For living, listening and leading from the heart, especially when life does not go to plan.
My work is simple to say and lifelong to practise: helping people stay connected to themselves and to each other.
I am a CNVC Certified Trainer, facilitator and author based in Hyderabad, India. For more than a decade I have been weaving together two streams that changed my life: Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication and the yoga philosophy I learned from Sri TKV Desikachar.
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In the flow of school life, teachers give generously of themselves every day. Itsukant is an invitation to pause, reconnect and renew.
Rather than a training programme, it is an experiential journey through reflection, silence, nature, creativity, playfulness, mindful movement and meaningful conversation.
I read excerpts from this book on the online forum of NVC Certified Trainers. I found them exquisite, as it is quite rare, in that context, that I encounter anyone who speaks about nonviolence in a way that so often points to the same deep spiritual principles that I recognise within NVC. I am really grateful for those moments of companionship.Miki Kashtan · CNVC Certified Trainer and author, Spain
This book stands out as the most potent, concise, and insightful writing on the spirituality of NVC that I have come across.Sura Hart · CNVC Certified Trainer and author, USA
I felt so deeply inspired by the tenderness, clarity, and spaciousness in the way you expressed it. Your words touched something very alive in me.Chiara Cicognani · CNVC Certified Trainer, Italy
I am grateful to Salil for deepening the meaning of the Zero Step that I have shared for many years.Bren Hardt · CNVC Certified Trainer, USA
Don’t many of us carry invisible scales into relationships? Who gave more. Who sacrificed more.
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Most of us love honesty, right up until the moment we’re asked to provide it.
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A turtle noticed another stuck in a muddy ditch. It wasn’t his ditch, and he was already late.
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An occasional note on practice, new writing and upcoming gatherings. Slow, like the turtle. No noise, easy to leave.
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