Umair has served as the Director of the Conscious Dance and Live Music Program for Interfusion Festival since 2022. His life passion lies with the technology in each of our bodies, in continued research via somatic practices including yoga, meditation, conscious dance and physical theater. Umair has been dancing Contact Improvisation, Ecstatic Dance and 5Rythms since 2016 and has witnessed the power of conscious dance through his own transformation and growth. Umair organizes contact improvisation jams and has taught contact improvisation in Washington DC since 2021. Umair is motivated to continue to bring forth transformative programming for Interfusion Festival.
Umair is the founder of Aquanimous, which markets sustainable cork-based yoga, recovery and self-massage tools. Aquanimous was founded to bridge personal wellness practice and environmental consciousness, and aims to shift the normalization of plastics and artificial materials in the fitness industry. Umair is also a certified yoga teacher and has taught yoga classes and enjoys incorporating self-massage in with movement.