MATRA MOVEMENT is a South Asian American somatic practice. MATRA MOVEMENT engages the traditional shapes, steps and mudras from the Indian classical dance Odissi as therapeutic healing tools to explore and create an inner landscape. The performative becomes yogic, the ornamental is made utilitarian and the breath is bejeweled. One of the meanings of the word MATRA is beat in classical Indian music. MATRA also contains the root for the word mother in both Latin and Sanskrit. I think of it as the heartbeat of Mother Earth. Through movement and breath we will align with her rhythm, warmth and protection.

I teach online and in person individual and group classes and workshops. I teach monthly classes at Grand Street Healing Project in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Photo by Randy Stulberg