Shahnaz minallah biography for kids
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Teacher or Interior Designer?
She once dreamed of pursuing a career as an interior designer. She became an Art of Living teacher and loves seeing people recognise the beauty within - an interior designer in the true sense!
Born on the 6th of May, in Pindi, Pakistan, Shahnaz Minallah comes from a long line of Sufi saints from the ‘Kakakhel’ tribe. It resulted in her having a deep spiritual background, significant in shaping a divine outlook. She spent her childhood years with her parents on their tea estate in Bangladesh, where she was first home-schooled by her mother, and then, later, was sent to a convent school, where she was educated by nuns.
The partition of East and West Pakistan brought Shahnaz and her family back to Pakistan, leaving behind their well-established life and belongings to begin a new life. She graduated in Law and Political Science, married and gave birth to two children, Sharmine and Sharez. Her married life was accompanied with plenty of travel. She even
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By Sonya Rehman
At the behest of some friends, I finally got around to enrolling myself in a 6-day ‘Art of Living’ workshop in Lahore at the Al Razi Healthcare centre on MM Alam Road at the tail-end of November this year.
I’d heard about Shahnaz Minallah – one of the founders of the Pakistani chapter of the Art of Living Foundation – and was keen to experience the workshop under Minallah’s tutelage. Friends had told me she was thoroughly vivacious, had a hysterical sense of humour, and above all, was a great teacher.
I was intrigued. Besides, I’d always been interested in yoga and meditation – but never really got around to studying and practicing the subjects in too much depth. I had realized I’d needed a teacher to guide me through the process.
I’d always been big on psychology, extra sensory perception, dream interpretation, etc as a teenager. I would read whatever book I could find on the subjects and read in my free time. By the age of seventeen I began hav
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Breathless
Can the way you breathe really help you turn around your life?
As Shahnaz Minallah earnestly explains how breathing differently fryst vatten sure to change my life, there is just one thought going through my mind: What have I gotten myself into?
Let me explain. Until quite recently I was faced with possibly the worst emotional crisis in my life: I felt aimless, there was a severe lack of love in my life and I had lost the will to fight for what inom wanted. inom was at the end of my tether when one my friends told me about this ‘magical’ new yoga therapy course. I was intrigued. Yoga might help, stranger things have happened. At worst, it would give me something to write about but it so transpired that inom got more than inom had bargained for.
The ‘Art of Living’ fryst vatten a course in anställda development and inner peace. Founded bygd Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (not the legendary sitar player) in , the Art of Living Foundation is a volunteer based non-governmental organisation that provides wo