⫸ As desi womxn, we have been taught to lower our voices and suppress our emotions to “sacrifice” and to “settle”. We have also been separated from each other as sisters and pitted against each other. This has caused many of our mothers, and sisters (our men are affected by it too) to carry unresolved trauma, emotional tension which manifests as physical, financial, or personality issues within us.
✨ In the Health and Wellness space, South Asian Femme feel like we don’t fit in or our cultural issues are not fully understood by facilitators or our peers. We have been on the sideline for too long. Let’s claim our names, our cultural roots, our voices, and our powers back. Let's step in as the heroines and warriors we are.
🎉 To bring balance back into our bodies, our minds, our souls, our homes, our societies, and our land back home, we must rise as the embodied, healed, united sisters.
✨ On 2/26/22, let us gather in a sacred ceremonial immersion to heal, reveal, voice and embody our fullest expression of feminine power.
Out with the Patriarchy, In with the embodied, empowered sisterhood.
⫸ Top Desi Practitioners and Leaders of the Bay Area are coming together to offer you a Value Packed Transformational experience that you do not want to miss.
What you will receive:
➼ Sisterhood - connect in person with heart-centered sisters who are also on a healing/spiritual journey
➼ Pleasure & Chakra Balancing - expanding your capacity to receive joy, love, and pleasure
➼ Spiritual Connection - discover & connect to your spiritual Source through breathwork
➼ Self Worth & Self Love - own your worth & deepen self-love & claim yourself
➼ Heart Healing - release suppressed emotions to heal and open your heart through embodiment practices
➼ Emotional Intelligence - Learn tools to self regulate and process your emotions in a healthy way
Program Includes:
➼ Sisterhood Rituals - exercises to cultivate sisterhood
➼ Yoga Movement/ Voice of Womb/ Liberating Pleasure/ Releasing shame
➼ Chakra Balancing & Reiki
➼ ➼ Lunch Break
➼ Emotional Vocabulary Workshop (acknowledging emotions, and boundary setting)
➼ Anger/Shadow/Releasing repressed emotions
➼ Deep Breathwork
➼ Traditional Tea Ceremony ~ Connecting to Ancestral herbs
➼ Closing Sharing Circle & Chanting
About your Facilitators
🌸Saleha Bhatti
Saleha is a gorilla healing artist, a poet, a painter, a creative director, a feminist and an activist. She is a serial entrepreneur with two successful exits in tech, an honor killing survivor, and a womxn’s Liberation Mentor. With her roots in Sufism, she modernizes teachings from Buddhism, Taoism, and Shamanism to accelerate the Rise of South Asian Feminine. She works with a myriad of modalities and her intuitive gifts to create a safe and divine space for sisters to heal, reveal and activate their juiciest selves.
She is the first female in her big Punjabi family to be financially, emotionally, and energetically free. On her way to freedom, she has yearned for support, guidance, and love from fellow womb-beings. Out of this need for sisterhood and a driven healing collective, she birthed Behnchara in 2021.
Behnchara’s mission is to unite South Asian Femme, and to reknit our sisterhood, equipping each one of us with best holistic tools to lead our lives OUR JOYFUL way.
Here invitation to sisters: Instead of carrying the shame & blame for just being born a girl, a vulva, a womb; Join us, to heal for yourself, and for your daughter. Let us RISE as sisters and reinstate balance on this mother earth of ours.
Www.behnchara.com
IG: @bolbehnabol
🌈Virpal Kaur
As a traditional Reiki Master from the Usui lineage, with an ancestral background of being a life-long seeker of truth, Virpal Sidhu is a guide and facilitator for those on their healing journey back home to themselves. Her passion is to uplift members of her human family to live authentically, in personal sovereignty and in alignment with their highest truth. She is particularly devoted to supporting women in connecting with their Divine Feminine, supporting other healers on the front lines aiding the collective, as well as raising the voices of people of color and indigenous communities.
She supports her community through 1:1 Reiki sessions, Women’s Circles, Reiki Circles and hosts workshops. She is currently reconnecting with her harmonium and ancestral roots of Kirtan, volunteering in plant medicine ceremonies and in building more community.
Virpal’s mission is to remind all of her relations of our connection to each other, to our beloved Mother Earth and all of her beings, and to never forget this.
www.risinglotusreiki.com
IG: @rising.lotus.reiki
🌀Romona Mukherjee
Romona Mukherjee is a guide and mindfulness-based psychotherapist at her private practice called Therapy to Evolve. Her therapy experience spans over 17 years, she has certifications in yoga, hypnosis, Reiki, as well as training in mindfulness, EFT for couples, and Hakomi.
After completing her graduate studies at Columbia University years ago, she devoted herself to deeper study of wisdom practices rooted in eastern and indigenous philosophy. Her 25 years of dedicated yoga, dance, and meditation disciplines provide the primary source of inspiration in her therapy work. Romona artfully weaves Eastern wisdom practices with Western theoretical foundations to open a therapy vortex in which insight and healing emerge organically and spontaneously. Her work has proven compelling and transformative for those who are yearning to evolve into their Truest Self. Most importantly, Romona is a crazed lover of the Goddess.
www.therapytoevolve.com
✨Ritu Riyat
Ritu (pronounced Rithu) is a Public Health Educator, applied Yoga and Meditation guide, and wellbeing coach. As a first-generation Indian American, the seed was planted to become a doctor from a young age. She nurtured that seed through college where she discovered yoga and human psychology. After abandoning the “perfect path” of becoming a doctor, Ritu started her pursuit of peace through spirituality and self-discovery. She studied with teachers of all walks of life from around the globe to finally meet the teacher she had been searching for all along, herself.
Ritu explores the science and spirituality of stress through food, movement, and meditation and empowers people in making choices that work for them, create inner connection, and cultivate emotional sovereignty. In 2019, Ritu became the first Indian American female author with a top-rated course on Udemy for Business, her course The Stress Detox uses mindfulness-based strategies to support stress in the workplace and has reached over 17,000 humans across the globe.
Through her own experience and exploration, she is developing a new paradigm of what it means to be a desi woman. When she’s not working, Ritu can be found dressed up dancing at a festival, or sitting silently in the ceremony.
Website: www.thestressdetox.com
Instagram: @livingritu