She was born in Istanbul in 1980. After completing her secondary and high school education in Kültür College, she graduated from the Computer Engineering major from Engineering Faculty at Yeditepe University. Since her childhood, she professionally was interested in swimming, aerobics, fitness, and Latin dances. She got a National Education Ministry certificate from Tolga Han Dancing School. At 18, she started as a trainer and during the whole education process she taught aerobics and dance lessons in various gyms. In 2001, for the first time, she became familiar with Yoga, in the gym and took many lessons from various trainers. For some time, she attended the Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga Meditation Association facilities. She started to make yoga as an indispensable part of her life and started to share it with her relatives. While taking some steps forward in this way, she participated in the seminar on "MSRT Mind Sound Resonance Technique" which held by Sri N.V. Raghruram in Turkey. In 2006, she became master of Kundalini Reiki by taking Kundalini Reiki initiation from Yasemin Erdin. In 2007, she attended the certificate courses of yoga training (YFC) in Vivekanan which was organized by Yoga University, and she deserved to get a diploma on “Stres Management and Yoga” by studying hard on the thesis. After this education she got started to be named “Pavitra” since Sri N.V. Raghruram gave her this name. Again in the same year, she got autohypnosis education from Dr.Turgay Köyağasıoğlu. She used Autohypnosis technique for curing fears and getting rid of dangerous habits (like using alcohol, cigarettes etc.) In addition, in 2007 in Thailand, she got Reflexology education which is the Far East massage technique. Şebnem Akbulut definitely believed in using all her education gains in all parts of her life and aimed at stepping forward and sharing this way.  

Because of her interest in other fields, in 2006 she got the certificate on "Advanced Qualification In Pilates Matwork" by Jonathan Urla in "Yogilates Integrative Fitness" school in New York.

Right now, she works as a contract executive in a private company and continues doing her yoga, pilates lessons and Kundalini Reiki, Reflexology curing studies in her own place as well as at other studios.