"I do not want to be a teacher. I want to be a guide - a facilitator of what I am still learning myself."
I am Nipuni
This is my story
I am originally from Sri Lanka, and in 2021, I came to live in the Netherlands with two suitcases and a quiet determination to build something meaningful.
By profession, I work in product management. By practice, I am a student of mindfulness. By nature, I am a seeker of stillness amid a very full life.
Soulful with Nipuni is where those two worlds meet.
— About Me
— The Inner Journey
Before this was a space,
it was a practice.
My journey to mindfulness wasn't sparked by a book or a course. It came from necessity. Growing up in Sri Lanka, Buddhism wasn't something I actively chose—it was like the water I grew up swimming in. It was only by facing dark times, leaving home, crossing oceans, and experiencing the particular loneliness of starting fresh somewhere new that I truly began to understand the profound support it had always offered me.
For the past several years, I have been developing a daily inner practice that includes meditation, journaling, and a gradual exploration of Theravada Buddhist philosophy and Stoicism. I approach this not as a form of spiritual performance but as a quiet and consistent way to deepen my self-awareness. I engage in these practices because they truly work for me. More than once, they have helped me stay grounded when nothing else seemed to.
"I am not a teacher. I am a fellow traveller - someone who has been walking this path long enough to have something honest to share."
Soulful with Nipuni is built on that honesty. Not expertise, not credentials, not a polished transformation story. Just lived experience, offered carefully, in the hope that something here might be useful to you too.
— A few things about me
Not a biography.
Just the parts that matter.
Where I come from
I grew up Buddhist in Sri Lanka. It was never a belief I adopted; it was simply how life was understood in my family and community. That foundation is the root of everything here.
The work
I work as a product manager - a role that asks for clarity, systems thinking, and deep listening to what people actually need. More useful in mindfulness work than I expected.
The practice
I have been meditating every day since 2018. The journaling, the reflection, the rituals -- those ebb and flow with life. But the meditation has held. That steadiness is what taught me what continuity actually means.
Still learning
I am currently working on myself - through daily practice, through reading, and through the kind of honest inner work that does not always look like progress from the outside.
— Background
The professional thread
I work as a Software Product Manager in the Netherlands, where I lead the development of user-centred digital systems. Before that, I completed my Master's degree in Information Technology & Management at Leiden University and my Bachelor's at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.
— Beyond the practice
The other things
that shape me.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Capturing stillness through the lens, nature, light, quiet moments
WRITING
Poetry, journaling, and the slow work of finding the right words
READING
Non-fictions poetry philosophy, and anything that slows the mind
MOVEMENT