In 1996, Chandra's strong interest in meditation led her to study Buddhist philosophy, meditation and Tibetan language at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, North India, founded by H. H. the Dalai Lama. Later, she received her degree in Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara where she translated Tibetan Buddhist texts on meditation with the Buddhist scholar, B. Alan Wallace. She also had the good fortune of studying Tibetan language with Ngawang Thondup Narkyid, a Tibetan elder and an official biographer for H.H. Dalai Lama. While at UCSB, she taught Tibetan language, as well as, supervised the cataloguing of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon for Davidson Library.

Her Buddhist teachers are H. H. the Dalai Lama, Gyatrul Rinpoche, Lama Tsultrim Allione, and B. Alan Wallace. Her yoga teachers are Zhander Remete and Sarah Powers.

Chandra has been studying yoga since 1991 and began teaching in 2000 after training with Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT), as well as Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley. She teaches both Hatha Yoga and Buddhist meditation.

In 2007, Chandra co-founded with Sarah Powers, Metta Journeys (www.mettajourneys.com), a service oriented organization that offers yoga retreats internationally to help women and children in developing countries.

Chandra lives in Berkeley, California with Scott and their two children.

Click here to learn about Chandra's Monthly Women's Meditation Sangha.