संयुक्त
Connect
Movement, rhythm and body awareness. Learning that the body is a place you are allowed to be.
नृत्य संजीवनीHealing through Kathak
A community-based initiative using dance, movement, art and storytelling to create spaces for emotional expression and well-being.
2027February
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पहुँच
What if everyone had a space to express?
Many communities have limited access to performing arts and creative well-being experiences.
Nritya Sanjiwani brings these experiences directly into communities, using Kathak, movement, art and storytelling as pathways for expression, connection, and self-discovery.
Art should not be a privilege.
Stillness is part of the form
What is Nritya Sanjiwani
More than a dance class.
Nritya Sanjiwani Healing Through Kathak is a community initiative using Kathak, movement, art, and storytelling to nurture emotional well-being and self-expression. We bring the arts to communities with limited access to creative spaces, creating a place to connect, express, and grow through movement.
Our Approach →नृत्यविधि
The method moves in three
अन्वेषण
Explore
Emotion, story and expression. Finding what wants to be said, without needing the words for it.
सृजना
Create
Collaboration, art and performance. Turning private experience into something shared.
The 2026–27 Program
Taking the arts where they are least accessible.
15–20
Participants
12–16
Weeks
3
Phases
1
Collaborative performance
Feb 2027
Culminating performance
The Three Phases
From first step to shared stage
Phase 01
संयुक्त
Connect
Learn the foundations of Kathak through rhythm, movement, and body awareness, alongside counselling guidance and movement-based emotional well-being activities.
Phase 02
अन्वेषण
Explore
Build a space to share personal stories and experiences. Together, participants choose a story they are comfortable developing, and the creative team transforms it into movement and art.
Phase 03
सृजना
Create
Bring the creation to life through choreography and rehearsals, culminating in a collaborative performance in a historical space.
The stage is not the destination. It is the celebration of the journey.
कथाहरू
Every movement carries a story.
कथाStory pendingPublished only with the participant’s signed consent.
कथाStory pendingPublished only with the participant’s signed consent.
कथाStory pendingPublished only with the participant’s signed consent.
On consentNo quote, name or photograph is published here without signed consent from the participant. This section stays empty until that consent exists.
सहयात्रा
Let’s take the arts further.
Community Partners
NGOs, community organisations and institutions who can help us reach communities with limited access to the arts.
Partner with us →Professional Partners
Counsellors, somatic practitioners, artists, facilitators and researchers who want to contribute their practice.
Collaborate with us →Funding Partners
Individuals, companies, foundations and CSR programs supporting the delivery and sustainability of the program.
Support the program →सहभागी बन्नुहोस्
Ways to take part
Volunteer
स्वयंसेवकHelp run sessions on the ground: setup, participant support, and the ordinary work that keeps a week going.
A few hours, most weeks
Facilitate
सहजकर्ताKathak practitioners, somatic movement teachers and artists who can lead or co-lead a session.
Practice experience
Counsel
परामर्शQualified counsellors to sit inside sessions and hold the closing reflection.
Registered practitioner
Document
अभिलेखPhotographers, videographers and writers to record the journey with care and consent.
Portfolio welcome
Host a space
अवकाशA hall, courtyard or room inside a community where a cohort can meet each week.
Kathmandu Valley
Tell us how you’d like to help →
स्मृति
2025
The 2025 community program did not begin from nothing. It began in borrowed rooms, with a first group of people who showed us what the work actually needed to be.
December 2025
The first open session
Who came, what was taught, and how the room felt by the end. The first session is the one people always ask about, so keep the small detail rather than the headline.
Place, Kathmandu Valley
December 2025
A movement and storytelling workshop
What the workshop covered, who co-led it, and what participants made or said by the close. Note anything that changed the plan afterwards.
Hosted by a partner organisation
December 2025
Weekly sessions inside the community
The stretch of weekly sessions: where they ran, how attendance held across the weeks, and what having a counsellor in the room made possible.
Place
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