Of rugged coastlines and long arm selfies. Life can be a beach after all. Solo travel love ❤️ 🌊 Point Dume
Pancho Vida 🍑 #tonyknows
Shiv ji’s magic was out in full force today 🌊
Look, SOMETIMES we take a good photo.
Still high on familia vibes after an epic home cooked meal by @samosastories. The #WeddingSeason familia brings me such joy… the bond created through the act of creation is always next level. For those who weren’t there… you were so immensely missed… the cast and crew still in Canada and other parts of the USA.
I feel so grateful to be able to share in community and laughter right now. I realise how lucky this is and will never again take it for granted.
…And yes, that’s Ray from Schitt’s creek with his eyes closed ya’ll!
(Don’t kill me Riz!)
So much is happening – all the time. We are inundated with doom through our addiction to knowing and being on top of news cycles. It’s a good thing – to be aware, to realise that we are one of billions, that our lives are interconnected and inextricably linked, to feel the pain of others because we are indeed one. But in and amongst it we are here – in our avatars of individuality – to feel joy, to feel love and to be free. Many of us have access to this but don’t choose it – out of guilt, fear, addiction to performance, or a capitalist rat race.
The last few weeks have reminded me of childlike wonder, the power of being and not doing and the transience of societal goals and milestones that many of us are so conditioned to chase.
In play, love and laughter our humanity most naturally resides. Wishing you all an ananda filled week, whatever the external world presents today. I realise that my surrounds are currently magical, but I hope to inhabit this magic no matter what the scenery might next be ❤️🙏🏽
When I dance, I fly.
Still by @iamhuntercohen during the shoot of Witness by @rosieldarling ft. @rajivdhall 🦋 Los Angeles, California
Just did my first yoga class taught in Spanish & gotta say, the El Prana is El Pulsing 🇲🇽 feeling some El Gratitude 🙏🏽
….(sorry)
Morning stares at an abundant world. Collecting my scars and making them art as I go. As many have in this glorious country. Happy Independence to #Mexico… thank you for sharing your wonders with me. 🇲🇽❤️🙏🏽
Adulting seems to be about crushing my shitty fears, finding a patch of bitumen and squatting down on it like a Queen.
📸 @piercarthew
Where lockdown took me a year ago. It can take you there too. #retrogradetv still streaming on @abctv in Australia!
This awesome show won an award for outstanding comedy ensemble at the Equity Awards this year… that means it’s very funny. Folks in Aus, go on… be transported to that magical time that was March 2020.
9 balloons. 9 sacred nights. May the spirit of Goddess Durga awaken the shakti which resides in us all. Happy Navratri!
For those wondering, the Navratri (Nine Nights) festival in the Hindu calendar is one of the most auspicious times of the year. I spent my childhood in Melbourne attending Garba (a Gujarati dance form) nights at this time and my time in Mumbai visiting the Pandals (Shrines) around Bandra. Spirituality and community are so interlinked at this time. I feel indebted to my rich culture and Vedic history for its teachings. 🙏🏽❤️
#durgapuja #navratri
Gracias por todo. Hasta la proxima Mexico 🇲🇽 Animmooooooo Mexico City, Mexico
Happy birthday to my mesmerisingly beautiful mama!
The smartest (and most endearingly sensitive) woman in every room, an engineering professor, an eldest sister (in a family with 6 kids!), a mother of 2, a fierce yet devoted wife. For all her passion and metal my mother abounds with endless, selfless love… a human who weathered the storm of being a migrant in Australia from the young age of 25 in an era as unforgiving as the eighties.
You are truly courageous mama. I’m lucky to have inherited so much of you, especially our mutual love and longing for India. I’m a better woman for having been born of your womb and witnessing the abundance of your soul ❤️
From the time I was at school, Diwali was about dressing up in my favourite Indian attire, self styling my face and hair in the Indian trends of my imagination and performing the dances I had choreographed for my friends and I at community functions around Melbourne. This ritual started when I was about 6 (first Diwali dance was performed to Kajra Mohabbat Wala – chosen by my mum!). I remember so fondly each and every function, each performance and the post program euphoria in which we kids, aunties, uncles and elders would revel and dance. When it was time for sparklers and fireworks, the community group marvelled at the lights and giggled at the confused hard hatted Aussie safety officers running between the sparks.
It was a time that brought my Indian identity to the fore, when I could unashamedly sit in the part of myself that most felt like home. I’m so grateful to be part of a diaspora that feels so intensely, that tells the stories of its mythology with such furore, that year after year, reminds me that light ultimately prevails.
This photo with my friend Niyanta was taken when I was in eighth grade… incidentally around the time my monobrow had been acceptably shaped into two distinct parts!
Sab ko Diwali ke shubh kamnaye! #happydiwali Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Almost time to peace out of this leg. Already missing boo.
Find yourself a lobby boy that also wears a laderhosen.
Happy Dhanteras to all those celebrating! As someone who doesn’t own or buy gold jewellery myself, my relationship with Goddess Lakshmi has always been tenuous. But the abundance of love and family remains my greatest asset and something that has been instilled through the years during this auspicious time as we lead into Diwali.
While Princess Chandrika of Beecham House behind the scenes (pictured with the baby Twindians!) is a bit more my jam, the significance of today in the lives of so many is something I’ll always celebrate. Coming together with a common goal and vision raises our consciousness… so may you be showered with all that your desire on this day of supreme abundance!
They said Wes Anderson vs Tarantino. I said Wes Anderson AND Tarantino.
It must be Halloween weekend. New York City, N.Y.
When you chance upon a temple in the desert 🙏🏽
Having had to say goodbye to my home in India and now being stranded outside of Australia has propelled me towards a solo journey. It’s isolating. Sometimes more so than the thought of being confined to a 5km radius. But I know it’s overdue, this spiritual solitude… a chance to break away from the fears and limits that have been crippling and yet swept under the carpet for months, years and – in the way I jump around – what could have easily become a lifetime.
I’ve felt myself pulled towards this inquiry since I was a child… but then life, expectation and the preoccupation with achievement got in the way. I have subconsciously been pushing myself to go back to it, to untangle what slowly turned into an internal labyrinth of societal and emotional norms and roadblocks. It’s time to lift the lid; to climb out of the abyss. Away from the shadow back towards what I know can be ever-discernible light.
Missing the majesty and the magic ✨
For a brief fifteen minutes today I was in the space that the late philosopher and thinker Krishnamurti spent most of his life here in California. A place where the quest for truth-seeking and illumination resonates in the soil. A fitting pit stop on this pilgrimage to light. 🙏🏽❤️
Lucky to be reunited with dancer life 🙏🏽
A Rolling Stone really gathers no moss.
So stoked that @rollingstonein has introduced the world to @rosieldarling’s gorgeous ballad featuring the beautiful voice of @rajivdhall. It took about 2 seconds of listening to the track to know that I was in for this collaboration, that my body needed to float through the ether to its tune.
Thank you darling girl for welcoming some contemporary Bharatha Natyam inspired movement into your world! 🎶💃🏽❤️
