Creative Pooja: The Art of Nourishing What We Create
A Monthly Creative Pooja at Salasbananas
Beginning in November 2026, my intention is to offer Creative Pooja on the first Thursday of each month at Salasbananas the Queer Temple in Thalpe, Sri Lanka.
Each gathering will welcome guest practitioners, artists and facilitators who bring their own creative practices and perspectives into the space.
One month might explore sound and vibration. Another might invite movement, visual art, poetry, storytelling, ritual or deep rest.
The practices may change, but the intention remains.
To create a space where creativity can be honoured, nourished and celebrated.
And where artists, dreamers, visionaries, changemakers and queer bodies can gather in community, beyond competition, comparison and the pressure to perform.
I envision this becoming an ongoing devotional practice, something we return to month after month.
Not simply another event on our calendars, but a conscious relationship with the creative life moving through us.
Arise Weekends with Sala
Who This Is For
This weekend is for anyone curious about traditional yoga beyond asana.
For those interested in yoga as practice, philosophy, devotion and art form. For anyone wanting to understand Ayurveda not as a trend, but as part of a wider ecosystem of yogic living. For those curious about mythology and how its themes can be explored through movement, breath and embodied practice.
It is also for anyone drawn to self-inquiry. To slowing down enough to notice what is happening within. To meeting yourself with more attention.
You do not need an advanced yoga practice or previous knowledge of Ayurveda or mythology.
Curiosity is enough.
Queerness Is Not New we are ancient
There is a narrative many of us have been taught.
That queerness is foreign.
That sexuality outside rigid norms is modern.
That the body must be controlled, silenced, or hidden in order to be spiritual.
This narrative is not truth.
It is conditioning.
When we look closely at the cultural, artistic, and philosophical roots of South Asia — including India and Sri Lanka — we begin to see something very different.
We begin to remember.
Divine Feminine Activation Through Creation
Creativity is not a luxury or an extra reserved for when life feels settled. It is the reason we chose this human body. In this piece, I explore divine feminine activation through embodiment, trust over calm, anchored desire, and creation as a path of liberation. Drawing from yoga, lived experience, and daily practice in Sri Lanka, this reflection invites us back into the body as a place of knowing, coherence, and creative truth
Shiva & Shakti: Finding Sacred Union in a Queer Body
Union is not balance. It is not control. It is not managing parts of ourselves into acceptability. This is a lived reflection on sexual shame, Shiva and Shakti, and what it means to find sacred union in a queer body when parts of ourselves were taught to hide in order to belong.
Smiles and Shadows - Yoga Beyond Pretending
We live in a world obsessed with smiles. Bright faces. Performances of “I’m fine.” Polished wellness. Glittering spirituality. But beneath every smile, there is a shadow. There are the silent places inside us that still ache. There is shame our bodies remember. There is guilt that shaped how we behave, love, react, and hide.
The Medicine Buddha
The Medicine Buddha is not approached here as a religious figure, but as a living frequency of healing, balance, and remembrance. The mantra
Theyatha Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Randza Samudgate Soha
is a sound formula that works directly on the body and mind, not through belief, but through resonance.
This mantra is traditionally associated with the easing of suffering, the restoration of harmony, and the awakening of the healer within. When repeated or received in a meditative state, it supports the release of stored tension and the reorganization of the system into coherence.
Queerness and Fatherhood
Decolonizing Yoga — Because ‘Good Vibes Only’ Isn’t Going to Cut It
Don’t Do Any Ayurveda Until You Read This!!
Ayurveda doesn’t rush in with band-aids.
Ayurveda hands you a mirror —
the kind with fluorescent lighting —
so you can actually see what’s going on.
If you want the 3-step glow-up hacks, there are hundreds of influencers with green juice.
If you want truth, depth, and sustainable change…
welcome.
Keep reading.
Choosing Myself: A story about coming home to my heart
If something inside you is stirring
if a part of you is tired of carrying guilt, shame, regret
if you are navigating a breakup or a heartbreak
if you are wrestling with addiction
especially cannabis or alcohol
if you are learning to embrace your queerness as medicine
or simply trying to remember who you are beneath the noise
you do not have to walk this alone.
Hatha Yoga: The Art of Being with the Body
This is the first post in my new blog series on Hatha Yoga.
In the weeks ahead, I will share the deeper meaning behind foundational postures — how they align energy, open the body, and mirror the lessons of life. We will explore asanas like Tadasana, Virabhadrasana, Balasana, and more, not just in form, but in spirit.
I offer weekly Hatha Yoga classes where we slow down and sit inside the wisdom of the body.
Lotus Yoga Shala, Ahangama
Morning classes where the ocean breeze meets breath and discipline turns into devotionSalasbananas Yoga and Art Studio, Talpe
My home space — soft light, open sky, and a community that breathes together like one heart
Each class is an invitation to breathe deeper, feel more, and remember that the body is a prayer.
When Love Changes, But Doesn’t Die
This is a story about love, loss, and the quiet rebirth that follows. About the kind of heartbreak that lives in the body — sweaty palms, spinning head, breath caught in the chest — and how I learned to meet it with truth instead of shame. In this post, I speak on grief, accountability, yoga as heart medicine, art as alchemy, the seven steps that helped me heal, journal prompts for those walking through the same fire, and an invitation to a Cutting Chords Ceremony for anyone ready to release with love. If your heart is tender, this is for you.
Light in Motion: Being Our Best, Without Leaving Any Part Behind
What does it really mean to be our best selves?
Maybe it isn’t about shining only the polished parts. Maybe being our best means being whole — welcoming the soft wounds, the jagged edges, the shadows we once believed disqualified us from the light.
Love Restores the Blocked Heart
Guilt and shame are tricky medicines. At first they keep us awake. Then they become the chains that keep us from ever coming home. There was once a man who carried a wound older than this lifetime. He didn’t remember the moment it began—only the echo of it. A quiet voice in his bones whispering, “You don’t deserve love. You don’t deserve joy. You must pay.”
So he did.