The Short Story: Nomita is a graphic designer who practices the Art of Hosting and Harvesting. The Sustainable Stationary that she designs, illustrates and produces every year enables her to share her joy in seeing and being in the world as a seeker. On the other end of that spectrum, she uses her skills in circle practice and design to work on projects, most recently with the EU, to create stakeholder conversations in the realm of circular economies to enable us to re-imagine systems with multiple stakeholders for a more resourceful, Goa. Nomita works with individuals and businesses sensitive to the world in which they live and how they are living in it, consciously co-creating with others of the same intent, to imagine a different world.
Having burnt out twice in the last decade herself, she came to the neuroscience behind the physiology of stress and its effect on the body and decided to train as a Tension and Trauma Release Exercise Provider (TRE) to better support people in the social justice movement and individuals keen on learning to regulate their nervous systems to move towards balance, in a burning world. Why? Because she believes that we can make the changes that we'd like to see in the world outside, only as deeply as we are willing to be with ourselves and in our bodies and nervous systems.
She is currently a student of the School of Intuitive Herbalism honing her ability to listen to the more-than-humans by way of herbs, shrubs, and trees and leaning into the vast intelligence of a sentient planet.
Having completed her Master's in Ecology and Spirituality at the Schumacher College in the UK and worked on learning to de-colonising herself (always a work-in-progress) as an Aura Fellow with a grant from the Be the Earth Foundation, she is now weaving all these strands together in her writing, speaking engagements, art and as a TRE practioner. Listening deeply is a feminine art that she hopes to practice living in all these forms.
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The Long Story: When a ‘short assignment’ in 2009 to consult with a herb company in the Himalayas turned into a two-year engagement, Nomita found herself in the role of a graphic designer and researcher. She also measured, mixed and documented mixes of innumerable batches of essential oils to create the company’s green cleaning product. Her free time was spent weeding the vegetable garden, snipping the salad for dinner, and learning to meditate.
The desire to arm herself with the skills to grow her own food led her to South India, where she worked hands-on with Earth Trust to learn biodynamic farming continuing her design practice. Enjoying the challenge of creating a graphic design practice that wove the world of 3D creation in the form of vegetable gardens – she decided to club both. With a pen tablet and ‘khurpi’ in her bag-of-tools. She set about creating the brand for her next project and established an almost-one-acre kitchen garden from scratch.
Her twin interests in good communication and tending to the interrelated elements that make up a garden, led to an experiential understanding of the value of tending to the relationships between people too. Of the need to tend to the "river beneath the river," by learning to listen and to speak where invited, what is often left unsaid. The nexus of this exploration led her towards the Art of Hosting and Harvesting which is how she came to be a sometimes-Circlewalla.
Nomita enjoys speaking to groups of people when invited, to share how she sees and experiences the world in the form of the embodied experiences that she curates, with the deep intelligence of the plant-world and our own nervous systems. She also continues to illustrate her own small-batch sustainably produced stationary and takes on design projects whose values align with nurturing, protecting and listening to both planet and people.
~ Giving back to the Community ~
A portion of all proceeds from the Quill and Fern Stationary range go towards supporting the incredible work that various NGO's and people I know do. Every year.