The Dance Doctor, Dr Kirran, is a medical doctor who has transitioned from nearly two decades in the NHS to focus on holistic healing through movement as medicine. Specialising in anaesthesia and chronic pain, she worked on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic in London and served as a doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières in South Sudan. She has seen first hand how communities without access to conventional healthcare use movement, ritual and community as medicine. Her dedication to exploring alternative healing modalities led her to spearhead ground-breaking research into the use of psilocybin for chronic pain at Imperial College London.
After being diagnosed with PTSD and recognising the toll that working on the frontline of the pandemic took on her mental health, Kirran stepped away from clinical practice. She felt a strong calling to explore more holistic approaches to her own and others' healing, focusing on the transformative power of movement. She found a deep resonance through her first immersion at the Phoenix retreat. It was here that she first experienced the body's capacity to release long held, stuck emotion.
As The Dance Doctor, she blends her western medical practice with ancient ways of healing, bridging science and spirituality and is committed to shifting the conversation within medicine itself about what healing can look like.
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