Manisha Nair

Teaches at Doonya

Manisha's love and passion for dance and fitness brought her to Doonya in October 2012. She officially started teaching Doonya’s signature class in May 2013, and brings over 20 years of Indian classical, folk, and Bollywood dance experience to her students.

As one of the newest members of Doonya’s NYC faculty, Manisha is known for the precision in her dance form and for motivating those around her to incorporate fitness into their daily lives.

Manisha’s dance career began at age 5. She is trained in the Indian classical dance genre of Bharatanatyam, has experimented in ballet, jazz, and hip-hop, and has performed and choreographed in Indian folk and Bollywood dance styles in the Chicago community where she grew up, and throughout her college career at Purdue University. While dance has always been the primary passion for Manisha, her life was always entrenched in music. She grew up also studying Sitar, an Indian musical instrument, as well as Carnatic music, an Indian classical music genre.

Fitness outside of dance also became a part of Manisha’s life through tennis and soccer, and later morphed into running races, lifting, and simply being active.

Manisha has always embraced dance and fitness and even as her profession may require long hours and travel, she always makes an effort to incorporate it into her daily life, and enjoys bringing it to others.