
Jemitra
Jemitra holds a Masters Degree in Health Promotion from Marymount University, is a certified Thai yoga massage therapist (Touch of Asia), and a certified Holistic Health Counselor (Institute for Integrative Nutrition).
In addition to her education, Jemitra has direct experience with the healing effects of the modalities she uses with her own clients. She maintains a regular, strenuous yoga practice and eats a diet composed of organic, whole foods. As a result, she is in better health and has more energy than when she was a teenager.
Through customized holistic lifestyle programs, Jemitra serves as a guide who assists her clients on a personal journey toward attaining radiant health, finding inner balance, and unleashing their full potential. She specializes in helping people who live busy, fast-paced lives. Jemitra’s programs draw from a wide range of techniques and modalities including: Thai yoga massage, yoga, and whole foods nutritional therapy.
Jemitra is one of the few practitioners of traditional Thai yoga massage. Her healing touch is legendary, having helped many find relief from stress and enter into a state of relaxed euphoria.
In 2004, Jemitra became certified to teach Vinyasa yoga at Tranquil Space yoga studio in Washington, DC. Since then, she has studied with such yoga luminaries as Shiva Rea and Simon Park. Jemitra is experienced in multiple styles of hatha yoga including: Jivamukti, Sivananda, Anusara, Bikram, Iyengar, Kundalini, Egyptian, and Ashtanga.
As a whole foods cook, Jemitra is adept in the healing arts of Indian, African, and raw foods cuisine. She learned North and South Indian cooking from Shashi Chopra of the Taj Mahal restaurant in Springfield, Virginia. Jemitra prides herself on having adapted healthy versions of many soul food favorites she grew up eating in the southeastern part of the United States.
Jemitra is also a motivational and dynamic public speaker, Jemitra lectures across the country and internationally on a wide variety of wellness and lifestyle related topics.