Hello, everyone. I hope you all are doing well in the midst of the coronavirus fear. In London, I enjoy seeing cherry blossoms and flowers blooming all of sudden and there is a huge expectation in me that spring is so near to us! In this newsletter, I would like to talk about my encounter of body mapping which is deeply connected with nature and seasons. In my last blog, I mentioned about my grief over my mother’s passing. I wanted to paint and embody this sad feeling somewhe

Journey of Dance Therapy Training Hello, everyone! In this blog, I would like to talk about my journey as a trainee dance / movement therapist. It is a master degree level and a full-time two year training course I did. In this training, trainees need to experimentally move and dance and come back to verbalisation to understand emotions that may arise. I must say that at the beginning of the training it nearly felt uncomfortable to me to “dance/move as I feel” rather than I n

A Happy New Year! A Happy New Year 2020! I am full of excitement of this coming new year as there will be a huge shift happening in my life! In this newsletter, I would like to share a little bit of my personal stuff in accordance with dance therapy work. So, I am moving to Australia sometime this year! This is going to be my fifth country to live in- a difference between this time and living in the previous countries is that I have a huge family who heartily welcomes us. We

I spent 11 years living in India. In the last six years of that time, I spent most of my time training myself as a dancer. Having seen some artists inspiring street children, I also wanted to do something creative. I chose this path as I had an inkling in my mind that I wanted to pursue dance movement therapy. It was a crazy idea that at the age of 32 I decided to commit myself to full-time dance training at a professional dance institute in Bangalore. I found myself feeling

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my first newsletter. In here, I would like to share my thoughts, work, information on my workshops and projects among like-minded people like you! They are particularly about my expertise, i.e. dance movement, creative arts psychotherapy and mental health. I have decided to write more about my therapeutic work to raise awareness about arts therapy. Let me tell you about my background of coming to London (I came to London in 2013 to study a Master o