Gurgaon, August 28, 2025: Jyotsna Rao Bakshy won VG Mrs India Gracious 2025, when most people her age aren’t competing for beauty crowns against women decades younger. But Jyotsna isn’t like most people.
Her win caps off a journey that started in corporate offices and led through spiritual healing, life coaching, and now pageant stages. It’s been anything but ordinary.
From Boardrooms to Spiritual Awakening
Jyotsna spent nearly ten years managing at IT training companies. Standard corporate life—meetings, deadlines, performance reviews. After having two sons, she left the office routine to focus on family. As an Army Officer’s wife, she worked on social causes while handling home responsibilities.
“I did market trading from home, kept up with daily prayers like my parents taught me,” she says. “Modern appearance but traditional values.”
Life was good. Stable. Predictable. But something else was pulling at her.
Energy Healing Changes Everything
In 2015, Jyotsna took an Access to the Bars course without knowing much about energy healing. The experience hit her differently than expected; she felt connected to something larger. The ThetaHealing course in 2016 made her want to help people.
She started with family and friends, sending healing energy their way. When they began reporting positive changes, she realized this wasn’t just a coincidence.
Crisis Becomes Turning Point
COVID nearly killed her husband. Severe lung infection, ventilator, doctors saying his chances looked bad. “That broke me completely,” Jyotsna admits. “But I knew the Universe was with me.”
Between family support, her healer connections, and constant prayer, her husband pulled through faster than anyone expected. She calls it a miracle. “His recovery was the biggest gift our family ever received.”
That experience pushed her fully into healing work. She started her practice officially in 2020.
Competing Against Limiting Beliefs
When Jyotsna announced she was entering VG Mrs India, people asked why. She was a middle-aged woman going up against women in their 20s and 30s.
Her answer: “If you want to change the world, begin with yourself.”
During the competition, contestants and judges kept guessing she was in her 30s. She competed hard, confident in her fitness and preparation. Her philosophy is “Dare, Dream, Do,” and it worked.
Crown as Platform, Not Prize
Winning wasn’t about validation. For Jyotsna, the crown is a bigger platform. “This isn’t just personal achievement. I want to spread love and harmony worldwide as a spiritual healer.”
Her life coaching focuses on limiting beliefs around age, appearance, social status, and personal potential. Her 21-day programs get results. One client wrote: “These 21 days have been truly transformational! I feel more aligned, peaceful, and connected than ever before.”
Another said: “The chakra work, decluttering exercises, and building faith in the universe really helped me feel more at peace.”
Breaking Age Barriers Worldwide
Jyotsna plans to use modeling and ramp walking to challenge age stereotypes. She wants to coach youth in schools, provide training at orphanages and old age homes, and teach self-love globally.
“I work with anyone regardless of gender to learn self-love with responsibility,” she explains. “Transformation is my focus. All humans are beautiful; we just need to polish ourselves from within.”
Her story proves career changes can happen at any stage. From corporate manager to Army wife to spiritual healer to pageant winner, each chapter built on the last.
“Every woman is a role model for her children. After winning this crown, I’ve become an inspiration for women in my family, my friends, and the wider community.”
Some people plan their lives in straight lines. Others, like Jyotsna, discover that the most interesting paths curve in unexpected directions.
