Meet Reema

Reema Datta is the founder of The Yogi's Way®, an integrative approach to yoga rooted in the Vedic heritage of India. Through movement, breath, philosophy, meditation, mantra, ritual, and contemplative practice, she helps students cultivate greater clarity, resilience, joy, and inner freedom.

Based in Taos, New Mexico, Reema has been teaching internationally since 2002. Her work is devoted to making yoga's deeper wisdom accessible and relevant for modern life.

She is the author of The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, Health, and Reality (New World Library, 2025), a guide to applying ancient yogic wisdom as practical tools for everyday living.

A Life Rooted in Yoga

Raised in a family of yogis, Reema was immersed in Vedic wisdom from an early age through her grandmother's Ayurvedic healing, her grandfather's Vedic scholarship, and her mother's mantra singing. These teachings continue to shape her approach to yoga as a living path of self-discovery and transformation.

Teaching Around the World

For more than two decades, Reema has led retreats, trainings, workshops, and mentorship programs throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond. She has shared her work with students from every walk of life, including artists, musicians, business leaders, changemakers, and those seeking healing and personal transformation.

Her teaching brings together movement, breathwork, meditation, mantra, philosophy, Ayurveda, sacred dance, and contemplative practices into an integrated experience that supports the whole person.

Beyond the Mat

Before devoting herself fully to yoga, Reema earned degrees from Vassar College and the London School of Economics and worked at the United Nations in New York. She is also the co-author of Sacred Sanskrit Words and has released several mantra albums.

Above all, she believes yoga is not about becoming someone different. It is about remembering who we are meant to be.

When she isn't teaching, Reema loves spending time with her daughter, immersing herself in nature, and deepening the wisdom that shapes her own life and practice.