OM meets… Anusha Wijeyakumar
At one point in our conversation, I ask women’s health and social justice campaigner, yoga teacher and author Anusha Wijeyakumar what links everything she does. She says simply, “It’s my dharma.”
Wijeyakumar who has a raucous laugh, is clearly highly driven. Even through the medium of a Zoom call, her energy is palpable. She’s the Wellness Consultant for Hoag Hospital in Orange County, California in the USA. Here she’s created a meditation programme and champions mindfulness and meditation practices for maternal health, early risk assessment for breast and ovarian cancer prevention and breast cancer survivor programmes. Wijeyakumar also speaks on the science of mindfulness and meditation around the world to corporate executives and universities. She’s a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and Meditation Practitioner, part of the Faculty at yoga activist collective Off the Mat and a community partner of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition.
Women’s health and social justice is at the heart of all that Wijeyakumar’s involved with.
