Pallavi Sharda Instagram – 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.