Nirmala Seshadri is a breath & movement expert, dance artist and researcher. She was introduced to Indian classical dance and music as a child and gradually progressed to teaching, performing and creating new artistic works.
As she moved into a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to working, she began to blend her classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam with contemporary themes and diverse movement practices, music, rhythm, voice and text. Her social justice perspective has led her to use the body and performance space to interrogate existing inequalities, problematising boundaries of time, place, gender, and caste, among other social constructs.
A practitioner of Yoga for over 15 years, she is trained to teach breathwork and restorative yoga. Her quest for autonomy, self-awareness and sensorial perception in dance led her to investigate the dance form Butoh.
Nirmala now focuses on the intersection of Bharatanatyam, Butoh, Breathwork, Yoga and Mindfulness. Her movement approach – ANTARIKA®, draws from these elements and forms the basis of her practice, teaching and therapy. Through ANTARIKA® that nurtures the harmony of breath, mind and body, she nurture introspection, expression, wellbeing, creativity and transformation.