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I’m Anuka! 

Founder of Janu Joyful Services
Mindfulness & Emotional Intelligence Consultant,
Child Birth Educator & Emotional-Life CoachFind Out more about my new chapter in the Mindset Mastery Ebook Below.

 

Mindset Mastery –Parenthood vs. Career : How to Find a Mindful Balance

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About Anuka

About Anuka

Founder of Janu Joyful Services.

Mindfulness & Emotional Intelligence Consultant at Inseus

Child Birth Educator & Emotional-Life Coach

 

Anuka spent her early childhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka where she spent a great deal of time volunteering with local monasteries following the teaching of Theravada Buddhism.
With over 20 years of meditation and mindfulness expression, a passion for human transformation and dedication to serving people, companies and institutions with mindfulness based resilience tools and helping individuals increase their wellbeing using self-awareness
practices.
She holds a BA from the University of Queen Mary (University of London), a Master’s degree (MA) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Organizational Leadership , Said Business School, from the University of Oxford.
Anuka has lived in Washington DC for the last 5 years and is now currently located in Hout Bay, Cape town. She is a Certified Search Inside Yourself (SIY) teacher, Anuka has worked with INSEUS to teach the SIY programs to global companies including Adecco. Being an INSEUS teacher she has also worked with Ashley Nelson to teach SIY programs to the public as well as private invite-only programs to individuals from business communities. She also works as a Child Birth Educator and works with Doula Agencies to support birthing parents with child birth education including HypnoBirthing classes.
Anuka has also trained as a Life Coach with the Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coaching Federation. She is an active member of the Said Business School and Oxford University Alumni in Washington DC and is dedicated to teaching mindfulness virtually to her local non-profit
organization Little Falls Village in Bethesda Maryland. In this role she offers mindfulness and wellbeing support to the elderly community.
Anuka is married to her husband, Sedwyn, for 8 years and has two children aged 7 and 3.

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