Today we’d like to introduce you to Shivangi Van Gogh.
Shivangi, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
In 2012, seven years after graduating Columbia University in Consciousness and Science, inventing a “better for you” hair colour, and launching a multi-patented, personal hair-care company, I found myself sitting on a cold, wet, dirty curb in Manhattan NY and saying out loud, “I am not living this way, one more day.” You see, my investors were in disagreement, it was the worst economic time in our history, and that same year, my senior advisor and dear friend became very ill and passed away.
On this particular day, it was sleeting, my umbrella flipped inside out and directly outside of my apartment, the bedrock was being bombed to make way for the new subway. I felt like I was in a war zone. There were no cabs, and my hair slowly started sticking to the back of my neck from the cold, wet rain. I threw my umbrella in the nearest trash bin, picked up my things, and started walking from the Upper East Side to our showroom offices in SOHO. As I walked, I decided it was time to make some major changes in my life. By the time I arrived at our showroom, the foundation was set to create a more simple, free and joyous existence.
After downsizing my company, I sold it. I sold my apartment, and I gave away all of my “things”. I moved to India for five years, to take a deep dive inward. I studied with the foremost masters in meditation, Ayurveda and yoga, and when I had a sustainable direct experience myself, I became a meditation teacher. I began personally and professionally advising private clients and sharing meditation with innovative companies all over the world. I am now the Consciousness Consultant to inspirational brands such as Mandarin Oriental Hotels and TED.
I learned in India, through non-negotiable daily practice and through a Daily Ritual, how to create a sustainable experience of Perfect Health and Total Well Being and to claim this state of “Being” as my birth-rite, as my natural state. Experiencing Bliss while in the human body is what we are here to experience, and I want this for you too. I know my purpose is to share how to create Perfect Health and Total Well Being with you and to develop a well-lubricated, friction-free, simple pathway for clients to have a sustainable experience of health and happiness for themselves. 8 Organics and 8 Meditation are some of the tools that I offer to help pave the way.
Some of the most powerful wisdom that assisted me is in 8 Organics. You don’t have to pick up and move to India like I did to experience well-being in your own life. By becoming an 8 Organics Member, your Monthly 8 Organics Wellness Box is delivered directly to you. In it is a 30-Day supply Daily Ritual comprised of our three core products: Beauty Jam, Beauty Nose Drops and Mouth Detox that you EAT. SNIFF. SWISH, twice daily before brushing to stay powerful, clear and clean. As an 8 Organics Member, the knowledge and wisdom of Ayurveda, 8 Minute Daily Meditations, Monthly Intentions and Practices, are brought right to your doorstep every month.
8 Organics’ products, services and meditation techniques contain within them the thousands of years of scientifically proven natural intelligence of Ayurveda – the Science of Life from India. 8 Organics formulas and techniques work so effectively, that done twice daily, they will transform you in so many beautiful and innumerable ways. All sustainable results are cumulative. Take Daily Ritual everyday, and don’t wait to get sick to feel better.
Take the small leap. Become a Monthly Member. I believe in the oxygen mask principle: Put the mask on yourself first before trying to help anyone else….. take care of yourself first, before trying to take care of anyone else.
I hope you will join me and become an 8 Organics Member. You have an open invitation with your name on it.
Has it been a smooth road?
For an entrepreneur, it is anything but a smooth road. Yet, I believe most entrepreneurs, if driven by a mission that is larger than oneself, the bumps seem more like pebbles. As you grow, so too does your ability to course correct, and either jump over the potholes, go around them or heal them, instead of getting thrown off course and tripped up by them.
There are so many struggles that I can share, and far too many to list here… but the only thing that I truly remember is why I started 8 Organics in the first place. If you remember why you started, it propels your way forward.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the 8 Organics story. Tell us more about the business.
I have three companies and three unique, yet symbiotic offerings:
1) 8 Organics: www.8organics.com is a Modern Wellness Company that makes 100% Organic, Ayurvedic, Vegan, All Natural daily supplements, and intentional beauty with the goal of making Ayurveda simple for Modern Humans through easy to use Daily Rituals. Our mission is to bring the world closer to Perfect Health and Total Wellbeing.
2) Shivangi Meditation: www.shivangimeditation.com As a Columbia University and Himalayan trained Consciousness + Meditation Expert, I teach a highly effective form of meditation to private clients over a 3-Day Course in a retreat style format. I work with innovative companies, CEOs, Captains of Industry and busy people who have achieved enough to ask the question “what else is there?” Shivangi Meditation ignites students to go within for the answers and live a life of 200% happiness …. 100% inside while enjoying all the wonders of 100% outside. If you are not happy inside, and it is not a sustainable experience, it is hard to enjoy all that you have achieved.
Shivangi Meditation and 8 Organics go hand in hand as both are Daily Sustainable Self Care. Why wait to get sick or have a crisis to get better? Daily Self Care is the new Health Care.
3) Kelly Van Gogh Colour: In a past iteration of my life, I was a celebrity hair colourist and took care of such clients as the Victoria Secrets Models and was Aveda’s Global Creative Director. When I went back to school at Columbia, I sold most of my salons and spas to do so and invented a “better for you’ hair colour that sold directly to the consumer. We won six patents on the formulas and took that company global. After selling my company and moving to India for five years to begin 8 Organics and Shivangi Meditation, instead of moving back to NYC, I moved to Malibu and then finally to the South Bay.
In the South Bay, I saw that there was significant interest in beauty, and so I decided that perhaps my offerings could once again incorporate hair colour for private clients…..I opened a small, word of mouth Atelier where I offer colour, organic beauty, 8 Organics and Meditation. I am very fortunate that after being out of the beauty industry for five years, my clients in NYC and Internationally, now fly in to see me here in the South Bay on the one week per month that I offer hair services. I love creating extraordinary hair colour… it is like painting and a creative outlet.
What is really beautiful is it feels like my clients have grown up with me, and are now ready for Total Beauty, Total Wellness inside and out…. so a client might come to me at first for colour here in the South Bay, but eventually, they end up on the whole Total Wellness Program. 🙂
4) And the fourth offering is our foundation that assists mothers and kids in crisis called Green Ashram.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
The Wellness and Beauty industries are sure to evolve seamlessly together in the next few years as can be seen in the ingestible wellness and beauty categories that are soaring at a whopping 40% growth margin.
Inner well-being is the only key to our future as a human race. If humans are well inside, Earth will be well.
I see a significant increase and need in mental well-being and wellness… and meditation, 8 Organics and even hair colour… offer different levels of mental health and well-being.
Evolving our consciousness is true sustainability. Without inner evolution, and multiplying our inner intelligence, we don’t stand a chance… AI, global warming, etc.
I believe the solutions to our future will only come from within.
Contact Info:
- Address: 200 Pier Avenue
- Website: www.8organics.com ; www.shivangimeditation.com ; www.kellyvangoghpro.com
- Phone: 917 902 6762
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @8organics_ @kellyshivangivangogh
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