Feed Your Peace
Namaste beautiful, I’m Sadhna. Welcome to Feed Your Peace, the Substack home of Daily Sadhna.
“We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life,” ~ Prince
I write about feeding your peace — blending yoga, Ayurveda, and seasonal everyday rituals and recipes with the realities of modern life: “What’s for dinner?”, laundry, commutes, and the occasional curveball. This is seasonal nourishment for a peaceful·ish life.
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About me:
I grew up with a mom from India and a dad from Kentucky — equally at home sipping chai and having my palm read as I was riding horses and listening to country music. At the time, I often felt caught between worlds. Now I see it was a gift.
In my late teens and early twenties, I was a model traveling the world — tarot deck in one hand, a Sony Walkman blasting Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction in the other. Later, back in the States, I landed a dream job in artist relations at Gibson Guitars (I even got to interview B.B. King!) before moving into music video production in Los Angeles.
Then life shifted: I became a mom and discovered my joy and purpose. Overnight, late nights backstage turned into not-so-early mornings making pancakes. Divorce followed, and my anxiety often felt like a dementor from Harry Potter, trying to suck the life out of me.
Completely by chance — you can’t make this up — I met a guru from India while walking down Ventura Blvd. He gave me a mantra and taught me how to meditate. It was 2007 — the same year Britney Spears shaved her head. (Strangely enough, when that happened, I was at a gym just up the street in Tarzana training with a friend, and we couldn’t figure out what all the fuss was about.) At the time, I was feeling unraveled, holding onto a thin thread, grappling with the shift in my identity as a stay-at-home mom. Britney’s very public breaking point mirrored the private turmoil I was feeling.
A year later, as a single mom of two, I put myself through Le Cordon Bleu and discovered the peace you knead making bread, graduating from the patisserie and baking program with honors. I started blogging as “The Masala Girl” to preserve Indian recipes and family traditions for my kids, while sharing the practices that grounded me.
I’ve been blessed with teachers along the way, but my most unexpected gurus came through sticky hands, sleepless nights, and the daily Sadhna of motherhood.
Meditation is my constant. Always a student, I weave the studies of Yoga, Ayurveda, Jyotish, and Vastu into the rhythm of everyday mom life. Along the way, I’ve followed my curiosity into new practices — becoming a Reiki Master and studying EFT.
These days I live just outside LA with my husband, our twins (the older two have flown the nest), a cat named Sugar, and a giant puppy, Rocky, who thinks he’s a lapdog. When I’m not writing or making malas for my Etsy store, you’ll usually find me in the kitchen breaditating, outside reading a book, or at my sewing machine crafting blankets for shelter animals.
Growing up at the intersection of East and West taught me to be a living bridge — sharing timeless vedic wisdom in ways that feel doable, nourishing, and relevant for modern life. Everything we do can be a meditation — riding good vibrations (Beach Boys style) or the occasional crazy train (cheers, Ozzy), illuminating the everyday. ✨
Find your rhythm, feed your peace. 🙏
