Mickey Mehta

Mickey Mehta (born 29 August 1962) is a PIONEERING HOLISTIC HEALTH GURU and a Corporate/ Spiritual Coach from India has 53 years of personal yoga experience and a 42-year professional career in healing people worldwide using yoga , ayurveda and other traditional Indian healing methods.

Objective: Start a wellness revolution for human evolution.

Vision: Connecting with 8 billion hearts to make wellness the religion no. 1.

Mission: To have a dis-ease free world.

Mickey's Motto: Dr Mickey Mehta says, ''sleep every night with a wish to heal yourself and wake up every morning with a promise to heal the world''.

Slogan: Get Naturalized, Get Energized, Get Mickeymized!

Personal life

Mickey Mehta is from a middle-class Parsi family. His father and mother worked as a banker and secretary respectively and resided at Grant Road, Mumbai. He graduated from Bhonsala Military School at Nashik, Maharashtra, India but he barely attended college.

Career

Dr Mickey Mehta an honorary double doctorate in Holistic Health and Life Sciences, from the Open International University for Complementary Medicines. He is also a FIT India Movement ambassador. He began his career as a black-belt martial arts instructor in 1983, and simultaneously worked as a personal trainer and door-to-door masseur. His next recruitment was in 1984 at Ramada Plaza Palm Grove, a property of Ramada International chain of hotels, as a health club manager, followed by his employment at The Holiday Inn, Muscat-Al Madinah, Oman with a similar job profile. Thereafter, he returned to Mumbai to become a health club manager for The Oberoi Trident at Nariman Point, where he worked for five years. He started his solo career in 1993 and launched the 'Learn Swimming in 24 hours' programme which received press coverage and found its way to ''The Limca Book of World Records – 1995''. He was featured in the ''Smart People Magazine'' where he spoke about holistic health and wellness representing the ' World Health Day'. In 1993, he was assigned to serve as a coach for Femina Miss India and also started off as a wellness coach for media barons, Bollywood industry and the industrialists.In the past 4 decades and more, he has been a life coach to Billionaires, Top Bollywood superstars, several supermodels (Miss World/Miss Universe), Politicians and members of the Maharashtra Police. He has also introduced holistic mediums among Indian police, Army, Navy and Air Force personnel. In 2003, he inaugurated Mickey Mehta’s 360 degree Gyms which are promoted as wellness temples. The first branch was established at Hughes Road, Mumbai, in April 2003. The brand later expanded to 12 wellness temples that include facilities such as swimming and equipment-free training such as yoga, breathing exercises, meditation, chanting, boot camp, calisthenics, aerobics, agility drills and lifestyle counselling. Mehta's centers are known for providing a discount that is equal to his age during August and September every year. The seasonal offer is always promoted as 'Mickey Mehta's Birthday Offer'. He started his online website in 2009 and contributed his work to '' The Times of India'' – Times wellness in the form of DVDs. He has contributed his work on Radio Mirchi, Radio City, Radio One (India) and Red FM 93.5. and has also offered advice in discussions forums on websites such as MSN and idiva.com. Dr Mickey Mehta has been a pioneer in promoting holistic health in India through radio and TV shows. He is also a leading social media influencer in the health and wellness space. Dr Mickey Mehta has been appointed as the FIT India Movement Champion by the Sports Authority of India and is a part of the steering wellness committee of the Indian Merchant Chambers. Mickey Mehta is an author of the book ''Garbaghyan'', which he compiled in association with the National Association for the Blind. He partners with the DNA i Can Marathon event every year as a wellness partner through which he motivates and mentors all participants. Mickey Mehta was a brand ambassador for the German fitness equipment Company Milon for one year. The equipment was used by Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor during the making of the Bollywood movie ''Bodyguard''. He has produced a documentary film on Gandhiji's life and his inclination towards healing with naturopathy. The short documentary will be titled ''Gandhi- The Healer''. The film explores Gandhi's life as a healer. For the film, Mehta interviewed many experts, historians, and spiritual gurus, for their inputs. The film was slated to release on 2 October, Gandhi's birth anniversary. Dr. Mehta is still in the process of publishing more of his books ana a lot of projects are under pipeline going forward. Dr Mehta trained the Mumbai police at Marine Drive along with commissioner of Mumbai police Jawed Ahmed followed by former Indian cricketer Zaheer Khan, Tara Sharma, Rashmi Nigam and I love Mumbai's Shaina NC.

He is also a leading columnist with Speaking Tree. From Harvard University, IIM, IIT and TEDx to workshops in Thailand, USA, Hong Kong, Turkey, Dubai and Sri Lanka, he has traveled the world, sharing his vision of holistic health. He has interwoven Zen, Tao, Tantra, Ved, Greek and many more philosophies to develop holistic health systems to self-heal, transform and transcend. His healing focuses on mingling with the five elements and skillfully balancing them. He was appointed as the ‘Go Green ambassador’ for the SBI Radio Mirchi Marathon across 15 cities. He has successfully addressed the subject of sexual wellness through a four-part web series on the GOQII wellness app. He was the keynote speaker at the inaugural Speaking Tree (Times Of India) spiritual retreat in Cambodia. He has been invited to many medical conferences and high-profile literary festivals including the Times Lit Fest 2018. He is also an Advisor of the Council for fair business practices and an Advisor to Delphic India for Holistic Health and Wellness.

Initiatives

He launched "''Heal the World Initiative"'' on 24 August 2011. On 12 February 2013, Mehta launched a braille book with wellness tips for pregnant and lactating women. The book was launched in collaboration with the Director of National Association for the Blind and was titled ''Swasthya Aur Aarogya''. On 15 February 2014, Mehta along with dress designer Maheka Mirpuri launched the MCan, a charitable foundation at the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) for providing financial assistance to the underprivileged towards cure for cancer. Mickey Mehta initiated the launch of a department called Wellness Temple at the Masina Hospital in Byculla ( Mumbai). The launch took place on 5 June 2014. On 3 April 2016, Mehta along with actress Anita Raj extended their support for World Autism Awareness Campaign month and to respect that, Khushi, a pediatric therapy center located in Mumbai, held Cause-a-thon, a special 7-kilometer and 1-kilometre marathon at Taj Lands End. PepsiCo launched 7 Up Revive along with Mickey Mehta at Hyderabad, India. Mehta along with Gymtrekker announced the second-biggest fitness party at Radio Bar Khar on 3 April 2016.

References

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Living people
1962 births
Indian yoga teachers
Indian male martial artists
Indian nutritionists
Indian popular science writers
Parsi people from Mumbai