Rooted in practice. Built through community.

Together, we create retreats, gatherings, and experiences where people can slow down, reconnect, and remember what matters.

Meet Our Founder

A Heart for Connection. A Passion for Bringing People Together.

Radha Manaois is the founder of Conscious Collective, a space devoted to helping people feel more grounded, connected, and uplifted in everyday life.

With degrees in Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering, she spent years working in high-performance technical environments before a deeper search for balance led her to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita and the path of bhakti-yoga—where she found not just answers, but a way of living that felt steady and real.

Today, Radha brings those two worlds together. In the same way she once engineered external systems, she now helps people work with their inner world—learning to navigate the mind, reconnect with the heart, and live with greater clarity.

She is a 1,000+ hour certified yoga instructor and host of the Gita in Action podcast, where she makes ancient wisdom practical and accessible. Through Conscious Collective, she curates experiences blending movement, breath, meditation, sound, and spiritual reflection—spaces where people can slow down and return to themselves.

Radha lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, their toddler, and two dogs. Their interfaith marriage and the rhythms of motherhood continue to deepen her practice, inviting her to live these teachings not just in theory, but in real life.

At the heart of her work is a simple intention: to help people move from overthinking to alignment, from pressure to presence, and from disconnection back to something deeper.

Collective Contributors

  • Vrinde Popelarova

    Vrinde is a multi-disciplinary artist and kirtan facilitator whose life has been shaped by music, movement, and spiritual practice. She first discovered sacred music as a teenager growing up in communist Czechoslovakia.

    Today, she weaves together khol, karatalas, harmonium, ukulele, and voice to create participatory sound experiences in homes, studios, festivals, and retreats. Through kirtan and Vedic philosophy, Vrinde invites people to slow down, sing together, and experience the power of collective rhythm.

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    Stella Herzig

    Stella Herzig (Sraddhanjali devi dasi) is a retired university librarian practicing the Bhakti path for over thirty years. Sraddhanjali brings decades of spiritual wisdom, lived experience, and loving guidance to the Conscious Collective community.

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    Tanmayi Radha Devi

    Tanmayi Radha Devi, also known as Karina, has been teaching yoga since 2001. She offers many styles of yoga practice, including two free weekly live Zoom classes.

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    Andrea K

    Andrea is an RYT500 certified through Yoga Alliance, trained by Donna Dyer and at Three Rivers Yoga Institute. She teaches with a playful, eclectic style rooted in Hatha, with influences from Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, and YinYang Yoga. Andrea founded Sangha Center in April 2010 and has continued her studies with master teachers and at The California College of Ayurveda and The Ayurvedic Institute to guide students toward greater health and vitality.

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    Gandarvika Giridhari

    Gandarvika Giridhari dd has been a student of Bhakti since 2007. She is a forest therapy guide and a former actress and singer who lives for sacred sound and connecting in community attending and facilitating kirtan. She can’t wait to chant divine names with Conscious Collective on our pilgrimage to India in 2027 !

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    Popy

    Popy is a spiritual seeker who loves capturing raw, meaningful moments and sharing them with others. She is grateful to serve as Social Media Manager for Conscious Collective — a community that inspires fun, wisdom, authentic connection, and brings together passionate seekers on the journey of conscious living.

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    Nancy Rothman

    Nancy Rothman has been studying Bhakti for over a decade and has over 43 years in 12 Step recovery. Nancy brings her love of God and experience to help those who suffer from various addictions (alcohol, drug, people) to heal through recovery.

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    Erin Rudegeair

    Erin is a yoga teacher, student, and Bhakti practitioner. She is here to assist the Collective in any way from teaching a yoga class to ordering merch.

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    Parastou Marashi

    Parastou Marashi is a product designer, strategist, and researcher with over 20 years of experience shaping digital products across finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, media, culture, and consumer technology, used by millions of people globally. With more than 800 hours of yoga teacher training and meditation training, including deep study in Bhakti yoga, Parastou aims to bring a grounded, human-centered presence to everything she creates.

Fill Your Cup

Events

Special, Ongoing Events

Join us for a cozy, low-pressure gathering designed to help you slow down and come back to yourself. Through gentle movement, sound bath, wisdom reflection, refreshments, and meaningful connection, Fill Your Cup events offer a peaceful space to unwind, feel supported, and leave lighter, grounded, and refreshed.‍ ‍

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