Gayathri Tirthapura | Founder of Empowria | Transformational Coach, Inner Child & Breathwork Practitioner
“I don’t guide anyone into territories I haven’t walked myself. Every tool, framework, and somatic practice I share is rooted in work I have done, lived, and continue to deepen every day.”
My Journey: From Sustaining Success to True Inner Authority
For years, I lived by a script I thought was mine. I checked every box, managed every detail, and took pride in being the person everyone around me could count on.
But behind closed doors, I felt exhausted. I was spending so much of my energy sustaining a version of success that looked wonderful to the outside world, yet left me feeling strangely disconnected from my own heart.
I had even done a good amount of healing work over the years. And while those practices made me feel lighter inside, they still didn’t pivot me into a deep enough identity shift—the kind that truly anchors you in your own inner authority. What makes this stage so quiet and difficult is that when you look around, you see so many capable, high-achieving people doing the exact same thing. It is easy to assume that this is just what life is, and that we all just have to get by.
My turning point came when I stepped into transformational programs offered by Dr. Claire Zammit. Experiencing those safe growth containers opened my eyes to what was truly possible. It introduced me to deep, identity-level processes that systematically strengthen your inner authority and pave the way to self-actualization. For the first time, I wasn’t just managing my life, coping with stress, or getting by—I was stepping into the full truth of who I came here to be, with the clarity to rise higher in my work, life, and relationships.
Walking the Path: Embodiment, Certification & Continuous Growth
That experience changed everything for me, and it became the foundation of my current work. I believe deeply that a growth container is only as safe, spacious, and transformative as the practitioner’s own depth of embodiment.
Whatever I offer in my work—whether offering transformational coaching, guiding deep inner child re-imprinting, facilitating rebirthing breathwork, or supporting emotional harmonization—I have done that work myself.
I am a certified facilitator across these modalities, but I haven’t just studied these methodologies theoretically—I have sat on the mat, faced my own inner barriers, unwound my childhood and ancestral conditioning, integrated these shifts into my daily life, and continually progressed toward my higher potentials.
And because transformation and self-actualization are lifelong unfoldments, I remain an active student of my own growth. I continue to engage in deep inner work, learning, and self-expansion so that I can also hold an ever-stronger, more grounded sanctuary for you.
Three Decades of Building Spaces for Growth, Rigour & Wholeness
My work with individual women is part of a broader, 30-year journey across engineering, education, and human potential:
- Corporate Hi-Tech Engineering: Before pivoting fully into human development, I spent 10 years working in hi-tech engineering roles in the corporate world—bringing deep analytical rigor, systemic problem-solving, and firsthand insight into the pressures high-achieving professionals navigate.
- Nurturing Families & Community: I founded Kutoohala, a parent-child learning space that reached over 2,500 families, creating an early foundation for conscious parenting, curiosity, and connection.
- Pioneering Child-Centric Education: As the Founder of Tejasvita Trust, I have had the privilege of impacting over 2,000 children so far and mentoring more than 80 teachers in child-centric, empowering educational practices.
- Academic Foundations: My approach bridges analytical precision with human development, backed by a Master’s in Engineering from Stanford University and a Master’s in Education from Harvard University.
An Integrated Lineage of Tools
My path naturally evolved into a calling to support other conscious women navigating similar thresholds. Over time, I have woven together complementary modalities to meet you across mind, body, heart, and spirit:
- Woman-Centered Transformational Coaching: Grounded in the work of Dr. Claire Zammit, helping you step out of socialized roles, rewrite limiting identity stories, and map your destiny pathway.
- Deep Inner Child Healing: Grounded in my training with Drs. Newton Kondaveti and Lakshmi Kondaveti, uncovering early childhood conditioning, offering warmth and safety to unmet needs, and releasing old protective patterns at the root.
- Rebirthing Breathwork: Using conscious breath to bypass the analytical mind, regulate the nervous system, release stored emotional tension, and anchor into body wisdom.
- Bach Flower Therapy: Supporting your subtle energy field with custom botanical remedies to gently harmonize daily emotional shifts like overwhelm, self-doubt, or transition fatigue.
Let’s Begin Your Journey
Whether we connect one-on-one for a tailored deep dive or gather in an intimate group workshop, I invite you to step into a space where you can stop trying so hard, drop the effort of performing, and finally include yourself in the circle of care.
Write to gayathri@empowria.com for more.
