the body remembers what the mind forgets.

Brinda Jacob-Janvrin is a movement based expressive arts therapist and a contemporary dancer/choreographer with more than 25 years of performing experience. As a qualified counsellor, she has been working extensively with movement and arts therapies since 2003.  An Authentic Movement practitioner and facilitator, Brinda is passionate about the arts, the mysterious workings of the Psyche-Soma and connections between the Body and Earth.

Today Brinda practices expressive arts therapy with individual and group clients, trains, teaches, performs and choreographs.

In the past, Brinda was the lead dancer and Associate Director at the Natya STEM Dance Kampni (1994 – 2005). With this dance company, she has over the years performed at most major dance festivals and cultural centres in India, and at important festivals in the USA, UK, UAE, and Sri Lanka. As a solo artist, she continued to perform at part of collaborative work in India, France, Nice, and Spain.

In 1999 her need to give back to society led to the creation Dream A Dream – an NGO that works towards the upliftment of children in need.  Along with 12 other founder members, in November 1999, Dream a Dream was a registered as a trust, of which Brinda was a trustee till 2005.

I did not teach dance I taught people.

The Studio for Movement Arts and Therapies was created in August 2008, with the intention of bringing together all these activities which she believes are so interrelated and are constantly informing her approach to therapy, education, and performance.

In January 2011, in order to meet the growing demands from the community for trained creative art therapists, the organisation became a registered trust with the following vision:

To offer creatively alive spaces and practices to nurture and catalyse self-inquiry, expression, and integration for individuals and communities.

One of the main projects of the Trust, the FECAT – Foundation Course in Expressive and Creative Arts, is conceptualised by Brinda and aims to train participants to use different art media in therapeutic relationships with children, adolescents & adults in different settings.

In 2017, she collaborated with the JFK University, SFO to offer Samaghama, as a two-week residential module for their students. This has now developed into a one-year advanced training program for practicing therapists that marries Indian philosophy with Jungian theory, in order to honour the transpersonal aspect in therapeutic relationships and practices.