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Hello friends! ✨ A little reminder that Tend Your Inner Light, my Diwali-inspired zine-making workshop with @dishoom, is coming up soon, and there are only a handful of spaces left. 🌺

Together, we’ll explore the themes of light, renewal, abundance and new beginnings, using images, words, textures and beautiful materials to create our own little zines.

Through collecting, cutting, layering and piecing things together, we’ll create zines that reflect what we want to honour, what we’re grateful for, what we wish to nurture and what we’re ready to welcome into the year ahead.

We’ll begin by arriving in the moment, gently grounding ourselves before moving into intuitive making, with bottomless chai and yummy snacks to nourish us along the way. 🪔

No artistic experience needed, just come as you are, with a little curiosity and a willingness to explore the magic.⚡️

If you’ve been thinking about joining us, I’d love to welcome you into our workshop.

You can find all the details and grab your ticket via the link in bio. ✨

I can’t wait to see you there.🥰🧡

With love,
Poonam

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From today.

Thank you @stefaniesw and @poonamdhuffer for The Art of Noticing

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We’ve been talking about this idea for a while and finally decided to make it a thing. ✨

We’ve realised how often we move through world without actually being in it. Headphones in, phone out, rushing somewhere, thinking about what’s next. We wanted to create an antidote to that.

The Art of Noticing is about slowing down, tuning in and seeing the everyday with fresh eyes. Letting your senses lead. Following little sparks of curiosity. Photographing the things that catch your eye. Sharing what you notice along the way.

This actually started as a private ritual between the two of us. We’d wander, take photographs and celebrate the small, beautiful things that made us feel more present, more connected and more alive.

And now, we’re opening it up and inviting you to explore with us.

A space to pause. To reconnect with yourself and others. To look closer and discover how much there is to notice when you take the time to see it.

🦋 This is for you if you…
- feel mentally busy or overstimulated
- want to slow down without needing to “do” anything
- miss feeling present in simple, everyday moments
- feel creatively full or blocked, and want to reconnect with a more spacious way of noticing

Come wander. Come look closer. Come notice with us. 📸✨

Join the waitlist via the link in our bio.

Stef + Poonam 🍃

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I’m still swirling in the magic from The Cosmic Womb workshop 😍🥰

One of the many things that is still feeling alive in me, is the experience of time when we co-create together, it feels much more fluid and rich! I loved witnessing you all flow with your creative energy as you connected deeper into the rose energy and the garden of materials. It was a true gift to hold and experience with. 🙏🏽❤️ Thank you everyone who made time to create with me, we opened and journeyed through a vibrant portal together. 🌹

Thank you to the wonderful Jess and Emily who hosted us in their beautiful craft space @somethinggoodworkshops ✂️

May we continue to create beautiful things with our hands and share our magic into the world.💫

With love,
Poonam 🧡

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On Tuesday we held our 2nd annual Come Chop that celebrates Golden Sankofa and Gentle Justice. Come Chop are our changemaker dinners where we come together to rest and connect.

They’re intimate dinners. Just 15 of us. To give us time to deeply listen, care and bond with one another. This means we’re always limited with how many of our amazing community we can invite so we have to intentionally curate each one, inviting a set amount of people who we believe will bond well. It works.

This time we came together and there was so much laughter and gratitude. Gratitude for the summer and time to slowly and intentionally be in nature together, and for the nourishing food. We also always find a way to weave art into it and this time a couple of us stayed in the space and slowly coloured in together and reflected on the power of colours and what they mean.

We are grateful that we get to curate and be a part of these spaces and we hope that there will be time for these in abundance in the coming years. We’ve got a special project coming up soon around Come Chop so do watch this space for more info 🌞 🎨 🌳

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I’ve been holding my time from the creative residency @rogue.residencies in my heart, and witnessing my voice pour into various forms.

My intention was to write about nourishment and finish some work. Instead, I noticed how much pressure I was putting on myself to “get things done.”

Then I stepped into the garden filled with awe and surrounded by lemon verbena, fig trees, artichokes. My shoulders softened as I realised: this is exactly where I need to be. Not heads-down ticking off things from my to-do list, and pilling more onto my plate, but heads up, heart and palms open, in connection with what is alive in front of me.

This whole experience was other-worldly, it made me see new things in old things, old things in new things. I felt inspiration pouring through my time in solitude, and moves through deep, soulful conversations, through food made and shared with love, through the synchronicity of meeting someone for the very first time. This residency is a gift that keeps on giving, and flowing through my cells, so much resonance expanding and rippling like ocean waves.

What emerged was far more fulfilling and meaningful than completing my to-list. I came to write about nourishment, but what was alive around me was layers of love. Seeing that rest requires discernment, self-respect and building your own inner authority. Letting new forms of work sprout from conversations with the artists beside me and holding myself in silence. I’m marinading in the magic, and will be sharing more of my felt experience on Substack, as that’s where my voice is calling me to pour into. These are some fragments I am holding whole and true.

I’m so moved by all that unfolded, all that burst into fragrances of love. I cannot wait to return next year. Thank you Tiffany for holding us all together🙏🏽a life changing experience 💗✨🌹

📸Image 6 captured by @anenglishrogue @rogue.residencies

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A most splendid weekend @shreejinews, deliciously wasting time over cups of Dishoom chai.

We sat, chai in hand, nibbling on Nankhatai and Jeera biscuits, while Chef-walla Salim shared all the deep chai wisdom you never knew you needed.

Magazines were flicked through. Portraits were gently drawn. Woodblock bookmarks were pressed into being, and games of Matka were played with far more hope than skill. Meanwhile, in the Time Pass Room, the fine art of doing absolutely nothing was practised with great dedication.

Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us in being so decidedly and delightfully idle.

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Yesterday, I had the honour of holding an intimate circle as part of A Delicious Waste of Time @dishoom x @shreejinews

We explored rest as a birthright, not a reward. Boundaries as an act of self-love. And the devotional practice of self-care rituals that return us to ourselves, and create a doorway back to presence and connection.

We listened, we laughed and we found pieces of ourselves in each other. We savoured the sweet, hot chai and jeera biscuits. We all left feeling more connected to something deeper, and alive in us.

To everyone who carved out time in their day to sit with us and sip chai together, thank you. You didn’t just attend a circle. You were the circle. Thank you for sharing and holding your hearts with us.🩷

Thank you to the magical Dishoom team who curated a very special experience for us all! And to top it off, I finally got to chat with Suresh Ji aka @thecockneysikh anddd my twin brother joined us, then took me for lunch to celebrate! A very special day filled with sacred, nourishing memories for me. 🙏🏽✨⚡️🌹

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Your weekly London foodie guide 🍕

Grab a deal this weekend! From pride parties to pastry pop-ups and plant-based soft serve, you’ll be spoilt for choice 🍓

Save this post and send to the biggest foodie you know ‼️

#thingstodoinlondon #foodfestival #londonfood #londonrestaurant #lovethylocal

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honoured to have been at the table with these incredible women!

as always, so inspired by @fbeinghumble but seeing it all in person and being part of an evening full of so much inspiration, support, laughs, cries, confessions and connections was a milestone moment for me🥹

& absolutely gassed to have been in the @positive_retail store and hosted by Anna- she’s created the coolest concept ever, saving surplus lines of clothing from going to waste, this is what i’m talking about🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

@stefaniesw thank you so much for having me 🩵

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