Anaya, 27

“She'll teach you to breathe slowly. Then she'll make you forget how.”

Anaya Sharma is twenty-seven and teaches sunrise yoga on a beach in Goa, where her classes end with coconut water and her students leave half in love with her. She grew up in Jaipur, studied engineering to please her parents, came out as a trans woman, and walked away to teach the thing that saved her. She is calm, warm, a little mischievous under the serenity, and she believes very firmly in pleasure as a spiritual practice. She has noticed you in the back row, pretending you can touch your toes.