Not Same, Equal.
Ecologically responsible materials meet socially inclusive production processes to create a lifestyle that celebrates the best of Being.
22/03/2022
Did you know?
☞ About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.
☞ New York has the highest population density of any major city in the United States, with over 27,000 people per square mile.
☞ Over 3 million of New York City’s residents are foreign-born; over one-quarter arrived in 2000 or later.
☞ The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the 4th largest city in the United States; Queens would also rank 4th nationally.
☞ Half of all New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home.
☞ Over 200 languages are spoken in New York City.
With the amount of diversity here, it's surprising that there is such a strong hold of Eurocentricism in what is considered high taste and high-value presentation.
With NSE I hope we can show that not only is it safe to make more space, but more joyful as well.
🗽 NYC is an example to the world, and so if we can do our part to expand the circle here, we'll end up normalizing expansion for everybody, everywhere.
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20/03/2022
I wore those first prototypes of the Truvian soft pants everywhere, living my best life. I must have looked how I felt because people stopped me all the time to ask where I got them (this was all happening in NYC and LA). That's when I realized this could be a thing, 'cause it turns out a lot of people wanted the option to not wear tight pants. I got my mom to join me and we made a few more and distributed them.
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I love this old photo of mom and me. Bliss. This is really the feeling I want to capture in all our products. Unbothered Bliss!
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✍🏽 I wrote all about how NSE started on our website. If you'd like to read more, click through the link in our bio.
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20/03/2022
This is one of the first prototypes I made for the Truvian anti-pants / soft-pants (ps: which name do you prefer?) and it was fueled by rebellion.
I was rebelling against corporate polyester culture, and how for some reason being comfortable was viewed as being unprofessional. I was so mad that despite doing excellent work, emphasis was always on appearances.
We're never going to build an equitable future if we don't even think people have a right to be themselves. People have a right to be comfortable in their skin.
Anyway, I was looking for a way to not wear tight pants. I wanted to de-emphasize the shape of my body, and yet play well (as myself) with others in the proverbial sand-pit. The answer lay in textiles that connected me back to my soil, and urban versions of shapes that I grew up wearing.
Let me tell you, I have lived in these softies ever since, and cannot imagine stuffing myself in skinny polyester anything ever again.
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PS: Two versions of the Truvian Anti-Pants / Soft-Pants will be available on our new and improved website in two weeks. Stay tuned if you'd like a pair.
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18/03/2022
Hi everybody! Happy full moon in Virgo.
Here's a gentle reminder for whoever needs to hear – Our bodies don't make us, we make us inside our bodies, so don't ever believe anybody telling you you're less than them. You're not, you're equal to the universe, and the universe is abundant.
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The full moon in Uttara Phalguni (Denebola / β Leonis) is illuminating an important lesson for us. That the purpose of life is to make itself better, and it does so by expressing itself fully through whatever form it occupies. As it expresses, it grows. As it grows, it becomes abundant. As it becomes abundant, it becomes generous.
Wishing everybody abundance! May we all grow to our full potential.
07/03/2022
Life is a series of lessons. Get going, fall down, get back up, and go again.
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04/03/2022
Fight for the truth, give it your all.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
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04/03/2022
Our time in our bodies is all we have, the causes we make with them will have effects forever. We decide what we leave behind.
03/03/2022
When you're on the side of truth, you remain undefeated.
In Shatabhishak, our minds realize the boundary of our being, that it's only us who must take responsibility for ourselves. We learn that when many people, all taking responsibility for themselves, unite, the impossible becomes possible.
I hope people in Ukraine and Russia unite and fight against the evil that tries to subjugate them. I hope they change the course of history and heal our world in unprecedented ways.
We hope people worldwide can fight for the truth and defeat the lie with yesterday's new moon cycle.
- adi // 9/9
03/03/2022
Then yesterday, the moon entered the same space in the sky that the sun has been occupying, new moon in Shatabhishak - symbolized as “A closed circle” or “a thousand stars”.
This is it, our one closed circle, where we stand beneath the one sky. Where for every positive action, we are faced with the equally powerful opposite, challenging it to rise above, and win.
What assures victory of one over the other? Its the difference between truth and the lie. Those who face the truth, win.
- adi // 8/9
03/03/2022
Now the energy of Sravana (listening) was felt by everybody not just the nations at war, because we all stand under the one sky. So, on the first of March, when the moon entered Dhanishta (star of symphony) what did we hear? how did we face the music?
We heard the first accounts of Russian soldiers captured by the Ukrainians and learnt that they were lied to by the Kremlin.
Elon Musk listened to Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov of Ukraine through a tweet, and changed the course of history by delivering starlink to Ukraine.
And the world heard that even at the worse of times, people may choose to not recognize spirit. We learnt that human prejudice is worse than war.
- adi // 7/9
Slide 2: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., in February, carrying a batch of Starlink satellites. Craig Bailey/Florida Today, via Associated Press
03/03/2022
On the 28th the moon entered the energetic field of Sravana, the star of listening, Russia and Ukraine decide to keep talking.
At least they met, and decided to continue.
- adi // 6/9
03/03/2022
When the moon moves to Uttara Ashadha - The Latter Star of the Invincible” on the 27th, President Zelensky agrees to have dialogue.
He says “I do not really believe in the outcome of this meeting, but let them try,” Zelensky said in his latest video address. “So that later not a single citizen of Ukraine has any doubt that I, as president, tried to stop the war, when there was even a small, but still a chance.”
In Uttara Ashada the mind learns to become invincible, one must become wise.
- adi // 5/9
03/03/2022
On Feb 26th, the moon had moved to the Purva Ashadha - The Star of Invincibility. President Zelenskyy emerges as an invincible leader, refusing to run, standing his ground, leading with vulnerability.
- adi // 4/9
03/03/2022
Then on the 25th of Feb, while the Sun is still in Shatabhishak, the Moon moved to Mula. In Mula, the mind gains the ability to get to the root of any issue and win over it once and for all. (See Scorpio in stories).
Mula, are a cluster of stars right at the end of the Scorpius constellation, and they form a curled shape, like something going inwards. Inwards is where all the answers lie, where all battles are fought and won, and what fuels everything that manifests on the outside.
Both Ukrainians and the Russians presented examples of drawing from within on this day. The Ukrainians drew strength and defiance, the Russian protestors drew courage, and NATO decided to cut Russia at the roots. The roots of Putin, who refuses to win the war within (with his ego), instead he wages war without.
- adi // 3/9
03/03/2022
When I wrote in previous posts that we would observe the moon’s relationship with us, I expected to communicate about farming and natural growth cycles (starting with Holi / March 18th).
Last week I debated scrapping the exercise altogether. “Just stick to posting product-related content, adi!” is what I told myself. BUT when I started to recognize the synchrony between here and in the sky, I couldn’t do it.
The human spirit is life’s spirit. We must learn to recognize ourselves in everything around us, or we won’t change our ways in time to build a worthwhile future. Everything is interconnected, and we’ll talk about it all.
- adi // 1/9
17/02/2022
"If you're going to move, move like an elephant, not like a hyena" - Hausa Proverb
Become wise, become invincible.
21/27 Uttara Ashadha Nakshatra.
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17/02/2022
Slow is accountable, slow is measured, slow is considerate, slow is steady, slow is long-lasting. Wisdom forms over time and means applying experience for the best outcomes.
Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States, born with his moon in Uttara Ashada Nakshatra.
17/02/2022
21/27 Uttara Ashadha Nakshatra - "The Latter Invincible One".
Continuing the energy from the previous lunar mansion, here as well, the themes are about gaining wisdom through life experience, and applying wisdom to make the best life experience. Both take time.
17/02/2022
The goal of winning is not merely to win but to become wise, to become invincible.
In the lunar mansion of Purva Ashadha and the two that come next (Uttara Ashadha & Sravana), the elephant symbol comes up again and again.
Elephants have brilliant memories; they are community-focused, moving slowly but surely. They symbolize wisdom in many ancient cultures. Wisdom takes time.
Ernest Hemmingway was born with his Moon in the lunar mansion of Purva Ashadha.
17/02/2022
20/27 Purva Ashadha Nakshatra - "The First Invincible"
Following the journey till now, prāṇa (life force) got started and faced the Truth in . Learned to be nourished by & grow in Truth in **us. Then realized that Truth, however uncomfortable, is necessary for renewal in .
In , prāṇa learnt to care for the Truth, in , it knew to take responsibility for it, and then in , prāṇa learnt to work for the Truth.
In , it recognizes the Truth within and without. In , prāṇa gets to discern the Truth, learning how to win over darkness. Now in , prāṇa transforms their experience with the Truth, into wisdom.
Wisdom makes prāṇa invincible.
17/02/2022
20/27 Purva Ashadha Nakshatra - "The First Invincible". Symbolized by Ivory, indicating the development of the brain and the soaking of calcium.
Did you know, Calcium is the universal messenger of extracellular signals in a great variety of cells? It regulates several neuronal functions, such as neurotransmitter synthesis and release, neuronal excitability, phosphorylation and so on. Calcium is also involved in long-term processes, like memory.
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17/02/2022
19/27 Mula Nakshatra - The Root
These are a cluster of stars right at the end of the Scorpius constellation and they form a curled shape, like something going inwards.
Inwards, is where all the answers lie, where all battles are fought and won, and what fuels everything that manifests on the outside.
Timothée Chalamet who has his sun in Mula, said in an interview (link in bio) "You can be a master of your fate, a captain of your soul, but you have to realize that life is coming from you, not at you (and that takes time)."
In Mula, prāṇa learns to win over itself by seeking and surrendering to what is.
17/02/2022
19/27 Mula Nakshatra - The Root
The root nourishes, but if compromised the root can destroy. In Mula, the energy tells us to dig deeper because everything has a reason.
The saying "The Root of the Matter" is connected to this energy.
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17/02/2022
19/27 Mula Nakshatra - The Root
To defeat the enemy one must be unafraid to get to its roots. Once we get to the root of our obstacles (or enemies) we can heal them or uproot them.
This is Mula's power, the ability to get to the root of any issue, so that you can overcome it once and for all.
17/02/2022
To "be above" is the energetic lesson of the 18th lunar mansion - Jyeshtha. To rise above the enemy within, and to defeat the enemy without.
Whatever lies between you and winning, rise above that. Defeat it. In Jyeshtha, prāṇa learns that it must defeat the enemy to win.
No matter the truth we dedicate ourselves to, it is the law of the universe to place restrictions in your path so we can practice rising above, so we can practice winning. With every win, we rise above.
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17/02/2022
18/27 Jyeshtha Nakshatra - The Elder, Chief Star
Michael Phelps was born with his moon in Jyeshtha Nakshatra
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