Cherished for her smile and positivity, Nuthan Manohar is familiar to us as the Yoga Teacher behind the Me Met Me Yoga Center. Her centre had been adjudged the best centre in Ernakulam for many years, had won international recognition, and was the birth point of the social movement for disaster management Anbodu Kochi.
Since 2017 she has been focusing on her workshops and research and has carved out a formidable niche in Europe. Nuthan is an MBA and her corporate tenure included being the Regional Manager for the Asia Pacific for global brands like Oreos, Kraft Cheese, etc. At 28, she managed 11 countries and then decided to answer her calling for health and wellbeing. Armed with her background in research and behaviour she combined it with various courses in Yoga including a Masters Degree to create over 90 modules to improve specific conditions such as stress, depression, winter depression, autoimmune and immunity-related issues, bipolar disorder, menstrual and menopausal discomfort, etc.
A true polymath, she is also a perfumer, but with a strict focus on therapeutic Ayurveda based perfumery.
This story is from the May - June 2020 edition of Cochin Herald.
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