About Reema Datta

Reema Datta is a teacher, speaker, and mantra singer based in Taos, New Mexico. She founded The Yogi’s Way® to offer a holistic and healing approach to yoga, emphasizing emotional well-being as a cornerstone to transformation.

Reema is the author of The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health, and Reality (New World Library, 2025), blending ancient yogic wisdom with practical tools for modern life.

As a woman in this field, she brings a much-needed and often missing female perspective, guiding students toward freedom from kleshas – destructive emotions – and realization of svadharma, their unique purpose.

Raised in a family of yogis between the U.S. and India, Reema was immersed in Vedic wisdom from birth. Her grandmother, an Ayurvedic practitioner, embodied resilience in the face of adversity, while her grandfather, a Vedic scholar, introduced her to yoga philosophy and pranayama. From the womb, she was surrounded by her mother’s mantra singing.

Since 2002, Reema has led yoga and Ayurveda retreats in over 20 countries, working with luminaries such as Sting, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Sujatha Baliga, and Zainab Salbi, as well as health professionals and students worldwide. In 2012, she fully devoted herself to The Yogi’s Way, an innovative methodology incorporating movement, breathwork, mantra, meditation, visualization, and the wisdom of the original yoga texts, including the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Yoga Sutras. Her HEAL YOURSELF NOW™ 70-minute sequence supports this transformational journey.

Reema holds degrees from Vassar College and the London School of Economics and previously worked for the United Nations. She is also the co-author of Sacred Sanskrit Words for Yoga, Chant, and Meditation and has released mantra albums through Nettwerk Music. Reema is a certified Ashtanga yoga and Tibetan heart yoga instructor and is an Ayurvedic therapist.

Her greatest teacher? Her feisty, strong, independent daughter.