Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Vani Shukla as an Influencer for Yoga at Womenlines. Vani has been into Yoga and Fitness for more than 18 years. She is a post-graduate in Yoga therapy from India. Presently she lives in Adelaide, Australia for the past five years and runs International Yoga Retreats and workshops. In this episode, Vani is sharing interesting yoga pose for flexibility of thoracic (chest area) spine-
Stress & anxiety can cause a lot of tension in the upper back/chest area, this simple practice can help to release tension and breath efficiently.
Key points-
1) It will improve flexibility in the chest region and upper back
2) It will enhance your breathing capacity and quality.
3) It relaxes neck and shoulder muscles which are commonly strained by sitting on the computer.
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Vani has been into Yoga and Fitness for more than 18years. She is a post-graduate in Yoga therapy from India. She was among the first few female fitness experts in Delhi to qualify American Council on Exercise exam in 2011. Presently she lives in Adelaide Australia for the past five years and runs International Yoga Retreats and workshops.
Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Ravindirin Zearamane, a retired banker, who was Senior Business Analyst with a proven record of achievements in the multi-cultural environments of the global financial services industry, as a guest contributor at Womenlines panel. He is also a coach and mentor too.
Ravindirin has shared the story of a big company on the brink of bankruptcy. Please read and find out the interesting details on how this company is saved and by whom-
Today’s meeting:
The ‘ad hoc’ meeting room’s door closes after the CEO goes in with Nicole. Board members are all present. They appear to be worried…whether this newly appointed Growth and Innovation Officer will work out the right plan to put back the company on the right path. Boundless expectations in their minds. Darren is the only person in the board who knows Nicole personally. He was her college mate, then for a short period managed her as his deputy during his first career tenure in an Export Company. He is unable to acknowledge and accept her in this important role. He feels nervous and is apparently uneasy with the situation.
“This meeting is the starting point and will become a milestone in our company history. We are entering an era of growth and revenue, an era of healthy balance sheets. Nicole is here to help us steer the ship to its destination braving storms and bad weather. She has more than 15 years of experience and 5 of the top ranking 50 companies have reached their present status with her guidance and control”…a simple and short opening speech by the CEO.
“How could this person with an average academic score, nicknamed the ‘gang leader’ as she could never be found alone without her small group of chirpy college girls, be able to turn around this big company and make it profitable?” Darren wants to voice out but controls himself.
After a brief session of self-introductions, Gary, the Financial controller passes on 2 thick folders to Nicole…”These are our short and long term plans. You will also find our last 3 balance sheets, all in red. After reviewing, please feel free to ask for clarifications. I am at your full disposal.”
Heads across the table nod to signal they are ready to cooperate.
“Thank you, Gary. I will go through them. Darren, will you please arrange for a one hour ‘one to one’ meeting with each of the board members and then their direct reports?”
“No problem, Nicole. I will send you the invitations” is the response of Darren while “Why the hell you want to have individual meetings?” is what he wants to say. The Head of Human Resources finds it surprising that she doesn’t show any sign of knowing him. In a strange way, he feels her attitude comforting.
After 9 months, in a meeting:
Nicole: Thank you for believing in me and acting upon all my requests.
Gary: You are welcome, Nicole. Just one quick question. You have so far only incurred expenses. Hope you have some action plan like cost-cutting, merging sectors, redundancy.
Nicole: These expenses…consider them as investments. Give me 9 more months and you will start receiving their dividends. No redundancy but there could be some realignments.
Barbara, Marketing Manager: Nicole, as you suggested, we started working hand in hand with the Sales Team. Our new TV commercial has an emotional 1-minute story which speaks directly to the customer’s heart.
Diana, Head of Sales: you better have a look at its content before we pass it on to our production team.
Nicole: Will do, Diana. I am sure it will come out nicely.
Darren wonders how she will be able to show the results within such a short period, but admires her confidence.
After 9 more months, in a meeting:
Gary: Dear colleagues, I have good news. Our company moves back to profitability. We can even pay dividends to our stockholders.
Nicole: Don’t forget to pay profit-bonus to our staff who made this revenue growth possible by their hard and dedicated work.
Darren: The health care centre, the ‘man of the month’ selection and celebration in each department, the twice a year ‘family time’ excursions, the ‘work at home’ option and above all, the ‘‘select your own office hours’ scheme are some of your recommendations. Needless to say they brought back the lively atmosphere into the office. We all are now smiling and that collective smile gets reflected in our services to our customers. Nicole, you have done a good job. Six more months and you will be off. Why can’t you stay with us for some more time?
Nicole: My priority was to know our workforce, their needs, their ambitions, their happiness. My individual meetings made me realise how much they loved their job. You all were prepared to do anything to protect this company from failing. The only missing piece was ‘communication’. You all were keeping your heads down focusing on only what you did. No one was clear of the company goal and its plan to achieve it. I have therefore deleted the layout option from my action plan.
If the company looks after the staff, they will look after the company….so simple but often forgotten.
I came here on a 2-year contract. I have done what you paid me for. I have to leave now as agreed. Other Corporates in similar situations need me.
On Nicole’s send-off day:
After a short speech, Nicole asks Darren to come forward and stand next to her. Then says
“I knew Darren right from my college days. In fact, I worked for him in my first job. It was he who taught me the first lessons of HR…human relationships. He is a good man. I kept it as a secret until today because otherwise, it would have been difficult for all of us to perform our duties objectively with no place for favours. Consensus and collective work create a win-win situation. Isn’t it?”
Someone raises his right hand and making V sign, shouts Niiicccole…Niiicccole….Niiicccole and the entire crowd joins in, taking pride in repeating the name with roaring applause.
Darren feels as if he is reborn. He will never ever assume anything based on past experiences. Time changes everyone and people grow wiser day by day because of their life lessons.
Ravindirin Zearamane is a retired Bank executive who writes regularly on LinkedIn. He is also a coach and mentor who believes in a bright future where technology frees man from manual jobs and helps him in his creative talent to make the world the best place to live in.
We are powerful, we are resilient, we have everything to fulfil our dreams!
Every morning many people across the globe are affirming the positive attributes they are having and promising themselves to carry a positive mindset throughout the day.
It is true friends that every individual is blessed with amazing powers but she can use it only if she is having the right knowledge and right mindset. Otherwise preconditioning did by the society will never let him achieve his or her dreams.
You start your day; you look around the media, majority-reporting negativity, sometimes you have to think twice if you are reading true news or a fake one.
You watch a news channel, full of discussions who is supposed to speak why, why the particular politician behaved that way, which country is slowing down, and above all-natural disasters are creating panic across the whole world.
Half of our positivity vanishes in some minutes!
You reach the workplace, senior management talking about the bad performance in the last quarter, cost-cutting will be the main agenda, you are in terror for the security of your job (or your spouse’s job if you are not in the job), no chance of positivity.
You check around your home, you see what you are supposed to buy, which dress or gadget you should be targeting or you are after your kids to run in the mad rat race.
You are completely lost!
You completely forget that you are born with all skills, good health and uniqueness within you to excel in life!
What to do now!!
The only solution is to have faith in yourself, like how beautifully the author of the best-selling book ‘Alchemist’ Paul Coelho explains that everything is within you. You have to awaken the authentic you who is living every moment with mindfulness about positivity, thinking about solutions to every challenge and above all taking action instead of wasting energy in highlighting what is missing and giving opinion what should be done. It is abundance around us. We have better opportunities. Technology-wise we are much advanced than the previous era. Instead of spending time reading the negative news, use that time to become fit and healthy. Your family will be grateful to you especially when you become old!
Life is beautiful I strongly believe and it should be used to build up a lovely story where you are the main character who believed in oneself and lived every moment in present creating precious memories connecting with his tribe with love and compassion.
Let Excellence be your Brand!
Charu Mehrotra
Founder Womenlines
Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Ms Ketki Vinayachandra as an ‘Influencer of Health’ at Womenlines panel. Ketki is sharing articles and videos related to excellence in health through Naturopathy at Womenlines. The first series ‘Flab to Fab’ is a must watch as Ketki is sharing incredible tips to reduce weight. Ketki is a trained Naturopath and she is quite passionate about creating awareness about Naturopathy across the world. In this episode, Ketki is sharing how to prevent adding on more pounds around Chinese New Year-
It is Chinese New Year Festive time!
While enjoying the festive season – be mindful of the calories that one can put on. One quick simple trick to prevent adding on more pounds on the tummy!
Ms Ketki Vinayachandra, BscM (Hons), ND, AND, Dip Nut, ( Aust), NHAA Member Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutritionist, Iridologist
“As a Naturopathic health practitioner, I strongly believe that we need to invest wisely in our health. The everyday choices we make in terms of our lifestyle and how we treat our body can either create healing or disease. While ageing is inevitable, diseases are not.”
Talk to me to customize a treatment plan for you today! http://www.askketki.com/
Womenlines is delighted to share about Anjalika, an IITTI (CANADA) certified professional Image Branding & Lifestyle Consultant, as an Influencer for Image Branding at Womenlines. Yes womenfolk, gear up to learn the tips and tricks to carry yourself with excellence and make excellence your brand. Check out incredible tips to ‘Stand Out’ in the crowd by Zu this month in the video above-
We live in such a noisy space these days; noisiest than it had ever been.
Everyone strives to stand out in the crowd.
Watch my video to learn 4 simple tips you can bring into your life to make you memorable.
Let me know if there are any tips you want me to share here on Womenlines. I’d love to hear from you.
Zu Anjalika Kamis Gunnulfsen is the Editor (Singapore) for Marketing In Asia and certified Image Branding & Lifestyle Consultant. She was also crowned Mrs Singapore Globe 2017. Born in Singapore and blessed to have lived in a couple of other amazing cities in the world, Anjalika is currently expatriating in Kuala Lumpur. Follow her on LinkedIn, Instagram and blog
LinkedIn –https://www.linkedin.com/in/zuanjalika/
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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Vani Shukla as an Influencer for Yoga at Womenlines. Vani has been into Yoga and Fitness for more than 18years. She is a post-graduate in Yoga therapy from India. She was among the first few female fitness experts in Delhi to qualify American Council on Exercise exam in 2011.
Presently she lives in Adelaide Australia for the past five years and runs International Yoga Retreats and workshops. She has been interviewed by many local Australian radio stations including Channel 9 News. Read and listen to Vani’s interview above about her interesting journey in the field of Yoga in her own words-
I am Vani Shukla, born and raised in the heritage Indian city – Lucknow. My introduction to the Vedic mythology, traditions and its philosophy started at a very early age being part of an esteemed Brahmin family. Brahmin is a caste in Hinduism specializing as teachers (acharya) and protectors of sacred learning across generations, and therefore throughout my childhood, my family and teachers kept enriching me with the knowledge of primaeval epics, Ayurveda (ancient Indian medical science), Kathak (classical dance form), liberating mantras, philosophy of yoga, and spiritual sacraments of the Hindu culture that strengthened my belief and passion for the power of using scientific and cultural knowledge for the benefit of the society. This led me to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in the science of Nutrition and Dietetics.
In 2003, when I was 18 and just started my Bachelor’s degree, sadly I lost both my parents a few months apart. The pain of loss coupled with the agonizing mental battle and bewilderment. From an energetic happy teenager, suddenly I isolated myself from society. Seeing my situation my friend introduced me to her Yoga teacher and here my foray into the world of Yoga came. Having a strong belief in ancient sciences and consistent practice of Yoga renewed my strength to face my new life and deal with the vacuum of losing both my parents. This experience changed me as a person and I was enthralled by the power of Yoga. I decided to inspire the people to lead a happy and healthy life by sharing this incredible knowledge of mind, body and soul.
With this burning desire to be able to change the lives of people towards positive living, I enrolled into Master’s of Science in Yoga Therapy at Kasturba Medical College, a renowned medical college in south India. During this course, I was lucky to learn more about Yoga and its philosophy, from a few of the most experienced teachers from the Southern part of India.
Even while pursuing my Master’s degree, I felt a deep urgency to find a Guru, who would guide me to enlighten my Yogic path. In this exploration of the spiritual master, I travelled across the length and breadth of India and visited many ashrams. My search ended in Rishikesh when I finally met Swami Veda Bharti in December 2006. Swami Veda was the disciple of Swami Rama of the Himalayas (founder of Himalayan Yoga Tradition). He has guided many scholars in their numerous fields and I was privileged enough to be accepted as his student. The journey since then has been one of continuous spiritual growth and abundant blessing.
When your dreams don’t let you sleep, you simply wake up and work hard! After completing my education in 2007, I started sharing Yoga in its deepest form in order to enable people to make long-lasting modifications in their habits and lifestyle to achieve good health and complete well-being. During the next eight years, I was able to touch many lives by cultivating Yoga teachings in different multinational corporations; health clubs, residential societies, old age care centres, orphanages and hospitals.
I was delighted to know that I have been able to change lives, from curing simple health ailments like migraine, insomnia, headaches, obesity, stress to even helping some people quit smoking and give up alcohol. I also got the privilege to inculcate Yoga practice and re-emphasize the importance of flexibility and mindfulness in a Sports Center run by Indian Cricketer M.S Dhoni in New Delhi.
Whilst I was busy in accomplishing my passion of teaching Yoga, In 2015 I got an opportunity to live in Australia, as a Yogi trait I love travelling and exploring a new world, I decided to move to Australia.
Currently, I am living in Adelaide with my husband and continuing my Yoga journey with beautiful people in this city. I conduct classes at various renounced Yoga centres, besides organizing successful workshops and retreats (local & international) and guiding students in safe traditional Yoga through a variety of postures (asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama) and meditation. I personally love teaching Meditation and Yoga philosophy and make sure that it has been incorporated into my teaching.
For the past couple of years, I have been doing volunteering at multiple organizations to teach Yoga and increase awareness of Indian/Yoga philosophy, including the University of South Australia, Hindu Council of Australia-SA chapter and United Indians of South Australia
I am a Karma Yogi and intensely believe in the philosophy of Karmas- What goes around, comes around! Continuing my beliefs and passion, I hope I will keep serving people throughout my life.
Sarve Bhavantu Sukinaha,Sarve Santu Niramayah !
(May all be happy, may all be disease less.)
Namaste!
Vani
Visit Yoga Begins to know more about Vani!
Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Kapil Kulshreshtha and Shilpa Kulshreshtha, authors of a best selling book ‘Play it Full-7 steps to unlock an extraordinary career’ in ‘Books for Excellence’ show. In the interview above the power couple is sharing an interesting journey behind writing the book and how as a couple they were able to come up with such a high impact book together-
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Womenlines loves to get empowering and informative content for all readers, viewers and followers from across the globe. Womenlines is delighted to welcome the organisation as a sponsor for the content related to ‘How to prevent and thrive with Cancer’ under ‘Health’ segment. Enlightening content from Cancer Awakens is going to empower people with the right mindset and knowledge to prevent cancer and to thrive with it if one is diagnosed with it.
Physical lifestyle factors like diet, exercise, rest, personal habits and environmental factors can adversely affect your health. If you can discover your physical stressors and what triggers them, you can take specific and targeted actions to recover from them.
How is your body doing? What are your strengths and stressors?
The key factors in maintaining optimum physical health are diet, exercise, rest & relaxation, personal habits (smoking/ alcohol) and sociability & laughter. Here are some guidelines and questions to get you thinking.
Diet
- Consuming more fresh vegetables, fruit, whole grains and nuts regulates the production of adrenaline and boosts immunity. (A simple rule of thumb is to eat a ‘rainbow diet’ i.e. try and get all the seven colours of the rainbow on your plate, during every meal).
- Question: What colours are usually missing from your diet?
- Consuming foods with a low GI or Glycemic Index (less than 55) regulates sugar levels in the blood; this stabilizes our moods and energy. Here’s an interesting discussion on low glycemic index foods.
- Question: How GI-friendly is your diet?
- Drinking 2 litres (8 normal size glasses) of water daily, in addition to all its other benefits, also improves neural activity and regulates the production of various hormones.
- Question: How much water do you have on a typical day?
Exercise
- 20 minutes of aerobic exercise counters and neutralizes the previous 24 hours of adrenalisation. (An additional 10 min aerobic exercise protects against the next 12 hours of adrenalisation.)
- Question: How much aerobic exercise do you get in a normal week?
Rest & Relaxation
- 7-8 hours of sleep is optimum, both for rest and repair at the muscular and cellular level.
- Question: How much sleep do you get routinely?
- Deep sleep (brain waves at Delta state) is important for the long term health and repair of the brain itself.
- Question: Do you enjoy deep, restful sleep?
- 30 minutes in a meditative state provides the same benefits as 6 hours normal sleep
- Question: Do you practice restful awareness (meditation, Tai-chi, yoga etc.)?
Sociability & Laughter
- Spending 60 minutes once a week with close friends in a purely social (non-work related) setting produces high levels of endorphins
- Question: How much time do you spend socialising with close friends every week?
- 20 minutes of ‘belly-laughs’ every day give us a significant rush of endorphins. (This explains the global popularity of laughter-clubs!)
- Question: Are you getting your share of belly laughs?
Personal Habits – Smoking/ Alcohol
It is medically well accepted that smoking is a major cause of cancer. But did you know that heavy drinkers develop cancer at a rate 10 times higher that the general population … and worse still, that their combination is lethal?
Dr Jeremy Geffen, in his book The Journey Through Cancer, points out: “While the link between smoking and cancer has been well-established, the link between alcohol and cancer, although well-established, is less known to the public. Alcohol seems to amplify the effects of carcinogens, particularly tobacco smoke. It causes irritation to tissues of the mouth, esophagus, larynx, stomach and liver in ways that might contribute to cancer. It also increases the risk of breast and colo-rectal cancer, through other mechanisms.”
- Question: What does your smoking/ alcohol profile look like?
Reflection
- Review your key lifestyle factors. What are your primary physical stressors? What changes/ improvements can you make?
- How often are you ‘high’ on the adrenalin rush? How addicted are you to its buzz?
- What are your strategies to release the ‘feel-good’ endorphins in your body?
- How do you balance the negative effects of your physical stressors with calm and tranquillity?
The Holistic Health Questionnaire (HHQ) will help you understand your stressors. To take the free test, please visit hhq.cancerawakens.com
Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Ms Ketki Vinayachandra as an ‘Influencer of Health’ at Womenlines panel. Ketki is sharing articles and videos related to excellence in health through Naturopathy at Womenlines. The first series ‘Flab to Fab’ is a must watch as Ketki is sharing incredible tips to reduce weight. Ketki is a trained Naturopath and she is quite passionate about creating awareness about Naturopathy across the world.
Happy New Year everyone! and this is a great start to the New Year. Let’s start a very motivating sharing from Ketki to kickstart your health goals for this 2020!
In this episode, Ketki is taking interview of Mr Ramesh Subbaraman, former senior political reporter with Channel News Asia- Singapore-
Watch this episode to know-
How Ramesh regained his health.Going on a Visceral Fat reduction program with Ketki.
He completed 6 months ago and still reaping benefits from the sustainable 90 days program.
Hear how he did it with Ketki!
“As a Naturopathic health practitioner, I strongly believe that we need to invest wisely in our health. The everyday choices we make in terms of our lifestyle and how we treat our body can either create healing or disease. While ageing is inevitable, diseases are not. Talk to me to customize a treatment plan for you today
Womenlines takes opportunity to give a shout out for supporting a wonderful initiative by an organisation SCHOOL (Society of Community Health-Oriented Operational Links), which is very passionately working on very interesting project with the elderly group (60+) in India, with the intention to provide the best support system to them while engaging other sectors around too.
This month SCHOOL founder Dr Benazir Patil has shared about a ‘Healthy Ageing’ initiative ‘Adding life to years’ in Pune city in India, where SCHOOL volunteers team spends time with an elderly population and involve them in activities which create enthusiasm in them.it.This is an ONGOING field project of SCHOOL is currently self-funded by the organization!!
Email Archana Mittal mittal.archana@gmail.com to know about various ways you can help the organisation!
Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Mrs Soundaranayaki Vairavan in ‘Super Achiever Show’. Soundaranayaki Vairavan is author of six books and is an editor of online magazine ‘Online Voice’ at http://www.onlinevoice.info. She is also the founder of ‘Kalamanjari’, an organisation that aims to promote ‘Tamil Isai’ (Tamil Music) through classes, workshops and performances. Super Achievers are solopreneurs who have achieved incredible goals through their determination, passion and grit. Let’s listen and read in her own words what makes her a ‘Super Achiever’-
Qualification
She has a Bachelors in Arts Degree in History with Ethiraj College, Madras University, Diploma in Freelance Journalism with International Correspondence School, London and Masters in Communication Management with the University of South Australia.
Industry Experience
She has worked as a part-time tutor with Communications and New Media Program, National University of Singapore. She has also worked part-time for the Singapore Tamil daily ‘Tamil Murasu’.
Writer
She writes both in Tamil and English. She has published more than a hundred articles for various publications in India, Singapore, Malaysia. the USA. Srilanka and Congo, Africa like The Hindu English, The Hindu Tamil, Nanal, Nagarathar Malar, Namathu Nagara Malar, Aachi Vanthachu, Thisaigal, Dinamani Kadir, Singai Chudar, Tamil Murasu, The Serangoon Times, Kumudam publications, One India One People, IgoUgo, Daily Mirror and others.
Editor
Initiated and was the first editor of the magazine ‘Singai Nagarathar Malar’ in the year 2003 and subsequently for the year 2015.
Online Editor
She has been the editor of the E-Magazine ‘Online Voice’ at http://www.onlinevoice.info, since 2001. She has interviewed Dr Kalaingar Karunanidhi, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Dr Chandhrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr P Chidambaram, Former Finance Minister of India, Mr Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Isha Foundations, Mr S R Nathan, Former President of Republic of Singapore, Ma Indranee Rajah, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore, Mr S Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information, Singapore, Mr Sam Pitroda, a policymaker and a visionary, Mr Sashi Tharoor, former Cabinet Minister of India and many others.
Author
She has written four books in Tamil and two books in English. They are Singapore- Oru Mulumaiyana Parvai, Tamil and Tamils in Singapore, Pengale, ungal mathipai uyarthikulungal, Tamil Isai – oru Kannottam (with Mrs Gowri Gokul) in Tamil and Nagarathars in Singapore (with Dr Sp. Thinnappan), Tamil Community and the Making of Modern Singapore (with Mr A P Raman) in English.
Public Speaking
As a member of Toast Masters Club, she has won the best speakers award, several times. She was in charge of conducting the monthly poetry session when in the EXCO of Singapore Tamil Writers Association.
Her speech during various occasions such as her book release ‘Singapore our mulumaiyana parvai’ and her video featuring during the 75th year celebrations of Tamil Murasu caught the attention of many.
Member in
Singapore Tamil Writers Association
Madhavi Literary Society
Global Organization of the People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)
LISHA Women’s Wing
Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce (SICCI)
Abdul Kalam Vision Society
Inter-Religious Organisation
Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society
Vocal Singer
She has released three music albums ‘Vocal Songs Six’, ‘Tamils in Singapore’ and Tirukkural, the first ten couplets. She has given more than 100 vocal performances in Singapore, Malaysia and India.
Kalamanjari
She is the founder of the organisation ‘Kalamanjari’ to promote Tamil Isai and is based in Singapore. To know more about Kalamanjari visit http://www.kalamanjari.sg/