For those who find sitting cross-legged for long hours difficult, walking meditation provides a good option. I spent many years in the vipassana tradition sitting on the floor, for about twelve hours days, without a backrest letting awareness take its course. Yes, everything arose and passed and awareness increased but I often wished for…
Month: July 2014
Vogue Beauty Awards 2014: Glamour meets Gorgeousness
Vogue upped the ante at this year’s Beauty Awards as far as the glamour and Bollywood quotient was concerned . It wasn’t just the list of invitees but the red carpet aura that infused the proceedings made it very Vogue. At the end of the day every woman wants to feel more beautiful, transformed and definitely…
Lancome’s Air de Teint, Luxury Ayurveda and Chanel’s Le Lift
The Mumbai monsoons are usually a slow time for the beauty business but I already have a backlog of new events, new products and news to report. Lancôme’s Air de Teint gets a thumbs up from me. If you remember from an earlier blog and tweet I went for the launch of this new foundation…
Instagrams for the soul
My article on Wellness trends appears as ‘Eat.Pray.Love‘, in the new Vogue Wellness Guide, along with the JULY issue of Vogue. Go get your copy! It has a list of the best fitness, food, spas, ayurveda detox, apps, alternative healing and new age therapies. Whether it’s a bit of spiritual ecology or the ultimate body…
July is a fragrant month …
YSL’S MANIFESTO was launched in Europe last year with Jessica Chastain as brand ambassador but will be launched in India this month. I loved Jessica Chastain’s awesome performance in the film Zero Dark Thirty – and her persona fits the YSL woman who is always a little edgier than the others. This is a manifesto…
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