Since 2011, Sivapriya Madeswaran has been facilitating spaces where psychology, movement, nature, and contemplative practice converge to support authentic human development. With over 15 years of experience, she works with students, parents, educators, professionals, and seekers through counselling, movement-based facilitation, yoga, and experiential learning in cities across India. 

Her work has reached 4,000+ individuals across the globe, including 2,000+ participants in Expressive Movement workshops, 500+ yoga practitioners over seven years, 1,000+ school and college students through psychology and life skills education, 200+ therapy clients, and 600–700 parents through parenting programmes. She has also worked with doctors, educators, budding therapists, counsellors, and corporate teams.

 

Core Pillars of Her Work
 

Integrative Psychology & Embodied Practice

Sivapriya's work brings together counselling psychology, therapeutic expressive movement, authentic movement, life skills education, yoga, and reflective practices such as mandala and kolam.

Her facilitation integrates integrative psychology, embodied movement, grief work, shamanic rituals, cathartic inquiry, and ecological relationality, creating spaces where individuals restore connection—with themselves, others, ancestry, and the living world.

 

Laya Gati

 Working with the body-mind nexus through expressive movement and somatic awareness, one can see and sense the patterns stored in the body as a reflection of mind, thereby having a choice of opportunities in life forward. 

Drawing from Bharatanatyam, Poikaal Kudhirai Aattam, Karagam, Mayilaattam, Oyilaattam, Punjabi Folk, and Latin American Salsa, Sivapriya brings a rich understanding of embodiment, rhythm, discipline, and cultural expression into her work. She has facilitated experiential workshops and held space for participants at institutions and organisations including Loyola College, Chennai, IIM Tiruchirappalli, VIT Vellore, CIT Coimbatore, L&T, Zariyaa Well-being, Bengaluru, Kongu engineering college, Perundurai, etc .

 

YOGA 

Her yoga teaching is rooted in Swami Sachidananda’s Hatha Yoga pathway, Pathanjali’s yoga sutras and Dharma—steady and devoted practice—integrating breath, mindful exercising, meditation, and the balancing of the five elements to cultivate harmony between body, mind, emotions, and nature.

 

Animistic Understanding & Sacred Ecology

As an ordained Sagārt at the Saghic Animistic Foundation, Sivapriya's perspective is shaped by an animistic understanding that honours the reciprocal relationship between human beings, ancestors, community, and the Spirit world.

This orientation enriches her working with people alongside embodied presence, relational resonance, ritual awareness, and deep respect for the intelligence of nature as a partner in healing and transformation.

 

Research, Nature & Conscious Living

A lifelong seeker and researcher, Sivapriya's inquiry extends into embodied psychology, indigenous wisdom, movement, ecology, and contemplative traditions.

Her personal practice includes hiking & trekking in different terrains, white-water rafting, plant based food system, natural farming, reflecting her commitment to Dharma, ecological stewardship, and conscious living.

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Why Work With Sivapriya?

Working with Sivapriya is an invitation to cultivate greater self-awareness through the integration of psychology, movement, yoga, expressive arts, and nature-based wisdom. Whether in therapy, workshops, or educational programmes, she creates grounded, experiential spaces that support authentic expression, emotional resilience, embodied presence, and meaningful transformation.

Her work invites individuals not only in understanding deeply of themselves, but to live that understanding with clarity, freedom, compassion, deeper relationship with the living world with Joy. 

 

Video links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-Dzg6nZ0A&t=68s

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