Natya Yoga is not a fusion. It is a restoration. The understanding that classical Indian dance and classical yoga are not two separate traditions but two expressions of one complete science — the science of the embodied human being on the path to liberation.
People come to Kathak for the beauty. They stay for the transformation. What happens in the body of a Kathak practitioner over years of sincere practice is one of the most profound developmental journeys available to a human being — and almost no one is talking about it in those terms.
From the runways of Paris to the boardrooms of New York, Indian aesthetics are having their moment. But is it appreciation, or appropriation? And does India know what it holds?