Arani is the ancient Sanskrit name for the kindling sticks once used to summon the divine flame.
Hidden within each of us is this same spark — the quiet potential to awaken light through the gentle friction of presence and practice. When tended with sincerity, this inner fire becomes both guide and offering: illuminating our own path of becoming and radiating warmth for others still finding their way home — to truth, to beauty, to what is real.
Deva Arani is an author, guide, and intuitive healer whose work weaves psychology, somatic awareness, and sacred wisdom. She supports women in healing the mother wound and seekers integrating plant medicine experiences with depth, clarity, and embodied presence.
Through Compassionate Inquiry, breathwork, yoga, and meditation, she invites a return to what is most real — the felt sense of wholeness that arises when body, heart, and spirit remember their natural harmony.
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
For more than two decades, I have walked the path of healing and remembrance — studying yoga, meditation, and sacred plant medicines across cultures and traditions. My work is rooted in lived experience and a deep reverence for the teachings that emerge when we slow down and truly listen: to the body, to the Earth, to the wisdom keepers, and to the quiet knowing within.
I have had the privilege of apprenticing with Eastern masters as well as Andean and Amazonian Indigenous lineages. Over time, my practice has evolved toward guiding women through the tender, transformative process of healing the mother wound, and supporting seekers in integrating sacred plant medicine experiences into daily life.
Blending ancient wisdom with somatic, intuitive, and energetic practices, I meet each person where they are — with compassion, presence, and respect for the pace of their own unfolding.
I am currently writing two books to be published by Sentient Publications and distributed by Simon & Schuster:
Integration Alchemy: The Real Ceremony Is Your Life — a grounded guide for working with the medicine long after the ceremony ends (January 2026), and
The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within — an exploration of ancestral healing, the mother wound, and the longing to belong (May 2026).
This work isn’t about fixing ourselves — it’s about coming home to ourselves. Again and again.
“The journey is the destination.”
Deva Arani is a Compassionate Inquiry Facilitator and integration guide dedicated to supporting deep personal and spiritual healing. Her work draws from Compassionate Inquiry, somatic practices, breathwork, movement, and meditation to help clients move through adaptive patterns such as anxiety, procrastination, and emotional shutdown. Grounded in the present moment, her sessions invite a return to the body’s wisdom — healing past wounds and awakening new possibilities.
Awareness is the gateway to transformation. Through practices of presence and self-inquiry, Deva helps others cultivate this awareness in ways that honor their nervous system, personality, and soul rhythm. As a meditation and yoga teacher, she offers tools for developing sustainable daily practices that restore balance and foster inner trust.
Deva is a KRI-certified Kundalini Yoga teacher whose current focus is Laya Yoga — a full-body, heart-centered practice emphasizing connection to the navel and heart centers. She also facilitates Osho Active Meditations, creating dynamic pathways into silence and self-discovery.
Her life has unfolded as a sacred pattern of learning and becoming. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and a J.D. in Law from the University of Colorado, and has spent decades studying with teachers and wisdom keepers across India and South America. Her work — whether through writing, teaching, or ceremony — serves the same purpose: to help others tend the inner fire so that their own light may guide the way home.
