Inner Balance

Explore the juxtaposed polarities within your inner life through meditation, movement, writing and a variety of visual artmaking. In a divided world, we’ll explore finding harmony, balance, and the capacity to hold more than one reality through our expression.

(please bring your own lunch. Kitchen facilities for heating/preparing are provided)

Krupa Jhaveri, PhD, is an international expressive art therapist, art director, artist, teacher, researcher and founder of Sankalpa: Art Journeys based in Tamil Nadu, south India since 2009. Born in Colorado and of Gujarati origin, she is a living bridge between cultures through art. Krupa specializes as a trauma-informed expressive arts therapist, in the combination of art & yoga/mindfulness, in reclaiming the therapeutic value of indigenous art forms and decolonizing the links between ritual and resilience. Her passion/purpose is creative adaptation for individual and collective liberation.

Krupa is an Ambassador to India for Art Therapy Without Borders, is a TEDx Women speaker on “Art as a Mirror“, published a chapter within Craft in Art Therapy (Routledge 2021) and completed her arts-based doctoral research on faith and spirituality in EXAT through the European Graduate School in Switzerland (2022). She is currently teaching on four programs internationally to support the rooted expansion of this field.