Ponni Arasu is a Tamil, queer feminist Expressive Arts Therapist. She arrived at her therapeutic practice through a journey of personal healing while also  working with a range of marginalised communities in India and Sri Lanka. She is trained as a historical anthropologist, lawyer and theatre practitioner. She has worked as an activist and translator within movements for social justice and change. All of this experience has brought her to grounding her practice in an embodied social justice framework. Her practice is trauma informed and deeply aware of oppression, hegemony and the structures of hierarchy that they create. Inspired by Jungian ideas of ‘wholeness’ and ‘the collective‘ she believes in individual and collective bodies as sites of both oppression and liberation.  Her practice is rooted in Tantra as proposed by Lata Mani which entails incorporating the ethos of interdependence; radical equality of all beings; embracing the ‘don’t know’; awareness of our particularity/ situatedness; taking joy in processes; eschewing preferences; and having faith in a greater power that holds us. Her therapeutic practice is primarily in the Tamil language, her mother tongue. She has co-founded the Tamil Speaking Therapeutic Practitioner’s Network.