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Swahansa Institute 🇮🇳
In cooperation with the European Graduate School 🇨🇭
Member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Training Institutes 🌏

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A room full of colour, and the quiet courage to begin.

At Swahansa Expressive Arts India, through the Arts, we return to our humanness and flourish together.

Rooted in the phenomenological intermodal expressive arts approach of The European Graduate School (EGS), Switzerland, Arts, Health and Society Division.

Certificate courses and the MA in Expressive Arts
Creative retreats and workshops
Meetups for our growing community

No prior artistic knowledge is required. Only curiosity, and a willingness to explore.
Explore our courses and upcoming offerings:
🔗 www.expressiveartsindia.com (link in bio)

#ExpressiveArts #IntermodalExpressiveArts #ExpressiveArtstraining #Swahansa #europeangraduateschool ArtsBasedPractice ExpressiveArtsTherapy CreativeRetreat HumanFlourishing by @expressiveartsindia

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3 days ago

SÔMĀ ✦
We arrived as ourselves.
We let go a little,
and shaped what remained
into something truer.

Intermodal Expressive Arts Facilitators Training
Gopika Dahanukar & Dr. Markus Scott-Alexander

#SOMA #ExpressiveArts #IntermodalExpressiveArts #Auroville #Swahansa

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@anukshamakesart by @expressiveartsindia

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4 days ago

SÔMĀ Training · Getting to the essence of Intermodal Expressive Arts Facilitation🌹

"Not what shall I do now, but how shall I be now." ~ Dr. Markus Scott-Alexander

Live music by @nadakamusic 🎶
#ExpressiveArts #IntermodalExpressiveArts
#swahansa by @expressiveartsindia

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11 days ago

Facilitated by @aurodeva_guerci

K module - Poetry & Creative Writing

In the forest of her play
They walk on red and grey
In wild green between
Among shy birds unseen
Her voice circling to find
Upon their listening mind
Asking them to stay
And follow along her way.
She is human flourishing
Holding us today.

~ Gopika

Swahansa Expressive Arts India
🔗 expressiveartsindia.com

#ExpressiveArts #NatureBasedExpressiveArts #PoetryAndNature #CreativeWriting #LandArt NatureMandala ForestWalk IntermodalExpressiveArts ArtsBasedPractice Swahansa ExpressiveArtsIndia by @expressiveartsindia

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14 days ago

We learn to see and sense
What is, rather than what it is
Light and shadow in our hands
We are held in our expanse.
~ gopika

From the K Module 2026, Contemplative Photography. In Miksang, the "good eye,"

Sensing, sentitizing, listening.
Being in the doing.

#Miksang #ContemplativePhotography #ExpressiveArts #Swahansa #KModule2026 SlowLooking by @expressiveartsindia

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15 days ago

K Module 2026 at Swahansa has begun.
The Arts are here
to greet us, to meet us, to serve us.

A circle gathers: paper, paint, breath, and each other. Follow the journey as it unfolds.

#expressivearts #swahansa #intermodal #artsbasedlearning #creativeprocess by @expressiveartsindia

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16 days ago

K Module training begins this year.

Tending to the space.
Tending to beauty.
Creating an invitation for beautiful work to emerge.

Beauty as attentiveness. Beauty as care. Beauty as an invitation.

K Module | Aesthetic Education
Swahansa Expressive Arts India

#expressiveartstraining
#expressiveartseducation
#swahansa by @expressiveartsindia

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22 days ago

The EXA Way- on gurupornima 🌝

What is learnt
cannot be taught.
It is a way of knowing,
a way of recognising,
a way of reclaiming your heart,
with the art,
again and again.

What is felt
cannot be taught.
It is found in what resonates,
in what finds you.
It is a way of loving,
what responds to what sets you free.

We honour each other,
the teacher and the student,
for what we learn
is held with deep care
in our collective flourishing.

Grateful for each of you who makes up this precious community.

~ g ❤️✨❤️ by @expressiveartsindia

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3 months ago

SAMANAND 2026

What if the most meaningful transformation in education begins with the educator?

It is a profound honour and joy to work with teachers in rural India. Their openness, integrity, and deep commitment to their students continue to inspire me.

What moves me most is how quickly they bring these creative practices into their classrooms, creating a ripple effect that carries expressive arts into remote communities across India.

Samanand is an immersive journey where teachers explore creativity, nature, and community as pathways to cultivating classrooms rooted in care, inclusion, and belonging.

This film captures moments of reflection, discovery, and shared learning. It reminds us that when we nurture educators, we nurture every child whose life they touch.

We invite you to watch, reflect, and journey with us.

An initiative of the Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, with the generous support of the Bajaj Electricals Foundation.
With gratitude, always. 🙏

#swahansa by @expressiveartsindia

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3 months ago

Fire is more than energy. It is courage. It is transformation. It is the spark that awakens creativity and invites us to step beyond the familiar.

In Samanand, we explore Fire not as a symbol alone, but as a living teacher, guiding educators to reconnect with their passion, resilience, and capacity to inspire.

When teachers ignite their own inner spark, they create classrooms where curiosity flourishes, every voice matters, and learning becomes a transformative journey.

What does Fire awaken in you?

#Samanand2026 #Swahansa #ExpressiveArts #CreativeEducation #InclusiveEducation TeacherWellbeing Creativity FireElement LearningThroughNature TransformingEducation by @expressiveartsindia

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4 months ago

Wonderful to be with @caecilieliv program leader of Expressive Arts in Copenhagen. HeArtful connection and heArtfelt gratitude. ☺️ by @expressiveartsindia

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4 months ago

Presenting a session tomorrow at the 15th International Arts Therapy Festival Pacha-mama: Nature. Art. Therapy organised by @varvarasidorovaexat

Looking forward to this international meet.

To register follow this link - https://artstherapy.timepad.ru/event/3684383/

#arttherapyfestival
#mantrahealing
#expressiveartstherapy by @expressiveartsindia

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