About
A small practice, slowly built.
I’m Aanya — a trauma-informed coach, somatic practitioner, and the entirety of Hearth. This is the longer version of who I am and how I work.
The longer story
I came to this work the way most practitioners do — by needing it first. For ten years I worked in a job that demanded everything and gave back very little. I learned a lot about resilience in that decade, mostly by running out of it.
What pulled me out wasn’t a single course or breakthrough — it was years of small, unspectacular work with a coach who didn’t try to fix me. She listened. She named things I couldn’t see. She made space for the parts of me that didn’t have words yet.
That kind of slow, attentive presence changed the trajectory of my life. Hearth is my attempt to offer it back — to be that kind of company for someone else who’s quietly tired and looking for a slower place to think.
“The work isn’t to become someone new. It’s to come home to who you’ve always been, under all the noise.”
Most of my clients are mid-career professionals — quietly burnt out, looking for honest work, not interested in being sold transformation. If that sounds like you, you might be in the right place.
HOW I CAME TO THIS WORK
An imperfect, mostly-honest timeline.
Started a career I would eventually leave.
Strategy consulting in Mumbai. I learned a lot, including what I didn’t want.
Burned out, slowly, then all at once.
Took six months off. Started seeing a coach I now consider one of my teachers.
Moved to Kerala for what was meant to be a short stay.
It wasn’t. Started studying yoga and somatic work alongside my regular job.
Got certified as a coach. Took my first client.
She was a friend of a friend. We worked together for three years.
Trained in trauma-informed practice and somatic experiencing.
Two years of part-time training with practitioners I deeply respect.
Left consulting for good. Hearth became the whole thing.
I haven’t looked back, but I have, on slow Sunday mornings, looked sideways.
Training & what grounds me.
03 / Background
Trainings & certifications
- ICF-accredited Coaching Certification The Coaches Training Institute, 2018
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training Two-year program, 2021–2023
- Trauma-informed care Center for Mind-Body Medicine, 2022
- 200-hour Yoga teacher training Yoga Alliance certified, Kerala, 2017
What I keep returning to
- The work of Bessel van der Kolk On trauma and the body
- Pema Chödrön’s writing On meeting yourself with kindness
- The Internal Family Systems model Richard Schwartz
- Walking, daily The thinking happens between steps
What you can expect — and what to look elsewhere for.
You can expect
- Genuine listening before any advice
- Honesty when something isn’t working
- A slow, body-aware pace
- Confidential, considered conversations
- A long view — not quick fixes
Look elsewhere for
- Six-week transformations
- Hustle, productivity, or biohacking
- Spiritual bypassing
- Generic frameworks applied to everyone
- Acute crisis intervention or psychiatric care
If this resonates
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