The freedom to release into my own voice and person has always been a guiding intention of mine. However, most of my journey has been developing the skills, the self-worth, and the trust to truly allow myself in. 

I grew up in two very different South Asian households- a nuclear one with my dad that was quite traditional, and an unconventional experience with my corporate-turned-energy healing gay, single mother in a very conservative suburb in GA. Unknowingly but unsurprisingly, I assimilated into the western culture around me. Simultaneously, I grew farther away from exploring my Indian identity, because at the time, my cultural experiences felt defined by the normalization of abuse- especially sexual abuse, the shame and guilt that comes with being a woman, and the overall rejection of my individual voice and expression.

Eventually, I moved to the heart of Atlanta. In high school, I was around more diverse backgrounds, and although I still lacked being around people from my own heritage, I began to find more vulnerability with exploring what made me me by channeling my emotions into various artistic mediums such as published writing, photography, acting, and music.

At 15, I began working with children in summer camps and eventually began designing my own programs centered around intuition development, connection, and collaboration with others. My interest in education reformation progressed beyond high school, where I began designing curriculum for after-school programs teaching theatre from a body-led approach, all while attending NYU to design my own concentration in systemic trauma healing and change through art and performance.

Despite intuitive strengths and practices in forms such as mediumship and energy healing serving as my foundation, I almost always felt dissociated, lonely, and isolated. I also felt like I gave so much of myself, yet I did not feel worthy enough to ever receive balance or even know how to receive. Most severely, I had felt an intense foreign feeling with my body, which often manifested as paralysis from traumatic experiences, breathing malfunctions, and health discrepancies, such as Interstitial Cystitis and PMDD.

A movement-centered acting class changed that for me, however. I recognized the essential component of how body awareness would not only support my physical healing, but how it serves as a channel for art, connection to my spirit, and connection to the people and world around me.

Within the past several years, I’ve since been working on integrating the energetic and healing tools that I’ve learned, developed, and refined since childhood, with my own take on body-led practices, somatic healing, and physical consciousness. By learning how to actively ground in the body with a connection and awareness to the energetic side, I feel more rooted in my own identity, spirituality, have an easier time getting out of my head, am able to relieve that sensation of loneliness I so often felt, have more knowledge on how to self-heal, and have an easier time speaking up for myself and taking care of my needs. Additionally, because my training includes a combination of several years of acting, piano, and other artistic development, ritualistic Indian dance, and years of energetic home clearings and energy healing, my approach leans into harnessing and accessing the potential we have as humans when we permit ourselves to understand and appreciate our physical vessel and how to allow our own spirit to flow through and communicate to us.

As a result of this work, I truly feel like I liberate my identity more and more every day by being able to return to a connection with my spirit, my ancestral roots, my artistry, and the overall essence of myself beyond normalized restrictions and conditions that stem from learned division, disconnect, and a constant need to prove myself and my worth.