Let's get together to Refresh and rejuvenate with our do-from-home retreat!

Weekend Within is a reimagined wellness experience curated by Pause & Effect in collaboration with White Collar Hippie. 

It began 5 years ago to spread good health and lifestyle through movement, fitness, food and entertainment activities curated beautifully in one weekend. At Weekend Within, we use the energies from outside and the ones within to transform ourselves.

For the upcoming Weekend Within, we are going fully online! We are planning the entire retreat to be a virtual health, fun and fitness day where you exercise, meditate, cook, interact with others, learn new things and more, with us.

This is a Pay what you Want Initiative. 

We’ll share 50% of your contributions with Khaana Chahiye, a citizen initiative to fight hunger during the pandemic in Mumbai. The other 50% will be paid to all our artists & instructors. 

All sessions will be held on Instagram @whitecollarhippie and @pause_and_effect

Some sessions will be held on Zoom HERE https://zoom.us/j/3573358651. Register to get all session details and to contribute towards the initiative.

SCHEDULE & LINE UP

8.15 AM: Opening Session

8.30 AM: Pranayama - Bhavna Dhanani

Feel the Body and Free the Mind

9 AM: Strength & Conditioning - Kunal Rajput

Fun Bodyweight Routine to get your heart-rate up and get you moving! (Open to all levels)

10 AM: Smoothies & Chill - Anam Hashim

QnA over smoothies with White Collar Hippie and Biker & Stunt Athlete/Performer Anam

12 noon: Cook Along with Bhakti Mehta

Delicious & Nutritious Recipes for the summer

1.30 PM: Art Therapy - Shubham Srivastav

Let's co-create a space to connect, learn, release, absorb and recenter through art, music & games

3.30 PM: Spoken Word Workshop - Sudeep Pagedar 

A Writing and Performance Workshop on Spoken Word Poetry

3.30 PM: Mandala making - Urban Yogi Krishna

Learn how to start creating your own Mandalas, a powerful healing and meditative technique

4.30 PM: Mental Health - Deepa Avula 

Self care - check in with yourself during the pandemic

4.30 PM: Travel Talks - Vikrant Chheda

How to host your own Retreat, plus chat on all things 'travel'

5.30 PM: Yoga - Sunaina Rekhi

Back Strengthening - Five Different Movements of the Spine in Asana Practise (Open to all levels)

6.15 PM: Latin Fusion Dance - Sahiba Sawhney

Bringing together hip hop and salsa to fall in love with music a little bit more

7 PM: Spoken Word Live - Sudeep Pagedar 

Original Poetry performance 

LIVE MUSIC

7.15 PM: Zane Roderigues

Singer-Songwriter with a new EP included by blues and country music

7.40 PM: Clyde Rodrigues

A session of fun, experimental and original music

8 PM: Imaad Shah

Singer-songwriter session with wordplay, surreal characters, and some tongue-in-cheek humour

8.35 PM: Closing session

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS & ARTIST

PRANAYAMA – Bhavna Dhanani

Bhavna Dhanani (also known as B A D), born in India and brought up in Spain is a Yin Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. Her classes are slow and mindful to ‘Feel the body, free the mind.’ Bhavna thrives to Bring A Difference by connecting the mind, body and soul. 

STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING - Kunal Rajput

A certified Strength and condition coach with an experience of over 7+ years in Fitness industry, he is a founder of The Movement and has helped in creation of fitness brands like Monday Monk. As a coach, he is one of the only 4 Nike coaches in India and has coached thousands of people.

SMOOTHIES & CHILL – Anam Hashim

Anam is an Indian female professional bike stunt performer and rider. She is the only Indian Stunt Athlete to win an international stunt competition in 2017. She is known as the first woman who had ridden to Khardung La on a TVS Scooty during the Himalayan Highs.

COOK ALONG WITH Bhakti Mehta

In 2010, ex-media professional Bhakti Mehta traded in her marketing manuals for a chef’s apron when she started The Little Food Co. She is a self-taught chef. Food styling, working with restaurants on menu development, recipe testing, kitchen planning, training – If it’s about food, chances are Bhakti’s had a hand in it.

ART THERAPY - Shubham Srivastav

Shubham is a Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) facilitator, social worker, Kathak dancer and a theatre artist. She is a founder of The MoveVent Project and has worked with institutions like TISS Mumbai, Times Foundation, Max Hospital, Udaipur Central Jail and so on. 

SPOKEN WORD WORKSHOP - Sudeep Pagedar

Sudeep Pagedar is a Bengaluru-based writer, poet, creative solutions consultant and workshop facilitator. He is the recipient of a National Award for Creative Writing from the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Two of his poems are taught at the middle-school level in the USA.

MANDALA MAKING - Urban Yogi Krishna

Krishna is a qualified advanced Yoga/ Meditation facilitator, Energy Healer, Wellness Speaker, podcaster & Yogi DJ. As a Tedx speaker she is referred to as a 'Wellness Warrior' and has been facilitating wellness workshops, running retreats and Djing for a global audience in the UK, Turkey & Malta to name a few.  

MENTAL HEALTH - Deepa Avula

A Registered Dance/Movement Therapist who runs a clinic in Pali Hill, Mumbai offering psychotherapy from an embodied lens (danceformentalhealth.com). She is an internationally trained mental health clinician, and works to support people through their mental health journeys.

TRAVEL TALK- Vikrant Chheda

Vikrant is the founder of White Collar Hippie, an alternative travel company. He is an ardent traveller and cyclist, and believes that travel is all about uncharted experiences.

YOGA - Sunaina Rekhi

Sunaina is a celebrity yoga teacher and global icon in health & lifestyle, and has represented the country at UN headquarters in New York and taught leaders of the world in spirituality, politics and diplomacy. She travels and leads the groups on yoga and Ayurveda retreats all over the world.

LATIN FUSION DANCE - Sahiba Sawhney 

Sahiba is the founder of Dance Design. She has danced jazz, ballet, Jazz-funk, hip-hop, Indian Folk, Kathak and Bollywood. She has taken her main love for Latin and performed and taught internationally in Berlin, Paris, Istanbul, Singapore, Bali, Manila, Sydney and so on. 

LIVE GIGS

ZANE RODERIGUES

Zane is a singer-songwriter based out of Pune, Maharashtra. Influenced by diverse genres and artists, he has played across multiple venues across India. From a mellow sit-down set to an energy-thumping, jump around set, Zane is a versatile, eclectic musician.  

CLYDE RODRIGUES

Clyde is a Vocalist/Songwriter from Mumbai. After playing at multiple venues, he switched to focusing on A capella with Mumbai-based vocal beatbox/instrumental unit, Voctronica. In recent years, Clyde has made a comeback with instruments, releasing a single late last year with his second project, FlatFoot Platypus. 

IMAAD SHAH

Imaad will go back to his roots as a singer-songwriter and play a short set of songs that involve wordplay, surreal characters, and a little tongue in cheek humour. You can expect some guitar, some piano and a soft spoken guy.

CHARITY PARTNER - Khaana Chahiye

Khaana Chahiye is a citizen initative to fight hunger in Mumbai. It's an attempt to crowdsource a hunger map of Mumbai and marry it with food supply through activation of a network of dormant kitchen capacities of restaurants. They are servicing 70,000+ free meals a day to those in extreme need with a focus on daily wage labourers, migrant workers and the homeless, and have done 1.5 million meals in less than a month.