ABOUT — THE SATTVA COLLECTIVE CIC
The Sattva Collective CIC is the UK’s first community-led initiative dedicated to supporting South Asian women through midlife and menopause.
We were founded on 14th May 2025 by Kiran Singh, multi-award-winning entrepreneur, Midlife Lifestyle & Menopause Wellness Coach, author, and podcast host, alongside her daughter Khushi Kaur as Co-Director. We are an intergenerational organisation built with legacy in mind: for the South Asian women of today and the generations who come after them.
Why we exist
There is a silence around midlife and menopause in South Asian communities that has been passed down for generations.
South Asian women reach their forties and fifties, navigating enormous physical, emotional, and cultural upheaval: hormonal shifts, identity changes, caregiving responsibilities, and the deeply inherited belief that the only acceptable response is to keep going quietly. Without language for what they are experiencing. Without spaces that truly understand their reality. Without support that was built for them.
The Sattva Collective was founded because that silence has a cost. It costs women their health, their sense of self, their relationships, and years of their lives spent suffering alone when support was available, if only they had known where to find it, and if only that support had been built with them in mind.
We are here to change that.
What the name means
Sattva (सत्त्व) is a Sanskrit word meaning purity, clarity, and balanced energy, the quality of inner light that exists beneath the noise and upheaval of any season of life.
Even in the midst of hormonal shifts and identity changes and the accumulated weight of decades of quiet sacrifice, that centre is still there. Still available. Still yours.
The Sattva Collective exists to help South Asian women return to it.
What we do
In our first year, operating entirely without external funding and driven by community commitment, we built:
A content platform — over 90 original articles, cultural essays, health guides, and expert interviews, all free and permanently accessible at thesattvacollective.org.
An interview series — conversations with South Asian doctors, menopause specialists, coaches, financial experts, and trailblazers who are changing what midlife looks like for South Asian women. Featuring voices from UCLH, Newson Health, the NHS, and beyond.
The Sattva Women’s Circle — monthly in-person community gatherings in Bedfordshire where South Asian women come together, without performance and without having to explain themselves. Women arrive carrying everything. Most leave a little lighter.
My Sattva Story — a year-round storytelling campaign inviting South Asian women to share their midlife and menopause experiences in their own words. Because your story is the one that reaches the woman who doesn’t yet know she isn’t alone.
Sattva Day — South Asian Women’s Midlife Awareness Day, observed every 14th May. The UK’s first annual awareness day dedicated entirely to South Asian women’s midlife experience. Founded on 14th May 2026.
The Sattva Collective Podcast — honest, unhurried conversations about what midlife actually feels like for South Asian women. Solo episodes to start. Expert guests from Autumn 2026.
The Thrive Through Midlife & Menopause Summit — our flagship annual event, taking place on 14th May 2027 at The Bridge, 73–81 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 0NQ. An evening of expert talks, cultural conversations, community stories, and the kind of room South Asian women in midlife have never had before.
Good Girls Don’t Talk About This — our forthcoming book, launching at the Summit on 14th May 2027. A cultural reckoning with the silence around South Asian women’s midlife experience — in Kiran’s voice, with expert contributions and My Sattva Story entries woven throughout.
Who we serve
South Asian women in midlife and menopause, from the UK and across the global South Asian diaspora, who are navigating this transition without the culturally grounded support they deserve.
We are for the woman who has been told her symptoms are due to stress. For the woman who has never heard her mother talk about menopause. For the woman who is managing brain fog and hot flushes and caregiving and a career and a marriage and an identity that no longer feels like hers, and who is doing all of it alone, in silence, because that is simply what South Asian women do.
We are here to tell her: you do not have to do it alone.
Our values
Culturally grounded. Everything we create reflects the specific, layered reality of South Asian women’s lives, not a generic version of menopause that was never written for them.
Community-led. We are built by and for the community we serve. The women in our circle shape what we do and how we do it.
Evidence-based. Our health content is informed by clinicians, researchers, and specialists who understand both the medicine and the cultural context.
Free and accessible. Everything we create is free. We do not charge the women we serve. We are sustained by donations, crowdfunding, and grant funding, and every contribution is reinvested directly into the community.
Legacy-driven. We are building something that outlasts us. Every article, every gathering, every story shared is a brick in a foundation that the next generation of South Asian women will stand on.
The founding story
The idea for The Sattva Collective came to Kiran on a bus to Cambridge.
Beneath that moment was her mother, who navigated perimenopause and menopause without anyone naming it for her. Without validation. Without a doctor who said: “This is what is happening to you. It has a name. It has a reason. You are not losing your mind.”
She was misdiagnosed. Dismissed. She carried it alone.
Kiran didn’t know until she started going through it herself and looked back at her mother’s experience with the clarity that only comes from recognition. And thought: she didn’t have to suffer that way. She just needed someone to say: “This is real. This is happening. You are not alone.”
No one said that to her.
The Sattva Collective says it now. To every South Asian woman who needs to hear it.
The team
Kiran Singh — Founder & Director. Multi-award-winning entrepreneur, Midlife Lifestyle & Menopause Wellness Coach, author, and podcast host. Winner of Midlife Lifestyle Design Platform of the Year 2026 and Midlife Lifestyle Design Coach of the Year 2026, SME News UK Enterprise Awards.
Khushi Kaur — Co-Director. The next generation of this work. The reason it is built to last.
Stay connected
Support our work at crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-sattva-collective-cic
Join our LinkedIn community at linkedin.com/groups/19079009
Get in touch at hello@thesattvacollective.org
The Sattva Collective CIC. Company number 16450670. Registered in England and Wales.
The silence is ending. One conversation at a time.
