Sadia Saeed: Founder, Psychologist & Mindfulness Trainer
Profile Summary
Sadia Saeed, with 25 years of experience, is the founder of Inner Space, a leading therapy platform with a team of skilled psychotherapists. A key focus of Inner Space is its mindfulness meditation courses, primarily led by Sadia and occasionally supported by her team.
Sadia’s extensive work includes psychotherapy, overseeing activities of Inner Space and developing and facilitating mindfulness programs and retreats for individuals and organizations.
Key Contributions
Mindfulness and Meditation
- She has created and facilitated several courses rooted in mindfulness meditation, Somatic psychology and Indian wisdom traditions including the ‘8-Week Mindfulness Meditation Course’ and Residential Meditation Retreats
Corporate Training
- She has created and facilitated ‘The Mindful Organization‘ program for many corporates and Non-Profits as a way of integrating Mindfulness into the organization’s culture to promote resilience, team connection and well-being.
- She has designed, developed, and facilitated several stress-management and emotional resilience programs for corporate organizations such as Microsoft, Mercedes, Oberoi group of Hotels, ABP News, HP and GroupM among others.
Therapeutic Work
- She has undertaken therapy sessions with thousands of individuals dealing with personal or relationship difficulties over the past two decades. At present, she focuses exclusively on group sessions in the form of mindfulness and meditation courses, to help people better understand and relate to their thoughts, emotions and subconscious patterns that are creating difficulties and unhappiness.
- She has worked at Karuna Hospital, Mumbai as the hospital clinical psychologist from 2005 to 2011.
Community Work
- Meditation with Children of Sex-Workers: She is associated with Kranti, a non-profit, to bring therapy and mindfulness meditation to children of sex-workers.
- Social-Emotional Learning in Government Schools: She is associated with Apni Shala, a non-profit that works to build social emotional learning in government schools. She facilitates mindfulness trainings for their staff and helps them optimize their curriculum using best practices from the fields of psychology, meditation and Indian wisdom traditions.
- Indian Airforce: She is a Guest Faculty for mindfulness training programs for Indian Airforce at Palam
- Bringing Poetry and wisdom of Saints to Schools: She is supporting Shabad Shaala, which is an initiative to get the wisdom and poetry of Indian saints and sufis to school children. She supports them in helping build some aspects of the curriculum and facilitating teacher immersion ssessions.
- Year-Long Mindfulness with Non-Profits: During Covid she helped in creating and facilitating year long mindfulness trainings for the staff of several Non-profits in association with Empower. The sessions were facilitated by the Inner Space team and were aimed at helping the particpants build resilience and bring mindfulness to other beneficiaries of their organizations.
- Work with Girl Children in Kashmir: in 2009 she associated with Borderless World Foundation in Kashmir. She volunteered with girl children who had lost their parents due to terrorism related activities.
Publications and Public Speaking
- Author of the Book You Are Simply Perfect: She has authored a book, published by Penguin/Puffin books, for teenagers called ‘You are Simply Perfect’, aimed at helping young people adopt principles of Indian and Eastern philosphies to live more joyfully.
- Speaker at Tedx: She has participated in a TEDx conference where she spoke on “Staying in the Eye of the Storm: Mindfulness of Emotions”
- Speaker at Mindfulness Summit, Delhi: She has spoken on various mindfulness summit at Delhi and Gurgaoon on the impact of meditation, highlighting the neuroscience behind the practice: Mindfulness for Emotional Resilience (A talk on neuroplasticity and mindfulness
A Mindfulness &
Self-Awareness Guide
By Sadia Saeed
This book is written with an intention to help young people live freely and joyfully with learnings from Indian wisdom traditions and best practices from the field of psychotherapy
Education and Training
- Completed her graduation from St. Xavier’s, Mumbai
- Completed M.A in Applied Clinical Psychology from Mumbai University
- Other Trainings:
- Mindfulness and the Brain: a course on neuroscience of mindfulness (Australia)
- Mindfulness Based Stress Management
- Integral Somatic Psychotherapy
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Several Retreats From various buddhist perspectives on Meditation
- Several Vipassana 10-day Courses and a Sattipatthana Course.
Testimonials
Robin Chaurasiya
"I've had the privilege of receiving therapy from Sadia (founder of Inner Space) for over five years, and the only words I can share are, simply, that I owe her my life."
Palka Jain
Thank you Thank you Thank you Sadia for this brilliant module 2, curated with so much heart and such attention to detail for each step at the same time simplifying it to the basics and making everything come together at the end so beautifully. You are giving people their power back which either they have lost or do not even know that they have in the first place. A great service is what it is that you are achieving by offering this knowledge and techniques. For me it has been so much peace and calm like coming home. I always yearned for it but did not know how to reach there. Have never been so comfortable in my skin as I am now like literally. Thank you again to you Sadia and the whole Inner space team for this. Also everyone who were a part of this. Much Love and Gratitude.
Rachna Shah
"I attended 8 week mindfulness course, led by Sadia, who is an insightful and excellent teacher. The course was well designed to help us start our journey towards knowing ourselves better, and definitely helped us staying and dealing with our emotions in a constructive way. Mindfulness brings awareness and staying in the present is one of my biggest takeaways from the course. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to know themselves better and want to know how to deal with emotions."
Pankaj Arora
The session is very well designed to start from scratch and progress at your own pace with help of live and recorded sessions.
Sadia has a very deep understanding of various philosophies and has imbibed the best of her learnings in this course, which makes it immensely enriching along with being very practical.
She has an extremely positive presence and a very calming demeanor which helps improve your energy level throughout the course.
Loved every bit of it. Big thanks to the entire team.
Rekha Chhaya
"In our present times when stress and anxiety are rampant, the mindfulness course feels like an oasis in a desert. One is led through a series of simple regular practice into meditation and an increased awareness of one’s inner and outer world. Supporting this practice are excellent videos which step by step lead you towards a quiet centre of peace within. Sadia’s inspiring and compassionate presence is always there in the videos and especially in the weekly sessions shared by all with their queries and experiences."
SB
"Absolutely loved the Self-Compassion Retreat conducted last month in person in Bombay. It was everything that I had hoped for: intimate group, vulnerable sharing, insightful discussions, and the space to contradict or feel differently and still be respected and accepted. Sadia conducted an excellent session; her stage presence and facilitation skills are great! Look forward to more such sessions and also their 8 week mindfulness course in 2023."
Csaba Wagner
"I had struggled with anxiety and mental health issues for several months before I joined Sadia’s course. Her explanation on what is going on inside our head and body helped me to approach my condition from a brand new perspective. Throughout the 8 weeks, I learned to look at things from a new angle and also to accept things much easier.
I highly recommend this course to anyone who’s going through a tough time in life and have difficulties processing the day to day stress / anxiety."
Aparna Jhunjhunwala
"Mindfulness meditation and living in the moment is much needed in today’s times. Sadia and her entire team have introduced the concepts so simply and beautifully. Attending Sadia’s sessions bring a lot of peace to me and I do hope to make this a way of living. This half day retreat on self Conpassion gets me closer to the subject and has brought in a lot of calm and joy."
Saurabh Raye
"The 8 week mindfulness course has been a good experience. The weekly call was very useful and Sadia is a very calming presence. She is a patient teacher and the online resources help immensely. The videos are handpicked with a lot of thought and strengthens the daily practice for the week.
Mindfulness has helped to improve resilience and tolerance to stressful situations."
Sana Saeed
"I did Sadia’s 8 week mindfulness course and absolutely loved it. The knowledge and insight given, has been extremely useful when applied to my daily life.
Sadia makes the course very personal and patiently attends, to all the needs of her participants.
I recommend this course to anyone that wants to indulge deeply into learning more about the self and the mind/body connection."
Shweta Katti ( Kranti)
I personally have been shaped by Sadia di’s wisdom, compassion and love. I have struggled a LOT with mental health issues over the years. Sadia di has been strict when needed and gentle otherwise. She did not only help me heal in therapy but also equipped me with tools to work through difficult emotions in everyday life through her mindfulness sessions.
Renu Sharma
"Thanks to Sadia and her wonderful team for conducting the offline Retreat on Self Compassion. It helped me realize how I understand Compassion to Self and others and how far am I successful in practicing it actually in real life. Thanks for that. Looking forward for more such insightful sessions."
Sudakshina Banerjee
"I attended the 8 week Mindfulness workshop. Helps you to gently unravel the layers within, and find answers to your multiple questions. Sadia's style has almost a lyrical quality, while she gently prods you to explore yourself. I enjoyed every interactive session as well as the practices she taught. Thankyou team Inner Space."
Dear Suvidha,
Thank you for reaching out to us. Please call us on +91 9833985538 to book an appointment!
Regards,
The Inner Space Team
I want to book an appointment with Sadia Saeed. Please let me know on how I can go ahead with it
Hello,
Thanks for reaching out!
We do not do DBT specifically but our approach entails mindfulness-based intervention, which is also one of the core skills of DBT.
Feel free to call us on +91 9833985538 for further assistance!
Regards,
The Inner Space Team
Hi do you do dialectic behavior therapy (DBT)?
Hi Twinkle
Thank you for reaching out.
We wish you well, please do take care.
We have emailed you details. Kindly check and please let us know.
Have a nice day!
regards
Inner Space Team
Hey. I have been going through some problems personally. Would appreciate if I could come for a therapy session
Hi Aarohi,
Thank you for writing to us. We can only imagine how tough this might be for you. We have emailed you details as requested. Could you please check your inbox.
Warm regards,
The Inner Space Team
I am going through a lot of emotional problems and career problems as well! My personal life is a mess and I think i really need help! How do I contact you?
Hi Salma,
We understand how tough it can get some times to manage stress. We have sent you an email with the details of booking an appointment. Please check and feel free to get back to us.
Warmly,
The Inner Space Team