About | Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Evidence

We checked all the boxes,
but something was still missing.

Two decades of practice, training, and research led us to one realization: in is the only way out.

Sam and Tulsi meditating at Meteora

The Unlikely Pair

Sam was a computer scientist, writing poetry on the side. Tulsi was an artist drawn endlessly to the intelligence of the body. They met in college and discovered something rare: a shared conviction that the most important technology in the world was the one we are born with: our own breath, mind, and being.

That conviction took them around the world. To India, where they spent years studying with masters most people only read about. To Boston, where Tulsi earned her graduate degree at Harvard and Sam taught yoga to cancer patients at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, and where they both learned to translate ancient wisdom into the language of modern evidence. To stages, retreats, and boardrooms across the globe, where they discovered that the people who often need this work most are the least likely to seek it out.

Today, they live in Asheville, North Carolina, where they guide leaders, organizations, and individuals ready to move beyond optimization and into a more integrated, meaningful way of living.

Who We Are

Sam, Co-Founder of Being & Mind

Sam

Co-Founder · Yoga & Meditation Teacher

Computer scientist turned yoga teacher, Sam bridges analytical thinking with embodied practice. With 2,000+ hours of yoga training, including study in the Isha tradition with Sadhguru, Sam brings rare technical depth to his teaching. He has taught yoga to 400+ UN delegates and led wellness programs for NYC tech startups. His teaching is grounded, accessible, and delivered with warmth, humor, and intellectual depth, designed especially for those who think critically about wellness.

On any given weekend he is most likely motorcycling along the Blue Ridge mountains, getting lost in nature with Jalebi, or finding himself in the occasional impromptu slam poetry jam.

Tulsi, Co-Founder of Being & Mind

Tulsi

Co-Founder · Ayurveda & Wellness Expert

With over a decade at the intersection of ancient practice and modern science, Tulsi helped establish a yoga and meditation research center at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital and holds a Master's from Harvard. She has completed 3,000+ hours of yoga training in India with Sadhguru and at leading yoga research institutes, and 850+ hours in ayurveda directly under Dr. Vasant Lad, one of the world's foremost ayurvedic physicians. She has certified hundreds of yoga educators across the US, spoken at conferences and events worldwide, led hundreds of wellness workshops, and worked 1:1 with leaders from Google, Amazon, and the Harvard community.

When she's not busy with all of that, and honestly, even when she is, you'll find her dancing salsa, making art, chasing wildflowers, and plotting her next adventure.

Lineage & Credentials

We believe in transparency about where our knowledge comes from. This isn't a weekend certification.

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Hours of Ayurvedic Training

Sadhguru Gurukulam

6,000+ hours of classical Hatha yoga training in the Isha tradition.

The Ayurvedic Institute

850+ hours of Ayurvedic study under Dr. Vasant Lad.

Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet

Research and teaching at the Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Tulsi holds a graduate degree from Harvard University.

Our Lineage

Sadhguru

Sadhguru

Sadhguru is the visionary and leader of Isha Foundation and one of the most revolutionary living teachers of classical yoga. Tulsi & Sam completed 3,000+ hours of training at the Sadhguru Gurukulam, a residential, intensive format of 6 months most yoga teachers never encounter. His influence and profound wisdom shapes every class, retreat, and talk we design.

Dr. Vasant Lad

Dr. Vasant Lad

Dr. Lad is the founder of The Ayurvedic Institute and one of the few true clinicians practicing and living ayurveda in the West. Tulsi spent 850+ hours in direct study with him: pulse diagnosis, constitutional assessment, and the clinical reasoning behind personalized care. He is the reason the 1:1 work is as precise and integrative as it is.

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