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Sharing an excerpt from my recent Kathak Fusion dance performance courtesy of @parliamentundergroundparties! I had so much fun dancing on stage to such a receptive audience amidst such an elaborate setup. The DJ’s were phenomenal and I’m so glad everyone had a good time! Can’t wait to do it again! I was so proud to wear my sash announcing Ms. California Tourism 2024 while I performed.
My first kathak fusion freestyle dance performance thanks to Parliament’s underground edm danceparty ladt night! It was so much fun improvising to the beat of some really amazing dj artists last night while proudly wearing my pageant sash onstage. Can’t wait to do it again!
Sharing an excerpt from my recent Kathak Fusion dance performance courtesy of @parliamentundergroundparties! I had so much fun dancing on stage to such a receptive audience amidst such an elaborate setup. The DJ’s were phenomenal and I’m so glad everyone had a good time! Can’t wait to do it again! I was so proud to wear my sash announcing Ms. California Tourism 2024 while I performed.
Tonight I am continuing on with Kathak Yoga! Kathak Yoga means doing footwork (dancing), playing an instrument, and singing all at the same time while staying on beat. The end result is yoga, meaning union of mind, body, and spirit. Kathak Yoga is a form of moving meditation and by engaging so many different facets of our brain at once, we keep it completely devoid of any thoughts allowing our personal operating systems to reboot during this time when we are in an internal space of silence and inhabit the womb of no-thing where we can surrender to knowing nothing such that we can be reborn anew.
Yoga means union of mind, body, and spirit. In Kathak Yoga, when we do tatkar, the basic right left right left, left right left right footwork pattern combined with playing an instrument and singing all at once, we are able to achieve this silenced state of mind where in our vulnerability, we are able to bow to the Universe within us and confess that we know nothing in order to explore the unknowable.
Tonight I am attempting Kathak Yoga! I know I’ve been calling the dance that I’ve been doing thus far kathak yoga, and in a sense what I’ve done so far is also a form of yoga in that we are moving energy with our bodies and sometimes we also do bring into union our mind and spirit, but the term Kathak Yoga that was coined by my guru Chitresh Das (Dada) was intended to mean something a little more complicated than simply Kathak Dance. Dada defined Kathak Yoga to be a complete harmony of mind, body, and spirit in the sense that not only do we sing while we do footwork, but we also play an instrument at the same time. That really complicates things because if we are dancing tatkar with our feet, which is the pattern of footwork of right left right left, left right left right, it’s hard to maintain that while you’re simultaneously playing an instrument, especially to play a scale such as I am attempting to play - sa re ga ma pa dha ni sa - the Indian scale, and to sing that all at once.
When examining Shirdi Sai Baba’s assumed posture while he was alive, one notices the right leg is folded across the left knee, and the fingers of his left hand are spread across the right foot. Above the right toe are spread his two fingers - his middle and index fingers. According to Sai Satcharitra chapter 22, by this posture, Baba means to say that if anyone wants to see light, meditate on agelessness. Be humble and meditate on his toe on the opening between the two branches.
Feeling empowered and confident through the art of Kathak, a classical Indian dance traditionally performed by courtesans in the royal courts. It's a beautiful blend of sensuality and self-expression.
While sex work and human trafficking are not things that can be prevented in today’s society, I’m grateful to have learned from a guru who always made an effort to improve the emotional prosperity of others and by example, taught his disciples to do the same 🙏
RIP Guruji.
They say "issues live in the tissues" — and after years of dancing Kathak, I know this to be true.
Kathak is more than choreography. It's a conversation between body, rhythm, and emotion. Every spin, every stamp of the feet, every breath woven into movement — it's a way of shaking loose the stuck stories my body has been holding onto for years.
There have been days when I stepped onto the floor heavy with emotions I couldn’t name. But as I moved — tatkar, chakkars, abhinaya — something would shift. Tears would rise. Laughter would bubble up. Or sometimes, just a deep, grounding stillness would settle in.
In Kathak, I found not just art, but a powerful tool for releasing stored energy and gently meeting old wounds. A sacred way of returning to my body with compassion.
Dance heals. The body remembers. And through it all, we learn that movement is not just expression — it’s transformation. 💃🏽✨
I never imagined that a classical dance form could become a doorway into the depths of consciousness. But that's exactly what Kathak did for me.
When I first began learning Kathak, I was captivated by its grace, rhythm, and storytelling. But as I delved deeper, something unexpected began to unfold — a quiet dissolving of boundaries. Between dancer and dance. Between movement and stillness. Between "me" and the space around me.
In the moments of pure abhinaya or when my feet echoed in perfect sync with the taal, I wasn't performing anymore — I was the rhythm, the expression, the silence in between. Slowly, this experience mirrored what I later discovered in the philosophy of Advaita: that the self we cling to is just a surface ripple on the ocean of undivided awareness.
Kathak became more than art. It became sadhana. A path to the realization that there is no "other" — only one consciousness dancing itself into form.
Grateful to this ancient tradition for pointing me back to the stillness I already am.
Through the challenges of healing and finding my inner strength, I turned to Kathak dance, yoga, and meditation for support. The Sophia Code has also been a safe space for me to explore and grow. Trauma Talks with Rekhi Master Elizabeth Ayala. Reminding everyone that beauty is not something that is superficial, untouched, or unscarred. True beauty comes from the inner strength it takes to pull ourselves out of extremely dark places.
Tonight during prayer and meditation at my altar, I was blessed with this spectacular candlelight show in which 2 flames emanated from a candle with 1 wick. This has never happened to me before when working with candle divination. Just prior to sitting down for my usual Thursday night Madhyan Aarti to Say Baba, I had been reminiscing on my Guruji, Pundit Chitresh Das, as I was making my last reel highlighting his work with the girls of the red light district of Kolkata to help improve their emotional prosperity by giving them tools and skills to help them find peace in the face of the atrocious dehumanization that comes with sex work.
After I finished my meditation, I looked up the spiritual meaning of two flames emanating from one wick and I discovered that it can mean that two spirits are here with me right now sending me love. Having just been enveloped in Chitreshji’s energy prior to my prayers to SAI Baba, I feel that tonight I was blessed with the energies of both Babaji and Chitreshji (Dadaji) coming through the spiritual technology of my altar.
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