Moving Mudra
Moving Mudra is a conscious dance practice rooted in Bharatanatyam.
Moving Mudra is both a personal practice and a shared ritual embodying prayers and blessings. It is a pathway to awaken vitality and facilitate healing.
Mudras are energetic seals or gestures expressed by the whole body and in particular the hands.
Bharatanatyam is a South Indian Classical Dance that evolved from the dance rituals and devotional practices in the Temples of Tamil Nadu.
Moving Mudra is for anyone who feels drawn to a refined movement language of gesture and embodied expression. As you progress in your practice -short movement phrases can be integrated into your own ceremonies, circle-work, and spiritual practice.
Inspiration for choreography comes from our land, the waters, poetry, song , Goddess traditions and ceremony from around the world. Together we connect with the earth, soul and each other.
“In Bharatanatyam, every movement is a word, and every gesture is a poem.”
~ Rukmini Devi Arundale
Moving Mudra Workshops
Dance Studio, Cranleigh School Sports Centre, nr Guildford
Mondays 9.30am- 11am Monthly
Enjoy gentle movement, creativity, and mind–body connection, Moving Mudra is an expressive dance practice for women. You’ll learn intricate hand gestures, fluid arm movements and rhythmic steps that improve coordination, focus, and body awareness.
Each sequence becomes a moving meditation—soothing the nervous system, awakening imagination, and inviting you into a more centred, embodied state. It’s a nurturing way to reconnect with yourself, feel more present, and enjoy the joy of expressive movement with other like minded women.
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Improve posture and develop grace
MindBody Connection
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Learn a sacred language of the body
Emotional Expression
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Bring mindful movement into every day
Movement Meditations
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Awaken your imagination
Embodying archytypes & nature
For Facilitators, Circle Holders & Ceremony Leaders
Moving Mudra gives a structured, embodied vocabulary of gestures, shapes, and movement sequences often set to poems, that can bring meaning to your blessings, and transitions.
Giving facilitators a reliable, beautiful and energetically powerfull toolkit for ceremony, and group rituals, like offerings to the 7 directions.
You may be searching for a way to bring more depth, and symbolism into your existing practice. Sarra can work with you weaving together gestures creating sacred space, or a movement ritual .
My Bharatanatyam teacher Kalamandalam Sumathy of Perumbavoor, Cochin, Kerala 1996
Honouring my teachers
Vidvan Shri Bhagavatula Seetarama Sharma - A Musician and Composer
I learnt Carnatic Vocal and Nattuvangam from Sharma Sir
Professor C. V Chandrashekhar A Musican, Composer , Choreographer, Dancer and Teacher
I learnt Bharatanatyam from Sir and his daughter Manjari .
A short performance in Chennai for Sharma Sir's lecture demonstration on Nattuvangam. (probably in 2006)
Qualifications & Experience
2017 Singing Mamas Song Leader Certificate
2015 Natural Voice Song Leader - trainined by Susie Ro
2000- 2007 Mentored by and worked in North London with Anusha Subramanyam of Beeja
2001- 2007 2 months per year in Chennai, South India with dance and vocal teachers from the Kalakshetra School of Fine Art.
1996- 1999 2 months per year at Natyalaya Dance School in Kerala under Kalamandalam Sumathy
1993- 96 BA Hons Performing Arts and Philosophy
Grade 6 Classical Singing
Grade 5 Piano
Grade 5 Classical Ballet