Hawah Kasat is an award-winning author, educator, nonprofit leader, podcast host, TEDx speaker, and yogi. For over 25 years, he has taught violence prevention, social-emotional literacy, conflict transformation, the healing arts, trauma-informed care, mindfulness, and yoga to diverse communities around the world. Since childhood, Hawah has been immersed in the living traditions, culture, philosophy, and practices of his ancestral homeland of India, offering a rare perspective on Eastern and Western dichotomies. His work spans a wide range of settings, including as a featured speaker, performer, and presenter for People to People International, the Mind & Life Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom Schools. He has appeared on XM National Satellite Radio, BBC, Fox News, NBC, ABC, CNN, The Washington Post, NPR, and Al Jazeera.

Hawah was trained and certified in Sivananda Yoga at the Yoga Vidya Gurukul, a renowned teacher training college in India. He also holds a second certification from the Jivamukti Yoga School and a certificate in trauma relief and healing from The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. Over the years, he has studied a wide range of traditions, including Ashtanga Yoga with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, Kundalini Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Vipassana meditation, Capoeira, and Kung Fu. His classes are dynamic and shamanic—a journey that integrates ancient yogic practices with parallel modalities found across cultures and traditions.

Hawah is the co-founder and former executive director of One Common Unity, an award-winning nonprofit organization that has impacted the lives of over 40,000 youth and families. Most recently, he helped launch Roots to Sky Sanctuary, a 125-acre regenerative farm and healing arts center in northern Appalachia, where he serves as a managing partner. Over the years, he has authored four books and produced three documentary films, including the widely acclaimed Fly By Light and The Poetry of Yoga. He also joyfully hosts a popular bi-weekly podcast, Everlutionary, available on all streaming platforms.

In his spare time, Hawah enjoys finding new foods to mix with chocolate, climbing trees and buildings, doing handstands on furniture, hiking through mountains in flip-flops, body surfing ocean waves, making animal sounds and bird calls, enjoying a glass of wine at high altitude, lighting candles in dark rooms, and traveling.