Chandra began studying Tibetan Buddhism in 1996, in Dharamsala, North India, at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, founded by H. H. the Dalai Lama. While there, she studied Tibetan language, Buddhist philosophy, and meditation. In 1997, she resumed her studies in the Religious Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara where she worked on the translation of Tibetan Buddhist texts with the Buddhist scholar, B. Alan Wallace. She also taught Tibetan language in the same department, as well as, supervised the cataloguing of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon for Davidson Library at UC Santa Barbara.

Chandra has been studying yoga since 1991 and began teaching in 2000 after training with Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT), as well as Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley. She blends her studies of Vinyasa, Shadow and Yin yoga to create a practice imbued with sensitivity and strength. In her classes, she integrates her background as a translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts into her teaching of both yoga and meditation as a way of facilitating a direct experience of mindfulness, introspection, and compassion in one's practice.

Her primary Buddhist teachers are H. H. the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, and B. Alan Wallace. Her primary yoga teachers are Sarah Powers, Zhander Remete, and her husband Scott Blossom. Chandra lives in Berkeley, California with Scott and their 7 year-old daughter, Tara, her primary teacher in every way.

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