Radhia Aggarwal is a Delhi-based holistic healer and coach, with her foundations rooted in traditional Hatha Yoga. From a deeply intellectual academic background to holistic healing, her path has been anything but conventional. Yoga, as she describes, forms her core foundation.
She spent the latter half of her twenties travelling across countries and cultures, working varied jobs, while deepening her understanding of the self through practices like inner child healing, past life regression, Vipassana and other transformative modalities. Her journey eventually led her to the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram in Kerala, where she not only completed her teacher training but discovered yoga as a way of life.
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She volunteered at yoga camps for children, went on to teach yoga internationally — in Italy, across India, and conducted special sessions for mothers. But her path didn’t end on the mat, it expanded far beyond it.
When did yoga move from exploration to awakening?
In early 2020, just before the pandemic, I began practicing advanced kriyas and bandhas under a senior teacher. I didn’t realise what they would open — buried grief, stored memory, deep energetic patterns. These weren’t just breath practices. They were catalysts.
Over the next two years, life felt like a spiritual firewalk. I quit a toxic job during lockdown. I was breaking down internally. Then, just as I began to build my healing brand, I was hospitalised in the second wave of COVID.
Then came a near-fatal car accident — a truck hit my side. The car was crushed, but I came out with minor scars and miraculously, no injury. I saw the hospital, police station and lawyer’s office all in twelve hours. The chaos kept unfolding.
And months later, I reached my lowest. I felt numb, lost and was prescribed anxiety pills. Within three days of medication, I felt myself disappearing from inside, totally numb. That’s when I nearly gave up.
The morning after, I woke up with an unexplainable shift. I walked barefoot onto the grass, lay on my mat for hours, staring at the sky and just surrendered to nature. I got this nudge from within — to leave.
I couldn’t explain it, but my body knew something my mind couldn’t. Despite the fears, weakness, and uncertainty, I travelled alone to a country I had never been before. Rest is history. The person who returnedwas not the one who left. I chose to be called Radhia — a name that came to me frequently in meditation, and let go of my birth name Radhika. This was a metaphorical death. A rebirth. I never touched anxiety pills again.
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Yogic initiation disturbs before it soothes. To bring you into union, it first clears the debris. Yoga, life taught me, is purification before liberation.
Were there moments of grace that reaffirmed your path?
Many. One of the most surreal was when the Krishna idol at home sipped milk late evening. It marked an awakening for my sister, who had lost faith in God. When I told my yoga teacher, he simply said, “This is the reward of your sadhana.” And perhaps the most beautiful gift was to see the shift in my family. Not through force, through energy. It still brings a smile to see God’s Leela. Yoga teaches you the power of faith and surrender.
Yoga is often treated as a post-retirement or fitness option. What’s your perspective? Yoga isn’t about fixing. It’s about rooting. What’s the point of digging roots after the tree is already sick?
We live on autopilot — chasing accomplishments, avoiding inner alignment, hoping peace will come later. As Krishna says in the Gita, “One who is devoted to the path of selfless action attains perfection.” But how can your actions be selfless if you don’t know who you are?
Yoga offers the seed of intention. When you treat your breath like a prayer, your life becomes a sadhana. You start choosing from awareness, not fear. You become comfortable in your own company. You create from presence, not pressure. Rooting in yoga early opens a direct link to the Creator, and teaches you how to co-create.
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You now run a holistic healing brand. How does yoga live in the work you do today?
A: Yoga was the force that gave me the clarity to trust my vision, especially when no one believed in it, and I was expected to play safe and follow a conventional path.
As for my brand, Holsoltre, yoga forms its very foundation. While psychology focuses on the mind and medical science on the body, yoga teaches the union of all three — mind, body, and spirit. That’s exactly what Holsoltre stands for: the holistic soul of this triad. Healing cannot be fragmented; it has to be integrated. Yoga is the cement that binds together the multiple modalities I use in my work, including graphology, trauma healing, inner child work, and karma healing.
Most importantly, in a world where healing and the occult are repackaged as profit making industries, my roots in yoga remind me to choose depth over
performance; it keeps me anchored in the core values of integrity, humility, and love as service.
NOTE – This article was originally published in dailypioneer and can be viewed here
