Shivani Verma

Her TV series of conversations with Suresh Oberoi was adapted into a 2015 book Happiness Unlimited: Awakening With Brahma Kumaris.

BK Shivani now travels in India and abroad, including the United States, France, UK and Canada, appearing at charitable events ranging from the promotion of organ donation to parenting programs, as well as Brahma Kumaris events. On organ donation, in 2015 she said "We are taught that karma done today will benefit our family for a long time. So, it shouldn't take us long to decide to do 'daan' of our body's organs." She is a goodwill ambassador of the World Psychiatric Association.

Verma's parents, began following the Brahma Kumaris when she was a child. She was however not initially interested in it. In an interview, she said "For two years, I saw the impact on them. They asked me to come with them, but that didn't work. The more they would ask me, the more I'd block." After two years, she began to attend sporadically – every two weeks at the age of 23.

She is married and has a software business in Gurgaon with her husband. She completed her undergraduate in computer engineering at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, and her masters in Software Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vishal Verma. Initially, she worked backstage at the production of Brahma Kumaris television presentations in Delhi, where senior teachers would record the teachings. Then in 2007, due to the unavailability of other teachers, she was asked to start answering the viewers' queries herself. This led to a television program launched in 2007, titled Awakening with Brahma Kumaris, in which BK Shivani was interviewed by co-host Kanu Priya.

Shivani Verma (born in Pune), on May 31, 1972, better known as Brahma Kumari Shivani or Sister Shivani or BK Shivani, is a Brahma Kumaris teacher at the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. She has also been conferred with the prestigious Nari Shakti Award by the President of India in 2019. For her excellence in empowering Spiritual Consciousness, she was honored with the Women of the Decade Achievers Award by ASSOCHAM’S Ladies League in 2014. In 2017, she was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador by the World Psychiatric Association too. She conducts motivational courses through public seminars and television programs. Since 2007, she has become increasingly popular in India and among the Indian diaspora through her YouTube channel- BKShivani and for her leading role in the pay-to-broadcast television series Awakening with Brahma Kumaris, which aired daily on Aastha channel.