I am Andrea Bertucci, Founder of Ray of Bliss. The mission came to me as a vision during my yoga studies in India. I’d been practicing in NYC for years, building a career, then did a 200hr and 500hr Yoga Teacher Training, and that path eventually landed me in an ashram in India. One day, smelling a flower there, I had a flash of white light and this deep, pure, warm bliss. That was the moment — if I could feel this, everyone deserves the chance to feel it too.
I stayed in Indian ashrams for two years after that, then started teaching internationally. Along the way I got pulled back toward my own roots, which led me to Maya traditions and eventually to a Maya Spiritual Guide, who opened up even more of this sense of oneness for me.
Ray of Bliss came out of all of it — a space for people to experience real teachings, rituals, and practices that help them find their own bliss. I teach yoga, pranayama, meditation, vedanta, cacao meditations, and cosmology, and I’m building a community around it.
Why I want to support YGB:
I want to support Yoga Gives Back because yoga gave me a whole new way to experience life more fully, and I know what that transformation feels like. YGB’s mission comes straight from the teachings — using yoga to build a better world — and that’s not abstract to me, it’s what I live.
I love that YGB puts girls and women first, giving them the opportunity to be self-inspired and confident. Everyone’s presence matters, everyone’s effort adds up to something bigger — a world that’s more loving, more peaceful, more blissful. That’s what I want to be part of.