Rupa Cousins has been involved with Body/Mind Integration for over 30 years. After an eleven-year adventure as a professional actress in New York City, then known as Bonnie Cousins, Rupa moved to Florida in 1972 and re-defined herself, becoming a teacher of yoga and creative movement. An affiliation with the Association for Humanistic Psychology introduced her to her mentor, Ilana Rubenfeld, who encouraged her to move back to New York City to train at the American Center for the Alexander Technique. She became a founding member of The North American Society for the Alexander Technique. At this time Rupa met her meditation teacher Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) and traveled to India to deepen her practices. Returning to New York she became the founding director of a large meditation center where she taught Osho's dynamic meditations and Peace Dances.

In 1982, Rupa moved to New England where she opened a private practice as an Alexander teacher, raised her son, and offered workshops in movement and meditation as well as Alexander work. During that time she traveled back to New York bi-monthly, assisting Ilana in a two year program teaching Alexander to Rubenfeld Synergists. In 1990 Rupa completed her training as a Rubenfeld Synergist and added the Rubenfeld work to her private practice.

She has continued to see individual students and clients, while her love of creative movement and dance has blossomed into many workshops bringing meditation, emotional processing, and dance to hundreds of people.

In Vermont Rupa began her studies in Sufism where she learned the turn and became an initiated “Whirling Dervish,” through the Threshold Society. There she also met Ernestina Staleva who trained her to teach Paneurhythmy, a sacred movement practice from Bulgaria. Rupa joined Erna in teaching Paneurhythmy at the Omega Institute in 1996.

Her love for International dance, Peace Dance and Paneurhythmy opened the door for her to teach in Macedonia 2001 and in Bosnia in 2004.

Currently, Rupa is on the Board of the Institute for Circlework, Vermont Healing Tools Project, and The Associated Psychotherapists of Vermont. When appropriate, she performs “Inspirational Turning” or appears with others in traditional Sema, (Ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes, of Jalaluddin Rumi).