Devaki Thomas, a movement psychotherapist and multi-disciplinary artist, is known in international art circles for her work as a performing artist in many capacities including drummer/vocalist with her husband’s award-winning world-fusion-dance projects, Samsara and Stunflower. She made a name for herself in her late 30’s/40’s as a festival director, co-founding a renowned, ground-breaking 3-day event with her husband Thomas. The pair ran the Komasket Music Festival, in Western Canada, presenting and collaborating with icons in global music. She’s been a creative force working with many festivals and established arts organisations in London after re-locating to the UK in 2008 with her family. She is a dedicated mother of 4 sons and now a grandmother. 

Recently graduating with an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy she created Sound & Movement Sanctuary (SMS) in October 2020, collating 30 years as a dancer, musician, teacher, producer and now psychotherapist. SMS provides therapeutic movement and sound sessions online and in-person. She is the eldest daughter of a 7-sibling family, raised in the ‘music centric’ Hare Krishna commune in Vancouver. This story is a glimpse into the challenges and rewards of a life in this cult-like upbringing and how this has shaped her as an artist, mother and now psychotherapist.