Who We Are

YogaCaps is one of the early pioneers in the delivery of therapeutic yoga services in the healthcare setting.

Our History

We were among the very first
yoga service organizations.

Our Mission

Our model trains healthcare
professionals to lead therapeutic
yoga groups in their practice settings.

Our Values

YogaCaps is a 100% volunteer
powered organization.

Recognition

Learn about YogaCaps' achievements and awards of excellence over time.

  • 2025

    Volunteer NH presents the following members of the YogaCaps Falls Prevention volunteers with a Group Service Award at the statewide Spirit of NH event: Aleta Billadeau, Geri Botsch, Louise Clark, Jane Dear, Phyllis Elkins, Jay Gupta, Susan Lavoie, John Szyszlo, and Mary Jane Warren.  

  • 2024

    The APhA Foundation and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations honor co-Founder Jay Gupta with the prestigious Bowl of Hygeia award for outstanding civic leadership.  

  • 2020

    Jay Gupta honored as Next Generation Pharmacist - Patient Care Provider of the Year finalist by Pharmacy Times and Parata Systems.

  • 2019

    Volunteer NH presents YogaCaps Volunteers Lisa Kamenides and Patty Ziemba with Spirit of NH Volunteer Service Awards.

  • 2018

    Volunteer NH presents YogaCaps Volunteers Heather Bogrett, Deb Cicchetti, Gail Duval, Pushpa Mudan, Mary Palm and Vijaya Upadrasta with Spirit of NH Volunteer Service Awards.

  • 2017

    Cardinal Health’s Generation Rx Champions Award in recognition of co-Founder Jay Gupta’s excellence in community-based prescription drug abuse prevention

  • 2017

    Volunteer NH presents YogaCaps Volunteers Marilyn Greenspan, Nancy Husarik, Patricia MacNeil, Joline Manseau, Nancy Mellor and Jane Wilkins with Spirit of NH Volunteer Service Awards.

  • 2016

    YogaCaps selected as this year's Organization Champion for the State of NH with special recognition by the Governor.

  • 2016

    Volunteer NH presents YogaCaps Volunteers Mary Behnke, Meg James, Julie Herbert, Lisa Law, Kathy Melconian, Geri Monnelly, John Monnelly, Ruth Valley and Peggy Wallace with Spirit of NH Volunteer Service Awards.

  • 2015

    Volunteer NH presents co-Founder Jay Gupta, and volunteers Christine Boucher, Heidi Levi, Irene Swist and Elizabeth Vlangas with Spirit of NH Volunteer Service Awards.

  • 2015

    New Hampshire Business Review (NHBR) awards YogaCaps with the 2015 Business Excellence Award.

  • 2014

    The Citizens Bank Foundation honors co-Founder Terry Gupta with a Good Citizen Award.

  • 2013

    The National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA) recognizes co-Founder Jay Gupta with its Excellence in Innovation award in recognition of his work to bridge the gap between traditional and integrative health care practices.

  • 2012

    The Greater Nashua Mental Health Center bestows its Consumer Advocacy Award to co-Founders Jay & Terry Gupta.

  • 2011

    Co-Founder Jay Gupta receives an Excellence Award as a Community Catalyst from Lokvani, a regional Asian Community Media organization

  • 2006

    YogaCaps established as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

Meet The Board

Jay Gupta RPh, 340B ACE, MTM Specialist, C-IAYT

Co-Founder & Board President

Jay Gupta, RPh, 340B ACE, MTM Specialist, C-IAYT

Co-Founder+Board President of YogaCaps.

Pharmacist, Consultant and Speaker

Nationally recognized 340B Expert

Medication Therapy Management Specialist

Internationally certified Yoga Therapist

Always moving the integrative health forefront to the next level, Jay's honors include recognition from Cardinal Health for strategies aimed at prevention of prescription medicine abuse and National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations for Excellence in Innovation in integrative medical approaches. He is also the receipient of the prestigous Bowl of Hygeia award for outstanding civic leadership. Jay also earned honors from Pharmacy Times and Parata Systems as a Next Generation Pharmacist Patient Care finalist. 

He is a leader among the global community educating about the polypharmacy epidemic and creating protocols for De-Prescription.

A sought after speaker on a variety of health topics for professionals and lay audiences alike, his commitments have led him to work and support health in person in 40+ states in the USA, plus the District of Columbia, and internationally in Greece, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Russia, Scotland, Switzerland, Thailand and Vietnam.

He began his yoga immersion in India in 1983 and has been exploring the depths of yoga since then. Throughout his life, he has endeavored to achieve a scientific understanding of yoga and nature cure practices. He has traveled from the Himalayas to Kerala learning a variety of yoga and nature cure practices, and has advanced studies with yoga masters and researchers in India and the US.

He is Co-author of the DVDs “RxRelax Seated Therapeutic Yoga”, “Subtle Yoga for Rejuvenation (SYR)” and audio CDs “RxRelax for Insomnia” and "Relaxation Capsules".

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Terry Gupta MSW, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, YACEP

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Terry Gupta, MSW, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, YACEP

Co-Founder and Executive Director of YogaCaps | President of RxRelax.

Terry believes that we are here to love and serve. Her deep knowing that each person makes a difference manifested in over 30 years of senior management positions in the nonprofit sector in the Greater Boston and Southern New Hampshire areas.

A sought after national speaker on a variety of health topics, she has presented in person in 43 of the contiguous states in the USA, plus the District of Columbia. Her passions are therapeutic yoga as a tool for social justice and civic engagement.

A life-long student and author, she earned a Master of Social Work degree from Boston College. She is an internationally trained yoga professional, having studied with yoga masters, both renown and renounced, in India, South America and the US, as well as some of the top medical researchers on yoga. She has also immersed into Tai Chi, Qigong, Kung Fu and Ayurveda.

Terry's work is recognized through the following awards: AmplifiHER Community Impact Award from the NH Women’s Foundation, Outstanding Volunteer Champion in the State of NH, Business Excellence Award for YogaCaps, Inc, and RxRelax, LLC from New Hampshire Business Review (NHBR), Good Citizen Award, from Citizen’s Bank Foundation, Consumer Advocacy Award, from Greater Nashua Mental Health Center. She also received multiple regional and national recognitions from the Department of Labor's Education and Training Administration and Joint Action in Community Service. 

She is co-Author of the DVDs “RxRelax Seated Therapeutic Yoga” and “Subtle Yoga for Rejuvenation (SYR)” and audio CDs “RxRelax for Insomnia” and “Relaxation Capsules”.

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A. Ravindra Nath MD, CCFP, DADFP, FECSEd

Practice of Family Medicine

A. Ravindra Nath, MD, CCFP, DADFP, FECSEd

Affiliated with Dartmouth-Hitchcock in the Concord, NH practice of Family Medicine.

Attended medical school at S.V. Medical College, Tirupati, AP, India and completed his internship at Madras Medical College, Madras, India.

Residency included: Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor, Wales; Ancoats Hospital in Manchester, England; Walton Hospital in Liverpool, England; Cork Regional Hospital in Ireland; University Hospital Cardiff in Wales, Family Practice, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Orthopedic and General & Neuro Surgery.

Board Certified in Family Practice.

Fluent in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

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Cheryl White LMFT, MA

Licensed Therapist

Cheryl White, LMFT, MA

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist + Senior Management Team Member for a non-profit organization serving people with developmental disabilities.

Cheryl's efforts are currently focused on the development of new and innovative community services for individuals with developmental disabilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is inspired by the individuals she serves to help shape a system of care that supports them in living a life based on their own personal choices, hopes and dreams.

In private practice, she offers psychotherapy to individuals and couples seeking a more balanced and joyful life.

Trained at The Halcyon Center for Child Studies in Southern California, Cheryl began her work as a therapist in 1985 working with children, adolescents and their families.

Cheryl possesses a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.

Cheryl’s yoga practice began years ago at a small yoga studio in San Francisco. It is for her, a continual inner journey of joy, peace, & surprising revelations about the self and the world.

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Mallik Karamsetty PhD, RPh

Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist

Mallik Karamsetty, PhD, RPh

Scientist with research experience in the fields of pharmacology and pharmaceutical technology.

Senior Scientist with a pharmaceutical company.

Served as Assistant Professor of Research at Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, RI and Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston, MA.

His publications include thirteen peer-reviewed journal articles and seventeen abstracts. In addition, he has received a number of fellowships, awards and research grants.

Earned a Ph.D. with a major in Pharmacology and Physiology, and an M.Sc. with a major in Pharmacology and Phytochemistry from the University of Strathclyde In Glasgow, UK. He also earned an MPharm with a major in Pharmaceutical Technology from Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, India.

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Maureen Spencer MEd, RN, E-RYT500

Infection Preventionist Consultant 

Maureen Spencer, MEd, RN, E-RYT500

Infection Preventionist Consultant to acute care facilities.

Well-known international speaker and a presenter at APIC, AORN, SHEA and AAOS national conferences.

Previously the Infection Control Manager at New England Baptist Hospital (NEBH) and was the Director of the Infection Control Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). One of the original pioneers in the field of infection control, she was awarded the APIC Carole DeMille lectureship in 1990 for excellence in the field of infection control.

Recognized as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the National Yoga Alliance and has completed yoga studies with the American Yoga College, International Yoga Studies, Integrative Yoga Therapy and Meridian Hatha Yoga Therapy.

Started practicing yoga when she was 15. By the time she was 17 in nursing school, she started teaching her classmates yoga. It has been a passion of hers all her life. In 1996, she started the Finding Inner Peace Yoga Teacher Certification and has been training yoga teachers since then.

Sees yoga as her calling in life and is committed to continuing the practice and training for other yoga enthusiasts. In 2011, she developed the Yoga School Kit to teach qualified yoga teachers how to set up an affiliate location.

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Our Teachers

YogaCaps’ classes are typically provided by an exceptional group of people with healthcare experience/interest.

This includes (in alphabetical order):advance practice nurses, behavioral health professionals, educators, nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists, physical therapists, physicians, physician assistants, volunteers in health settings, etc.

They have experience working with the human condition under duress and they volunteer their time to make yoga more accessible to everybody.

Group performing yoga or meditation in a community event.
A group of people posing indoors, some standing and some kneeling.
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A group of people gathered around a dining table with plates of food.
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