A sensorial journey as we explore aliveness and how de we feel in the midst of grief? Let’s examine how pleasure is codified in our culture and how we can reimagine it as a source of wellness.
Calling all pleasure feeling people to join healers and activists, Joan Rupram and Roshni Kavate for an afternoon of exploration and discovery.
Our cultural conditioning has separated us from embodying and savoring the simple acts of self pleasure. What does it look like to place our desires at the center? We will explore the themes of shame, guilt, eroticism and definition of pleasure in the context of grief.
Through collective sharing, and ancestral rituals we will participate in a full body experience of awakening the senses. Roshni will lead us on a Mango Meditation, we will devour a whole mango and reflect on sensuality. Joan will guide us in the ritual of a self face massage as we collectively rewrite our pleasure code.
Materials needed:
Favorite fruit of your liking
Favorite face oil of your liking
ex: sweet almond oil, coconut oil, shea oil, jojoba oil
About your hosts:
Roshni Kavate is Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate. A wellness startup dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through food, spirituality, storytelling and ritual we can reconnect to our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art practice.
Joan is an Indo-Caribbean & South Asian femme immigrant and descendent of Indian Indentureship of Guyana. They are a healer and educator focused on ushering wellness as the foundation of sustainable leadership and decentering whiteness through reclaiming our ancestral lineage. Bridging the gap between the spiritual and the political, Joan’s mission is to harmonize inner transformation to restore collective responsibility within our families and communities; creating ruptures of communal care within societies. Joan is the Founder and CEO of JR Consultancy; providing Leadership Embodiment Mentorship for Leaders pioneering self accountability in collective responsibility.