Nikita Thakrar is an award-winning author, TEDx speaker and mentor, recognised for her work guiding high-achieving professionals from unconscious patterns into purposeful leadership. As the Founder of Journey from Karma to Dharma™, Nikita is best known for translating ancient wisdom into practical insight, helping audiences align success with wellbeing and clarity.
Nikita’s early career was rooted in movement, creativity and discipline. She spent over two decades as a dance performer and dharma educator, forming and leading her own Indian classical dance company which later became an award-winning studio. A significant health diagnosis in her mid-twenties marked a turning point. Forced to step away from full-time performance, Nikita began exploring mindfulness, meditation, energy healing and spiritual psychology, not as theory but as lived practice. This period became formative, transforming challenge into direction and laying the groundwork for her later work in conscious leadership, resilience and personal transformation.
Over time, Nikita evolved into a globally respected voice in wellbeing and purpose-led performance. She is the author of ‘Meditation Through Poetry’, a widely acclaimed work that won an International Impact Award for its contribution to personal development. Nikita is also the creator of proprietary frameworks such as Reiki Ritual™ and the Dharma Diploma, blending science, spirituality and embodied learning. Her signature keynote Dance with Your Dharma uniquely combines storytelling, mindfulness and live performance, setting her apart as a speaker who delivers both intellectual and experiential impact. In 2025, Nikita expanded her reach further with the launch of her digital library and podcast, which ranked among the UK’s Top 50 podcasts for spirituality, bringing her work to a global audience.
Nikita is hired by organisations seeking meaningful change without abstraction. She speaks on purpose-led leadership, mindfulness for high performers, resilience in times of change, emotional and energetic wellbeing, and transforming adversity into strength. These topics are increasingly vital as pressure, burnout and disconnection affect both people and performance. Nikita brings credibility through lived experience and clarity through practical tools, enabling audiences to pause, reset and lead with confidence. One corporate audience described leaving her keynote with renewed focus and tangible strategies they could apply immediately. For conferences, leadership programmes and wellbeing initiatives, Nikita offers depth, presence and lasting impact, inspiring people to move forward with intention rather than momentum.
Books
Meditation Through Poetry
Nikita Thakrar's official speaker topics are listed below:
- Patterns and purpose
- Creativity and self-expression
- Personal transformation
- Resilience and healing
- Mindfulness and wellbeing
- Movement and embodied wisdom
- Conscious living
- Business and entrepreneurship
Dance with Your Dharma: Flowing with Purpose
Creativity as the bridge from chaos to clarity.
This keynote helps audiences understand creativity as a powerful pathway through uncertainty. Through
storytelling, movement and reflection, Nikita invites people to reconnect with their inner rhythm and use
creative expression as a way to access clarity and purpose.
Audience takeaway: Audiences leave inspired to see creativity not as something reserved for artists, but
as a practical tool for navigating life and flowing with greater purpose.
Journey from Karma to Dharma™: From Patterns to Purpose
Moving from old patterns into purpose, alignment and conscious living.
This talk guides audiences to recognise the unconscious patterns, inherited beliefs and repeating cycles
that may be shaping their choices. Nikita offers a grounded perspective on how awareness, mindfulness
and conscious action can help people move from reaction to alignment.
Audience takeaway: Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of the patterns that keep them stuck,
and practical insight into choosing purpose, alignment and conscious living
Dharma over Drama: Turning Pain into Purpose
A personal story of healing, resilience, identity and transformation.
In this deeply personal talk, Nikita shares her journey of healing, reinvention and inner resilience. She
explores how life’s breakdowns can become gateways into self-discovery and transformation when
people are willing to look deeper and reclaim their story.
Audience takeaway: Audiences leave empowered to reframe challenge, illness, loss or transition as an
invitation to grow, awaken and transform pain into purpose.
- 2025 - Podcast and digital library ranked among the UK’s Top 50 spirituality podcasts
- 2021 - Named Management Today’s 35 Under 35
- 2019 - Founded Journey from Karma to Dharma™
- 2019 - Published 'Meditation Through Poetry', winner of an International Impact Award
How to hire Nikita Thakrar
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