Our Team
The women behind Rooh
Meet the Founder
Sabrina Khawaja, The Healer Who Would Not Be Silenced
Sabrina Khawaja is a holistic therapist, mental health activist, and the founder and wellness director of Rooh Sanctuary.
She holds both a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in mental health counseling from Pace University in New York City. She has worked across various levels of care, including clinical private practice, eating disorder treatment centers, and nonprofit organizations in New York, Los Angeles, and Malibu.
With extensive experience treating eating disorders, anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship challenges, women’s issues, and trauma, Sabrina brings a well-rounded, heart-centered approach to healing.
In the past, she volunteered in Indonesia as a Mental Health Activity Support Worker, deepening her understanding of cross-cultural and ancestral healing. Fluent in both English and Urdu, Sabrina is especially committed to uplifting marginalized voices and advocating for those impacted by racism, colonization, and systemic injustice.
After witnessing the limitations and silencing tactics of Western clinical institutions, Sabrina made the conscious decision to walk away from licensure in order to protect her voice, her activism, and her community.
She chose sovereignty instead.
And she built Rooh as a sanctuary they cannot silence, a space rooted in truth, softness, and collective liberation.
Meet The Rooh Team
Meet The Rooh Team
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Head Curator & Collection Development Librarian
Josephine Camacho will lead the Rooh Sanctuary Library and will be helping with various collection management, development, and archival projects. The library is thrilled to welcome her and looks forward to benefiting from her many talents and areas of aligned academic achievements in our planned projects. Welcome aboard, Josephine!
Josephine is a UCLA alumna holding a Master of Library & Information Science degree within the Department of Information Studies department, concentrating in library studies. She grew up in San Diego and is a language, literature, and data enthusiast who spends her time reading at the beach with her dog. Josephine received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in intensive literature and she minored in sociology. Her literature background concentrated on Spanish, Latinx, and Latin American literature focusing on Spanish colonization, globalization and its effects on Indigenous communities, and underrepresented voices in Latinx literature. Josephine’s sociological research analyzed racial disparities including societal treatment, economic inequity, environmental racism and water deprivation. Her advocacy in equitable representation and social justice led her to her current interests in how marginalized communities are being represented and defined in libraries, archives, controlled vocabularies, bibliographic records and information systems.
Josephine’s research focused on Indigenous librarianship and access to Traditional Knowledge and sensitive materials. She examines policy enhancements that provision appropriate access to culturally sensitive documents and cultural sites. Josephine published “Decolonizing Libraries to Advance Ethical Resource Classification and Description for Traditional Knowledge” in 2023 which combats erasure of Indigenous communities in libraries and information systems. Her arguments analyze reparative initiatives that can be implemented by cultural institutions to remedy current representation issues in archives, subject headings, and controlled vocabularies. Her goals at Rooh Sanctuary Library stem from her research to advocate for appropriate and accurate representation of marginalized communities and providing culturally appropriate access to sensitive or sacred content. Her collection development will prioritize the visibility of Traditional Knowledge, combatting censorship, erasure and silencing of Indigenous communities and people of color.
Head Curator & Collection Development Librarian
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Resident Tarot Guide & Ancestral Healing Practitioner
Sachini Amanda Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan healer, tarot reader, and survivor advocate rooted in Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Sachini was prophesied at birth to study the stars, a path she now walks through spiritual guidance and years of intuitive tarot practice centered on clarity, healing, and ancestral return.
Sachini’s journey is equally grounded in her professional work in the victim services field. As a survivor of domestic violence herself, she has dedicated years to supporting others through trauma, helping survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of abuse navigate their healing and reclaim their power. Her work is a blend of spiritual wisdom, cultural reverence, and trauma-informed advocacy.
Her past work includes years of frontline experience in the gender-based violence field, where she provided legal advocacy, facilitated healing spaces, and supported immigrant and BIPOC survivors in navigating complex legal and emotional systems. She has led culturally specific workshops on domestic violence and trauma, worked within legal systems to support survivors through VAWA and U-visa processes, and has been recognized for her leadership in the field. Most notably, she served as a panelist at Yale University’s South Asian Youth Initiative, where she spoke about gender-based violence in the South Asian diaspora. She also holds certifications in Domestic Violence Advocacy and Victim Services, and was honored by IA Impact for her contributions during Women’s History Month.
Sachini holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Deviance and Crime from California State University.
Her ultimate goal is to walk alongside those on a path to freedom and healing, bringing together ancestral knowledge, personal resilience, and community care to pave the way for justice and transformation.
Resident Tarot Guide & Ancestral Healing Practitioner
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Sound Healer & Sitarist
Sahar is a Sound Healer and Sitarist whose work bridges Hindustani classical music, Sufi mysticism, and vibrational healing. Rooted in her South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Muslim heritage, she creates immersive soundscapes that evoke a safar, or spiritual journey through sound. Trained in sitar, raga, and voice, Sahar blends classical technique with crystal bowls, chimes, and devotional elements like zikr and Sufi poetry.
With a Master's in Religious Studies, her practice draws from the intersections of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism to create spaces of reflection and rest.
Sound Healer & Sitarist
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Yoga Educator
Tejal Patel (she/they) is a first-generation Indian American yoga teacher, writer, podcaster, and community organizer committed to decolonization, equity, and collective care through the practices of yoga. Their work centers culturally-rooted spiritual traditions while inviting individuals and communities to engage yoga as both a personal and political practice.
As the founder of Tejal Yoga, a South Asian–led online studio, Tejal cultivates spaces for authentic practice, critical dialogue, and community connection grounded in social justice. They manage abcdyogi, an interactive platform uplifting South Asian yoga and meditation teachers worldwide, and the revolutionary Yoga is Dead Podcast, which sparks necessary conversations around cultural appropriation, power, privilege, and the wellness industry.
With over a decade of experience, Tejalintegrates meditation, reflection, and pranayama techniques with vinyasa, hatha, restorative, prenatal, and therapeutic yoga to support a wide range of needs—from stress and anxiety to chronic pain and injury. They are passionate about uplifting and increasing opportunities for South Asian yoga and mindfulness teachers, creating lasting, meaningful connections to wellness within the BIPOC community, and eradicating injustice, harm and toxic elitism in yoga spaces.Their approach bridges deep technical expertise with an awareness of the systems that shape our bodies and lived experiences, offering practices that meet people where they are while honoring the roots of yoga.
Yoga Educator
