Beej Living: A curated guide to slow living in India

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Ayurvastra: fashion values for the future

Kerala had ‘Ayurvastra’ researchers practicing centuries old traditional fabric treatment methods. Ayurvedic doctors and researchers prepare dyes, macerations and treatments that infuse the textiles with medicinal characteristics. These include chitrathai (ginger plant), tulsi (wild basil), Madagascar Periwinkle (vinca rosea), the tails of the bell plant and sandalwood, amongst others. The list is a highly curated selection of natural oils and plants that are integral to the science of Ayurvastra.

Q. How are A-type personalities (such as myself) handling the lock down?

Q. How are A-type personalities (such as myself) handling the lockdown?
A. With utmost grace and serenity, hunkering down, keeping your mouth shut when required to and going with the flow.
Reality: I wish I did that when I could but I didn’t so help me lord, but I’m doing it now.

The Shift : What I Wish People Told Me Before I Embraced Clean Living

This is an important conversation I’ve wanted to have. And i wish someone had guided me as I took to clean living. A lot of people want to embrace clean living by using more natural products, supplements, diets and traditional techniques, I encourage you to …

The remover of obstacles

Human-wildlife conflict is coming at a terrible cost to elephants. Our World Environment Day Special On World Environment Day I want to speak about how we treat elephants, the embodiment of Lord Ganesha. For years, India has been struggling with human-wildlife conflict. In three years …

The Slow Edit: The Introduction to the Art of Slow Living Workshops

Beejliving introduces Slow Living Workshops When someone asks you what is the purpose of life, we look for something profound to say. The answer is simple. We are looking for happiness. Pure, unadulterated happiness. So, why aren’t we happy? Because we’re putting too much pressure …

Holistic Ayurvedic beauty: get beautiful skin and hair naturally

One way to deal with facial stress is a facial. It is a term used to coin generally a three-step procedure involving a face massage, exfoliation and face masks. Recent research also suggests that regular facials improve the blood flow, stimulate muscles and lift the skin over a period.

Neeti Mehra has over 17 years of experience in publicity, styling and communications. She started BeejLiving in 2017 as a curated platform to promote slow living in India. It is a fruition of a long cherished dream, a seed which has blossomed into a full-fledged idea.

The idea behind Beej (a seed) is to focus on ‘slow’, namely, looking back to our traditions, but in a modern context, while creating new traditions for the future.

BeejLiving nudges you to live mindfully within contemporary chaos, highlighting brands, people and a lifestyle, with a nod towards conscious, self-aware and responsible living.

An explorer at heart, Neeti’s wanderlust has taken her to 37 countries, and across the length and breadth of India.

She understands that the choices we make today have far-reaching consequences that go well beyond ourselves. With BeejLiving, she hopes to imbibe and promote a responsible lifestyle working with like-minded brands and people.

To learn more about her work, to collaborate, or to just reminisce about the past, you can email neeti at beejliving [at] gmail [dot] com. You can also follow her on Instagram: @beejliving . Or just search for #beejloves.