Kavita Chandran is a yoga teacher and international journalist based in Singapore. When she’s not at her desk writing corporate stories or wellness features, she can be founding stretching or meditating on a mat.
Kavita is a certified yoga teacher who did her Teacher Training at IndeaYoga in Mysore under the tutelage of Bharath Shetty, one of India’s most experienced and respected yoga teachers who has kept the traditional yoga alive. Kavita became serious about including traditional yoga in her daily routine after she started seeing remarked improvements in her anxiety issues many years ago. She focuses a lot on the breath and mind when she teaches yoga. She is also learning yoga therapy from S-Vyasa Yoga in Singapore. She is also the author of the book The Head that Won’t Stand.
She was the editor and publisher of Yoga Journal’s Singapore edition for three years (2016-2019), and once the license of the magazine expired, she branded the contents to Yogahood – a free service for the yoga community that needs to have a common platform. Through Yogahood, the community can list studios and products, events and retreats, add reviews and share ideas.
Prior to Yoga Journal, Kavita was a financial journalist with Reuters, Bloomberg and CNBC, and worked across North America, Europe and Asia.
Kavita owns Sankia Wellness Pte Ltd, the parent company of Yogahood.
