LEADERS

Jyoti Subramanian

Jyoti was born an only child in 1972 in Joplin, MO. At age 10, she and her family moved to Wisconsin, and a few years later to California where she completed high school and college. Jyoti traveled to Africa as part of her college work and obtained her Masters in Community Development and Natural Resource Management in developing nations. While visiting India to do research for her degree, she ended up meeting the Dalai Lama and her whole life changed. Jyoti devoted herself to studying spiritual practices for the next 7 years, living in different parts of India. The last two years she focused on yoga, living in Sivananda Kutir, a yoga ashram in the Himalayas.

Jyoti returned to the US in February, 2004 and knew she was called to do service. Shortly after her return, a Challenge Day Leader asked her to be a facilitator at a Challenge Day. She attended the Next Step Community Workshop in July and knew she had found her path. She became a Challenge Day leader in September, 2004.

If you really knew me, you would know…

• If you really knew me, you would know that my main mission in life is to spread love and peace to everyone I meet.
• You would know that I believe we all have the potential to realize that our own true nature is nothing but love.
• If you really knew me, you would know that I struggle daily to maintain a positive attitude and peaceful state of mind. That I am still fighting my old habits that want me to suffer, that often get the better of me, and that I am inspired daily to fight them and transform myself into a fully awakened being.
• If you really knew me, you would know that the reason I love doing this work is that I feel empowered to not only spread love and peace but to tap the source of love and peace inside each young person I touch.
• And you would know that I get to watch the miracle unfold and it strengthens my belief that this is the reason we all come to earth.