Rohit Patkar

Yours truly grew up in Bombay (Mumbai) and the Konkan countryside in South Maharashtra, India. In 2011, I left my Larsen and Toubro, engineering and marketing, corporate day job in Bombay to pursue adventure sports, explore life and live a nomadic life.

Since then,

• I’ve guided mountaineering expeditions in Ladakh (Himalayas)

• Worked as a backpacking and sea kayaking instructor in Hong Kong (for Outward Bound)

• Secured a couple of NOLS' Diplomas in Glacier Mountaineering and Trip Leading (NOLS is the preeminent outdoor leadership school in the world from USA)

• Worked with eastern and western youth on international travel and outdoor leadership programs in India, South Africa, Bali and Thailand

• And volunteered extensively on organic farms, Ashrams, meditation retreats, mountain travel companies and NGOs across India and Europe

What's more, one of my most surreal experiences was living and volunteering on an organic farm in Bretagne, France, making organic goat cheese, baking sourdough bread, etc.; and mentoring a travel and volunteer program for North American and European teens in South African wilderness— memories that still feel timeless.

In 2015, I learnt Transcendental Meditation (TM) and became a MERU Switzerland certified TM teacher in 2016. Since then, I’ve lived and volunteered at Ashrams in the Himalayas and South India, teaching TM to thousands for free, in schools across India, for worldpeace, since TM is a well researched and scientifically proven technology for world peace.

At the Artist' cafe in Bangkok, Thailand

Volunteering on an Organic Farm in Bretagne, France

Glacier mountaineering in the Himalayas with NOLS (USA)

My interest in meditation began at the age of 18 while dealing with the pressures of college exams. What started as a way to calm a restless mind gradually revealed something deeper: meditation could bring lasting clarity, balance, and inner stability.

With my Greek colleague on Zingela Game Reserve in KZN, South Africa. Mentoring a teen travel and volunteer program for one of the best North American teen travel company.