Shivani Verma, better known as BK Shivani, is a teacher in the Brahma Kumaris spiritual movement of India.
BK Shivani’s parents began following the Brahma Kumaris when she was a child. She began to attend meetings in her early 20s.
She completed her undergraduate in electronics engineering at the Savitribai Phule Pune University where she was an academic gold medalist, and completed a master’s degree in computer engineering from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology. Initially, she worked backstage at the production of Brahma Kumaris television presentations in Delhi, where senior teachers would record the teachings. In 2007, due to the unavailability of other teachers, she was asked to start answering the viewers’ queries herself.
In 2007, a pay-to-broadcast television series Awakening with Brahma Kumaris was produced for the Aastha channel in which BK Shivani was interviewed by co-host Kanu Priya.
Her TV series of conversations with Suresh Oberoi was adapted into the 2015 book Happiness Unlimited: Awakening With Brahma Kumaris.
BK Shivani travels in India and abroad, appearing at charitable events ranging from the promotion of organ donation to parenting programs, as well as Brahma Kumaris events. In 2017 she was named as a goodwill ambassador of the World Psychiatric Association.