Coach Pooja: Active Meditation in Action

Pooja Bhangar Khandelwal

To dream big and live your best life, stepping out of your comfort zone is a given and requires a mindset that embraces challenge and adventure. Coach Pooja Bhangar Khandelwal lives and works by that mindset. Her motto is  ‘live-UR-dream’.

Challenges are a part of life!

Pooja recently immigrated to Vancouver, BC with her daughter to continue the pursuit of  their best life. India’s first (and only) certified female life coach from the International Coach Federation and coach certified from the International Coach Academy, she also holds an MBA in Marketing with 15 years of experience in client relationship management.

“My work is about motivating, empowering and assisting people to dream-discover-develop their best life.”  Along her own journey of self-discovery and transformation, Pooja discovered and then became a certified facilitator of Active Meditation. She is  also certified as a graphologist, dream-analyst and Zen Tarot card reader.

Active Meditation began journey within

Pooja defines Active Meditation as “Soul Gym” for spiritual fitness using physical activity such as breathing, movement, visualization, and exercises to find the stillness within. “Like all others, I face challenges everyday so I energize and rejuvenate myself with Active Meditation every single day. Since the process throws out all the disempowering emotions and fills me up with the positive energy from within, everyday begins with a fresh start.”

My personal favorite, “Gibberish and Letting Go”, is an exercise allowing for a moment to get it all out, be still with your silence then let it go.

Awareness building and self-empowering

LifeCoachingWithPooja.com is just one project that Pooja’s positive energy is currently focused on. She has also partnered with  TheManifest-Station, an online community and information hub for thought leaders and seekers. A budding advocate, Pooja conducts Active Meditation classes in schools and leads a popular weekly class at a local studio. She also shares her life experiences and skills by volunteering with Battered Women Support Services and Minevera Foundation for BC Women, empowering women in transition.

“I am learning and experiencing the tremendous latent power women have in bouncing back from any adversity”,  she says with pride.

Working from home is a great asset

“I am a single mom and my daughter is my top priority. I call myself ‘mom-coach’!  Working from home allows me that opportunity to be around, with and for her. I can work around her schedule and still complete my agenda for the day. I have the balance of being a self-propelled home-maker and a working woman.”

Differences between Vancouver and India?

“Oh! There is an ocean of difference. People I meet here are true to themselves. Life is ‘REAL’. Though India is known to be the land of the sages, the spiritual awareness here is amazing.  Everyone is focussed on self-care. People are community minded – I mean, they think of the larger picture. I have not seen organized volunteer work on this scale in India.  I have felt so welcomed by the people of Vancouver, that I do not consider myself a new immigrant and have not participated in any program that are offered to enhance settlement!  This place became ‘home’ almost instantly.”

In the pursuit to follow your dream, where ever that dream takes you, Pooja definitely has the goods and the experience to help guide you through your journey.  And remember to pack your sense of adventure.

Personal note to Pooja: welcome home, eh.

About the author:  Mark Kokocki is a life & (in) business coach plus personal trainer and owner of  dropdeadhappy.com working with people and businesses who are ready to be (& play with) their best.

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