Bio
Ananta Ripa Ajmera is a 10-time international award-winning, 2-time best-selling author, lineage-based spiritual teacher, Ayurveda practitioner, host of the True to Yourself Podcast, Advisor of Ayurveda at THE WELL, Director of The Ancient Way, and Founder of SoulWisdom Press & PR.
The Ancient Way offers Powerful Soul Liberation community, rooted in Ayurveda, Yoga, and Vedanta’s universal spirituality. It also offers Ayurveda wellness programs that guide you, step-by-step, to connect with your most powerful, radiant, rejuvenated self.
SoulWisdom Press & PR is a hybrid publishing imprint and PR agency that empowers spiritual authors to spread ‘medicinal stories’ that help you to live in harmony with nature, awaken Powerful Soul Liberation, and support your eternal growth journey.
Ananta’s students, of all walks of life, in yoga and wellness studios, corporations, and government agencies, appreciate how she empowers them to awaken their inner guru and ignite the fire of spiritual transformation to bring about profound inner peace.
Ananta is author of The Way of the Goddess and The Ayurveda Way, which have received 10 awards, including 2 Nautilus Book Awards, previously conferred to luminaries like Dr. Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Marianne Williamson. She had the honor of being interviewed by Dr. Deepak Chopra on The Chopra Well YouTube Channel on The Way of the Goddess, which Deepak highly recommends anyone and everyone to read for its practical wisdom that he says “we desperately need in this world torn with violence, mental illness, and total absence of joy.”
Ananta’s work has been featured in publications like Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Yoga Journal, Forbes, MindBodyGreen, and Spirituality & Health Magazine. She has served organizations including Global Sisterhood, Stanford Medical School, UNICEF, Endeavor, NYU, SFSU, and California Probation Departments.
Ananta has over 12 years of lineage-based training in Ayurveda, Yoga, and Vedanta philosophy, and a family lineage of renowned Ayurveda healers. She is training in Odissi (classical Indian dance) and TaeKwonDo, and has experience studying Kalari (ancient Indian martial arts).
Inspiration
For over 12 years, while studying in ancient Vedic spiritual lineages, Ananta embodied a self-created monastic lifestyle. While still living in the world, wearing regular clothes, and not going by any special titles, she followed the conduct of a monk, continuously disciplining her mind to master the art of detachment and control over her senses.
She spent as many days as she could in complete silence, making mantras and nature, the goddess of the Ayurveda tradition that her biological ancestors are renowned in, her dearest friends.
But it was the experiences of life that truly taught her how to let go of all that is not pure or true. She openly shares the profound transformations she’s had, of overcoming eating disorders, betrayal, codependency, and all forms of abuse.
The word guru means “remover of darkness,” and awakening your inner guru is the sole purpose of a spiritual quest.
Everything Ananta does today to bring about Powerful Soul Liberation within herself and all those she serves is inspired by her personal experiences and three wise gurus, who supported her to awaken to the guru within. You can read about them on Ananta’s SoulWisdom Press & PR website: https://soulwisdompresspr.com/about.