Welcome to my space on the internet. Let me share a little bit about me and my approach to this work.
My name is Monisha Mittal. I see myself as an Embodied Play Architect and Somatic Freedom Coach. As an architect, I create sequences of play where you can experience the True You. The forms get you in your physical body through movement, sounds, and story.
I come to my work as a recovering over achiever and someone who felt deeply alone, trying to find belonging since I was at least six years old. I noticed there was something different about me from a young age. I felt connected to a reality that no one else did. I could feel it. Everywhere I went, this reality - which contained joy and abundance - existed below the level of words. I felt hidden.
With courage (and also despair, depression and anxiety), I incrementally found greater expression, voice and connection. Taking a leap, I followed a mysterious whisper in my heart. In the process, I found Embodied Play and learned these qualities exist within each body. I also learned that I listen and take in information with my whole body, at the level of frequency. As a Master Frequency Receiver, I hear emotional and energetic frequencies below and beyond the level of words. This gives me a feel for the larger picture, and the ability to get to the heart of things. Now I serve as a Guide for you to tap into a Wisdom beyond the surface perception of your experience. Play is the glidepath to this experience. I invite you as a playmate.
My name is Monisha Mittal. I see myself as an Embodied Play Architect and Somatic Freedom Coach. As an architect, I create sequences of play where you can experience the True You. The forms get you in your physical body through movement, sounds, and story.
I come to my work as a recovering over achiever and someone who felt deeply alone, trying to find belonging since I was at least six years old. I noticed there was something different about me from a young age. I felt connected to a reality that no one else did. I could feel it. Everywhere I went, this reality - which contained joy and abundance - existed below the level of words. I felt hidden.
With courage (and also despair, depression and anxiety), I incrementally found greater expression, voice and connection. Taking a leap, I followed a mysterious whisper in my heart. In the process, I found Embodied Play and learned these qualities exist within each body. I also learned that I listen and take in information with my whole body, at the level of frequency. As a Master Frequency Receiver, I hear emotional and energetic frequencies below and beyond the level of words. This gives me a feel for the larger picture, and the ability to get to the heart of things. Now I serve as a Guide for you to tap into a Wisdom beyond the surface perception of your experience. Play is the glidepath to this experience. I invite you as a playmate.
I listen to the unique frequency of your DIVINITY
Your Presence exerts its own energy field. I hear this invisible stream of information flowing from you. This field transmits your emotional, mental, and soul essence but also your judgements and limited beliefs -- aspects of you where you have learned to keep getting in your way. It’s the incongruence (and congruence) between your human 3D self and your Divine self that I pick up on the most. Your energetic presence is also expressed through your body. The body has multiple languages to express your truth.
Turns out there is an enormous amount of information available here to help guide you, strengthen you, and delight you as you navigate challenges, obstacles, and desires. I work with all layers--emotions, thoughts, physical sensations, and spirit energy so you move as one whole. Along with the information I receive from your Now energy field, you have your own experience and connection with your inner wisdom. My toolset works with your physical and metaphysical realities so you have clarity and connection with your inner truth and make choices from a sense of empowered, heart-centered fullness .
Here, your creativity and embodied play are transformational tools. Your ability to experience your own knowing provides you ease, abundance, and joyful freedom not typically available through other spheres. I supplement your experience with guided activations as needed to help you move from the inside out.
Turns out there is an enormous amount of information available here to help guide you, strengthen you, and delight you as you navigate challenges, obstacles, and desires. I work with all layers--emotions, thoughts, physical sensations, and spirit energy so you move as one whole. Along with the information I receive from your Now energy field, you have your own experience and connection with your inner wisdom. My toolset works with your physical and metaphysical realities so you have clarity and connection with your inner truth and make choices from a sense of empowered, heart-centered fullness .
Here, your creativity and embodied play are transformational tools. Your ability to experience your own knowing provides you ease, abundance, and joyful freedom not typically available through other spheres. I supplement your experience with guided activations as needed to help you move from the inside out.
My schooling, work experience and other adventures
I hold a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School. I began my career in poverty alleviation and community development finance working in neighborhoods in North Philadelphia and in villages in Bihar, India. This part of my life remains one of my greatest adventures and culminated in a role as Senior Community Investment Advisor at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C where I advised on affordable housing, micro-lending and other financing models to promote income equality and wealth equity. I received an Initiative and Innovation Award from Alan Greenspan for my contributions to improve the detection of inequitable lending in low and moderate income neighborhoods.
For the past 20 years, I've helped federal organizations perform better, bridging communication and process gaps within and across teams, and articulating the organizational story for technology solutions. Along the way, I embraced design as a natural part of my wiring through a Design and Public Policy fellowship at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Credentials: I became a trained facilitator through Interaction Associates and completed my coaching accreditation from the Applied Depths Practitioner Institute in 2018. In 2020, I became a certified InterPlay leader. Since 2020, I have accumlated more than 100+ hours as a group leader and one-on-one Somatic Coach.
You may ask, What is InterPlay? InterPlay is a small non-profit in the performing arts space located in Oakland, CA. Founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter created the InterPlay system of forms based on improvisational dance, storytelling and singing. The forms are highly accessilbe and effective at bringing people "into" their bodies and connecting them with their somatic wisdom.
For the past 20 years, I've helped federal organizations perform better, bridging communication and process gaps within and across teams, and articulating the organizational story for technology solutions. Along the way, I embraced design as a natural part of my wiring through a Design and Public Policy fellowship at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Credentials: I became a trained facilitator through Interaction Associates and completed my coaching accreditation from the Applied Depths Practitioner Institute in 2018. In 2020, I became a certified InterPlay leader. Since 2020, I have accumlated more than 100+ hours as a group leader and one-on-one Somatic Coach.
You may ask, What is InterPlay? InterPlay is a small non-profit in the performing arts space located in Oakland, CA. Founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter created the InterPlay system of forms based on improvisational dance, storytelling and singing. The forms are highly accessilbe and effective at bringing people "into" their bodies and connecting them with their somatic wisdom.