Tripura Kashyap

Tripura Kashyap pioneered Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) in India (1990) after training at the Hancock Centre for Creative Arts Therapies in Wisconsin, USA. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in Psychology.
She also holds a B.A. degree in Bharatanatyam from Kalakshetra, Chennai and was a performing artist in the Chandralekha Dance Company. She has trained in Jazz, Ballet, Modern Dance, Choreography and Dance Theatre at the American Dance Festival, USA.
Tripura has worked as a Movement therapist at Halfway homes, Special schools, Treatment / Rehabilitation centres, Retirement homes and with individual clients for over three decades.
She has received fellowships from the Ashoka International Foundation, the Indian Ministry of Culture and a Lifetime Achievement award from Sancheti Healthcare Academy for her innovations in dance therapy. She has authored ‘My Body, My Wisdom’ a book on dance therapy and ‘Contemporary Dance: Practices, Paradigms and Practitioners’ published by CMTAI and Aayu publications.
She was the founder-director of Rainbow Inc (Hyderabad) and Apoorva Dance Theatre (Bengaluru) and worked collaboratively with filmmakers, visual artists and musicians on cross-art projects and performances. She was the projects coordinator for Bhoomika Dance Company (Delhi) and consultant for the ‘Dance-in-Education’ program at the Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts (Bengaluru).
Tripura co-founded the Creative Movement Therapy Association of India (CMTAI). She has conceived the ‘Therapeutic Dance-in-Education’ program and teaches it too. She is also on the teaching faculty of DMT (Certificate, PG Diploma and M.A courses) across India. She served as visiting faculty at the Psychology department, Ashoka University, Christ University and M.A Performance studies, at Ambedkar University, Delhi. Tripura has been an ardent follower of Buddhism and has practised the discipline since 2014. She has presented her DMT work through talks, lecture demonstrations and workshops at several national and international conferences.

Anubha Doshi

Anubha is the founder-director of Artsphere and Soulsphere, a unique arts and healing center in Pune, where performing arts and therapy co-exist under the same roof. She regularly facilitates workshops in mindfulness, dance therapy, positive psychology, resilience, and parenting for corporates, educational institutions, and NGOs. A Psychologist, Mindfulness-based Practitioner, and Arts based Therapist, Anubha has studied Chakra Healing as well as Reiki.
She is the Editor of CMTAI’s & Artsphere’s online Indian Magazine of Dance/Movement therapy. She is a faculty on the CMTAI and PG Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy, by St. Mira’s College for Girls, Pune, The Arts Therapists CoLab and Artsphere, Pune. She is on the Board of Studies of the Psychology Department at the St. Mira’s College for Girls, Pune.
She is a double postgraduate and a scholarship holder in Clinical Psychology from Fergusson College, Pune University. She also has a Master’s degree in Communication Management from the Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication (SIMC). Anubha completed her graduation in English Literature from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi. She is an associate member of the ADTA (American Dance Therapy Association) and CID (International Dance Council) France. She is also presenting her work at National and International conferences like the ADTA, IEATA, CMTAI conferences. Recently her work was published in the prestigious CAET journal. She is currently pursuing the doctoral programme in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School, Switzerland, the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and has just completed the Bodynamics Foundation Training with The Healing Circle under Bodynamic International.
Her practice is unique as she explores the connection between Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), Mindfulness and Buddhist philosophy, born out of her study in the certificate course in Mahayana Buddhist Psychology & Ethics by the WCCL Foundation and Department of Pali and Buddhist studies, at the Pune University. She has completed her PG Diploma in Mindfulness & Presence Oriented Psychotherapy under Just Being, furthering this work. She is also working on a parenting book the M – Factor which is a collection of unique personal essays written by mothers in a memoir format. She has also served as a Parenting Expert on the Panel for the Times Keep Learning Initiative powered by BYJU’S

Karishma Harlalka

Karishma is the co-founder of Artsphere and Soulsphere. She is a psychologist, dancer, choreographer, and therapeutic movement practitioner. She is a Movement Exploration and Chakra System and Dance Therapy faculty on the PG Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy course run by St. Mira’s College for Girls, Artsphere and TATC, as well as for the Chakra System and Dance Therapy module on the Certificate course in Dance Movement Therapy by CMTAI.

She has been learning and performing dance since the age of 4 and has received training in various dance forms. She first became interested in Dance Movement Therapy at the age of 16, when she attended a workshop under Tripura Kashyap. Since then, she has assisted and co-facilitated workshops in Dance Therapy and Arts-based Therapies with her sister Anubha Doshi, eventually going on to study Dance Therapy. She has also studied Reiki and Chakra Healing.

She incorporates the practice of Yoga and body awareness and knowledge of anatomy in her own practices as well as the classes and sessions that she conducts. She is interested in Mindful Movement practices and is working on developing a cohesive movement program that combines her learnings in dance, body anatomy, Yoga and Dance Therapy.

She has recently completed the Bodynamics Foundation Training with The Healing Circle under Bodynamic International, in addition to attending courses and workshops to continue learning in the field of somatic therapies.