Radiant Being: Ayurveda Beauty Rituals and Botanical Crafting
Indigenizing Pleasure * Connecting to Plantcestors
Calling all BIPOC pleasure feeling bodies to join healers and activists, Joan Rupram and Roshni Kavate on a journey of Ancestral exploration and discovery in our wellness practice. 5 week at home virtual community retreat, indigenizing your personal wellness practice. A sensorial journey to reclaim aliveness in everyday acts of nourishment to cultivate radiance and reclaim pleasure practices rooted in Ayurveda and Ancestral rituals.
Let’s examine how pleasure and nourishment is codified in our culture and how we can reimagine it as a source of wellness.
Benefits:
Move from strength and resilience to radical rest, pleasure and softness.
Connect to your personal ancestral traditions and rituals as tools for activism for contemporary times
Cultivate a relationship with your ancestral plantcestors to create a ritualistic wellness practice in your daily life
Features:
Learn to incorporate ancestral plants and beauty rituals into your wellness practice from an Ayurvedic lens.
Learn how to craft your own botanical steam, and oils according to the wisdom of Ayurveda. Ayurveda self massage Abhyanga techniques.
Play with oils and body anointing in your wellness practice for nourishment
Small hands on group practice of Prana Prismatic Ritual ™ and Mango meditation ™ incorporating Abhyanga and Marma Therapies.
Contemporary cultural conditioning has separated us as Indigenous, Black and Brown bodies from embodying and savoring our traditional ancestral rituals of self pleasure and nourishment in our wellness practices.
What does it look like to center our Ancestors in our self-care practices?
We will explore definitions of pleasure and themes of shame, guilt and eroticism in the context of indigenizing wellness and self care.
Through collective sharing and ancestral rituals we will participate in a full body experience of awakening the senses and collectively rewriting our pleasure codes to indigenize our wellness practices.
When:
5 Sundays, starting March 7, 11 am PST, 2 pm EST, 8 pm CEST, 75 mins