Priyanka [b.India], currently living and working between Indonesia, India, and the USA. She is a filmmaker, somatic-prana facilitator, and rewilder who maps the invisible currents connecting the human body, the mind, and the living earth. Through her films, her signature Somatic Prana workshops, and her hands-on work in permaculture design, she explores a singular philosophy: The Self-Portrait in Others. Whether capturing the raw sensual and somatic experiences of our daily existence on camera, guiding people to ignite their internal Tapas (creative fire) through her transformational workshops, or tending to the micro-ecosystem of a permaculture garden, Priyanka acts as a conduit for interpersonal understanding and collective connectedness. Her works at the intersection of intense action and total detachment showing that true creative power emerges only when we empty the lens to let the life force flow.
distribution by two of the largest and oldest alternative film distributors in North America
SOMATIC PRANA
The Architecture of the Experiencer––Somatic Prana is an embodied practice exploring the realtionships between body, perception and creative expression.
This practice shifts attention from what we produce to the one who experiences exploring how the body senses, perceives, remembers and responds before experience becomes thought, image or action.
Three Pillars–Somatic Prana is grounded in three interconnected pillars
The Experiencer––the sensisng, perceiving and responding body.
Somatic Methodology––a body of practice developed through micro-somatic movement, sensory immersion, stillness, and embodied awareness.
Adaptive Practices––the methodology adapting to different people, environments, creative disciplines and contexts.
Reclaiming the body as the primary instrument/resource of perception, creation, and knowing.
Film projects
Tomia Timur: Self Portrait in Others | Latest Feature Documentary Project
2026 | 125 mins | Indonesia
in the dark germinate ling.gua.franca
2023 | 12 mins | India
I Tried to Write a Love Letter with My Body
2021 | 22 mins | USA
Return...
2016 | 15 mins | USA
Fragmented-Connected
2015 | 15 mins | USA
Inferno, i saw you on my way to the garden
2022 | 7 mins | India
Under the Jazz. Circulation. Formation
2018 | 68 mins | USA, India, France
as if no one watching
2016 | 3 mins | USA
Together
2014 | 4 mins | USA
In-between
2012 | 21 mins | Indo-China Border Zone
Drawings | Paintings
these drawings/paintings are created through complete submission to our intuition and the flow of somatic pulses. Somatic-prana is a therapeutic process of connecting with our deeper inner wisdom, emotions, thoughts, feelings and visions; moreover connecting with our 'pranic-self' and everything around us and beyond.
Masanobu Fukuoka believed in the principle of "Doing Nothing". My permaculture practice is also rooted in that deep understanding that we are deeply connected to everything around us, so don't try to control it for personal benefit, simply listen and interact with nature around and within us and we will know how to grow garden in the most wildest and natural ways.
In 2022, we built one of the first permaculture homesteads in rural eastern India. This three-year-old homestead now has over thirty-five fruit trees, grows forty+ different kinds of seasonal vegetables, and a natural water garden to provide fishes an organic habitat.
During the pandemic, we worked on this project at Rebel Farm in Odessa, Michigan to sustain their regenerative farm and soil building for vegetable produce.
