Shahbano Lodhi has been offering Mindfulness programs in Pakistan since 2018.  She works with different kinds of organizations, leads retreats, offers in-person and online Mindfulness programs for groups and individuals and helps administer the Karachi Sangha. 

She is qualified as a teacher for MBSR from Centre of Mindfulness Studies and University of Toronto and is a graduate of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s MMTCP program.

With an MBA from the IBA, University of Karachi and a background in Banking and management of Non-Profit Organizations, Shahbano who calls Karachi her hometown, has worked and lived in many different places around the world: Khartoum, Kampala, London, Toronto and Dubai, to name a few, while raising her two children who are now adults.

Maheen Mohammed is one of the pioneers of teaching secular mindfulness practices in Karachi. She offers retreats, circles, and courses focusing on mindfulness, self-compassion, and connection. She is also one of the co-founders of the Karachi Sangha and the annual Karachi Wellness Festival. Maheen remains committed to her own personal mindfulness and self-compassion practices, and considers herself to be a life-long learner. Maheen is a Trained Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Teacher, a Certified Mindfulness Teacher - Professional Level (IMTA CMT-P) through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, and has completed the Compassionate Inquiry professional training based on Dr. Gabor Mate's work.

Rahma Muhammad Mian is a somatic therapist and yoga teacher. Rahma’s trauma and chronic pain focused body and breathwork practice is grounded in her Vipassana and Brahmavihara practice. Beginning in 2015, she has sat Vipassana retreats in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Burma and US, learning from monastics and teachers rooted in the Theravada tradition. 

Rahma is trained in Ihsaas, a trauma-informed, somatic healing programme designed primarily for Muslim women as well as western trauma and somatic focused trainings. She is also trained in Hatha yoga (RYT-200) from South India and practices Qi Gong and Reiki.

An active part of the local wellness and Vipassana community, Rahma is one of the co-founders of Karachi Sangha, and the annual Karachi Wellness Festival. 

Sahar Habib is a humanistic integrative compassion-informed therapist and has been practicing in Karachi for over 5 years. She has also trained in different forms of play therapy in working with children and adolescents and believes in the power of the nonverbal forms of healing.

She has been practicing mindfulness also for just over 5 years and has been part of the admin team for Karachi Sangha for 4 years.  She completed a diploma SCIP (self compassion in psychotherapy) that aims to combine MSC (mindfulness of self compassion) in the therapeutic space in 2022. 

Sahar was also a part of Attha which was a group created to cultivate radical friendships and a community that studied different aspects of mindfulness in the vipassana tradition including the language of pali and a few suttas from the ancient texts.