Another intentional step towards - what brings me joy :)
(After all the teary calls with colleagues who got impacted at work)
Participated in a workshop on mud house construction at a soulful farm - Mayavadi Organic Farms.
'Mayavadi', as explained by the owner, Maya means Illusion and the word, Vadi has two meanings to it. One in Tamil, that means to wither whereas in another language the combined word means an individual who spells Maya. For the property owner the word is a constant reminder of 'living in an illusion' I.e this earthily life.
My trip started Yesterday morning, arriving at 9:30am, meeting new people, breaking my own barriers for mingling with people of different faiths or having a preconceived notion about them. Getting to know people from different walks of life I.e. a mother and her young girl, who keeps travelling and learning thru home schooling, a girl who left IT job, married a photographer who captures snow leopards and high altitude birds and she keeps travelling across countries for teaching, a young guy aspiring to be a businessman and starting his off-roading arena, an architect, a family with two young boys, coming from a business background and consciously weaving holidays to learn and connect back with nature.
Before coming here, I had various thoughts and that uncomfortable feeling, While stepping out of my comfort zone, more so because there could be a high possibility of me being all alone, a single girl...but just the idea of getting to play in mud brought back the only happy memories from my childhood, getting lost in the space where I get to play with and in mud. My souls feels the most happiest 💕.And this was one such stuff.
Aside from mud house construction and raw material gathering, plastering, creating the structure, sitting and securing logs or bamboos l, learning new knots and indigenous techniques of house/ hut construction; what I enjoyed the most was making tea for almost all of us, thrice a day...all these labours 😂, yup that's what we called ourselves.
The funny incident (hope so) was - one of these guy, coming from Haryana, thinking that I am a good girl, came up to me to say that he just missed the chance with me i.e. he just got married a month back else he would have proposed me.🙈🐒🙉🙊
I later realised that I wasn't triggered. I was able to dis-engage immediately without any baggage of guilt, self-criticism etc. May be his presence there was my test.
The most beautiful part of my stay was :
- Playing in the mud, stomping without worrying about anything, be it looks, dress or even the deeply cracked heels
- Hiking at the nearby hill and bathing in the lake towards twilight, just jumping into the lake with same dress we were clad with...muddy, sweaty, dusty :p.
- Spotting a red full moon on the hill.
- Getting lost while coming downhill.
- Hugging a black calf, just 4 days old baby and it was super calm and adorable 🥰 😍
- Yoga, meditation, stretches. At the end of this session, when I opened my eyes, a Dog came near my hands, licking me and then sat in my lap. I felt deeply loved.
- Farm plucked Raw mangoes, cherries, Guavas, bananas, Bimbli, loads of food, homemade fryums etc.
- Spotting beautiful birds like Peacock and may other tiny ones and listening to their songs.
- Morning walk and the view of flower beds.
- Drive with the sculpture, till the nearest tea stall.
- Playing with Dogs.
- Late night conversations with Harah, Namrata, Nadeem, Shankar etc
- Wall art flow, complete involvement from inception to material gathering to final execution.
- All the hustle, new friends, new plans that popped-up like bike rides and visit to SAI Sanctuary etc🤞
- Zindagi felt like a mad rush! Right from leaving home for a three day workshop to experiencing it all in those three days, including the tiredness from all the heavy laborious work and scorching sun, hopping cab to bus to auto to make it back home on day 3. Primarily breaking my own limitations...
- Clicking loads of pictures ....
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