My name is Niki, I am 25 years old living in Utrecht but have grown up in Uzbekistan (but half Russian half Indian). My interests in facilitation lie in the desire to host space for inner and outer transformation on an individual, collective and societal level.
My 'work' in the world has included facilitating and hosting alternative educational spaces that involve social innovation with inner transformation, as well as growing within the regenerative agriculture space as an anthropologist, examining the importance of deeper paradigm shifts within human-nature relations through land and food.
I have also been diving deeper into the spiritual-political praxis, seeking to grow further in connecting somatics with activism, understanding how collective healing and liberation is a process of both embodied inner activation and outer work. I have started exploring these topics through a decoloniality lens, offering BIPOC circles as well as yoga for social justice.
🌃Where can we typically find you on a week night?
At home cooking a nice dinner, working on something, calling a friend, or reading
👯♀️If we were to find you on the dance floor, what kind of music would be playing?
Techno of afrobeats
🍜When we say FOOD, you say…
Regenerative agriculture, healthy soils, nutritious foods, fruits and vegetables!
🩰If you were a shoe, what would it look like?
A worn out converse
🗺Life quest?
Finding my community in place where my innate human can flourish and be of service
🎙What do you bring to The Outspoken Native?
Emotional range, boldness, and raw experience
🧓What's something your grandparent doesn't think is a job, but you'd like to get paid for?
Being a social change innovator and activist
🧐What's something unpopular that you believe?
That humans always want something they don’t have