With the day-long workload and constant digital overload, people are witnessing stress and pressure more than ever before. As a result, our stress response (the fight or flight response), which is one of our innate physiological mechanisms that should only be triggered in threatening situations – is triggered constantly; Not by lions and tigers, but by traffic jams, deadlines, heavy workloads, financial issues, and relationship troubles. Researches show that it can take up to an hour for our body to return to normal once the threat of stress is alleviated, so people spend an excessive amount of time in that stressed stage. This has all sorts of short and long-term health implications, such as anxiety, poor immunity, digestive problems, headaches, high blood pressure, poor sleep, fatigue, and burnout.

Burnout has become a major problem with an estimated global annual cost of over 300 billion USD. The World Health Organization predicts burnout will become a global pandemic within a decade. Yoga, Meditation, and Energy therapy can act as a circuit breaker for this non-stop lifestyle, giving both the mind and the body a chance to recharge. "These ancient techniques are a powerful natural antidote to stress and it’s being increasingly used by celebrities, athletes, businessmen and women, and people from all walks of life," explains Avril.

Avril Quadros has also been invited to teach her program, MIND YOUR MIND - A Mindfulness program for individuals at the prestigious institution — MSE (Madras School of Economics) starting in April 2021 as part of the curriculum as an optional course offered to the students at the university.

Avril Quadros is one of India's best-known Mindfulness Mediation trainers, Energy, and Life Transformation coach, and the founder of the wellness company - Avrils’ Qs’. She has facilitated programs for the MNCs in India and abroad and also does personal therapy and coaching for individuals. Her pioneering wellness program for women, "Shakti" had received wide coverage because it is one of the few programs that specifically target women.

Avril's Journey

Avril Quadros was a well-known name in Bollywood and the showbiz world. She has performed all over the world with artists like A. R. Rahaman, Usha Uthup, Shaan, Remo Fernandez, Louis Banks, etc. She's also shared the stage with international acts like Michael learns to Rock, Inner Circle and British blues legend Dana Gillespie.

After two decades in showbiz, she became increasingly disillusioned with the glitz and glamour of Bollywood. She says, "The superficiality and the endless chase for money and fame seemed so superficial.

"She felt a powerful spiritual calling and started searching for more meaning in her life. She came in touch with Tibetian Buddhism in 2009 and she started mindfulness meditation training under some very senior monastics like Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, and Ling Rinpoche. She was initiated into higher learning by the Dalai Lama himself in 2014 at the Mungod Monastery in Karnataka.

She was also having hormonal issues at the time and had put on a lot of weight. She had no energy and her health was spiralling. In 2016, she decided to train in the Kundalini Tradition with Gloria Latham, the director of Yoga Teacher Training at Semperviva International College of Yoga, and Guru Jagath, an internationally renowned Kundalini yoga teacher and author.

The intense meditation sessions combined with the Shakti yoga helped. She says, "I started losing weight, feeling energetic, calm and focussed, and people around me started noticing this. A few of my friends asked me to take classes for them, and from then on the word spread.”

What started as private lessons spread only by word of mouth has now snowballed into multiple product offerings for various segments of society - from mindfulness meditation for stressed corporate employees to wellness programs for women to custom-designed private therapy for individuals. She has a following of over 5000 people in several countries and her clients range from celebrities to the world's leading multinational companies. “I incorporated the company in April 2017, after mentoring with Mr. BOB PROCTOR one of the main teachers in the movie - THE SECRET. I started doing short insightful videos on YouTube and I started getting calls from people who after trying my free programs and advice from these videos, decided to deep dive into private therapy to solve their issues and that is how I started,” she informs.

“My purpose is to directly or indirectly empower 1 million people by 2025”

Avril’s Note On Her One-Of-A-Kind Offerings

My specializations as a transformation coach are exactly that- Transformation. I believe in “metamorphosis” All transformation starts from “within”. My company tagline is ALIGN.ATTRACT.ACHIEVE and this is exactly what I teach because to transform, you have to align your attention with your intention and line it up “energetically”, The next step is once you Align on the Mind, body, soul level, then you naturally, organically attract what you desire and the last step is Achievement, which is a natural progression to the 1st two variables of my A3 formula.

The major features of my programs are CUSTOMIZATION. I have 3 flagship courses.

MIND YOUR BUSINESS – For Corporates and Companies, this can also be done as a one-on-one private therapy practice or group classes called MIND YOUR MIND. 90 min Live class once a week with weekly assignments. We also have an FB and a WhatsApp group for people who would like to be supported. This Mindfulness program that I have designed corporates (MYB) draws from many traditions. It is a (W)holistic approach to Mindfulness, It is “Active Mindfulness” where we combine practices like traditional seated meditations and self-reflection practices done in solitude with “active intentional mindfulness practices” that are done at the workplace, with friends, peers, and basically in any situation for a person who lives their life around the concepts of “mindfulness and compassion” therefore, bringing excellence and contribution to everything they do.

SHAKTI – This is very close to my heart. This is a 3-month online course that I curated in 2020 during the height of Covid when I lost so many of my clients and workshops students and I needed some meaning and answers in my own life and I wanted to help women as so many of us were confronted with our struggles more than ever before.

For decades, women have been expected in each society to “follow the rules”, “take a backseat” and “play nice”. We are “over givers” hence, we put ourselves last and this leads to a host of mental, psychological, and emotional issues, not to mention the physical toll it takes on our health.

With the help of my mentors, my struggles and based on scientific research, I identified 12 areas in every woman’s life that she is either “empowered in or not”. These areas are Negative past programming from childhood based on society expectations, Lack of Self-acceptance, Lack of Self-worthiness, Lack of Self-trust, Adrenal fatigue, Dimming her Sensuality, Loss of Connection with partner/spouse - Romantic relationships, No connection with her Spiritual self, No clear Purpose in life or hiding it, The need for Validation from the outside world, Misuse of communication in her Community and career, and Suffering from Imposter syndrome.

“I always want to make people feel their greatness through mindfulness, share it with compassion, and live their greatness with purpose”

“Shakti”- Means sacred force, power, or energy, it represents the concept or personification of the divine feminine aspect, sometimes referred to as 'The Divine Mother'. Shakti represents the active, dynamic principles of feminine power. Shakti is the personification of the energy that is creative, sustaining, as well as destructive and this epitomizes a WOMAN. We have to be living in our SHAKTI and RISE IN SHAKTI. With my QP (Qundalini Plus) method, we deep dive into each topic every week, so we annihilate the issue from its root. This course is on my LMS platform, we also have a closed FB group with Live sessions with me every week and sharing sessions with the women in the course and Bonus gifts and perks to.

PRIVATE THERAPY – In these sessions, I design packages specifically for a client for 6 weekly 90 min LIVE sessions with constant WhatsApp support directly with me. As a “Creator” of the multiple programs for my company - Avrils’ Qs’, I focus on ‘efficiency, simplicity, and practicality. My private therapy clients, workshop students, and corporate clients must be able to follow the protocols given and the self-work given so they can see lasting change. After treating more than 500 private therapy clients, online and offline, 1000s of students at my QundaliniPlus workshops and more than a dozen Million $ companies as my satisfied clients in 2 years, I take my role very seriously and no programs are duplicated or outsourced. Rather, my USP is “customized programs.”

Credentials

• Certified Pranic Healer.

• A Certified EFT practitioner.

• A Certified Kundalini Yoga teacher.

• Buddhist psychology studies and tutored in Mindfulness by Buddhist Lamas, including HH. The 14th Dalai Lama.

• A Science of Happiness coach – Yale University.

• A Certified Mindfulness Trainer from the ‘Science of Mindfulness Centre’, in association with “the Awakened Mind” (AUS)

Credentials

The QundaliniPlus system is something I developed which is a mind, body, and soul method that combines the benefits of

1. kundalini kriyas (sequence of asanas) for all body systems like the endocrine system, digestion, metabolism, youth and radiance, brain agility, addictions, sexuality, endurance...just to name a few benefits and Pranayama into a power-packed, concise package.

2. Deep Alpha Meditations with Sankalpas (affirmations) to reframe the Subconscious mind.

3. Energy clearing protocols.

4. Cognitive-behavioral therapy and strategies to give the client a tangible step-by-step game plan to take small steps in the direction of their success every single day.

It is the brainchild of nationally renowned Energy alignment and Life transformation coach Avril Quadros and is the system she originally developed and used to transform herself. Similarly, Chakra Healing & customized Mindfulness training has helped many individuals to transform energy.

Avril Quadros has also been invited to teach her program, MIND YOUR MIND – A Mindfulness program for individuals at the prestigious institution – MSE (Madras School of Economics) starting in April 2021 as part of the curriculum as an optional course offered to the students at the university.