INDA Yoga · About the Author

PSYCHOSPIRITUAL EDUCATION

Soulfully inspired, a series of serendipitous encounters gently steered Inda's life toward this path and away from others. And she feels honored to have studied and earned certifications in:

• MindBody Centering Therapeutic Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, Mindfulness Coaching, Restorative Yoga, and Yoga Teaching from Nina Werness Counselor, LCMHCA, MA, MEd, C-IAYT, ERYT500's accredited teaching certification program MindBody Centering Yoga researched by Duke University.
• Children Yoga Teaching, developing and implementing curriculums that teach healthy lifestyle skills and encourage learning through yoga, creative movement, and play from ChildLight Education. 
• Life Design, Heart Based Environmental Education, as well as Community Ceremonies, Rituals, and Retreat Facilitation from award-winning community leader, integrative life coach, and animistic psychotherapist Sarah Haggerty MA, LPC, WFR founder of The Natural Mystery School.

To complement and deepen her work, she has also pursued studies and earned certifications and/or licensures across a range of complementary disciplines, including life coaching, healthy lifestyle coaching, ayurveda, nutrition, somatic-informed Pilates, natural and medical skincare therapies, and permaculture.

RESEARCH & EXPERIENCE

Inda has also researched the significance and been a part of facilitation teams of shamanic and other community ceremonies and rituals around the themes of ecotherapy, grief tending, rites of passage, seasonal transitions, healing plants, women circles, story telling circles, sharing circles, song circles, healing music circles and other collective social bonding practices, as well as more intimate vision quests.

She feels honored to have been a part of facilitation teams and experienced first-hand the therapeutic and ritualistic wisdom imparted by elder community healers like:

Laurence Cole, a song elder and ritualist based in Port Townsend, Washington, who's life work has been to discover when, where, and how human beings have lived in respectful, sacred, equitable relationship with each other and the rest of Nature, and what arts, ethics, and practices enabled them to do so, to preserve that important heritage and impart those attitudes and behaviors on to the coming generations. His gorgeous community orchestrations truly are a delightful heart-felt experience.

Joanna Macy Ph.D, author & teacher, is a scholar of systems thinking, deep ecology, and Buddhism. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with experience from six decades of activism. Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and postmodern science. Joanna created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application called The Work That Reconnects. This work has helped countless thousands of people around the globe find solidarity and courage to take divine inspired action despite the paralyzing despair from the rapidly worsening social and ecological conditions.

The Work that Reconnects is a form of group work designed to foster the desire and ability to take part in the healing of our world. It is informed by Deep Ecology, systems thinking, Gaia theory, and spiritual traditions. This work highlights the interconnectedness of self-organizing systems and unlocks the power of mutual exchange. Central to the use of systems thinking in this work is the recognition that self-reflexive consciousness is a function of choice-making. Whatever the limitations of our life, we are still free to choose which version of reality – or story about our world – we value and want to serve. We can choose to align with business as usual (status quo), remain participants of the breakdown of living systems, or work toward the creation of a life-sustaining society.

The structure of the work follows a spiral sequence of four stages—gratitude, honoring our suffering, seeing with fresh eyes, and going forth—reflecting a natural process of psychological and spiritual growth, where each cycle deepens understanding, and the key transformative moment comes when we reframe our suffering (be it fear, grief, outrage or despair) to compassion rather than privatizing, repressing or pathologizing it. This process brings us back to life.

Inda feels honored to have been a part of the facilitation team and have experienced this work first hand facilitated by Work That Reconnects Network certified Valerie Silidker Co-Founder, Director & Trainer at Psychospiritual Institute and Beth Remmes of GIPL.

PHILOSOPHY CONCEPTION

With that foundation, Inda was inspired to create INDA Yoga, which is dedicated to an honest and unfettered inquiry into practices, philosophies, techniques, and approaches that produce thriving in the individual, family, community, society, the planet, and beyond. This includes the contemplation of enduring spiritual wisdom from diverse cultures, together with the amazing knowledge gained from science and other truth-seeking endeavors. 

Honoring yoga as its foundation, INDA Yoga emerges as a diverse new and innovative woman-developed therapeutic yoga style fusion with cross-cultural wisdom influences.

Inda is an author of courses of action to help people align with their soul path and is open to working with individuals and groups across the world teaching and speaking about them as her time allows.

INDA'S ROOTS

Inda is a bilingual Caribbean American Latina and a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), born and raised in the West Indies on the island her Indigenous Taíno ancestors called Borikén (or Borinquén), a name widely understood to mean "the Great Land of the Brave and Noble People." Long before it appeared on European maps, Borikén was revered as a lush island where mountains touched the clouds, rivers carried life from the rainforest to the sea, and the rhythms of nature were understood as expressions of the sacred.

When Christopher Columbus arrived during his second voyage in 1493, he renamed the island San Juan Bautista in honor of Saint John the Baptist. In time, however, the names quietly exchanged places. The island came to be known as Puerto Rico—"Rich Port"—a tribute to its extraordinarily valuable natural harbor and its strategic position at the gateway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Its capital inherited the original name, San Juan, while the island itself became forever known as the "Rich Port," a crossroads where continents, cultures, languages, and histories converged.

Geographically, Puerto Rico occupies a singular place in the Caribbean imagination. It is the smallest of the Greater Antilles, yet it stands at the threshold of the Lesser Antilles, where the long arc of volcanic islands begins its graceful descent toward South America. For centuries it has been both bridge and boundary—where great island worlds give way to smaller ones, where the Atlantic greets the Caribbean, and where trade winds, ocean currents, and migrating peoples have met.

Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that Puerto Rico has long inspired stories that blur the line between geography and myth. As one of the three points defining the legendary Bermuda Triangle, its surrounding waters have fueled generations of tales about vanished ships, strange lights, inexplicable compass readings, and unseen forces beneath the sea. Although modern science has found no evidence that these waters are more mysterious than other heavily traveled regions of the Atlantic, the legends endure because they speak to something timeless in the human spirit: our reverence for the unknown and our longing to believe that some places still guard ancient secrets.

That sense of enchantment reaches far beyond the sea. Puerto Rico's cultural landscape is woven with Taíno cosmology, stories of protective spirits known as cemíes, sacred caves believed to be portals between worlds, the rainforest of El Yunque—home in tradition to the benevolent spirit Yuquiyú—and generations of folklore passed through Indigenous, African, and Spanish lineages. The island has long been imagined as a place where the visible and invisible coexist, where the ordinary world is never entirely separate from mystery, beauty, or the sacred.

To be born of Borikén is, in many ways, to inherit both worlds: the fierce resilience of a people shaped by history and the quiet wonder of an island that has always invited its inhabitants to listen deeply—to the ocean, the rainforest, the ancestors, and the unseen currents that move beneath the surface of life.

Growing up in a place shaped by Indigenous wisdom, Caribbean American culture, and the enduring complexities of colonial history fostered in Inda a deep appreciation for belonging, interconnectedness, resilience, and the sacredness of life. These influences continue to inform her teaching, creating an inclusive space where people from diverse cultures, backgrounds, beliefs, and life experiences feel seen, respected, and welcome.