10 Things About Me

1. I live in Calabasas and teach in Malibu. I love the laidback beach lifestyle.

2. My friend and I coparent the cutest labradoodle, her name is Lalita

3. I have a Master's degree in organizational behavior and specialize in delivering leadership development training and individual coaching. I work with companies such as Google, Fandango, Tala and DIRECTV and many more. I’m usually their favorite time of the day, it continues to blow my heart open every time I see how excited they are to pause for a training or coaching session during their busy workday to recalibrate. I love working with pioneering progressive companies that truly care about the wellbeing of their people! Email maha@yogimaha.com to learn more how this training can benefit your team.

4. I’m a proud nerd and can never stop learning about yoga, psychology, neuroscience, energy healing, philosophy, and all things high performance. I share everything I learn here in my Zen Diary.

5. I love sharing my yogic journey in hopes to inspire others and remind them that they are creative powerful beings that can cause an effect! Follow me because I am one of the very few people that believe that using social media to influence, means to influence for the better. That people who visit my profile should leave feeling better about themselves not worse.

6. One of the most mind-blowing things that happened in my life, like I’m-a-girl-from-Yemen-HOW-DID-THIS-HAPPEN?!?! Was being featured in an HBO documentary, that is still currently in production, called Scars Unseen.

7. I live by these guiding principles:

  • Follow your bliss

  • Do your best

  • Be consistent

  • Surround yourself with inspiring people

  • Never stop learning

  • Never give up

  • Believe in yourself

  • The more you give, the more you receive

  • Love more, ego-less

8. The most valuable teaching I can share with my students is, do not doubt yourself or give your power away to others. You are more powerful than you think, everything you need already exists inside of you, if you don’t believe me sit quietly within, and listen.

9. I host yoga retreats to allow space to reconnect with your true blissful self while discovering new approaches for how you live, love, and work. Step away from the noise of your daily routine and responsibilities, and invest time in wellbeing. These retreats sell out fast, as space is limited. Subscribe to my news letter Maha’s Zen Diary below for FREE to be notified immediately when registration opens.

10. I feel so blessed to get to call this the “work” that I do, I am always in a state of awe and gratitude that I have come this far. My favorite part of being a yoga teacher and leadership coach is YOU, my students, getting to meet people, learning from them and guiding them through their unique journey is an honor and a responsibility that I do not take lightly.

I hope that helps share a little about this new teacher in your life. Please feel free to email maha@yogimaha.com if you have any questions.

Much love and gratitude to you! 🙏🏼💕✨

Maha Bodhi

About Maha

Maha Bodhi is the co-creator of The MINDRY Anywhere a premiere OnDemand mindfulness app. She leads, inspirational speaking engagements, international retreats, workshops and is featured in the upcoming HBO documentary, Scars Unseen.

After surviving a brutal upbringing of being enslaved as a female in Yemen, forced into arranged marriage twice, surviving multiple death threatening situations, and two civil wars before arriving in the U.S., Maha Bodhi, M.A. found her freedom and true self through the practice of ancient yogic and modern neuroplasticity techniques. She is a living example of the hero's journey and is dedicating her entire life to spreading the transformational techniques that saved her life.

Bodhi is currently in the final stages of writing her book, which is nothing short of a hero's journey from being enslaved as a female in Yemen to becoming the successful female entrepreneur that she is today. The book is designed to inspire and guide people in their own transformational journey. She has worked with many Fortune 500 companies including Google, DirecTV, CoreLogic, Mattel, AT&T, Fandango, Comcast, and Albertsons, to name a few.

Maha Bodhi, M.A. proves what modern neuroscience is teaching us: that the path to courage and success arrives by embracing fear and the unknown, not by avoiding them. If there was ever a real life example of this, it is the story of Maha Bodhi, M.A. In her unrelenting pursuits of a life of freedom and joy, Maha has taught herself how to tap into that elusive Holy Grail of human existence, the ability to rewire one’s own brain in order to continually do better and achieve unparalleled levels of success, and she is now dedicating her entire life to train women leaders to do the same. Maha has a master’s degree in Organizational Behavior, and teaches in Malibu, CA.




How Yoga Healed Me

If we met for the first time, I would introduce myself as a yoga teacher. After that, I would share the work that I do with Fortune 500 corporations as a inspirational speaker and the co-creator of The MINDY Anywhere app.

I teach yoga because it is a practice that saved my life. I only recently began to open up about my brutal upbringing of being enslaved as a female in Yemen, forced into arranged marriage twice, surviving multiple death threatening situations, and two civil wars before arriving in the U.S., finding freedom and my true self through yoga.

The sole purpose of me sharing this story is to spark hope, even if it only inspires one person, to dare to dream of a better life for themselves. That if I can do it, so can someone else!

I consciously call it “this story” and not “my story” because it is only a story that happened in the past and it is not who I am.

I recently sat down with Marissa Nehlsen on her Live Life Rich podcast. As Marissa and I share a common purpose, to help others reach their highest expression and be of service, the conversation got deep and real!

My Yoga Journey



My first yoga class was challenging, I mean it was brutal! I had not been taking care of my body or been active in years so in my second class, I got sick and left during the first 10 minutes. Its so embarrassing because Bryan Kest was the teacher, but its also a full circle experience since I ended up teaching yoga at his world-renowned studio.

You see, a seed was planted deep within my consciousness, I saw that glow, that awakened look that the yogis had on their face, that they experienced life in a different way, and I wanted that experience! So I didn’t give up, I kept going until I got stronger and gradually got into the flow “the yoga zone”. It didn’t happen overnight, it’s called a yoga practice after all, so I had to commit. I got there by putting in the time and doing the work, and most importantly I did it with compassion toward myself.

There is a saying “when the student is ready, the teacher appears”. After a decade of practicing yoga, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to study with world-renowned yoga instructors Travis Eliot and Lauren Eckstrom, and obtained my Yoga-Alliance instructor certificate. Much gratitude to Bryan Kest, Govind Das, Dan Ward and Byron de Marse who also tremendously influenced my practice. Everything I know, I learned from these incredible teachers. 

Yoga was always my happy place, a space for me to heal and let go of what can not be changed. So my purpose in life is to pass it along and hold space for others to heal, and share what I learned throughout the years with as many people as possible. My teachings will challenge you physically and inspire you mentally, emotionally and spiritually. So get ready to heal, transform and manifest your best life,

See you on the mat!