The Science Behind Why Real Transformation Starts in the Body

Jivasu is a physician, teacher, and the founder of Soma Path — a body-based path to transformation and the discovery of one's own destiny. His central proposition: the body is humanity's common ground, and awakening its intelligence is the foundation of lasting change.

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He has taught somatic teacher training programmes across the world and spoken at international conferences and gatherings. He is the author of several books, including Return to the Body — The Soma Path and Understanding Death to Live Fully.

Dr. Shiv D. Talwar is a founding member and president of the Spiritual Heritage Education Network (SHEN), a role he has held since its inception in 2000. With a background in civil engineering and decades in both academic and professional settings, he brings a rare combination of rigorous thinking and deep spiritual inquiry to his work.

His life's focus is researching and delivering education rooted in the wisdom traditions of humanity — scientific and spiritual — to cultivate inclusion, raise consciousness, and awaken care for each other and the planet.

Zahra is an educator, embodiment coach, breathwork facilitator, and TEDx speaker whose own journey has led her increasingly toward the wisdom of the body. Her work explores how conditioning, roles, and the pressures of everyday life can disconnect us from our natural selves, and how somatic awareness can help us find our way back.

Through breath, presence, and compassionate self-inquiry, she creates space for greater freedom, authenticity, and deeper connection with ourselves and others.

LC Singh is the founder of Nihilent. Nihilent evolved into a global transformation company built around a distinctive philosophy: humanizing technology. He also created Emoscape, an Emotion detection platform designed to measure emotional states through non-intrusive interaction, and conceptualized nSEPIA, a platform focused on helping individuals better understand and navigate emotional well-being in everyday life.

He also produced the feature film Banaras: A Mystic Love Story and received international recognition at Cannes, where Nihilent’s corporate short film Love You, Papa won the Silver Dolphin at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards in 2017.

He is the author of The Collapse of Illusions and the autobiography Things We Don’t See.

Matthew Nash is a yoga instructor and community builder whose work bridges somatic science, traditional yoga practice, and embodied transformation. A long-time student of Dr. Jivasu, he co-founded the Global Initiative for Somatic Transformation (GIST) alongside Dr. Jivasu — a nonprofit dedicated to bringing Soma's science-based teachings to a worldwide audience. He continues to develop programs and workshops, cultivating a community grounded in both traditional yoga and somatic principles.

Camille Peters is a Soma Meditative Yoga Facilitator and long-time student of Dr. Jivasu, having studied under his guidance for over twelve years. Her path to Soma began while she was the owner and CEO of a successful software development company — a search for something more aligned with her true nature led her to this work.

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She has completed teacher training programmes in Kundalini Yoga, Nada Yoga, and the Soma Teacher Training Program,  a methodology integrating body awareness and trauma reframing to support healing and self-realization. Through Soma Meditative Yoga, she guides others toward greater awareness, wholeness, and a deeper connection with their own nature.