SPIRITUALITY | 53
THE LAST LAW OF
MOTION
Creative dance therapist Neera Suri uses your body’s own innate rhythm and motion to help you rid yourself of stifling energies and blocks
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ithin moments of your meeting with Neera Suri, she observes you verbalise an unconscious emotional block about your career. “Who does this thought belong to?” she asks you, leaving you somewhat tongue-tied. “Me?” you stammer. She repeats the question, until you realise the idea was recently triggered by a conversation with a well-meaning friend, and before that belonged to your father. “Uncreate and destroy that thought, and send it back with consciousness attached to where it originated from,” she advises, and you conjure up an image of actor Maggie Smith as Professor Minerva McGonagall from Harry Potter swishing her wand about, sending your negative belief back out of your brain and away. Such is Neera’s personal aura: magical, motherly, wise.And though she’s only 65 (and insists she feels like 16), one can’t shake off the feeling that she’s many centuries old, APRIL 2019
holding the gift of the gods in her wizened, manicured hands. When it comes to qualifications, the Mumbai-born, Delhi-based Neera has a BA in mathematics, B.Ed, and a Master’s in psychology. She has certificates in creative