A house of readers
My father had a library and read to us every night. My mother kept a temple in the corner of the kitchen. My brother taught me to ride a bicycle, fly a kite and play chess. Curiosity was the language of our home.
Vibha Gurtu
Life andJourney
Soul coach, talk therapist, image consultant, and author. I've spent over 20 years sitting with people in their most difficult moments, helping them find what's actually driving the struggle.
I am not a guru. I am a woman who almost lost herself completely—and found her way back.
Early years
Childhood
Age 18
The light saw me back
One night, temple bells rang through my sleep. A blinding light filled the room and Maa Durga emerged from it. Nothing around me had changed by morning. Something within me had.
Age 20
Age 20
The hand that slipped
I dreamed my brother's hand slipped from mine at the edge of the sea. Two months later, he was gone. My mother taught me to speak to his departing soul. I have carried that conversation my whole life.
21 years
A life coming apart
I married against my parents' advice. For twenty-one years I tried to hold together a life that was quietly coming apart. Beneath the picture-perfect family were lies, control, humiliation and a self I could barely recognise.
Awakening
Two parallel tracks
At home, everything was fragmenting. Alongside it, another path opened: Reiki, meditation, Pranic Healing, Past Life Regression and Shamanism. Each practice showed me another angle of the same truth.
A blessing
A turning point
Wait to see
In Dharamshala, I asked His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “Should I cease to exist?” He touched his forehead to mine and answered softly:
“See… wait to see what life offers you.”
Age 38
The voice
There was a night I did not want to wake up. Then came a voice: “Kill this thought. Not yourself.” I had seen the Goddess at eighteen. At thirty-eight, I understood why.
Kumbh
Freedom
I walked out
Not in anger. In clarity. At the Kumbh Mela, I walked with the Naga Sadhus to the Sangam, where three rivers meet. I went under once. I came up carrying nothing that wasn't mine.
Today
Finding the way back
Today I run Aumtara Foundation. I work with people who are ready to stop pretending they're fine.
I am a woman who almost lost herself completely, and found her way back. That's what I help others do.
Work with me