Ananta Ripa Ajmera is author of The Ayurveda Way: 108 Practices from the World’s Oldest Healing System for Better Sleep, Less Stress, Optimal Digestion and More (coming March 2017 with Storey Publishing). Her Ayurveda articles are popular on MindBodyGreen, Elephant Journal and Huffington Post. Her blog was recognized as one of the Best Yoga Blogs of 2016 by DoYouYoga.com and one of the Best 100 Health Coach Blogs of 2015 by the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.

She has taught Ayurveda and Yoga at Stanford University’s Health Improvement Program, Stanford Health Care, California Probation Departments, ABC News and the invite-only Social Innovation Summit of Fortune 500 executives, government leaders and social entrepreneurs. She has spoken at the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA), the Health Technology Forum, UC Berkeley and Columbia Business School. 

Ananta graduated from NYU Stern Business School, where she received an honors degree in marketing and was an inaugural Catherine B. Reynolds Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship. She is a Vedika Global Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Yoga Instructor, as well as an Associate Faculty member and Director of Branding and Yoga Studies at Vedika Global. 

Ananta loves introducing the healing power of Ayurveda and Yoga to those new to it, as nothing gives her greater joy than seeing others awaken to abiding health of body, mind and spirit with these ancient sciences.