A New Apartment Spawns a New Practice 

In 2021 Diksha was going through some personal life challenges. People close to her kept saying "Slow down!" and suggested she try grounding herself in a practice such as yoga. She ignored that advice, as she considered herself a driven person, into meeting challenges of all sorts, so she preferred extremely physically taxing things such as High Intensity Training (HIT). Then she received an email out of the blue asking if she wanted to apply for a scholarship for teacher training at CorePower Yoga. She applied and was initially turned down, but then the original recipient declined the scholarship and so it was offered to Diksha. She felt that the Universe was trying to tell her something, so she met this new challenge head-on, and although she was the most green student in the program, eventually learned all the poses, built a practice, and became an accredited yogi.

Of course, she already had a full-time job in Fremont as a product manager for a cancer detection and treatment life sciences company, and taking on the teaching of yoga classes made for another full-time job. That's when she found the Gaetani-managed apartment on Facebook Marketplace. Diksha liked the place because of its charm – a classic, well-maintained older building in Milbrae with high ceilings and friendly neighbors. Again, she felt the Universe was sending a message, so she signed the lease and moved in. However, the commute to work combined with the rigors of teaching at CorePower was exhausting, and she wasn't sure she could handle it.

That's when she noticed that the Millbrae library was looking for a yoga instructor, so she applied, they reached out the very next day and hired her, and for the past two years she's been teaching classes there, which she finds very fulfilling. At the same time, she was offered a new job in South San Francisco, cutting her commute in half and allowing her to add more classes through the City of Millbrae Parks & Recreation Department, do occasional programs at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, as well as provide ad hoc AirBnB Experiences for yoga enthusiasts. Her success and the positive gratification it's brought her has led her to open her own business, Deeksha Yoga. The Universe has spoken.

And it was all catalyzed by that fateful move to her Gaetani apartment in Millbrae, where everyone now knows her as "the yoga teacher."