Having realized that he did not want to live his life in an urban setting, Ankur quit his corporate job and left the city to explore his inner self. He learned meditation and new techniques while traveling around the country, with a belief in connecting with nature and living a balanced life.

Ankur Gupta is a breathwork practitioner and facilitator working in the field of health and wellness.

Ankur quit his corporate job and his city lifestyle to explore his inner self. He has been traveling around the country, learning new techniques of meditation. He has taken his inspiration from Buddhist philosophies and spent some time at Bodhi Zendo amidst nature in Kodaikanal. He believes that traveling taught him a lot of things and was responsible for bringing about a big change for him. He mainly followed Sadhguru during his journey, where he learned new meditation philosophies and many other teachings and techniques and followed the ‘Zen’ principle.

Last year, Ankur decided to dig deeper into the field of meditation and learn breathwork, which is one of the harder techniques to master. This technique helps in relieving emotional, physical, and psychological traumas. While working, Ankur is trying to learn more and more, and he finally knows where he belongs now, amidst nature.

Ankur wanted to give people a place where he could stay with them. Hence, he set up his own company, ‘Moksh Wellness and Lifestyle LLP.’  This startup will provide a private space for people, and it will work on completely sustainable, organic, and eco-friendly setups using holistic ways to integrate that into the communities.

Talking about his childhood, Ankur says he was fortunate to have grown up traveling to so many different parts of the country and experiencing different cultures. He was born in Calcutta but resided in a small town in Bihar and spent thirteen years at St. Paul’s boarding school in Darjeeling, which had a very beautifully constructed campus amidst natural mountains. He attended high school in Delhi and then went to Pune for his BA and LLB from Symbiosis, Pune. He then practiced law for eleven years in Mumbai before realizing that corporate and city life did not resonate with his inner self, and hence, he quit his job and left the city.

According to Ankur, his life has taken a complete 360-degree turn, but for good. Somewhere, he was lacking the thrill of living life, but now he is elated with the way things have turned out for him. Ankur has been constantly learning new things in life, and he can see the change in himself every single day. He started feeling different, and he could see himself grow with the lifestyle changes he made. There are still bad days, but he always reacts to the situations very positively and faces them head-on. Rather than dwelling on the problems, he tries to accept them and solve them.

Ankur’s advice for youngsters is to experience a little bit of everything in life and do it until they feel it’s right. But they should have a sense of responsibility and keep their lives simple and balanced. He advises everyone to adopt healthy lifestyle habits and stay fit.

Initially, for Ankur, it was all about learning and acquiring new skills. Now that he feels he has enough knowledge to share with people, he has also started one-on-one sessions online with them. He doesn’t know what shape his future might take, but for now, he is happy that he is slowly and naturally progressing and giving his best.

Ankur believes humans are made up of the same five elements that nature is made up of, and thus, we belong in nature. But we have lost our connection with these elements in recent years because of our ways of living. He urges people to try to connect with nature. He thinks people only do something diligently if they do it for themselves, so they should always take time for themselves and indulge in activities that give them happiness. That is how they would be able to appreciate things around them more.

For Ankur, his inspiration in life is the new people that he meets every day and learns new things from. People who taught him, as well as those who could not make it but whose knowledge is perennial, pushed him to be where he is today, and he is proud of the journey he has so far covered in the caravan of life.