Immersive, Conscious, Therapeutic Fashion Session
(K)NOT YOUR SARI, STOLE, DHOTI
Develop a relationship with your unused and unstitched fabric to start healing your self. Transform discomfort, inertia and/or stuck emotions (love, fear, nostalgia, or grief) off your saree, stole or dhoti into the joy of self-expression -- using therapeutic techniques of writing and styling. We also apply gentle breath and movement derived from yoga and pranayama to think-feel-do this a tad more consciously in a loving, like-minded group tucked safely in a healing space.
Format: In-Person (Group)
Age: 18 Years and above
Duration: 2 Hours
Kindly carry a sari, stole or dhoti which you love, is uber-close to your heart, or do not like but do not want to donate or chop.
Guiding prompts and worksheets will be provided.
Overview
In this virtual and wired universe, doing real and flow-based things with an empathetic tribe or a relaxed community is the need of the hour. This is what we bring together in this immersive workshop––place and people to share personal stories of fabric love, nostalgia, and/or grief. And transform the emotions into forms of self-expression--via writing and styling. Why? Because saris, stoles or dhotis as physical and non-physical forms of energy hold space as vehicles for connecting, creating, releasing, and healing the SELF more than we know.
Features
The session will have short, guided meditation (sensorial experience) and a set of self-observational, artistic activities conducted in a sharing circle. It will have a safe environment for us to express our style stories, inertia, and emotions connected to our saris, stoles or dhotis
via writing, styling, and designing. It will have learning of sari Reduce-Reuse-Recycle techniques and yogic-meditative tips
based on experience of the facilitator(s). The ideas can be tweaked, applied, and / or outsourced anytime later in life.
Benefits
The session will give us a chance to immerse ourselves in a transformative fashion experience with yogic awareness. It will help us release our stored sari, stole or dhoti emotions related to love, celebration, separation, heartbreak, divorce or death and identify their symbolism. It will help us understand the WHYs and HOWs of sari, stole or dhoti as a form of self-expression and storytelling. It will give us fashion techniques to tweak in a self-paced way. And be part of a spiritual community of fashion conscious humans .
Components
Interact with other like-minded fashion conscious individuals
Activities
Integrations
Become aware of your relationship with unstitched fabric & emotions
Techniques
Learn self-expressive methods to write and style off your textiles
Resources
Know how to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle your saree , stole or dhoti
NOTE
Kindly carry a sari, stole or dhoti that you love, is uber-close to your heart, or do not like but don't want to chop, either.
It could be yours or anyone else’s (inherited / hand-me-down / pre-loved / swapped). This event is an experiential and immersive workshop and not a counselling session. It is to explore emotions of SELF through our SENSES and SARIS.
It is curated for a limited number of participants. Registrations will close early. We request you to sign up accordingly.
Connections
Interact with other like-minded fashion conscious individuals
Activities
Indulge in self-paced, thoughtful, and sensorial saree storytelling
Observations
Notice your silences and words that are not usually linked to fabrics
Date
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Day
Saturday/Sunday
Time
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Venue
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Cost
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Facilitator
Fashion editor-educator Bhawana Pingali will work through the immersive process based on her professional explorations in the fashion world and personal experiences of navigating emotions through saris and other clothing. Bhawana is a mother of a teen and has been a writer-academic for the last 19+ years. After her stint as Features Editor-Fashion with FEMINA (Worldwide Media Ltd.—Times of India / BBC Magazines), she contributed independently to The Hindu, Hindustan Times-Mint Lounge, Time Out, Lonely Planet, Travel + Leisure, Maxim, Orissa Post, Signature-Oman, among others. She has taught at NIFT, Pearl Academy, Symbiosis Institute of Design, CEPT-Ahmedabad, IIM-A, British Council (TEFL-certified trainer), Chitkara University, GD Goenka and Ansal Universities. Her heart now lies in teaching yoga-meditation, reviving saris storytelling, and old-world lifestyle practices and rituals through REVASTRA.