Our Story

We are both lifelong students of Ayurveda. So it makes sense that, years into both of our separate careers helping clients, we met in 2018 while studying with world-renowned Ayurvedic doctor Vasant Lad, in Pune, India. We quickly realized that we shared a moderate, joy-filled approach to Ayurvedic living, and it became clear that we were meant to collaborate. Our shared vision has taken shape through the Roha Institute of Ayurvedic Living.

Debby and Zohreh have both been practicing Ayurveda for over 10 years. Through their experience teaching courses, workshops, and facilitating Ayurvedic retreats, they found a mutual passion for teaching and spreading the knowledge of Ayurveda in larger settings.

While Debby and Zohreh share their love for Ayurveda, they also have another thing in common—their care for humanity and the planet. Zohreh has been involved in activism work from a very young age following in the footsteps of her mother. Her mother’s deep love for social justice and human rights passed down to Zohreh early on and she’d found herself fighting for justice and equality ever since she was a kid. She dedicated her thesis project in art school—a 200-page book titled “This is The Voice”— to women’s rights issues in the Middle East, particularly Afghanistan and Iran. In her own words “ I fight for the ones whose voices aren’t heard, the ones that are silenced by simply being born in a region of the world that doesn’t value human rights or lives, a region of the world that is forgotten by the rest of the world and remains in the shadows.”

Debby's love of nature deepened immensely during her travels in her early 20s, when she spent a year backpacking through New Zealand, Australia, Southeast Asia, India, and Nepal. Her experiences hiking through pristine wilderness, cleaning up Thai beaches after the 2004 tsunami, visiting remote Indigenous communities, and teaching English to Tibetan refugees revealed the importance of taking better care of each other and our planet. She believes Ayurveda has an important role to play in healing not only individuals, but mother earth. Through living in ways that are in harmony with the planet, we not only regain health, but restore balance to the ecosystems that are fundamental for all life.

Let Ayurveda meet you where you are right now in your life. We are both passionate healers, devoted to Ayurveda, but we are also human. We are human rights and environmental activists. We care about all of humanity and the entire planet.