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 eventually settled in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. In 2001, after she had sent her children abroad, to pursue their education, her life took another dramatic turn; She was in the conference room of Elixir, a software company, in which she was among the board of directors. “I wanted to do landscaping and interior design, shares Shahnaz, “But I was not sure if I wanted to tell people how to put their curtains and carpets. I wanted to do something very different’ and that’s when an Art of Living teacher, Naushad Thariani came to Pakistan.” The ways of The Art of Living were quickly adopted by Shahnaz. She started to believe in ‘one world family’, moving from family structures to a limitless, and an international commune awareness. She started to feel, that getting the right people together, at the right time, for the right purpose, can work wonders in any situation. Click here to read more...........
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