
The Shoulders
Durga
Ungrounded shoulders collapse the thoracic spine. Durga asks them to rise without bracing — to bear the world without becoming it.

Embodied Mythology · Bollywood · Depth Psychology
Workshops where Bollywood movement, Hindu mythology, and Jungian depth psychology meet — and the body becomes a living map of longing, instinct, and transformation.
These workshops weave together Bollywood movement, Hindu mythology, and Jungian depth psychology to explore the symbolic language of the body. Each session centers on a mythic figure, archetype, or story — not as something distant or devotional, but as a living map of human emotion, instinct, longing, and transformation.
Together, we shine a lantern on a specific body part — the wrists, the pelvis, the chest, the eyes, the spine — and examine how the myth invites it to move in a particular way.
What happens to the shoulders in the presence of Durga? What does Kali ask of the jaw, the breath, the feet? How does Radha hold the pelvis as a sacred vessel?
Through Bollywood music and movement, mythology becomes embodied rather than merely understood. Gesture, rhythm, expression, and repetition become pathways into the unconscious. The body begins to reveal inherited stories, protective patterns, hidden desires, and forgotten instincts.
II. Archetypes in the body
We don't perform mythology perfectly. We let it move through us — disrupt us, soften us, awaken us.

The Shoulders
Ungrounded shoulders collapse the thoracic spine. Durga asks them to rise without bracing — to bear the world without becoming it.

The Jaw, the Breath, the Feet
What does Kali ask of the jaw? To unclench. Of the breath? To roar. Of the feet? To stamp until the false self leaves the room.

The Wrists
Wrists like reeds, like ink, like the hush before a question. The river gesture that lets thought become music.

The Pelvis
Radha carries a clay pot, reminding us that the pelvis is a sacred vessel; when it feels unstable, it is gently seeking the steadiness where breath, creativity, and devotion can gather.
III. Practice
It is excavation. Ritual. Imagination. Return.
Bollywood becomes both celebration and inquiry — a vibrant, emotional language through which the psyche can speak.
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We unearth patterns of thought and movement — the inherited postures, the protective armor, the hidden desire.
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Gesture and rhythm as offering. Repetition until meaning surfaces and the unconscious begins to speak in the limbs.
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We do not leave the myth behind. We carry it home in the wrists, the pelvis, the gaze.
IV. The circle
New workshops are gathering. Leave a name, a wrist, a longing — we'll send the next invitation.