During this full-day art journey, participants will engage in a variety of nature-based art making to discover both personal and collective links between earth, body, mind, heart, spirit.

The day will include a mindful walk in nearby nature, guided meditation, individual and collaborative artmaking, movement, writing, as well as sharing.

Through a creative redefinition of the art media we consume and use, there will be an invitation to process themes such as impermanence, cycles, grounding, and gratitude.

In this creative ceremony of an open presence, we will also leave space for the unexpected, for the art to surprise and reflect back to us what we all need to see!

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.

She was also an Aurovilian with a bright blue shipping container home in Auroville (2010-2020), now living her own creative version of the Integral Yoga path on the fringe and beyond, based between Auroville and Pondicherry.

Krupa Jhaveri, PhD, EXAT, TIEAT-C
Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapist & Art Director
Founder of Sankalpa: Art Journeys, based in south India
TEDx Women speaker on "Art as a Mirror"

Matagiri Center is 8 miles west of Woodstock NY on a wooded mountainside. It includes a meditation room, an art gallery, Sonorium and book store. Matagiri is a nonprofit organization.

Inner Nature: an Expressive Arts Immersion with Krupa Jhaveri

Inner Nature: an Expressive Arts Immersion with Krupa Jhaveri