Bharatnatyam an apt stress buster (Dr. Shikha Sharma)














At a time when the stress of managing deadlines and achieving success is weighing on everyone’s mind, it becomes even more important to find ways to reduce stress and anxiety of work, towards finding peace despite the pressures of everyday life. 

Recently, Dr Shikha Nehru Sharma, a renowned doctor turned nutrition expert, proved the traditions right and showed that dance has the same powers of healing and is also a major stress-buster. 

Dr. Shikha Sharma, demonstrated how the power of dance can overcome the stresses of life with her debut Bharatnatyam performance. The occasion also saw the release of her book titled “Arangetram of Dr Shikha Nehru Sharma” Health, Stress management and Fitness via Bharatnatyam.

 

Doordarshan’s Additional Director General and senior Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service officer, Ms Deepa Chandra presided as the chief guest while renowned danseuse who has excelled in Odissi, Chhau and Manipuri dance forms, Sharon Lowen was the Guest of Honour on the occasion. Members of Dr. Shikha Sharma’s family and Ms Rani Shingal, a proud guru of Dr. Shikha Sharma were also present to encourage her in her new endeavour.


As Dr Sharma and her team at NutriHealth are dedicated to spread health consciousness, so, she decided to share her experience with Bharatnatyam through her book “Arangetram” Health, Stress management and Fitness via Bharatnatyam. The book has shared various benefits of Bharatnatyam. It explains how dancing to the intonation of ancient mantras and shlokas is like praying in motion. It also explains how foot tapping movements are like acupressure and help to press all the points of the body connected to the feet. This also helps in increasing concentration power, as the dancer needs to have sheer concentration while dancing. 

 

An alumnus of Maulana Azad Medical College, Dr Sharma is a notable nutrition expert who has been working hard in the area of preventive medicine and weight loss for several years. Her focus and dedication to her work helped her to scale her organisation “NutriHealth” from few nutritionists to 200 full time employees. Her unique model of using Remote Nutrition Advisory using a Tele-Nutrition Centre to deliver Nutrition advisory and compliance monitoring to clients globally has helped her to draw international Venture Capital funding.

 

But the stress and pressure of work began to show on her health and she had to find a stress-buster. She tried every possible solution to keep away from the pressure of work and even tried her hands on yoga, meditation and aerobatics.  But only the combination of Meditation, music and dance - Bharatnatyam – gave her the much needed break.

 

Dr Sharma found that Bharatnatyam not only helped her to manage stress but also improve concentration, memory, build flexibility, and strengthen her spine and back. This improved her mind and body coordination and fitness levels and she discovered that it may have application in learning subjects like geometry and maths via the beats of rhythm. In fact, this is the subject of research in many Universities for teaching geometry.

                                 

As Dr Sharma says “As my work grew and the mental pressures of following my dream with passion and determination took its toll on my health, I found I could treat myself with the correct Nutrition and Ayurvedic medicines but the stress was getting difficult to manage .Once while searching for solutions to fight stress, I stumbled upon the word “Natya Yoga“, also known as Bharatnatyam which was a combination of breathing, Exercise, meditation and music. My intuition told me “I have found the antidote! .This was that Eureka moment for me and over time it proved right.”

   

With such a program, Dr. Shikha Sharma has set an example in front of the society, that dance knows no age and if you follow your dreams nothing is impossible. 

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