Transdisciplinary Artist | Educator | Writer
Exploring the transformative power of dance, movement, and creativity through embodied learning, ecological awareness, and holistic education.
Lerna Babikyan is an transdisciplinary artist, educator, and writer whose work explores the transformative power of dance, movement, and creativity. With a background in Dance and Adult Education, and an MA in Movement, Mind, and Ecology from Schumacher College, her practice is rooted in embodied arts and holistic education.
Guided by an ecological approach, Lerna designs and facilitates body-based creative learning experiences across diverse educational and artistic environments. She offers workshops, performances, and teacher trainings for both local and international institutions, supporting educators and learners in cultivating creativity, awareness, and meaningful connection.
She is the founder of Mudita Moves, a platform for workshops, presentations, and performances that nurture authentic self-expression and foster inclusive, responsive relationships with self, community, and nature.
Lerna’s creative and pedagogical work explores themes of identity, memory, ecology, pedagogy, indigenous cultures, languages, and space. Through embodied practices, she weaves together dance, storytelling, and ecological awareness to create work that invites reflection, connection, and healing.
Her research and practice have been shared through workshops and presentations at local and international conferences, contributing to ongoing conversations in arts and education.
Her recent Collaborations with
- Radical Ecology
Artist Educator · Parent & Child Ecology and Dance · 2026
- Armenian Institute
Selected as one of 25 artists for the Institute’s 25th Anniversary programme, Dreams for the Future
- Royal West of England Academy – RWA Bristol
Dancing Out · Dance with Armenian Alphabet · 2026
- Disapora Festival
Dance with Armenian Alphabet · 2026
- Exeter Phoenix – Open Doors Festival
Multi-Layered Movement Expressions Workshop -2026
- Libraries Unlimited
Dancing with Storybooks & Kineastetic Reading Workshops for toddlers at libraries in Devon
