Body Remembers
the body, the shadow, and the feminine
nov 2025
Sessions
in-person training hours
credits
The body, the shadow, and the feminine
Overview
Body Remembers is a five-day, in-person module that invites students and practitioners of expressive arts therapies to explore the profound connections between the body, the shadow, and the feminine – what C. Jung calls the Unholy Trinity – as portals into the deeper Self.
Facilitated by expressive arts therapists Krupa Jhaveri, Pallavi Chander, and Brinda Jacob-Janvrin, this trauma-informed module draws on their diverse and complementary practices in visual art therapy, drama therapy, authentic movement and dance/movement therapy. Together, they offer a carefully held space where personal exploration, creative process, and embodied inquiry come together in service of authentic self-discovery.
Open to all adults, Body Remembers offers a safe space to connect with the body as a meaningful portal into the deeper self.
Expressive arts therapies encompass a range of creative modalities – including Authentic Movement, Visual Art Therapy, and Drama Therapy – that support emotional healing and self-discovery. Authentic Movement involves spontaneous, mindful body movement to access inner experiences, often revealing deep, unconscious emotions. Visual Art Therapy uses drawing, painting, and other visual media to express feelings that may be hard to verbalize. Drama Therapy engages participants in role-play and storytelling to explore identity, relationships, and life challenges. Together, these approaches offer holistic, non-verbal pathways for healing, growth, and transformation.
Syllabus
01.
The inverted triangle – The unholy trinity of the body, the shadow and the feminine
02.
Introducing the myth of La Loba – the wild feminine
03.
Sourcing creativity and disrupting perfectionism, redefining expression
04.
Introduction to Authentic Movement – witnessing the moving body, the individual and the collective
05.
Masculine and Feminine principles of psyche – Exploring the shape of the bowl, the arrow and shadow aspects of the masculine and feminine
06.
Exploring the principles of love and power
07.
Personal myths and creation myths
08.
Continuing the work around personal myths and creation myths
09.
Identity, body, self and the stories we carry, communicate and transform (doll-making)
10.
Inner and outer, light and shadow, ritual integration of self, relationships and collective (mandalas)
Program begins Nov 2025
Immersive Journey
Somatic
Somatic exploration to access and express stories held in the body
creative
Creative processes that emerge from the deep feminine in all of us — intuitive, fluid, and transformative
engagement
Engagement with the shadow, using the arts to safely encounter and integrate aspects of the self that are often hidden or suppressed
reflective
Reflective practices that reveal the inner mirror in the art we create, helping us see ourselves more clearly and compassionately
Fee
Body Remembers
Nov 2025
17 - 21 Nov
Mon - Fri | 10 am - 5 pm IST
5 sessions x 6 hours = 30 hours | 60 credits
In-person Training (Bangalore)
Brinda Jacob-Janvrin, Krupa Jhaveri, Pallavi Chander
Expressive Arts, Authentic Movement, Visual Art Therapy, Drama Therapy
INR 60000 + 18% GST
Faculty
Brinda Jacob-Janvrin is a movement-based expressive arts therapist and a performer with more than 30 years of performance experience. A qualified counsellor, she has been working extensively with movement and arts therapies since 2003. A practitioner and facilitator for Authentic Movement and Natural Dreamwork, Brinda is passionate about the arts, the mysterious workings of the Psyche-Soma and connections between the Body and the Earth.
Brinda is deeply interested in working with the Unholy Trinity (as described by C. Jung) of the Body, the Shadow and the Feminine as portals into the deeper Self. Her work with the feminine and the body has led to the firm belief that reclaiming and having agency around our desire is not only an antidote to the voices and violence of patriarchy, but also a path towards true empowerment. This in turn has led to the creation of the Desire project in 2017.
Krupa Jhaveri, PhD, is an expressive arts therapist, art director, artist, teacher, researcher (a/r/tographer) and founder of Sankalpa: Art Journeys based in Tamil Nadu, south India since 2009. Born in the US 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 the decolonizing the links between ritual and resilience. Krupa is an Editorial Review Board member for the Canadian Journal of Art Therapy, Ambassador to India for Art Therapy Without Borders, is a TEDx Women speaker, published a chapter within Craft in Art Therapy (Routledge 2020) 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 culturally-informed expansion of this field.
Pallavi Chander has over 15 years of experience as an artist, facilitator, and therapist. She has had the opportunity to work in schools, special needs centers, arts collectives, charities and hospital settings in India and the UK. She received the Charles Wallace India Scholarship Award in 2015 and completed her training in Drama and Movement Therapy at RCSSD, London in 2017. She is a certified Arts-Based therapist trained with WCCLF, Pune in 2012.
Pallavi is passionate about using the arts with children of all ages. She works with children and adults who are differently-abled and young adults challenged with behavioral issues and mental health concerns. As a Creative Arts Therapist, her practice is influenced by the arts-based therapy approach and the Sesame approach to drama and movement therapy which is informed by Jungian psychology, Laban movement, play theory and Billy Lindkvist’s work with Movement with Touch and Sound. She currently practices under the initiative – Turiya, with different communities, organizations, and institutions.