ABOUT KATHAPRANA

South Asian Centre for Creative Arts Therapies Australia

Making existing creative arts therapy models more inclusive of South Asian modalities and frameworks to facilitate a culturally appropriate mental health model for the CALD community in Australia.

Kathaprana seeks to

Kathaprana aims to create a more inclusive and culturally aware creative arts therapy industry. South Asian Creative Arts Therapy center in Melbourne. Explore therapeutic dance, music & movement with Kathaprana.

Create a more inclusive and culturally aware creative arts therapy industry.

Reflect South Asian voices to ensure culturally appropriate and sensitive therapies.  South Asian Creative Arts Therapy center in Melbourne. Explore therapeutic dance, music & movement with Kathaprana.

Reflect South Asian voices in program design, delivery and evaluation to ensure culturally appropriate and sensitive therapies.

Kathaprana aims to create inclusive creative arts therapy spaces for the South Asian community.  South Asian Creative Arts Therapy center in Melbourne. Explore therapeutic dance, music & movement with Kathaprana.

Create inclusive creative arts therapy spaces for the South Asian community

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Beautifully designed and engaging! My child loves exploring dance and creativity with Natya Cards!

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Flat lay of Kathaprana Natya Cards for kids featuring illustrated dance poses and Sanskrit footwork terms. Learn Kathak mudras and meanings with Natya Cards.
Culturally Creative Arts Therapy by Kathaprana.

WHAT KATHAPRANA DOES

Culturally aware creative arts therapy

Membership for Practitioners

General Membership

  • Free access to our professional resource library.
  • Discounted access to workshops and training programs.
  • Discounted access to meetups
  • Free online forum for community building/engagement.
Kathaprana provides Membership to Our Community Arts Group for Specially abled people in Melbourne. Start your creative healing journey

event spaces for all

More inclusive creative arts spaces

acknowledgement

Kathaprana acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and water we work and gather on. We pay our respect to their elders’ past, present and emerging. We recognize and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and their values, their oldest living cultures and practices.