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 personal transformation.

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

As a woman in this field, Reema shares a much-needed and missing female perspective. She’s blazing a trail toward teaching an essential element of yoga: to experience freedom from kleshas – “destructive emotions” or “mind poisons”– and realize our svadharma – our purpose, the unique gifts we were born to contribute to the world. After all, it is in the giving that magic happens, and peace is experienced.

Since 2002, Reema has led yoga and Ayurveda workshops and retreats in over 20 countries across five continents. Her diverse audience includes luminaries such as Sting, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Sujatha Baliga, and Zainab Salbi, as well as health professionals and students worldwide.

Reema’s workshops and trainings integrate movement, breathing practices, mantra, meditation, and the wisdom of the original yoga texts, which she first learned from her family.

Reema’s roots in yoga run deep. She was born into a family of yogis and raised in both the United States and India. Her mother sang mantras to her from the time she was in the womb. Her grandmother, a practitioner of Ayurveda, exemplified that a resilient mind is possible no matter our outer circumstances.

Reema’s grandfather, a Vedic scholar and author, gave seminars on yoga philosophy and history throughout India, East Africa, and the United States. He introduced Reema to Vedic wisdom and pranayama.

In 2012, Reema devoted herself fully to developing The Yogi’s Way, an innovative methodology that includes 200- and 300- hour teacher training programs, workshops, retreats, and master classes. The Yogi’s Way invites participants to explore the mind, consciousness, and traumas with curiosity, boldness, and vulnerability through the lens of the original yoga texts, including the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Yoga Sutras.

Rooted in these ancient teachings and supported by cutting-edge science, the method guides individuals to develop emotional resilience, awaken their creative potential, and cultivate a life of integrity and peace. Her book includes The Yogi’s Way HEAL YOURSELF NOW™ 70-minute foundational sequence designed to support this transformational journey.

Reema holds a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and a master’s degree from the London School Of Economics. She previously worked for the United Nations in New York City. She is author of The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health, and Reality (New World Library, 2025) and its companion journal. She also co-authored Sacred Sanskrit Words for Yoga, Chant and Meditation with Leza Lowitz. Her mantra albums, Truth Love Creation and Here’s My Heart, released by Nettwerk Music are available on iTunes, Amazon, and all major platforms.

Reema's greatest teacher is her feisty, strong, independent daughter.

TRAINING

2010: 300-Hour Teacher Training Certification in Tibetan Yoga, Yoga Studies Institute, Tucson, AZ

2008: Ayurvedic Therapist Certification, Indus Valley of Ayurveda, Mysore, India

2002: 200-Hour Teacher Training Certification in Ashtanga Yoga, It’s Yoga, San Francisco, CA

EXPERIENCE

  • 2025: Author of The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health, and Reality (New World Library)

  • 2021: Author of ALCHEMY: How to Change Your Thoughts & World.

  • 2016 to 2019: Teacher of 200- and 300- hour Yoga Alliance registered Teacher Training Programs

  • 2015: Founder of The Yogi’s Way and Yatri: Yoga for Emotional Healing programs.

  • 2008 to 2010: Mantra music albums, Truth Love Creation and Here’s My Heart, released by Nettwerk Music.

  • 2006 to 2008: Worked alongside oncologist, Dr. Mitchel Gaynor, who made groundbreaking strides in treating cancer through alternative therapies such as mantra, meditation, and pranayama.

  • 2004: Co-author, with Leza Lowitz, of Sacred Sanskrit Words for Yoga, Chant and Meditation, published by Stonebridge Press.

  • 2003 to Present: Studied and worked alongside North and South American Shamans offering yoga retreats that combine Native American and East Indian traditions.

  • 2003 to Present: Guest lecturer and teacher at wellness centers throughout Asia, Europe, North and South America, and in East and South Africa.

  • 2002 to Present: Guest teacher in Yoga Teacher Training Programs in the U.S., India, Thailand, and Indonesia