Navras Series - Episode 1: Sringara (Part 2): Beauty Begins With Self By Vasundhara Shukla Event

Navras Series - Episode 1: Sringara (Part 2): Beauty Begins With Self By Vasundhara Shukla

There are moments in life when the experience of beauty becomes distant from our inner world. When love is understood more as attraction, validation, or appearance, and less as a lived feeling within the body. In the rhythm of daily roles and expectations, we forget that beauty was never meant to be performed or proven. It was meant to be felt and inhabited from within. In the Navras tradition, Sringara is the rasa of love and beauty, the foundation from which all other rasas emerge. It reminds us that beauty begins not in how we are seen, but in how deeply we are able to relate to ourselves with presence and devotion.

Navras Series Episode 1 Sringara Part 2 Beauty Begins With Self is an invitation to return to this deeper understanding of beauty. This session is not about romance as an external pursuit or self love as a concept to master. It is about exploring the inner quality of tenderness, intimacy, and self regard that Sringara carries at its core. Through embodied practices, guided reflection, and gentle inquiry, you will be supported in experiencing love as a felt state within the body. One that transforms the way you see, speak to, and care for yourself from the inside out.

On February 3rd, 2026, at 6:30 PM online, Vasundhara Shukla holds a contemplative and heart opening space as the second episode of the Sringara exploration in the Navras series. This gathering deepens the themes introduced in the first session, inviting beauty to move beyond idea and into lived experience. A space where comparison softens, reverence returns, and self connection becomes the ground for love. This session is a reminder that when beauty begins with self, it is no longer something to chase, but something you learn to inhabit.

03 Feb 2026

18:30 - 19:30

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Description

There are seasons in life when beauty is experienced not through mirrors, but through feeling. In the quiet recognition of one’s own presence. In the soft awareness of breath, sensation, emotion, and longing. In the Indian aesthetic tradition of Navras, this intimate meeting with beauty is known as Śṛṅgāra - the rasa of love, attraction, tenderness, and devotion. Not merely romantic love, but the deeper current of appreciation that allows life to be felt as sensuous, meaningful, and alive. And at the heart of Śṛṅgāra lies the relationship we hold with ourselves.

Yet for many of us, this rasa remains fragmented. We seek beauty outwardly while remaining distant inwardly. We long to feel love, but struggle to let it touch our own bodies, our own being. Desire turns into comparison, admiration into judgment, and self-connection into self-surveillance. Somewhere along the way, the rasa of love forgets its original home - the self.

This gathering is not about aesthetics or idealised self-love. It is an exploration of Śṛṅgāra as a lived experience, how appreciation lives in the body, how tenderness can be cultivated without force, and how beauty emerges naturally when the self is met with presence rather than pressure. Through guided embodiment, reflective inquiry, and gentle somatic practices, you will be supported in experiencing your body not as something to evaluate, but as something to feel, receive, and cherish.

The Benefits of This Experience

• Embodied Śṛṅgāra — Experience the rasa of love as an inner state rather than an external pursuit.
• Deepening Self Appreciation — Learn how beauty is felt through presence, sensation, and self-attunement.
• Softening Inner Resistance — Gently notice and release patterns of self-judgment that block intimacy with the self.
• Sensory Awareness — Reconnect with the body as a vessel of aliveness, pleasure, and emotional truth.
• Integration of Navras — Understand how Śṛṅgāra weaves into the larger emotional spectrum of the Navras journey.

Join Vasundhara Shukla
A deeply intuitive and embodied facilitator, Vasundhara brings the wisdom of Indian aesthetic philosophy into lived, somatic experience. Her spaces are grounded, trauma-informed, and emotionally attuned, allowing participants to explore subtle inner states without performance or expectation. Through her guidance, rasas are not taught as concepts, but felt as realities within the body - accessible, personal, and deeply human.

Reserve Your Spot
You don’t need prior knowledge of Navras or a refined relationship with self-love to join. Come as you are - curious, hesitant, open, or unsure. This is a space to feel, to soften, and to remember that beauty is not something you achieve, but something you allow.

Live Online | February 3rd, 2026 | 6:30 PM IST
Let Śṛṅgāra return home to you.