Born in 1977 to Indian parents, my early childhood experiences were of adults struggling to relate and listen to each other. Growing up on a council estate in West London, with its many challenges of trespasses, my biggest question as a teenager was : “What is Love?”. I wrote a long poem with short rhyming couplets, asking many questions about this matter. Mostly, the poem related to an idea of Love as being a strict discipline of gentle romance, calm goodness, and a cool and practical kind of love that cared. It was an innocent search, and also a one-sided view that needed adjustment. 

 

Through reflecting on my experiences and observations, I worked my way towards a Love that went through passion, where the sacrifice of my own inherited thoughts and utilised beliefs, revealed the true source of Compassion.

 

The sentimentality of Love has transformed to become a love for discerning Truth, Beauty, and Goodness - through a renewal of the Heart. 

 

 

My life path started with Bollywood dancing and singing at large weddings and stage shows as a search for the sense of right Movement and right Word. I tried many forms of movement and healing practices from many cultures around the world. Now, I stand for Eurythmy movement and singing in rounds, as my approach to embody Love.  

 

During my fifteen year career in corporate banking, I often walked around the offices engaging in conversations with colleagues about their motivations for their choice of career. The ones seated at the screen told me they would have loved to have been a gardener! a chef! a teacher! an artist! a musician!  Inevitably, it was money that was cited as the reason for their continuing to put aside their dreams, which pained me deeply. 

 

It took many more years to reorientate myself to discern the main wealth of Life as being my human right to inwardly wake-up to say yes to transforming my outdated inherited beliefs! - to enable a coming home to my Self.

 

If we do not wake-up, to what is being invited of us now, we may continue to place our children in harmful situations where they begin to think too early for their developmental stage, or they take in too many impressions through the twelve senses and through screens - which can become a painful task to digest, later down the line. The atmosphere we share is all we have, so what needs to happen to enable us to breathe and develop freely together? 

 

 

During my change of career to Transpersonal Arts in Therapy, I noticed that the colours, the words, the arts media I used, and the way I applied them, had a profound impact on my inner feeling landscape, enabling me to digest many years of what I had taken in and lived through since Childhood. 

 

In my work with clients in schools, workplaces, and in community organisations, I witnessed the immense power of Transpersonal Therapeutic Arts processes that could invite the person’s inner sense of purpose, meaning, authenticity, and harmony to surface. I discerned that the Individual is truly in charge of their changes. I discerned that a group process of specific numbers of people could invite deeper change when held in a safe and boundaried way, by mutual agreement. My outer relationships changed, as I learned to live in right relationship with Natures rhythms. 

 

These experiences, combined with my own transformative journey of processing trauma, anxiety, and loss through Transpersonal Arts Counselling, inspired me to make vital sacrifices to make peace for the other to shine where creative expression becomes a pathway to healing.

 

Gradually, in cyclical movements through art-making, singing, writing, and moving, I facilitate processes that enable the bridging between one-sidedness, where in the balance of opposites, true Love could be experienced more often. Increasingly, I strive to stand in the reality of compassion for each other, as ‘the middle way’ - of facilitating pictorial musical perceptions.

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My poem from high school asking "What is Love"? has now found a more balanced and harmonious understanding through Anthroposophy, that is Universal Love.