Kishori Gopi Sandal

Movement Teacher

Kishori Gopi experienced an alternative upbringing, with Anthroposophy as a living culture in their home. Kishori is the third generation of women in their family to teach at Waldorf Schools. Their mother attended the Rudolf Steiner School in NYC, where their grandmother taught. Kishori attended East Bay Waldorf, Green Wood School, and San Francisco Waldorf High School. During their 4 year high school education they traveled to 7 foreign countries and drove across the US twice.

Kishori was raised in Massachusetts on a small island for the first nine years of their life. Kishori Gopi and friends would boat, surf, explore, farm, wild harvest, get lost for hours in the woods, make art, light beach fires, make music, and dance. Their parents are artists and craftspeople. When they were nine their family began to live bi-coastal. Their mother’s education and love for authentic arts and culture lead them to the San Francisco Bay Area. Being raised in the Bay and its more inclusive politics have been an influence on Kishori Gopi’s worldview.

They began their BFA at California College of the Arts in Oakland as a printmaking and Jewelry major. They left the school to help found Session Space Collective, with the father of their two children Keshava and Yamuna. Session Space is still active and is know for having some of the most affordable art spaces in the entire East Bay. 

They studied permaculture design at RDI (the Regenerative Design Institute), and Peacemaking through DQU (a First Nation University that has closed since). 2012 was the first time they moved to Kansas, where they studied Yoga philosophy, asana, ayurveda, and marma therapy. At this time they also returned to school at KU for textiles, and dance, as well as studied through the Satvatove School of Transformative Communication where they were trained as a life coach. Kishori has completed both Brothmer and Pentathlon training through Spacial Dynamics institute. They believes that the harmony of body, mind, and soul will lead us to sustainable authenticity.