With one foot in the operatory and one on the mat, Bhakti brings nearly two decades of dental hygiene experience together with extensive yoga training and years of personal exploration into what it means to care for others without abandoning yourself in the process. 

After years of burnout, physical strain, and emotional exhaustion, she began asking hard questions that went beyond technique: What does this work ask of our bodies? What happens when we ignore those signals? How do we care deeply without taking everything home with us? And what would it look like to build a career that is not just survivable, but sustainable?

Yoga gave her another way to understand herself, and helped her pay attention to her body, work with discomfort rather than automatically overriding it, and recognize the difference between caring for someone and taking responsibility for them. What began as a personal practice soon revealed itself as a professional calling. Bhakti believes our physical body is our greatest ally in creating sustainable alignment in all areas of our lives.

From that foundation, Yoga of Dental Hygiene emerged as a way for clinicians to remember their wholeness while practicing with integrity, vitality, and purpose.

Bhakti belives that caring for the clinician is not separate from caring for the patient. But she also believes that self-care has limits: sometimes the answer is a better boundary, sometimes it's a different clinical approach, sometimes it's asking for help, and sometimes the workplace itselve needs to change. 

Her work bridges practical clinical experience, yogic philosophy, somatic tools, and Ayurvedic perspectives to offer a grounded, accessible path to longevity in dentistry. She has shared this work through practice-management seminars, workshops, retreats, and educational spaces with dental practitioners, students, and educators accross the country.

Outside of teaching and the operatory, Bhakti can usually be found playing her harmonium, making malas and jewelry, writing near water, or studying the sacred in whatever form currently has her attention.