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My history with Ayurveda

Ayurveda – Science of Life
Ayu means life or daily living
Veda means knowledge

Ayurveda, Yoga, Meditation and Karnatic Classica Music are the ancient life disciplines and have been
practiced in India for centuries. I am fortunate to have learnt and integrated all of these into
my life through Sookshma.

Through my constant practice, mine and my students’ experiences and realizations, I named what I do Sookshma “Subtle”. I did not find anything new; Everything is from the teachings of ancient rishis passed down through the centuries. The rishis spent their lifetimes searching for how to stop death, but were unable to find a solution… what they reached upon instead were ways to increase the length and quality of their lives.

I am fortunate to have explored Ayurveda with my family, amongst whom where the famous “Hakims” or Ayurveda doctors to the Hyderabad “Nizam” or king. I treasure my learnings from my uncle Hakim Sri Katoju Rameshwarao. I used to spend a lot of time in his huge dispensary in the Danamantri Vilas. I was inspired by his father Hakim Ramakrishna through who’s donations, the Vishwakarma Hostel for needy students was built and run in Hyderabad. From this act, I understood the power of charitable contributions and the large impact it has on human life. My humble salutations to them and another Ayurvedic doctor uncle of mine, Dr. Purushottamacharya.

Hakim Rameshwarao Katoju Hakim Ramakrishna Katoju
More recently in 2007, I had a chance to spend via a 3 day workshop, some time with the renowned Ayurveda doctor Vasant Lad and performed a Karnatic Classic concert in his honour.

Dr. Vasant Lad
This is a short background on my exposure to Ayurveda and I am happy to share the knowledge from my experience with you through Sookshma initiatives in Vancouver and around the world.

Lots of love and blessings,

Sunita Bapooji

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Mothers Day 2012 Sookshma Sunita

Testimony of a mother and house wife Shoba Rani Kollipara about positive changes that Sookshma Yoga and Sunita Bapooji brought in all aspects of her life, Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual. This is a special Mothers day 2012 episode being presented to inspire many more mothers in this world that a positive step taken towards well being can have a tremendous impact on not only on self but everyone around. [Language: Telugu]

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Anjali – Songs from my Heart

Presenting… Sunita Bapooji’s healing music: Anjali: Songs from My Heart

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[testimonial]Sunita’s music CD, Anjali has healing vibrations, It soothes a person at all levels, mental, physical and spiritual[client_name]Sam[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]I play Sunita’s music to put my child to sleep. The moment I press the play button, he becomes calm and relaxed[client_name]Rupa[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]My child has skin allergies and is always disturbed and gets cranky easily. But Sunita’s healing vibrations in her voice calms my child and helps relax[client_name]Katherine[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]I have been suffering from insomnia for a long time. But now when I play Sunita’s Anjali, I easily fall into sleep and wake up with with a very pleasant smile[client_name]Jessy[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]Thanks to Sunita’s divine voice. It helps me meditate very easily. Her voice very easily takes one to a different state of consciousness and transcends the physical and mental plane. I know Sunita through her voice. I have listened to many stalwarts of Indian classical music, but Sunita’s rendering is all together at a different plane. It is Simply Divine [client_name]Dr.Suman[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]Many times after work when I am driving home, I used to play Sunita’s music in my car and it used to instantly unwind my stress. Her voice used to bring me back to the nest of comfort and peace[client_name]Christina[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]Anytime I am in Stress, I just play Sunita’s music in my Blackberry and instantly I feel relaxed and all my mental agitation disappears.[client_name]John[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]Sunita’s music is different. Anjali has many songs and bhajans in form of different ragas from Indian classical music. But once listening to her, the healing voice transcends language and cultural barriers. You no longer are listening to her words, but connected to her soul. It elevates one to a higher state of energy[client_name]Mike[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]I get up in the morning and have many things to attend. These chores can easily stress me out. But when I play Sunita’s music everything falls in place naturally. I am no more worried. Just her voice carries me through the rest of the day[client_name]Shobha[/client_name][/testimonial]

[testimonial]Sunita’s voice is not only classical but very soulful[client_name]Das[/client_name][/testimonial]

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2012 Info-session: Sookshma Meditation by Sunita Bapooji

After a long gap and yogic silence, Sookshma Guru Sunita Bapooji is offering Sookshma Meditation and Yoga sessions for small groups in the Greater Vancouver Area.

If you are new to Sookshma Meditation and Yoga, this is a golden opportunity to spend 30 minutes with Sunita and experience the Sookshma program yourself before signing up for upcoming Group sessions.

Location: Guildford Library(Meeting room) – 10470 152 ST  Surrey BC

Date: Feb 05 2012

Time: 2PM

Duration: 30 min

Admission: Free (Please pre-register for our convenience by sending an email to Sunita@sunita.ca or calling 778-882-7656)

Sookshma program is tailored for modern hectic life style & all age groups built around 4 pillars of life – “Career, Relationships, Health & Wealth”

It encompasses:

  • Simple exercises for the body derived from ancient yogic practices
  • Training the breath
  • Balanced nutrition for the body
  • Meditation for cleansing the Mind
  • Pure vibrations of Sunita for elevating the spirit

It helps:

  • Overcome day to day stress
  • Improve your child’s performance at school or Sports/Arts
  • Advance your dream career to create wealth and provide leadership
  • Solve lifestyle diseases like Diabetes, Hypertension, Anxiety, Depression, Addictions, Crohns, Colitis, IBS and more
  • Heal psycho-somatic and physical trauma from the past
  • Enhance relationships
  • All ages experience natural anti-aging

 For more information on Sunita and Sookshma, visit us at:

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Health is Wealth – Episode 4 – Meditation

Meditation, a tool that has been so popular for ages is more talked and researched about now than ever for its value in our day to day lives, from simple benefits like keeping the mind clear and calm, unwind from the stress to healing complex life style diseases like Hypertension, Depression, Anxiety, Crohns disease, Colitis and many others.

In this Episode on Meditation, Guru Sunita Bapooji through her usual subtle, simple, serene, style and sense of humour peels the layers of the most complex material of the world “Mind” to help us understand the essence of Meditation.

I am sure given an opportunity we all are looking for ways to achieve work-life balance. We want the ability to create abundance in wealth and health for our family and society. If so, then meditation is the answer, to regulate and capture the power of mind to channel the energy for the benefit of Self and Society.

Meditation is the way to achieve the harmony in our lives for not only inner peace, but also maximize & optimize the Physical, Mental and Emotional energies for leading a life filled with good choices that make a positive influence on ourselves, family and the society.

Lets embrace the Silent Path to break the barriers of Mind.

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Sookshma Workshop – International Day of Peace 2010

Peace Tree Inoovations Society humbly brings to you “Sookshma Meditation by Sunita Bapooji” this fall, on October 2nd 2010 to Coquitlam BC.
This also coincides with International Day of Peace that Peace Tree celebrates every year.

Date: October 2nd 2010
Time: 9AM – 10:30 AM
Location: Timbers Club (Hockey Room), 3090 Dayanee Springs Blvd, Coquitlam V3E 0C2
Price: 25 CAD

Please bring Yoga Mat, Blanket to cover and a Napkin.

Please RSVP as there are only 20 seats available.

Techniques are available every where, but if you want to receive the guidance of a Self Realized Master and dwell in the Bliss of Pure Yogic healing energy, this is an opportunity of Life time.

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Mother is Yoga – Sunita Bapooji

Yoga chittha vritthi nirodhaha
Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind

Sunita Bapooji - Mother is Yoga

On this auspicious occasion of Mothers day it is with infinite bliss I wish all the Mothers in the world Peace, Joy and Love in all aspects of their lives.

Mother is a divine force of creation on Earth. Mother is a
representation of the energy of all forms from bearing, rearing and nurturing the life. As a Mother myself, I feel honoured to have been given an opportunity to share my thoughts with you all.

As we all know Yoga is the Union of Mind and Body. It is state of Bliss where Mind is calm and still. One Saint, Vinoba Bhave, from India used to have lot of discussions about Karma (Action), Jnana (Knowledge) and Bhakti (Devotion) Yogas. He always wondered why people could not make all these forms of Yoga part of their life. Karma Yoga – The Yoga of Action, which means to perform duties without any expectation of results and develops a level of detachment and in a way that gives us infinite peace. Jnana Yoga is the way of attaining that Bliss by using Knowledge as a weapon to fight and clean the impurities and wavering of mind. Bhakti Yoga is a way of attaining the peace by developing devotion to the Supreme Force or God and completely surrender all the thoughts and actions to that Pure Energy.

So Vinoba Bhave spent a lot of time trying to find this person who would make all these forms of Yoga, a way of life. One day the light dawned upon him and he was in extreme joy that he found the answer. He declared and announced “It is the Mother who practices all forms of Yoga”.

The Mother cooks for the children with an unselfish attitude – this is Karma Yoga— performing her duties with no expectations for herself – Yoga of Action. She sees that the food is cooked with proper nutrition and taste – this is Jnana Yoga – Yoga of Knowledge. She feeds her children with unconditional love with utmost devotion – this is Bhakti Yoga – Yoga of Devotion.

This story I heard from my father who was my first Guru. My mother was uneducated but she was innocent and Pure, without realizing she had been practicing these three forms of Yoga all her life.

But in the modern world we are forgetting the essence of these ancient approaches to life. We are caught in the rat race of life forgetting the pure energy that is present in every single person. If a woman has been gifted to create a new life within, can you imagine the potential a woman has within? Unfortunately we cover the Pure Energy by the emotions of Jealousy, Selfishness, Greed, Possessiveness and Anger, creating Hell on Earth.

Many realizations from my childhood have resulted in the birth of ‘Sookshma Yoga and Meditation’. I believe that 90% of the human suffering is because of Self-Inflicted pain. Sookshma tools are ‘Purity and Bliss’. Benefits you will gain in the long run are cumulative and the life will progressively undergo a miraculous transformation. Slowly but surely you will know what Joy really means. Everything is possible with Sookshma. Sookshma has the power to influence not just you, but generations to come for hundreds of years. Ask yourself this question: Am I really Happy? Am I really peaceful every moment? Please give yourself an honest answer. From your answer you decide what is important for life. There is something I would like to say before I conclude. Postures and Breathing exercises are only part of Yoga, they are not the complete system of Yoga. Eternal Bliss can be experienced only with Purity of thought.

Namaste.

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My Tummy Hurts – Dr. Suman K

As a child I remember that I was always worried about my Tummy. As I grew into my teens I realized that I had extreme sensitivity in my tummy and I always had to watch out what and how much I eat. I left home for college and was exposed to all kinds of foods that damaged my Tummy more. I was known for my ill health during my University days. The only cure was a family doctors prescription of antacid, Imodium or Rantac each coming with its own side effects. 

Life came with its own challenges of education, career and relationships all of which aggravated my system and lead into a mild form of ‘Piles’ in 2006.

Frankly the whole Gastro Intestinal tract was a Mess from top to bottom and with these extremities from Diarrhea to Constipation and Abdominal Pain all classic symptoms of ‘Irritable Bowl Syndrome’ (IBS). These things also naturally pulled me down in life in terms of self confidence and inner strength. 

This is when I met Sunita in Vancouver when I came for a short stay of 3 months. I went for my Sookshma Yoga class loaded with mindful of doubts, skepticism if this will work. Also coming from a strong Medical science and Research background, I was used to rationalizing the problems and was looking for evidence and quick results. Within 3 weeks of my Sookshma sessions of Sunita, I could see a dramatic change in my life. I remember Sunita asking me to start eating Regular rolled Oats and I was very hesitant as I knew my stomach is very sensitive. Sunita also suggested me to have lemon juice with honey and other ingredients which I would normally not even think of having. With all the doubts, I started to follow her nutritional guidance. She added short grain brown rice to this menu and you can see my plight. But day by day, I could see my tummy getting stronger and healthier. No need to run to the bathroom multiple times, no need to worry about going to toilet every time I leave home.

My system is so darn perfect that I could never ever have imagined this and I am sure my friends from school and college would be shocked to see my healthy Gastro Intestinal Tract.

As things started changing Physically I realized that Sunita is not just another
meditation and yoga teacher, but some one who can instantly heal people with her pure vibrations. In fact my background in medical science helped me to understand how she is curing all kinds of problems. She is aiming at cleaning our subconscious system. We do not realize how much we accumulate and carry in our minds in form of judgments. These thoughts create loads of stress and start to impact different parts of body.

I remember my first consultation with her “I am totally fine Sunita. The only problem is my Tummy”. Now I realize how foolish I was. But Sunita never questions or commands. She is always smiling and listening and allowing us to open up. She encourages any kind of questions. She in fact says that if we do not open up and keep the doubts inside it is not going to help anyone.  

Slowly I started seeing a glow in my face, I could see myself in the photographs spanning over 3 months how my overall presence is lot more pleasant and relaxed. In her presence I see that my voice changes, my smile is different and my confidence spikes into the sky. Emotionally I became more aware between Positive and Negative thoughts. There is will power to fight the enemies inside.

All my dreams of film making, to be an Entrepreneur and be able to inspire people in a positive way, started to come true. There is lot of space available in the head for creative pursuits and more love and compassion in the heart to share and care, because in every meditation with her empathy she is absorbing all the
accumulations I that had in my mind.

In this process she showed me “who I really am”. There is no need for me to Act for the world, play the Ego game for sustaining in the rat race. I am my true self which is Pure and peaceful. She helped me detach from the past, not worry about the future and live in this moment. I read many self help books before I met Sunita. What they did was just add piles of intellectual understanding about life. But Sunita showed me the ‘Power of Now’. She gave the experience of Bliss that is written in all ancient scriptures. I used to practice Yoga and meditation at some other centers before I met Sunita. But with one meditation of Sunita, there was no looking back. She made me realize Meditation should become a way of life, not just closing the eyes and sitting for 30 min and crazily carrying the monkey mind for rest of the day.

Sunita is not just a healer; she is Pure Love and Bliss. I came for one problem, but there is a complete turn around in all aspects of my life. Today I feel that ‘Sky is not the Limit’.

In this Journey I came to know that every physical manifestation of disease has its root in the subconscious mind. Modern Medical science is doing wonders in many ways, but in some ways failing to reach the root causes of life styles disease like IBS, Crohn’s, Diabetes, Arthritis, Colitis, Hypertension, Anxiety, Depression and many more.

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Roller Coaster ride of IBS – K. K. Das

As the flight landed in Vancouver on April 14th, I brought with me a stomach full of pain and turmoil. As I walked out of the airport with a dawning age of 65, feeling weak and vulnerable with a stomach that put my life on a rollercoaster ride for 40 years, my son comforted me that it will all be fine. This gave me a glimmer of hope that Sookshma Meditation and Sunita Bapooji may show me some relief with Irritable Bowl Syndrome that was diagnosed 20 years back. I went to doctors and they confirmed that it is IBS as they saw traces of ulcers in Endoscopy. I took medicines for 2 months, it cured me for sometime, but it was not permanent. After a gap, this problem again recurred.

I always coped with my weak Gastro Intestinal system, with frequent outbursts of pain, acidity, gas and frequent diarrhea.

“I started to understand that this is more than regular yoga and meditation.”

In first 2 sessions of Sookshma meditation, Sunita taught me some subtle yoga and breathing exercises and she personally trained and guided me with my inner observation and meditation. It is not just simply lying or sitting, but also concentrating on the each and every aspect of my body and finally vacating the mind without any thoughts for about 30-45 min. I have been meditating for the past 20 years, but Sunita’s Sookshma is different. I realized Meditation is not about closing the eyes and sitting, but at the end one needs to feel rejuvenated and energized like I felt here with Sunita

After 4 sessions I again got severe pain in stomach 2 times and she told me that this is the elimination phase where the toxins that are accumulated in the system are being purged naturally. I started to understand that this is more than regular yoga and meditation. So after 2 weeks, I found the stomach pain has totally disappeared. I feel the strength in my stomach. Sunita also suggested some dietary changes. Instead of polished white rice I started to use only the short grain brown rice with more vegetables and with not too much oil and fried food. Now I am comfortable eating brown rice and not finding any difficulty. There is no fluctuation in my digestive system any more.

Also because of the exercises and meditation, the other body pains and all the knee joint pains are gone. Previously after midnight the sleep used to get disturbed many times because of stomach pain in spite of taking Restyl sleeping pills, since many years. I stopped taking these pills and I am getting very peaceful deep sleep at least 5-6 hrs without any disturbance. Even I used to have leg pain when I used to go for long walks. But here when I go for walks, that pain is not there any more. Mind is very calm, cool and quite. There are no worries at all. I feel more jubilant, very comfortable and joyful.

“I have been meditating for the past 20 years, but Sunita’s Sookshma is
different. “

Sunita is very open, deeply connects, understands the problem and patiently listens. She never insists that one should strictly follow the exercises. She gives clear explanation exercises and the benefits in a very subtle way. She is very humble and doesn’t show authority that other teachers usually have. She made me feel that I am part of the family with her compassion. She has all qualities of a Yoga guru. I am leaving this beautiful city and a divine guru like Sunita with more vigour and rigour in life. I yearn to come back soon.