Guides

Avi & Sega hold the frame of the journey, offer practical orientation and help you find your way through very different cultural contexts.

Avi

Psychologist, Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Consultant.

Avi (Mangaldharma) is a psychologist, yoga teacher and Ayurvedic consultant whose approach integrates Western psychology with the ancient wisdom found in Yoga and Ayurveda. For Avi, well-being arises when body, mind and spirit come together.

Born in India, Avi grew up close to yoga, mantras, meditation and the Ayurvedic way of life. For more than 30 years, as a practitioner and seeker, he trained in schools such as the Ramakrishna Order and the Bihar School of Yoga, gaining a deep understanding of healing, transformation and the human psyche.

As a psychologist, Avi is deeply inspired by Carl Jung: the unconscious, archetypes and individuation meet naturally in his work with the yogic vision of self-realization. Avi’s perspective is integrative, somatic and depth-oriented.

In practice, Avi facilitates the development of a more stable and resilient inner structure, able to hold intense emotions, integrate difficult experiences and make room for meaning. Working with him may include therapeutic conversation, somatic awareness, breathing, relaxation or guided meditation.

In Ashram Yatra, his role is to support orientation, practice and the meeting with each place, not as a tourist guide, but as an attentive companion to an inner process.

Sega

Writer, translator, traveller.

Sega (Charaiveti) discovered India and Nepal in 2008, during his sabbatical year. After returning home, he wrote and published the Namaste novels, which became Humanitas bestsellers in 2012 and 2013.

After the Namaste novels were published, he began leading his readers through India and Nepal, on emblematic journeys such as Adventures in Nepal and Buddha Yatra, following in the footsteps of the Buddha.

During the years without travel, Sega translated Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s In Love with the World for Romanian readers, published by Humanitas in 2022 as Îndrăgostit de lume, and Old Path White Clouds by Thich Nhat Hanh, published by the same house in December 2025 as Calea cea veche, norii cei albi — Povestea vieții lui Buddha.

In Ashram Yatra, his role is to watch over the smooth unfolding of things, to make an unhurried encounter with spiritual India possible, without cheap mythology, supporting the group sometimes with stories and sometimes with songs.

He met Avi in 2010, at the Namaste India festival in Bucharest. From that meeting grew a long friendship, nourished by India, practice, conversations and roads that kept crossing over time.