Lakshmi Tracy Cunningham is a Vedika Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and former Director of Vedika Global's Sunday Sangha program. She has studied with Acharya Shunya since 2011. She teaches Ayurveda skincare as part of the Ayurveda Studies Department.

 

Lakshmi also plays a key role in designing marketing graphics for Vedika’s social media outreach and donation programs. She helps direct Vedika’s #GivingTuesday donation program and serves on the donation development team.

 

Lakshmi has served as an art director at New World Library since 2005 and has done in-house and freelance graphic design and illustration for Artistic Studios, Papyrus Cards, Green Field Paper Co. and Kodak Online. She has a BFA degree in illustration and graphic arts from Syracuse University. She additionally is a John Harvey Gray School of Reiki level 2 certified practitioner and a Sonia Choquette six sensory advanced training graduate. She is a professional beekeeper and has conducted workshops at San Francisco Zen Center and San Francisco and Sonoma County Beekeeping Associations. She additionally serves as a San Francisco GETUP compost educator and sustainable food ambassador.

 

Lakshmi feels deeply grateful to Vedika and Acharya Shunya for helping her transform and rebuild her physical health after many years of severe hives and weight gain problems since childhood. She was able to lose 40 pounds in the process, and found a profound sense of self-acceptance and mental peace and clarity after hearing Acharya Shunya’s teachings. She feels inspired to bring Ayurveda's holistic teachings into communities that may not have ever heard of, or experienced, all of the profound mind, body, and spirit healing power that Ayurveda has to offer.