Shalini B Bahl

Shalini B Bahl, Ph.D., is an award-winning researcher, author, and founder of Sama Life — a movement to replace default habits with mindfulness skills for real-world change in how we show up for ourselves, our loved ones, at work, and in the world. Recognized by Mindful Magazine as one of the Top 10 Women in the Mindfulness Movement 2025, Dr. Bahl is a certified MBSR and Search Inside Yourself teacher, TEDx speaker, and former town councilor. Her book Return to Mindfulness is an Amazon bestseller and won the International Impact Book Awards in 2024. With 15 years of research, she works with changemakers to build capacity through real-world mindfulness skills — helping them disrupt default patterns, sustain their engagement, and respond from clarity instead of reactivity. Her Daily Sama series offers one mindfulness skill, one default pattern disrupted, one shift in your day. She loves nature, dancing, cooking, and creative ventures.

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