Alumni
The Inspire Days Celebration
- 11 & 12 July 2026 – Alumni MeetUp.
- Venue: The School of Ancient Wisdom Bengaluru.
- Timings: Saturday 11 am to 06 pm. Sunday – 8:30am to 3pm.
- Fee: Residential: ₹6000/- covers your stay on sharing basis + your lunch, dinner, breakfast & refreshment for the period of your stay. Non-Residential: ₹6000/- covers your lunch, dinner, breakfast and refreshment.
About the venue:
Located about 15 minutes’ drive from Bengaluru airport, the school of ancient wisdom is a serene, peaceful and beautiful place where one can experience nature in its true essence. A very pleasant unexpected surprise to find near Bangalore. Just imagine cutting off the mad traffic and noise, spending your days surrounded by colorful sunbirds, fluttering butterflies, elegant peacocks, and gentle cows, all in a lush, vibrant space filled with organic flora. It’s a sanctuary where the outside world feels a million miles away.
You’ve got cozy accommodations that feel like home, a zen pond with colourful fishes, that looks straight out of a postcard, and an organic kitchen serving meals 3 times a day that nourish your soul (and your taste buds). This place will fill your heart with calm and your mind with clarity. It’s an experience that stays with you long after you’ve left.
And the people who are going to be speaking are :
Sue Knight
Ramesh Manickavel
The Artist Within Us
“Who Am I?”,
“Well, your friendly neighbour…” Err… I am an artist. Period.
When I attended my NLP sessions with Rameshji & Sue in 2019, little I knew that that would open up many doors for me. When I signed up for the training program, I had two external outcomes, but I came back with a focus on myself. I found the artist in me.
The moment I shifted from perfection to joy, the art happened… just like that! Success and accomplishment are overrated according to me, and art is all about building self-one block at a time. Just like how the watercolour illustration works… layer over layer, fluid yet solid and the mistakes enhances the beauty.
This is a story of letting go.
This is a story of making peace within us. This is a story of finding content over happiness.
Come join me in exploring the artist within us.
“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.” ~ Rumi
Other than the IT company where @Ramesh Manickavel continues to work he also spends a fortune uplifting the girl child through his own NGO. Who knew this young man, who was supposed to live another 6 months as declared by his doctor, cheated death and continues to make a difference in the lives of others.
Gouri Baranika
Voices in my head…
I was interacting with a person and the person vanished, not literally. I mean I drifted off into my thoughts as I listened.
Does this happen to you?
If so, then my story is going to resonate with you. Even if it doesn’t, my story will come handy as a wake-up call for you.
Each of those voices in my head were and are unique, and each had its own belief and style and different intonations.
Among all those voices, one voice gave me an opportunity to understand how I am shaping my reality.
And of course, there are many more voices screaming in my head, waiting, to say learn from me…learn from me…
Hi all, I am Gouri Baranika. I am going to be sharing what happened to those specific voices, and how I turned chaos into calm.
See you all on the 11and 12 of July at the school of Ancient Wisdom.
Roshantha
The world is moving fast. And most of us get the sense of – no time to waste. And that kind of puts pressure on the system, the need to be moving fast. Fast cars, fast trains, fast food, fast lives. And in my role as a Vice President of most prestigious bank in Sri Lanka, quick results at the office front.
And as I see most people living this way, I seeing most missing out on the beauty of the pause. The patience to enjoy and be in the moment. To take in the stillness of a backwater, the gentle breeze on a warm night; the time and preparation when cooking a favorite meal.
So some thoughts before we meet up.
* What can that pause look like to you? And how in a high pressure role like mine, practice to live it.
My name is Rosh. I’ll be… there, to explore and practice along with you, the patience to pause.
Naveen Kumar
I am Naveen Kumar, founder and CEO of Luname Marketing Solutions Private Limited, a digital marketing and e-commerce agency serving US clients.
I come from a small town in Tamil Nadu, built my company from the ground up without formal business education, and have grown a team of twelve while crossing eight-digit revenue.
I am a cardiac surgery survivor, a Rotary member, and through my business I funds education for underprivileged children and heart surgeries for children in need.
NLP has been foundational to how I lead, communicate, and grow — personally and professionally.
I speak from lived experience, not theory. A student of NLP since 2022.
I look forward to seeing all at the Alumni.
Sharmila
I am Sharmila. And I am stepping into this NLP Alumni Retreat with a heart full of stories and a life shaped by my unconventional paths of parenting and unschooling, where learning is driven by curiosity, autonomy, and trust rather than rigid systems.
Living this path hasn’t always been easy; it often means clashing directly with institutional rigidity and societal norms and ways. When my unschooled son decided he wanted to transition to a mainstream school for higher secondary education, we were met with a heartbreaking barrage of prejudice and rejection. A door finally opened up. The transition was incredibly tough. He had to fight to navigate and adapt to a traditional system. He recently completed his 12th CBSE board exams, standing first in the Humanities section of his school.
And there is much more as I continue to work empowering women as they break through similar societal barriers and claim their own spaces through education, learning, and financial independence.
See you all soon!
Jayalakshmi – Expect the unexpected
I woke up to the sound of my phone sounding wild. Siren Sound of incoming missiles.
Never-ever I had felt so scary. Moving from being a wife, mother, daughter to living alone in a new country with the excitement of celebrating this new found freedom of teaching Physics to young children, shattered any illusion of certainty.
A deafening moment of silence unfolded between life and death. I was in a war zone, watching buildings go up in towering smoke.
And I asked myself – Jaya would you have done anything differently in the life you lived?
Something began to shift inside me…
Join me on the 11th 12th of July in Bangalore as I share my story of living those moments on a daily basis….no not daily on certain days on an hourly basis.
Kousikan – Sculpting Self
My name is Kousikan.
I am a Corporate wizard in the IT field, an NLP Master Practitioner (WIP) and a passionate Kalaripayattu practitioner, performer, and movement artist dedicated to preserving and sharing the ancient Indian martial art tradition.
And I am going to be speaking in the upcoming Alumini on the 11 & 12 July in Bangalore.
I have trained extensively in Kalaripayattu, blending traditional practice with performance, stick combat, sword techniques, body conditioning, and expressive movement. Beyond martial arts, my path has also been one of personal growth — using Kalari as a tool for confidence, awareness, healing, and transformation.
My talk is about how, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, played a major role in my journey.
I have discovered powerful tools for self-awareness, communication, emotional balance, and personal development.
More importantly how NLP ways of thinking helped, my day-to-day life, in everything I do.
Through my work, I aim to make this ancient art form accessible to modern audiences while honoring its roots and philosophy.
Looking forward to seeing you in person.
Vaishnav – WIP
Hello I am Vaishnav.
I have spent years chasing a version of success that wasn’t my own.
That search led me somewhere unexpected — back to myself.
I call it my homecoming.
Learning to embrace all the parts of who I am. Discovering that the deeper my relationship with self grew, the deeper my relationships with others became.
Today, I am redesigning my life — with intention, with my heart, and a deep commitment to becoming whole. Also walking alongside others as they find their way home too.
Looking forward to sharing my story with the hope that it resonates with all of you, well at least some of you at the Alumni happening on 11 & 12 July in Bangalore.
Paramita – NLP as my Compass
I come from the land of Durga Pujo ,Rabindra Sangeet , Rasogolah and Sandesh fondly called by friends as *Paro* .
To talk about what I gained from NLP, the difference it made in my life, and how I moved from identity to purpose while growing into a compassionate leader at work and at home—yes, leadership at home too, surprising as that sounds.
My return to the workplace was driven by a personal quest to identify who I am beyond the breaks and family responsibilities. That quest evolved into a daily practice of deliberating and reflecting to understand what I am doing and how it matters. At that pivotal juncture, I crossed paths with NLP, a living framework that began to illuminate my choices, shape my actions, and redefine my sense of purpose.
What happened next was transformative. NLP didn’t just offer techniques; it became a way of life I could lean on at work and at home. Highlights of my story will be how I navigated the gender bias at office and home based on what roles a man and woman supposed to do, standing up to the belief that career breaks must imply redundancy, and proving that leadership can flourish beyond traditional roles.
I’m here to share that evolution: from finding Identity to empower with Purpose, The difference this journey has made in what I do—and how I approach it—with clarity, intention, and a renewed belief.
I hold this belief that my story resonates with you, sparks reflection, and we all rejoice on what we have achieved together embarking on the path of NLP.
See ya on 11th & 12th of July !
Tulsi & Ramesh – Going to the edge
Drawing inspiration and taking a leaf from my teachers talk – Going to the edge
We are thinking of doing a talk, which… I / she / him / we…have never done before and I think we are going to be courageous in bringing it in the open…on how we chose to navigate the difference between us in the last few years.
The ups and downs, how imperfect we were and we are…not me, it’s him…not me…its her….who bowled well and who got out or was it a sixers…and much more.
A story we dared not have shared and now choosing to…with the outcome that there is a price to pay in relationship and more importantly when we are together for 32 years and the little villain / angel who came to offer us a different kind of learning.
See you on the 11th & 12th July
Ramesh & Tulsi
Karen Falconer – CEO of ANLP International CIC
Karen Falconer is CEO of ANLP International CIC, the independent professional body dedicated to strengthening standards in professional NLP practice.
The Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming (ANLP) is widely recognised as the gold standard independent professional body for NLP, dedicated to supporting responsible, ethical and professional NLP practice.
Since its founding in 1985, ANLP has worked to strengthen professional standards, encourage accountability and represent the interests of serious NLP practitioners in the UK and internationally.
As a Community Interest Company, our purpose is not organisational growth for its own sake, but the continued development of NLP as a credible professional discipline that benefits both practitioners and the wider public.
ANLP exists to safeguard standards, uphold ethics and support responsible NLP practitioners.
And Karen will be joining us online to share how as NLP Trained members we would benefit by being a part of this global community.
TG Srinivasan – CEO of Pixel Studio
Hello, I’m TG Srinivasan, CEO of Pixel Studios, a digital agency offering branding & marketing services.
Looking forward to seeing you all in the upcoming Alumni meetup. I will be happy to share my take on how AI, thats transforming my workplace, intersects with the Beliefs of Excellence, I had learnt from Ramesh. Sharing honest stories from our digital agency’s integration journey, I’ll try & contrast the machine’s “map” with the human “territory”.
Rather than offering rigid formulas, my talk will highlight how rapid technological change has grounded us, validating core NLP principles while proving that human uniqueness remains irreplaceable.
Looking forward to meeting you & taking home some rich experience.
The Courage to Continue – My Story Beyond Limitations
I am Monika Chudasama, An NLP Trainer, and at the Alumni Meet on 11th & 12th July 2026 , I will be sharing my journey of courage, growth, and transformation through NLP.
There was a time when self-doubt, fear, and challenges during my NLP Practitioner Training almost made me quit. However, one powerful belief changed everything: “There is a solution available to every problem.” This belief inspired me to keep moving forward and embrace every challenge as an opportunity to learn.
During my NLP Master Practitioner journey, I faced difficulties in understanding and speaking English confidently. Guided by the principles of Belief of Excellence and “There is no failure, only feedback,” I stepped beyond my comfort zone. My solo journey across Kerala and the successful completion of my project taught me the power of resilience, adaptability, and self-belief.
Today, as an NLP Trainer, I help others to create transformation while continuing to learn and grow myself. Through my story, I will share this experience to see that limitations are not barriers they are opportunities to discover your true potential.
“I didn’t become courageous because the path was easy, I became courageous because I chose not to stop walking.” ✨