Kainaz Motivala
Kainaz Motivala arrived at sound healing by a route most practitioners have not travelled. Before her training in Auroville, she had already lived several distinct lives in Mumbai: journalist, published writer, dancer, and actress — known to film audiences from Wake Up Sid and Ragini MMS, and to the dance world through six years of rigorous training under choreographer Shiamak Davar. She holds a Mass Media degree from Jai Hind College, which shaped the precise, communicative intelligence she now brings to a very different kind of work. That breadth of experience gives her practice an uncommon texture — an ease with language and the body, and a genuine understanding of how people carry stress and sensation.
Kainaz is a consulting sound practitioner at AUM Life, the urban ashram in Worli, Mumbai, where the intention is to hold ancient practices within the rhythms of contemporary city living. She offers one-to-one sessions and group classes as well as events, working with sound and vibration as primary tools for deep relaxation and emotional release. Alongside her sound healing work, she teaches yoga and conscious-movement practice, and brings her background in Waldorf early-childhood education to her broader understanding of how body, creativity and inner life are bound together.
What distinguishes Kainaz is the quality of attention she brings from her years as a performer and a writer — a capacity to read a room, to sense what is needed, to meet people where they are rather than delivering a predetermined sequence. Sound healing in her hands is not a passive experience; it is guided, considered and shaped by a practitioner who has spent years learning how to hold space for an audience. The setting of AUM Life itself, tucked into Worli and devoted to slowing the pace, amplifies this quality.
Those who feel the particular exhaustion of city life — the kind that sleep does not fully resolve — may find something genuinely restorative in Kainaz's sessions. She works well with people who are drawn to healing but arrive with a sceptical or curious mind rather than a fixed spiritual framework, because her own path has been one of discovery rather than doctrine. You can explore her work and find AUM Life at aumlife.in, or follow her practice on Instagram at @kainazmotivala.