Weaving the Cocoon: Rebirth in the Postpartum Window

This is part of the Nourishing Grief Retreat Series hosted by Roshni Kavate of Cardamom and Kavate.

This Retreat is offered from a multicultural perspective with teachers practicing their medicine with integrity and reverence to their culture, our retreat will be an experiential practice in :

• How to build connection to your ancestors, and your inner artist to create beauty and meaning from your personal and collective grief.
• How to connect to ancestral wisdom to cultivate daily rituals to nourish your grief.
• Build kinship with plant medicine, and reimagine rest, movement and breath as medicine for the soul.
• Create a new culture of community care
• Explore intergenerational traditional wisdom of cooking, storytelling and how food is medicine.
• Reimagine your own personal code for cultivating self pleasure

This is an interactive talk exploring the many emotions that arise during the postpartum period. We will explore how grief shows up in the mind, body and spirit, and the transformational wisdom it holds. Grief does not have to be limited to physical death; it can exist alongside joy and is part of a holistic postpartum experience. Roshni will share how grief exploration, ancestral healing rituals and Ayurveda wisdom can create a nurturing experience for postpartum people.

We will collective imagine what weaving this cocoon will be like rooted in Ayurveda wisdom and practice a guided ritual.

Please join us for the rest of the series here:

https://letsreimagine.org/58851/body-as-altar-embodiment-practice-and-ritual

https://letsreimagine.org/58851/seaweed-soup-for-the-soul-recipes-for-tending-to-your-heart

https://letsreimagine.org/58851/pleasure-in-times-of-grief

https://letsreimagine.org/58851/mending-a-broken-heart-with-plant-ancestors

Roshni Kavate is an Artist, Healer, and Activist. Roshni Kavate is the Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate, a wellness platform dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through rituals and storytelling, we can reconnect to our origins and be our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art and political practice.

Roshni earned a B.S in Nutritional Sciences from UC Berkeley, a B.S in Nursing from NYU with honors and Ayurveda Post Partum Caregiver Training from The Center for Sacred Window Studies. Roshni has over a decade of Nursing experience in both clinical and leadership positions working with diverse populations in New York City, Los Angeles and Oakland. Her work has spanned from working as birth doula, transplant ICU nurse, home health nurse and to an end of life nurse. Most recently she worked as a Palliative Care Nurse at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland.

Roshni's early childhood was marked by the grief her mother and ancestors experienced by living on the margins based on gender and caste. Similarly in the United States, as a Nurse, Roshni witnessed racialized trauma and its lasting impact on the health and wellness of communities of color. Combining her interest in art, wellness and advocacy she has launched a startup, Cardamom and Kavate to reimagine what it means to embody our freedom and live in our pleasure.

This is part of the Nourishing Grief Retreat Series hosted by Roshni Kavate of Cardamom and Kavate.

This Retreat is offered from a multicultural perspective with teachers practicing their medicine with integrity and reverence to their culture, our retreat will be an experiential practice in :

• How to build connection to your ancestors, and your inner artist to create beauty and meaning from your personal and collective grief.
• How to connect to ancestral wisdom to cultivate daily rituals to nourish your grief.
• Build kinship with plant medicine, and reimagine rest, movement and breath as medicine for the soul.
• Create a new culture of community care
• Explore intergenerational traditional wisdom of cooking, storytelling and how food is medicine.
• Reimagine your own personal code for cultivating self pleasure

Who is this Retreat for:

• Anyone who wants to connect to their body with compassion, curiosity and explore what it means to nourish our soul.
• Move from strength and resilience to radical rest, pleasure and softness.
• Deep desire to connect ancestral traditions and rituals as tools for activism for contemporary times.
• If you are needing a space to reflect, contemplate and cultivate a personal practice of wholeness.
• For empaths, caregivers, activists, birth workers, health care providers, artists, healers.