Everyone needs a pick me up and just like coffee will provide it for the body, inspirational people provide it for the psyche. Here at Cafe Rainy Days, I hope to converse with ordinary people who have extraordinary stories to tell. I introduce you to people who provide inspiration, people who translate ideas into reality, people from all over the world, all walks of life who have the courage to follow their dreams. In Marathi, Hindi and English. The themes are around social work, travel, inspiration, design, spiritual, yoga
Dr Sonali Naik has been a leading Gynaecologist in Ahmedabad, Gujarat for the last 27 years. She spearheads Gynaecology and Obstrectics at Adarsh Hospital and has delivered over 10 thousand babies and helped over hundred thousand women achieve reproductive success and attain feminine health. Sonali gives health related advice to all age groups of women and she talks about visualisation as a technique and about her faith in Gajanan Maharaj Anuradha Naik is an accomplished engineer and advocate who has worked as a tech specialist in US & India based enterprises and Non profits. She has created content for universal healthcare in the state of NY, living as a vegan professional in the United States and peace as a human right for all children . You can follow her @iamanunaik on Twitter , Instagram , Medium and Youtube Dr Deepak Naik https://m.facebook.com/thebetterindia/photos/a.10151330860254594/10159357433919594/?type=3&source=57&__tn__=EH-R Join Adarsh women here: https://bit.ly/JoinAdarshWomenGroup Sonali's YouTube channel : https://youtube.com/@sonalinaik4470
Roxanne Davur runs Probably Paradise — a shelter home for dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, cows and pigs in Karjat. This shelter provides injured, abandoned and handicapped animals a dignified life and ample space where they move about freely. Roxanne is a master trainer in animal welfare.
“The spiritual path is a path of freedom. Freedom is a word that should be taken very seriously. Freedom from what? Freedom from myself! “ Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan . We talk about spiritual aspects and experience, microbiome and vedic chanting.Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan is a Cardiologist and Professor of Medicine. She is a Śrīvidyā initiate. She is a long-term student of Dr. Sumit Kesarkar, who is her Vidyā Guru in all traditions and who encouraged her to establish Śabda Institute. She has studied Tantra, Advaita Vedanta, Yoga and Āyurveda with teachers across the globe. Her workshops, courses and writings strive to bring these time-honored traditions to modern living in practical ways. She is the author of Shakti Rising (Nonduality Press, 2017), which won the Nautilus Gold Award for Best Books of 2017, The Heart of Wellness (Sfaim Press, 2020), Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma (New Sarum Press, UK, 2020), and Fractals of Reality: Living the Śrīcakra (Sfaim Press, 2022).
“ Find the quality of life where you have to think less of what you eat and more about what you are going to use your body for” Dr Sumit Kesarkar Dr Sumit Kesarkar is a Vaidya (doctor) of Āyurveda with a cross over Ph.D in botanical Taxonomy . He is the founder of the National Library of Ayurveda Medicine (NLAM), a searchable online repository of ancient Āyurvedic formulations and study modules. You'll often find Sumitji journeying across India working towards the conservation of medicinal plants, local health traditions and ancient Hatha Yoga practices. His aim is simplifying and decoding Vedic Sciences, Ayurveda, Yoga and Tantra. With this in mind, he runs several courses and has many YouTube videos. His website: www.drsumit.in YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/DrSumitKesarkar
Aadhar services provide medical and non medical services to the elderly in Maharashtra. From a simple chat to providing for their emergency hospital admissions - the team take care of all basic needs of the elderly - especially targeting parent whose children do not live locally. For more information visit : http://www.aadharservices.com/index.html#index.html
Sam Millichap is a long term traveller. She sold up her house and quit her job and now she seeks interesting projects to occupy herself. She also took her son out of school twice for a year each and they backpacked around various countries. She shares her travelling experiences here: https://onebigfieldtrip.wordpress.com/about-us/ And also writes here : https://medium.com/@sammillichap #solotravel #backpacking #workaway
Dr Abhijit Sonawane has been providing Pune's beggars free treatment and funding them to start their own enterprise. Dr Abhijeet Sonawane and Dr Manisha Sonawane - also known as Doctors for beggars run services for the needy beggars under the SOHAM trust. Recently, they also authored a book in Marathi “Bhikshekarancha Doctor” they have won several awards for this selfless service. For more information please visit: https://sohamtrust.com/
Manjiri Latey is telepathic animal and nature communicator. She is also the founder of earthwise.co.in Manjiri holds several workshops teaching telepathic animal and nature communication. Manjiri is also a certified practitioner and trainer in NLP. For more information please visit : http://www.earthwise.co.in/index.html We talked Manjiri's experiences with a variety of communications from nature space to the animal kingdom
Renutai Gavaskar is the President of Ekalavya Nyasa - an organisation providing education and shelter to society's most under privileged children in Pune. https://www.ekalavyapune.org/default.html Renutai is an eminent social worker who has dedicated her life to giving the most disadvantaged children of society not just basic needs, but their childhood back. Renutai has authored several books and is an engaging story teller. She uses stories as a medium for therapy. #ruiacollege #rotaryclubpune
Amrut Deshmukh also known as the booklet guy is on a mission to make India read. Amrut is a chartered accountant by profession and has read over 1500 books. To encourage people to read more, Amrut puts out a book summary every week on the booklet app. To buy Amrut's book, please visit www.bookletguy.com To connect, please email : bookletguy@gmail.com
Blanche Serban is a yoga and meditation teacher and a fine art painter. She hails Romania and trained in Psychology and art in Romania and then in the Syracuse university, US. We talk about Blanche's experience of the divine, her mystical experiences and yoga practices.She teaches the AYP system of yoga. For more about her yoga offering please visit:https://yogapractices.weebly.com/For Blanche's art offering please visit:http://www.blancheserban.com/Visit for more information about AYP :Aypsite.org
Conversation with Darshan Wagh - founder and director of ADOPT sports. ADOPT Sports is a non-profit based organisation in Pune working towards transforming the lives of promising rural and tribal athletes by supplementing their sporting careers with a holistic training system which will raise them to an equitable platform for competing and winning for the nationDarshan is also a strength and conditioning coach and a sports trainer.For more information please visit :https://www.adoptsports.org/