Wellness · Fitness · Public Policy
Ayesha Khawaja
Health and Wellness Consultant | Corporate Wellness Expert
Biography
Ayesha Khawaja is an Islamabad-based health and wellness consultant, corporate wellness expert and communications professional with more than a decade of experience. She has served as a Health and Wellness Consultant at National Defence University since February 2014, a Ladies Fitness Trainer at MSOM DCI since June 2024, and a Global Corporate Wellness Expert at AltMed Worldwide since August 2019.
She is Director of Communications at Perspective Policy Research Institute (PPRII), where her work includes media relations, publications, institutional messaging and stakeholder engagement. She is also founder of Yoglow, bringing together women’s fitness, yoga, mindful movement and corporate wellbeing.
Ayesha writes on women’s health and wellbeing, with work published in Hilal magazine and Pakistani print media including The News. She has appeared on national television and other media platforms, discussing wellness, public health, policy and lifestyle. Her corporate wellness sessions have included SLB, Telenor and RELO.
Her policy, advocacy and community engagement includes coordination through the Women Raabta Committee’s Women’s Wing from 2020 to 2022, engagement with government and parliamentary stakeholders, and contributions to consultations on women’s health, education, gender equality and community wellbeing. She has also worked with Madam Nafeesa Khattak on gender-based harassment issues. These experiences inform her work in policy engagement, advocacy, women’s empowerment and community development.
She holds an MPhil in Government and Public Policy from National Defence University (2023) and an MSc in Economics. Her teaching experience includes visiting faculty work at Quaid-i-Azam University and Bahria University, alongside earlier school teaching.
Her wellness training includes Power Yoga at Moksha (2016), Yoga Teacher Training – Instructor: Sadie Nardini (2017), and the online courses Science of Exercise from the University of Colorado Boulder and Introduction to Food and Health from Stanford University (2018). These short courses are not academic degrees or clinical qualifications.
She contributed the conference paper “Weaving Wellness: A Holistic Approach to a Sustainable Textile Industry” at the International Conference on Occupational Health, Safety & Sustainable Business Practices in August 2024. Her public engagement also includes breast cancer awareness activities and talks on resilience and stress management.
Areas of expertise
- Women’s fitness and wellbeing
- Yoga and mindful movement
- Corporate wellness programmes
- Public policy communication and community engagement
- Media relations, writing and public engagement
- Training and programme development
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