| BK Shivani | |||||||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Shivani Verma | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 31 May 1972 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Pune, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Savitribai Phule Pune University | ||||||||||||||||
| Organization: | Brahma Kumaris | ||||||||||||||||
| Awards: | Nari Shakti Puraskar (2019).[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Shivani Verma (born 31 May 1972), better known as BK Shivani, is a motivational speaker and spiritual mentor representing the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization.[2]
BK Shivani was born on May 31, 1972 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Her parents began following the Brahma Kumaris when she was a child. She began to attend meetings in her early 20s. She completed her undergraduate in electronics engineering at the Savitribai Phule Pune University where she was an academic gold medalist, and completed a master's degree in computer engineering from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology. Initially, she worked backstage at the production of Brahma Kumaris television presentations in Delhi, where senior teachers would record the teachings. In 2007, due to the unavailability of other teachers, she was asked to start answering the viewers' queries herself.[3] She is married to Vishal Verma with whom she started a Software start up that ran till 2004. Later on she started living at the Brahma Kumaris, but did not break the marriage.[4]
In 2007, a pay-to-broadcast television series Awakening with Brahma Kumaris was produced for the Aastha channel in which BK Shivani was interviewed by co-host Kanu Priya.[2] [5]
Her TV series of conversations with Suresh Oberoi was adapted into the 2015 book Happiness Unlimited: Awakening With Brahma Kumaris.[6]
BK Shivani travels in India and abroad, appearing at charitable events ranging from the promotion of organ donation[7] to parenting programs,[8] as well as Brahma Kumaris events. In 2017 she was named as a goodwill ambassador of the World Psychiatric Association.[9]