For twenty-two years, Yelena was competing at the highest levels in sports. Hailing from Russia, she was part of the Olympic basketball team of her country for several years from 1988 to 2000. She won the Olympic bronze medal in Seoul Olympics in 1988 and the gold medal in Barcelona in 1992. 

While she saw the pinnacle of achievement in her sports career, many other dimensions of her personality were waiting for expression for decades together. That opening of her soul happened when she stepped into Prasanthi Nilayam in Nov 2023. She longed to return to this ‘Kingdom of Love’ as she calls it and visited again in Nov 2024. Fortunately, now we were able to capture a glimpse of her inner journey, which is truly a tale of how the seemingly invisible Swami brings such incredible transformations in peoples’ hearts so subtly and solidly.