MEET Avantika Waleryszak, LICSW, RYT

Avantika is a psychotherapist, Kripalu Yoga teacher, mindfulness practitioner, international retreat leader, and founder of Wild Soul Wellness and Wild Soul Sisterhood. For more than twenty-five years, she has guided others toward greater presence through the integration of yoga, meditation, breathwork, somatic awareness, and compassionate inquiry.

Drawing from the Kripalu tradition, Avantika’s classes are gentle, deeply embodied, and accessible to practitioners of all levels. She invites students to move beyond striving and into listening, honoring the body’s innate wisdom while cultivating balance, vitality, and ease. Her teaching is rooted in the belief that every body has a story, and that yoga offers a path home to ourselves through curiosity rather than perfection.

When she isn’t teaching, Avantika leads transformational retreats in Ireland, facilitates local women’s circles, mini-retreats, individual and group coaching sessions, and maintains a psychotherapy practice in New Hampshire. She is completing her first book, The Lanterns of Presence, an exploration of mindful living through the guiding lights of sustenance, navigation, and companionship.

Her greatest hope is that every student leaves class feeling a little more grounded, a little more spacious, and more deeply connected to the quiet wisdom that dwells within .