Hi, I’m Devaraj
I’m British-Iranian by birth, British nationality, born 1961.
Adopted as a baby and brought up by a British family around London, England, I left school at 18, dropped out aged 21 and had a colourful life of wild experiences, living in squats and rented accommodation in Camden and Soho. Late in my twenties, bored of busking and never having any money, I made use of a government scheme and trained to become an electrician, something I successfully pursued for most of my thirties in central London.
In my late thirties, I decided that I needed to “clean up my life” and got into therapy. I attended regular group sessions at the Open Centre in Old Street London for a while and then, deciding that I needed something more confrontational to break through my habits and armouring, I spent years working with the Osho therapists in the UK and Holland.
I graduated from 4 Year Therapist Training with the Osho Humaniversity in Holland in May 2005. I had been on this highly experiential training solely to sort my own life out but at this juncture I decided to become a therapist myself and began leading weekend workshops and sessions in Group Therapy, Emotional Expression and Body-based Therapy at an Osho centre in the UK, where I had become resident in 2002.
I became a director of the community in 2005, taking a leading role in helping to run it until 2019 when, feeling like I needed a change to keep my energy moving, I rented a flat in Brighton and moved there. Having already run a successful YouTube channel on Body-based Therapy since 2015, I began to create paid-for video courses on the therapy, which soon became successful. In similar manner, realizing that very little was written down about these rather “underground” styles of therapy, I began writing and publishing books on the topic.
In the midst of the Covid pandemic, having split up with a partner, I went onto the road, travelling as a digital nomad to Ukraine, Mexico and Georgia before finally deciding to settle in Istanbul, where I still live as of late 2026. Currently, I run regular workshops in London and Tbilisi as well as an online facilitator training in Bioenergetics online.
