Wellness can be deeply personal, but Chevonne Ramharuk has increasingly turned her own experiences and professional training into a platform for supporting other women and girls. A qualified yoga teacher and specialist wellness counsellor listed with the ASCHP, Ramharuk holds a Bachelor’s and Honours degree in Psychology and is building a body of work that brings together movement, mental health, education and women’s empowerment.
As the founder and CEO of Kyma Yoga Flow, she has created a women-centred wellness space offering yoga, mindful movement, healing workshops, creative retreats and community initiatives. The organisation’s ethos is captured in its simple philosophy: connect, nourish, empower and give back.
That philosophy extends well beyond the yoga mat. In November 2025, Kyma Yoga Flow organised a community pad drive that resulted in 360 packs of sanitary pads being purchased and repackaged into 180 care bags for matric girls at Ivory Park Secondary School. The initiative paired a yoga fundraiser with a practical response to period poverty, giving the girls both menstrual products and a message centred on dignity, wellness and encouragement during their final exams.
For Ramharuk, the initiative was also about changing the conversation around menstruation. She has spoken about the need to destigmatise periods and ensure that girls do not have to treat a normal biological process as something shameful or hidden. Her work recognises that access to menstrual products is only one part of the equation. Knowledge, confidence and the freedom to talk about women’s bodies matter too.
That broader understanding of wellness is shaping one of her most ambitious projects: an interactive wellness and menstrual journal designed for schoolgirls. Ramharuk hopes to publish and distribute the journal through schools, helping young girls understand their bodies and menstrual cycles while developing greater awareness of their physical and emotional wellbeing.
The idea reflects a recurring principle in her work: information can be empowering when it reaches people early enough. Rather than waiting for young women to encounter questions about their bodies, mental health or self-worth in isolation, Ramharuk wants to create tools that make those conversations easier to begin.
Her interest in mental health is also informed by personal experience. After becoming a mother and being diagnosed with postpartum depression, she became an advocate for greater awareness around the condition. That experience has added another dimension to her understanding of women’s wellness, particularly the importance of creating spaces where women can acknowledge what they are experiencing without feeling that they have failed.
Yoga has become one of the ways she responds to that need. Through women-centred classes and experiences, Ramharuk seeks to help women step out of what she describes as “survival mode” and reconnect with their bodies. It is an approach that positions movement not simply as exercise, but as a way of creating space for reflection, presence and self-awareness.
Her work with women also extends into leadership and entrepreneurship. Ramharuk serves as Head of the CSI Department for the Inside Out Girl Campaign, an initiative focused on empowering young women in business, leadership and entrepreneurship. She has also used her events to bring women together, create opportunities for women-owned businesses and support causes affecting women and girls.
That commitment to collective upliftment was evident when one of her planned wellness events did not receive enough bookings. Instead of allowing the resources prepared for the event to go to waste, Ramharuk and a network of women-led businesses, volunteers and community members redirected them towards community beneficiaries. The resulting outreach included care packages for women and creative kits for girls at New Life Centre for Girls.
There is something significant about that instinct. It suggests that impact, for Ramharuk, is not dependent on everything going according to plan. What matters is being willing to adapt, collaborate and find another way for an idea to serve people.
She is applying the same mindset to her own development. Ramharuk says she is deliberately working on her mental health, values, beliefs and biases, while actively seeking out her blind spots. She also pushes herself into situations that challenge her comfort zone, recognising that becoming a better leader requires the willingness to examine yourself as honestly as you examine the world around you.
That self-reflection is particularly relevant to the kind of leadership she wants to practise. Her ambition is not simply to build a visible wellness brand, but to create work that reaches the people who need it and contributes to practical solutions for women and girls.
Over the next five years, she hopes to expand the reach of her wellness and menstrual health work while collaborating with like-minded women to address period poverty. Her vision includes taking the interactive journal into schools, growing women-centred yoga programmes and continuing to use wellness events as vehicles for community support.
Her position as one of the finalists in the 2026 Women’s Health Magazine Cover Search is another part of that pursuit of visibility. Ramharuk has described the opportunity as a potential platform for future endeavours, and the significance extends beyond a magazine cover. Greater visibility could help bring more attention to the conversations she is already trying to advance around women’s mental health, menstrual health and holistic wellbeing.
At the centre of all of it is a lesson she believes women need to hear before they attempt to pour into everyone else: “We need to pour into ourselves first in every way before we even begin to think about how to help or empower the next woman.”
It is a deceptively simple idea, but one that captures the foundation of Ramharuk’s work. Her vision for women’s empowerment does not begin with asking women to give more of themselves. It begins with helping them understand themselves, care for themselves and recognise their own wellbeing as worthy of investment.
Chevonne Ramharuk is an honouree in the 2026 Future 54 Leading Women Cohort, recognising women shaping Africa through leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and meaningful impact.
