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                                                                             SUKHASANA Enhancing Your Meditation Practice with the Sukhasana Comfort Seat Introduction: In this blog post, I want to share my personal journey of discovering the importance of personal space and comfort during prayer, pranayama, chanting, or meditation. Over the years, I have developed a routine of spending time alone each day, connecting within. In this process, I have created a special seat called the Sukhasana, designed to enhance the experience of these practices. Let's explore the story behind its creation and the elements that make it unique. "The first Sukhasana" Creating the Perfect Seat: As I delved deeper into my practices, I felt the need for a dedicated seat that would offer both comfort and proper postur...

      KOLMUL - THE KADI BOWL                                                           S A D A F U L I - Vintage Goan Handcrafted Wooden Tableware Sadafuli – The name of this beautiful plant indicates its ever flowering nature. This species has long been cultivated for herbal medicine. In Ayurveda, the extracts of its roots and shoots, are used against several diseases. In modern medicine, Sadafuli is the source of some cancer fighting drugs. Across the world, Sadafuli is known as Periwinkle or Vinca rosea (by its previous botanical name). It is commonly available in pink, red and white colour.   The vintage Goan wooden tableware is named after this often neglected, simple yet beautiful flower. It was my long cherished dream to revive some old Goan lifestyle accessories to the ext...

During my course in Architectural Studies, it was mandatory to make 3D models of some of the buildings we designed: a few of them as basic presentations and others with extremely minute details like the windows, corbeling, roof tiles etc. Occasionally, we had to do detailed internal layouts as well. AutoCAD had just been introduced in Goa during my final year, hence CAD design in 3D was not included in our syllabus. Contrarily, today’s students are on par with modern technology and make use of it for their presentations. Nevertheless, the  patience required and  detailing involved in the construction of a miniature model with one’s own hands provides a level of satisfaction that software simply cannot.   Watching documentaries of excavated sites and analysis of artefacts has always been my favourite pastime, so much so that I remember designing an Archeological Study and Research Centre for Goa - a topic for my thesis project. In later years, as I travelled the world and ...

Though I was born and brought up in a city, as a child it was customary for me to visit both my ancestral homes in Goa during the two month-long summer vacation; a month at my paternal house at Cansaulim (South Goa) and the other at my maternal house at Marcela (North Goa) Thereupon began the journey of accumulating innumerable memories of the good old times when Goans lived together as a joint family.  Both these 150+ year old Goan homes, with their massive staircases, huge stained glass and oyster shell windows never failed to amaze me. All the experiences, stories and memories of my childhood visits to my ancestral homes subconsciously drove me towards this beautiful journey of reviving old Goan items and antiques to be used for modern day utility. Moreover, being an architect and an interior designer was a big blessing which helped me carry forward a dream, very close to my heart.   My paternal ancestral house - Cansaulim, Goa.  Happy to add one such item to my galler...