Archana Ranjith

For the past seven years, Archana has cultivated her creative voice as a Mandala Artist, Calligrapher, and Crocheter.

While her artistic endeavors are a profound passion, she also brings 16 years of professional experience in Human Resources, with a strong emphasis on Learning and Development. This experience has instilled in her a deep appreciation for teaching, coaching, and fostering supportive learning environments. As a mother of two, Archana values the focus and peace that art provides and is excited to merge her expertise in training with artistic pursuits.

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Mayukhini Pande

Mayukhini is trained in Mindfulness-based Listening with Embodied Presence and Presence-Oriented Psychotherapy from Just Being Center, Pune. She holds group and individual therapeutic spaces.

Prior to that, she practiced as a design professional and educator for over a decade. She continues to facilitate creative processes, finding ways to bring in the spirit of mindfulness and care into these.

Ashwin Lobo

Through his work, Ashwin aspires to support the wellbeing of both the human and more than human world. He enjoys philosophy, climbing trees and living life at a slow pace.

Divya NK

Working at the intersection of sound, ritual, and sensory experience, Divya NK explores frequency as a tool for reflection, regulation, and transformation. A sound practitioner and sound weaver, her practice brings together an array of crystal instruments, voice, indigenous sounds, art, aroma, and plant allies to create immersive and deeply sensory experiences.

Her work explores the relationship between sound, energy, body, and mind — creating experiences that invite stillness, balance, and a renewed sense of presence. She crafts personalised journeys to release energetic tension, process emotions, regulate the nervous system and reconnect with a deeper sense of clarity and awareness.

Megha Chhallani

Megha Chhallani is a Certified Facilitator, a practitioner of Mindfulness Based Therapeutic Processes, a Dance Movement Therapy practitioner, and a Master NLP practitioner.

Lalithashree Ganesh

Lalithashree Ganesh is a certified Arts Based Therapy (ABT) practitioner, writer, poet, artist, and Global Arts in Medicine Fellow based in Bengaluru, India.

Preethi Rajagopalan

Preethi Rajagopalan is one of the Co-Directors of Bengaluru Arts and Health Festival. Her personal experience of how dance affects the body and mind led her to explore the field of dance therapy, and in 2015 she earned her certification as a Dance Movement Therapy Facilitator from the Creative Movement Therapy Association of India (CMTAI). Building on this foundation, she pursued a postgraduate-level dance therapy program at the National Centre for Dance Therapy (NCDT) in Montreal, Canada.

She has worked with individuals from diverse backgrounds and age groups, including children with special needs, teachers, college students, women's groups, corporate organisations, and individual clients with clinical conditions. Her expertise lies in sessions on stress management, work-life balance, mindfulness, creative meditation, emotional regulation, and communication, helping people foster holistic wellbeing and personal growth. She is a trauma-informed and queer-affirmative practitioner.

She is co-director and faculty member of the Certificate Course in Dance Movement Therapy offered by CMTAI, a Global Arts in Medicine Fellow, and currently works at Cadabams Hospital, Whitefield and Amaha Hospital, Thanisandra as a Dance Movement Therapist. She is also pursuing a Practitioner Training Program in Somatic Experiencing from Somatic Experiencing International.