Hello, everyone. I imagine that you all are eagerly awaiting well-deserved holidays ahead. What a year again in 2021. The continuous pandemic and several lockdowns worn us out and we all experience collective trauma and losses. I have not seen my father for the past two years and it is creeping up on me now – can I see him in 2022? Can I go back to my country soon? These questions will never be answered as soon as I want. Briefly I would like to mention my Movement Response t

Hello, everyone. I hope you all have been well. I am writing to you on a hot day in Adelaide. We have been still living in an uncertain time while the borders are reopening in South Australia. November was a busy month for me again and equally I experienced emotional ups and downs. In this newsletter, I would like to mention what the pandemic may mean to our bodies and update some upcoming new events in 2022! Pandemic and the Body I am becoming more aware that the last one ye

Hello, everyone. Spring has come to Adelaide with more sunshine and fluctuated temperatures every day. This season in Australia now reminds me of our immigration to Down Under a year ago. I have been so busy that I needed to find time to reflect on what I have done for the last few months. In this newsletter, I would like to update my recent activities. NDIS and DTAA I recently have started to involve in the voluntarily work for the Dance Movement Therapy Association of A

Hello, everyone. I hope you all are doing well. April was a super busy month for me resulting in writing a newsletter now. As I am writing this, I now feel cold breeze with sunshine coming into my eyes and feel ready for winter in Adelaide. Body Mapping Autumn Workshop – Nurture and Harvest Inner Self The Autumn Body Mapping Workshop with the three women was rich and another learning for me. Body Mapping quite often reveals women’s one of the most sensitive issues such as the

Hello, everyone. I hope you all are doing well. Autumn is fast approaching Adelaide now and leaves are turning red. I love the start of Autumn, as the colours of the sky and trees enrich our vision. In this newsletter, I am delighted to announce an Autumn Body Mapping Workshop (23rd and 24th April 2021) with Vanessa Daughtry. The theme is “Nurture and Harvest Inner Self” for womxn. Vanessa and I have been actively discussing how we can continue to offer a space for people to

Hello, everyone. I hope you all are keeping yourself safe and well. Adelaide where I live now has been hot and cold, the weather changing all the time. There were bushfires relatively close to where I live now and we had to keep the radio on for the updates until the late night. It was scary. Next morning, we smelt something burnt strongly after the fresh rain. As far as the covid situation is concerned, some cities in Australia have been back to snap lockdown and come back t

Happy 2021! I hope you all had the peaceful and restful Christmas and new year celebrations wherever in the world you are. It has been hot and cool in Adelaide for the past few weeks as summer has arrived. Fortunately, South Australia has experienced the ease on the covid-related restrictions before Christmas while we live in a fear of lockdown situation at any time if any cluster may happen again. We are certainly living in an uncertain time. In this first newsletter of this

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