Meet The Facilitators

Eshna Kutty

Eshna Kutty is the creative force behind Forest Circle and the founder of Hoop Flo, India’s leading hoop movement platform. A certified Expressive Arts Therapy practitioner and psychology graduate, Eshna uses the hula hoop as a joyful tool for connection and creativity.

She’s taught over 12,000 people across 18 cities post-pandemic, led workshops at international flow festivals, and co-hosted retreats around the world. Previously a Nike Catalyst, Eshna gradually moved away from mainstream fitness to focus on building community through movement.

Rooted in music and inspired by rhythm, Eshna’s teaching style blends dynamic movement, musicality, playfulness, and comfort. With her, you’ll learn creative combos and full choreographies.
IG: @eshnakutty

Partha Varanashi

Partha Varanashi is a molecular biologist turned aquatic educator. He has over 20 years of experience in aquatic industry in Australia and in India. He is India's first AUSTSWIM TSW presenter and has trained over 500 swim teachers and coaches in India. He represented India as an official coach for 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships held at Geangju South Korea. He is also a well decorated masters swimmers with over 25 Gold medals won in Masters Nationals and has represented India in World Masters Championships in Hungary and in Canada. His passion for the sports makes him an excellent aquatic educator.

Coach Partha will take you through various movements in water that will help you get a better feel of water, aquatic breathing and swimming with minimal effort. This session will help you identify and reduce the drag, improve stroke efficiency, balance and flow.
IG: @coach_partha

Alice Rose- UK

Alice Rose reluctantly started hooping in 2013 and ironically became completely obsessed. So much so that she won Hooping.org’s “Best New Hooper of the Year” award in 2014 back in the pre-TikTok, pre-Instagram days. Since then, Alice has captivated audiences and students alike, performing and teaching at festivals, conventions, and gatherings across Europe, the UK, hosting renegade shows like at the Phoenix Fire Convention.

A longtime yoga practitioner, Alice sees hooping as a moving meditation, a tool for self-expression, balance, and flow. With her you'll be exploring hoop balance, and how to integrate moments of stillness and flow within movement. She'll also be teaching the fundamentals of chest hooping, which will focus on sustaining, travelling, and dancing while chest hooping alongside an introduction to breaks.

Rooted in community, Alice’s heart remains with her juggling family at Spinning@, London — the place that shaped her flow and continues to inspire her journey today.
IG: @the_dharmadiaries

Gunjan Saraf

A bohemian with eclectic tastes, Gunjan is mad about about Juggling, Hooping, Theater and Learning! He has been teaching performing arts and flow arts now for almost 2 decades and has done workshops for IIT Chennai; NITK Suratkal; Learning Beyond Mumbai; RIL Mumbai; Felicity Chennai; JP Morgan Bangalore; Mindtree, Intuit and 100s of institutions. He learnt Hooping in 2006 and started teaching Hooping in 2008. For the last decade his focus has been teaching Performing Arts in Schools and he is currently working with 4 schools in Bangalore.

Gunjan's hooping style is eclectic and filled with nerdy tricks. He's got a superpower of breaking down even the hardest of moves in the most easy ways for his students.

Serena Gianoglio- Italy

Serena, aka Sessi, is a dynamic multi-hoop artist from Italy whose hoop journey has taken her across Europe and India. What began with a second-hand hoop has grown into a love for spinning not just one or two, but up to six hoops at once. Her style blends precision with play, always pushing the limits of what’s possible inside the circle. As a performer she captivates, and as a teacher she shares with clarity, energy, and warmth.

Sessi has led workshops and performed at some of the most exciting flow events around the world—from Naples Hoop Gathering and Sinergia in Europe to Inflow, Bloomingreen, and Forest Carnival in India.

In her workshops, you’ll dive into the fundamentals of double hooping and boldly level up to multi-hooping with up to six hoops—building technique, flow, and geometric flair along the way.
IG: @sessigianoglio

Carolyn Chittilappilly

She is an Indian wellness consultant and yoga educator. A 500 RYT graduate from Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, she also holds QCI Level 2 from the Ministry of Ayush. Currently practicing Ashtanga Yoga with Paramguru Sharath Jois, Carolyn is multifaceted, trained in dance, Ayurveda, NLP, Sound Therapy, and holds a Diploma in Buddhist Studies from Nalanda University. Having trained over 400+ instructors, and international athletes including the Indian Hockey, she extends her expertise beyond yoga, being a food writer and fitness model.

Morning sessions with Carolyn will combine full-body asana practices, pranayama and breathwork, followed by meditation to awaken and align. With elements of sound healing and a deep connection to nature, each practice will guide you from gentle movement into grounding stillness, leaving you refreshed, centred, and ready for the day.
IG: @yogacaro

Gowri Varanashi

Gowri Varanashi has been a wilderness educator and rock climber for over 12 years. She has guided in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest for 9 years and worked at wilderness schools in the US for 5 years. Since 2020, she has been running nature + outdoor programs in India through Wilderness Ways. Wilderness She aims to reconnect and rewild people back to the land and nature. Her teachings bring knowledge and skills for each person to go back to our roots, learn survival skills, to connect more deeply to their own senses and the land, to rewild and reconnect to nature.

With Gowri, you’ll venture out in the dark (with headlamps) to discover the hidden world of nocturnal animals, spotting spiders, katydids, crickets, and more. As you observe their nighttime behaviours, Gowri will share fascinating insights and stories into how these creatures move, hunt, and thrive in the dark.
IG: @gowrivaranashi