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𖡼 indigenous kashmiri/punjabi desi founded
expanding access to decolonized wellness for underserved communities
📍kumeyaay land + beyond

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Thank you to the Love Temple for bringing so much love into our lifetime. This timeline. The collective oneness is love, truth, independence, interdependence, building community, finding yourself, flourishing in your individuality, creatively living, healing the earth, spreading love, raising awareness(as Arian says,) listening to our precious earth, loving the animals, the trees, the depths of the ocean, coming together, laughing, dancing in the dirt, crying, making music, living once again, seeing through the eyes of everyone, no judgement, no war, only peace of mind, sustainable living, choosing love, stillness, presence.

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introducing Rage Alchemy: a somatic healing experience for bipoc women and non-binary folks
🔥Oct 26 🔥6pm 🔥Donation based 🔥Central SD

🔥with the discourse around cornell 7, and continued suppression of women around the world, this is a particularly triggering time. These triggers often start out as feelings of righteous rage; our first line of defense against injustice. We are often left with these feelings of rage in isolation due to stigma.

🔥the intention of this space is for us to access our rightful rage; be held and seen by community, and access tools to alchemize this rage into golden nuggets that serve you beyond our time together.

🔥you can expect: community building, pranayama, guided meditation, ‘we believe you exercise’, somatic movement, yoga asana, sound bath, reiki, integration, and herbal tea.

🔥please bring: yoga mat, squish (pillows, blankets, cozy clothes, etc), journal, and water.

🔥price: This is a donation based space. In full transparency, the venue will cost $150 to the organizers out of pocket, plus their emotional and physical labor. We appreciate you contributing to help cover the cost.
No One will Be Left Behind for Lack of Funds ✨

🔥RSVP at the link in bio.

DM with any questions.
Thank you for trusting us to hold this space.

We believe you.

With care, Zoe and Meesha

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Paulina wants to add that she acknowledges her own white/light skin privilege.

We made this video to remind people that loudly naming that we center marginalized people in our work does not mean that we are being exclusionary, hateful, or biased. In order to create truly inclusive spaces, we need to shift power and privilege away from systems of harm and back to the People. Did this video make you think in any new way? Leave a comment below!

And follow @alchemystic_studio and @romaniholistic for more!

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As diaspora kids we have a unique opportunity to synthesize our identity crisis into a new way of being. It is our responsibility to keep our culture alive within us while finding ways to stay safe in a system that others us. We acknowledge the privilege we have to leave harmful parts of the culture in the past, and the deep pain we carry when we see our culture being watered down by ignorant people. It is a communal effort to keep culture alive in a system that is seeking to erase anything that looks or sounds different from the dominant culture.

Support our work at @alchemystic_studio for group and one-on-one yoga, and @romaniholistic for psychic readings and spiritual advising.

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Patterns on fabric, it’s not that deep….or is it? We can trace a lot of modern fashion “innovation” to a deep history of colonization.

Follow Paulina and Meesha to learn more about their work in cultural preservation. We love to share decolonial information and practices that come from our lineages.

@romaniholistic @alchemysticstudio

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Meesha (she/they) has been teaching yoga for ten years. Meesha is indigenous to the Kashmiri Shaivite and Vedanta practices of yoga, and brings a passion for teaching yoga as a holistic way of life from the roots of these practices ⋆˚꩜｡⋆

come practice with Meesha on thursday’s at 10am for slow flow + restore!!!

#yogateachers #newyogastudio #sandiegoyoga #sandiegohiddengems

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San Diego! Would you like to support BIPOC owned business in our city, and even more specifically a Romani owned spiritual shop and a Desi (Indian-American) yoga teacher?

It’s rare that we see descendants of lineages stewarding medicines from their cultures. Too often we see our practices appropriated and sold back in a watered down form. If our work interests you, be sure to book a reading with Paulina, and/or a 1-1 yoga session with Meesha. DM us for more info!

And don’t forget to follow us to see what we’re up to and get more free educational content!

@alchemystic_studio
@romaniholistic

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@alchemystic_studio and I are doing another queer collab! This time in San Diego 😌🌊👙🏝️☀️

Join us at Silver Strand State Beach for a day of yoga, hiking, swimming, sharing a meal, sunset bonfire, and more!

We are creating a wellness event that centers and uplifts people that have been historically left out of the wellness industry. We all deserve healing and rest! Let’s take up space together!

Enjoy a full day of yoga, nature, and play with queer and trans community (qtibipoc folks centered). This local retreat is from 11am to 7pm and includes:
• 2 yoga classes taught next to the ocean by Meesha Sharma and Sola Habibi
• A scenic hike with spectacular beach views
• Beach play, fun games, and ocean swimming
• Lunch and dinner catered by local small
BIPOC owned businesses
• Sunset bonfire and closing ritual

Please send this flyer to your San Diego homies 🥰

L1nk in 🧬

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Hey baddies! Thank you so much for the love on our last collab video. Because yall loved the Kali facts, we’re back with a part 2!

Like what you see? We’d love your support: like, save, and share the video 🙏🏽

You can also come see us irl!

For all of your tarot reading and holistic wellness product needs head to @romaniholistic in pacific beach California

And for all your decolonial yoga and community organizing needs, check out @alchemystic_studio

Until next time,
Paulina and Meesha 💋

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Kali Ma has never belonged neatly inside borders. 🖤🔥

As Romani ancestors migrated westward from the Indian subcontinent roughly 1,000 years ago, they carried pieces of South Asian language, culture, ritual, music, and spiritual memory with them.

Across centuries of migration, persecution, and survival, those traditions transformed. As Romani communities were often pressured to assimilate into Christian Europe, older spiritual practices became layered with Christian imagery, saints, and traditions.

One fascinating example is the devotion surrounding Sara-la-Kâli (“Sara the Black”) among some Romani communities.

This begs the question: What happens to sacred stories when people are displaced from their homeland?

Sometimes they hide inside new names and symbols where fragments of ancestral memory survive across a thousand years of movement.

Perhaps part of decolonial practice is learning how to look for what survived. 🖤

Follow: @romaniholistic and @alchemystic_studio for more

#KaliMa #Kali #SouthAsianDiaspora #RomaniHistory #Diaspora Decolonization AncestralWisdom Shakti SacredFeminine CulturalMemory

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life has been SO CRAZY for the last few months, but it’s time to update what i’ve been up to

days before the biggest move of my adulthood, i ended my internship at the collective! i can’t wait to support what they do for the community from afar, and wish the team the best <3

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“If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn’t have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.”

Bob Marley

Today @romaniholistics and @alchemystic_studio explore the ways in which Romani people (gypsies) and Indians are connected, and how we wittness the history of our cultures through the similarities we share today.

Follow us to learn more!

Love,

Paulina and Meesha 💋

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