Dr. Kriti Karki

Kriti Karki is the owner and lead instructor of Mandala Yoga & Spa.Her story of dedication and love for yoga and how she came to this field is inspiring.As a five-year-old girl, Kriti became ill with very serious asthma, an illness from which her grandparents eventually died.Kriti’s father, Dr. SB Karki, decided to teach her yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises and started her on a healthy yogic food routine. Dr. SB Karki specializes in Naturopathy and is a great yogic master of Nepal.With all the efforts and determination of both Kriti and her father, she started recovering at the age of 10. Yoga not only saved her life, but she eventually fell in love with it, and it became her daily routine.At the age of 14, she was sent to a Yoga Ashram in India, where she spent 3 years of her life doing yoga sadhana (practice).She stayed in the ashram, forest, and caves, and she finally achieved all the knowledge and skills to lead a yogic life.After her return to Nepal, she started teaching yoga in her father’s institute and hospital at the age of 18. After 2 years of teaching the practices of yoga, she decided to complete her Diploma in Yoga courses at B.H.U. University in Varanasi, India.After the completion of this course, she started providing Yoga teacher training courses in Nepal at the age of 23.She finished her 3-year bachelor's and 2-year M.A. degrees in yogic sciences at the India Sanskrit University of Yoga and Naturopathy.Now she aims to complete her Ph.D. in it. Kriti is a strong believer in yoga and its power to change a person’s life. She has now been in the yoga practice for 15 years and has completely gotten rid of her asthma problems.She opened her own yoga studio in Thamel.