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Founder

Arshiya Payal Bhan

Arshiya Payal Bhan is a dancer, actor, producer, author, and multidisciplinary wellness practitioner whose work bridges performing arts, wellness, and spirituality. She is a certified CanFitPro fitness coach, yin yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator, somatic life coach, and chakra practitioner.

Her journey began in Fine Arts, Journalism, and Early Childhood Education, where she worked with children before choosing to step away in 2019 to fully commit to her passion. With over 28 years of dance training and 7+ years of experience in fitness, Arshiya founded UMSRA in the same year. This period marked a deep personal transformation, her spiritual awakening, relationship shifts, and health journey which became the foundation of her work.

She began her professional fitness career at GoodLife, where she led her own group fitness classes. Today, she integrates her background across the arts, wellness, and education to help individuals reconnect with their bodies, and live with conscious presence.

Arshiya is a TEDx speaker, published co-author, and Second Runner-Up at Miss India Canada. She received the 2019 Health and Fitness Award from the Waterfront Awards for her impact across the Greater Toronto Area, and UMSRA was nominated for the Canadian Choice Awards 2026 in Health & Wellness, recognizing its growing influence in community transformation and holistic well-being.

Co-Founder

Ayeesha S. Kanji

Ayeesha Kanji, Founder of Chestnuts Coaching and Consulting and featured in the Top 100 Magazine, integrates her background in Wellness, HR Consulting, Adult Learning, and Holistic Leadership Transformation Coaching as Co-Founder of Umsra. 
With up to ten years of experience in coaching, her approach aligns with owning your power. She incorporates accountability and working through transitions to feel good about your transitions and life decisions with an open-minded, empathetic and honest mindset.
She is the co-founder of Umsra due to her experience as a client. In the time she was a client and received the holistic coaching and fitness experience with Arshiya, she learnt how to heal and love herself. A recent certified CanFitPro Healthy Eating and Weight Loss Coach and Health and Wellness Coach she combines how to manage your way of being and healthy habits together in maximizing your own transformation. A published poet, contributing blogger and contributing author, she is an alumni of New York University and Toronto Metropolitan University with lived experiences in Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and London, UK.