Dayita beat my therapist and my yoga teacher (regarding jaw tension)!

-Vishruti Bindal, music supervisor and festival producer

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I approached Dayita for AT lessons as I had recently relocated to a new city and country and knew my body needed support in integrating the movement patterns of my new environment. We initially worked on everyday movements like climbing stairs, sitting-standing and washing dishes. In later sessions she also supported me in movements relating to my training like squats and lunges. I credit our lessons with taking me from being unable to squat to now squatting quite comfortably with heavy weights. Her work also helped me resolve a persistent hip flexor pain that was impeding my ability to lunge and change levels. Dayita brings both intelligence and gentleness into her sessions, and I always leave feeling lighter and more at ease in myself. 

-Vaishali Iyer, somatic therapist

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I started taking lessons with Dayita for a range of reasons including my interest in somatic therapies, and to explore and deepen my own understanding of my body and its habits. Dayita has been a wonderful guide on this journey. She is very open to a range of questions and is also able to construct classes based on what the need of the moment is. I learn new things about my body and new ways to think about my body in every class.

-Prea Gulati, behavioural scientist and integrative and somatic psychotherapist 

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The biggest gift I’ve got from Alexander Technique lessons with Dayita is the joy of observing myself and learning from my own doing and my own body. I’ve found it has changed how I work long hours editing at the laptop, climb steps or a ladder, think of the shapes of my body, deal with physical fears…and new discoveries keep happening. I am learning to play the cello, and while I was practising today, I decided to think of the length of my arm…and slowly that felt like someone had sprayed WD40 on my joints! I could play more fluidly and faster without the usual tension in my wrist and shoulders. My back felt completely alive.

-Anushka, filmmaker​​

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Dayita is a very gentle and compassionate teacher. She is able to hold sessions with lightness and humour, and brings that ease into how she encourages me to aim for more expansive and balanced positions and postures. An integral part of AT, especially for me, is to not force concrete ‘right and wrong’ postures and movements, but to encourage the mind and body to think and aim towards certain reference points that help bring a sense of agency towards my body. Dayita embodies that ease towards agency, which helps me embody it too. 

-Dhaval Shukla, designer