crafts content that inspires, educates, and empowers women — ensuring the Stri Wellness message truly reaches and resonates with the community it serves.

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