She has been called "the most senior [Iyengar] Yoga teacher outside India, recognised as an authority in all its aspects".

[4] She gained Iyengar's advanced yoga teaching certificate and has taught in different countries including Spain.

[3] In 1999 Mehta founded "The Yogic Path",[3] a yoga studio with classes of 20 students in West Hampstead, London.

[6] Mehta has been called "the most senior [Iyengar] Yoga teacher outside India, recognised as an authority in all its aspects: asana, pranayama, philosophy and therapy.

"[2] She and her brother Shyam Mehta appeared on a set of 4 stamps issued by the Indian Department of Posts in 1991.

"[10] The journalist and yoga teacher Ann Pizer, writing on Very Well Fit, comments that many practitioners see the book as a complement to Iyengar's own Light on Yoga, and that the combination of big colour illustrations and "explicit alignment points" actually make it rather more approachable.