Meditation, Relaxation and True Self Discovery - Chanshi

Chanshi Acmo is a husband, a father, and an entrepreneur. He inspires us to integrate meditation into our everyday lives. He is one of us and understands you and the challenges you face every day in today's age and time. That’s why he is someone you can relate to easily. 

Many spiritual experiences during his childhood led him to explore the teachings of many masters across different ages. However, it was his serendipitous meeting with his spiritual masters of the Chan Buddhism and Nath Yoga lineages in Tiruvannamalai, as well as the later personal experiences in his life, that crystalized him for an inner awakening.

The conventional education he received greatly aided him in establishing an unparalleled contextual relevance to his spiritual teachings, adding tangibility to all esoterica.

Darshan Bawa is the hand behind the ease that you encounter through the structured learning in meditation programs. She is a social entrepreneur by profession and an artist at heart.

She heads the Children's Meditation organization -BodhiShishu. Using her personal expertise, experiences and creativity to the fullest, she designs and delivers meditation programs for children, that are not just fun, but also highly effective. She believes that as children are our future, they must be attended to with love and consciousness.

With meditation as a strong foundation, all her programs are focused on equipping children with appropriate tools and techniques that would help them lead happy, focused and fulfilled lives. Her philosophy is - "The sooner we can inculcate meditation in children, the more beautiful and fulfilling their life will be."

Lokesh Venkataswamy is an experienced practitioner and advocate of joy and mindfulness. His passion and pursuit are towards helping individuals aim and reach to the peaks of human potential through grit and  creativity. 

Lokesh brings over close to 3 decades of experience in the areas of Design Thinking, Innovation and Digital Transformation.

As an advisor to the board at Chanshi, he is responsible for the establishment and oversight of the organization’s social impact strategy and priorities, for setting its high-level policies, and for overall management.

Natesh Ullal is a Mangalore based documentary filmmaker and film practitioner with 30 years of experience in film-making. He is specialized in the area of video documentation, community television and facilitation of video production workshops. 

"Education, social structures and traditional beliefs have created a fencing all around us. There is a vast creation beyond this fence, which might only seem like a mesmerizing portrait for now. However, We can split open this attractive image and merge ourselves with the reality of its vast existence, only when we become capable to see the various amplitudes and dimensions of the same.

In spite of spending most of its life in just feeding itself, what a natural event it is for the caterpillar to be transformed into a butterfly that can fly with grace and freedom. Likewise, it can be as natural for us too, to easily mutate, break-free from the shackles and become one with the vast existence. Chanshi has been aiding this process, through facilitating the right ambience and atmosphere needed for the same", he says.

Sangeetha Gowra has an extensive background in the field of Education. She has facilitated the learning process in various schools and colleges for more than 2 decades. Along with a few friends and colleagues, she also started an alternate school in Bangalore which has its grounding in J Krishnamurti’s teachings and vision.

She met Chanshi Acmo in 2017 who initiated her into Zen. Over this period of time , as the practice continues, she finds her quietness, calm and peace within her, which is experienced through the day and night. She finds this to be beautiful and genuine, which she intends to share with everyone.

She facilitates individuals' inner journey at the Chanshi Meditation Center in Bangalore.