“The only boundaries that exist are the ones we create in our minds.”
Jasmmine Kaur Ramgotra (They/She), also known by the matriarchal name Jamuna - after her great grandmother - is an EMBODIED ARTIST and SPACE HOLDER. Her work focuses on facilitating powerful experiences where we can deepen our understanding of how the current crises we face - climate change, social injustice, and ecological collapse - are interrelated, and require an intersectional approach in order to fully heal.
Jamuna graduated from the University of Washington in 2017 with a double major in Environmental Studies & Dance, and a minor in Environmental Science and Resource Management. For Jamuna, movement-based expression and storytelling is the root of her healing and her creative practices, which started at very young age. Post-graduation Jamuna’s work has been focused on climate justice activism via anti-oppression facilitation and art-based communication. Jamuna’s experience crosses many fields including: choreography, research communication, creative direction, movement & performance, poetry, sound design, facilitation and filmmaking.
Jamuna won the title of Miss Next Century in 2017 for her work at the intersection of anti-racism, equity and the state of diversity within the environmental field. Her movement and facilitation project, “Change From Within: Diversifying the Environmental Movement” grew out of 9 months of research exploring the lack of diversity in the “environmental” community, and premiered for the first time as a film experience in 2019 as the opening session for the Salish Sea Equity and Justice Symposium. This project fueled her desire to hold space for anti-oppression work in an embodied way, as it is the most essential aspect of truly addressing our “environmental” problems.
Jamuna is the descendant of powerful women healers, artists, and seers using music and medicine to bring balance, joy, and magic to the world. Jamuna’s core focus is to hold space for our collective liberation. She believes the work of artful & embodied education is a critical connecting tissue that will support our transition to a vibrant and equitable world for all living beings.