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Gift : The Beginning of a Deep Journey
In 2013 I was invited to Giftival, a gathering of 40 people from around the world engaging in gift culture or gift economy or giftivism as it is often called. This was in Istanbul and my LO was not yet 2 years old. I had only recently heard of gift culture at the...
A Silent Retreat With My Kid Around
There was a raging storm inside of me. So many thoughts, so many possibilities, so many questions, so much churning. It seemed that my home, my temple, my sanctuary was blasted with gusts of outbursts and drama. I was battling enough my confusion, the fog...
Oh the Sweetest Silent Symphony……
Part 2 (Click here to read Part 1 Guzz guzz Gruzz the anxious buzz) Years later.....I sat on her couch in Mumbai, this complete stranger (Effath Yasmin), with my 9 day old baby in my arms, helpless, tear filled feeling like a complete failure of a mother. My baby was...
Nursing Satchitananda: Struggle to Bliss
Saturday 14th January 2012 Mumbai Prologue The streets are bleached ashen under the glare of the night lights. The moon and its powerful silence are obscured by construction cranes, unfinished buildings and the impatient honking of cars whose drivers are racing away...
Guzz guzz gruzz the anxious buzz
Part 1 guzz guzz gruzz goes the anxious buzz. This is the background score that plays relentlessly and restlessly on the instrument of my body in its many nuances. It pulls at my fascia(the connective tissue that is really is our second skin) here and there, tugging...
Mommy Madness & Mandalas
Chanting while coloring a mandala https://youtu.be/72jmDOqBCvo Mandalas are geometrical patterns that are contained within a circle and bring great balance and harmony.They exist everywhere in nature, in the trunk of a tree, in starfish in the sea, in snowflakes and...
Is your Water ALIVE?
"Hail water, ye bring health and bliss, ye help us to energy, that we may look on great delight!" -Sama Veda 9:2:10 Water is the only element that has the power to store, receive and transmit energy. Yet, it is one of the resources we most take for granted. Our...
Heritage Swap
I woke up this morning, feeling very blessed and grateful....last evening was truly magical, more than I could ever have imagined it to be. Such power in intention and non expectation. I walked into the living room, and looked upon the beautiful gift circle that was...
Offbeat Rhythm: Solace for mother and babys soul
In my previous post Rhythm for your child's soul, I extolled the virtues of keeping routine and schedule, of the breathing in phases of concentration and the breathing our phases of exploration, discovery and letting go. To be brutally honest, the last 3 months have...