Born in London and raised by parents of Indian Mauritian heritage, Zeena’s interest in the spiritual teachings from India were sparked at a very young age. Witnessing her mother practice yoga asana, and being gifted a book on Krsna consciousness at the age of five, studying Vedic and Tamil texts and their concepts, have formed part of Zeena’s life experiences for over forty years and heavily inform her teaching as a Mysore Ashtanga teacher and Intuitive life coach.

As a young school girl, this interest in the esoteric was also shared with a fascination for learning how the human body functions and the means by which healing in the human body occurs. A focused and ever inquisitive mind led to Zeena completing degrees in both Toxicological biochemistry and Dentistry whilst in her mid twenties. During this stage of her learning, Zeena gained skills in research whilst working as a scientist for a global pharmaceutical and then went on to work as a dental surgeon in busy London practices for eight years. It was during her time as a dental surgeon that Zeena realised that the healing modalities that modern medicine offer were not where her energetic skill set were going to be of best use. So after two years of intense yoga teacher training, fortified by the insights gained from her daily Ashtanga practice, Zeena left dentistry to become devoted to the path of sharing Ashtanga yoga.

Combing the knowledge and skill sets gained both in science and surgery, with more than 25 years of daily practice and ten years of teaching Ashtanga yoga, Zeena’s approach to sharing yoga is firmly rooted in the nature of scientific enquiry as well as the Vedic and Tantric philosophical approaches to exploring Self awareness. Zeena teaches a self-guided, Ashtanga Mysore programme in west London, where she guides students to learn how to embody a set sequence of asanas which, over time becomes committed to memory. By memorising a sequence of asanas, and learning to move through them daily, guided by the flow and nature of the breath, the practising of asana becomes a tool for enhancing focus and concentration, ultimately inviting the student into a state of meditation through movement, bringing the practitioner into the state of inner union - a practice Patanjali refers to as Samyama.

As a tool for navigating the rhythms of modern life, Zeena has understood through her own daily practice, that by bringing awareness to our physical body, our breath and our internal energetic locks (bandhas) there is a possibility that we can start to become aware of neurological pathways that lay hidden in our subconscious mind. Some of these may be beneficial, while some, we come to learn through daily practice, may be holding us in certain patterns of thinking or being that we may wish to spend more time becoming familiar with. In learning to become aware of these, we start the process of yoga. And this, Zeena believes, is where the impact of a daily yoga practice begins to have far-reaching effects on our lives beyond the mat.