A story of how Raga, Drip & Align came to be…
Growing up is often associated with the loss of a child-like innocence and wonder. Deep curiosity and excitement at being in the world are the bases for the first few years of a child’s life. There’s great joy in discovering the ability to speak, crawl, walk and then play and run. Each developmental milestone is an invitation to exploration. If the child is encouraged and shown ways of exploring the world without wading into dangerous territories, children can be fearless in their curiosity and cautious although free in their explorations.
However, as the child grows up and enters into institutions, this curiosity is tamed beyond measure. Learning means sitting still behind desks, attention is streamlined and interests are categorised into what’s accepted, and what’s not. A child’s natural curiosity drains away for the sake of conformity and discipline. They begin acquiring layers of who they should be, and how they should be. Organic being, becomes a lifeline of nostalgia, a ‘what once was and can never be again’. The rest of life becomes a template for a slow withering away of who they innately are, and want to be; dreams are replaced with five-year plans and explorations with rigid routines. The art of imagining gets buried under all the layers.
A typical upbringing becomes a way of dispelling artistic inclinations and orientations. This is why an artistic upbringing is an everlasting revolution at Infinite Artiste. To re-imagine and redefine the language of becoming, Ragini has conceptualized three movement languages: Raga, Drip & Align.
A language is a system of meaning; these movement languages then become a means of understanding human dreams and worlds of creation. These three languages enrich both mind and body by facilitating the growth of new emotional, neurological and physiological pathways. They are vessels for varied and textured self expression. They become an inner map for humans to carve their life paths by deprogramming & shedding. Without which any journey into the unknown is impossible. Only through the unknown can one uncover, discover & rediscover timeless gifts for the known. That’s how an organic being is freed from nostalgia to become an evergreen reality.
To live in tune with natural rhythms is to amble between intangibility and tangibility. This blend of real with ethereal is the root of how the languages have been crafted and categorised. While To raga is to drip is to align, To drip is to raga is to align and To align is to drip is to raga; the minutest differences become apparent in the textures of mentoring of the three..
Let’s dive into some of the nuances of each…
Raga
Like a whirling dervish or Sufi, it is to have one hand facing the universe and the other, facing the Earth: to draw from the cosmic and the human. Raga is to explore to melt into one’s inner world as the external world gradually fades away. The self appears on the skin as every pore of the body glimmers through movement. A shedding slowly and steadily takes shape as humans find their freedom in self, silence, space & sound. They discover the liberation that lies beyond… in the unknown.
Drip
To Drip is to exist groovily, it is to know how to unapologetically find one’s voice in an ever changing world. To drip is to ooze one’s inherent personality; a raw deprogramming of layers. The look, the hang, the isolations of mind and body are a medium to wordlessly make a statement, to know the world and revolutionize it. Making it a practice of confidence of becoming themselves from their spine, the loops of music they find art & play in. It is the base for an assurity of living one’s narrative with unfaltering intention.
Align
The first and most important home for humans is their bodies. Align is a process of rebuilding the foundation of that home. It bolsters deep awareness of breath-mind-spine-body-movement & anatomy.
It is a know-how in understanding the parasympathetic & the sympathetic nervous system. Being well-versed in Align is to have a body process for long-term health, clarity, longevity, agility & mobility. It is to be able to create a body that can live out all its dreams; that can explore beyond limits.
Raga, Drip and Align can create an ocean of possibilities in you… the three together can take any shape in infinity, they can fly Soulo, form an oasis or a cocoon and make a millisecond seem timeless. This is why they pour into every program at Infinite Artiste… because you’re the Infinite Artiste and through you, a whole new era begins.
align is feeling home in your body and creating a path to the cosmic, drip is getting the hang of the world and daring to groove on the cosmic path, raga is to wash the world away and explore the cosmic path.
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