You’re fed up with your daily grind leaving you drained, sluggish, and frustrated. The Karachi Wellness Festival offers a solution for you, your family, friends, and children since it is a location where health and hedonism coexist.
The wellness festival, which offers a variety of activities, is a place where you may expand your mind and heart, focus on interpersonal growth, as well as your physical and emotional well-being.
This place has it all: from yoga to stress-relieving activities, from pottery to artwork, from workshops on gender-based violence to parent-child education, from meditation to sessions for mothers who struggle with anger, from children’s creative writing to live music, and the festival itself, which is filled with a variety of enjoyable activities.
The two-day wellness festival began on Saturday (February 4) and will end on Sunday. Its goal is to raise people’s awareness through activities that promote a wholly holistic outlook (February 5).
Hundreds of individuals of all ages attended the event’s opening day, which was hosted at Veritas Learning Circle in PECHS from 10 am to 7:30 pm.
Commenting on the vision behind the event, Nida Khan, one of the five founders of the festival, said: “This weekend is all about celebrating community with family and friends.”
“It has been perceived that wellness means going to a medical doctor or opting for therapy. However, […], music is wellness, yoga is wellness, medication is wellness, medical doctors are wellness, alternative treatments are wellness, and food is also wellness. This is a weekend about celebrating all of those things,” said Khan.
“Many of the vendors at the event,” she said, “include women who run small-scale businesses, along with small family-run businesses, and big names as well.”
Nida asserted that the festival was an opportunity for people to come together, eat, listen to music, and realise that wellness is not one person’s responsibility but a collective effort.
“The truth is, we can only take care of each other when we take care of ourselves first,” she added.
At the event, Naila Baig Ansari and her daughter hosted a delightful session where attendees could participate in enjoyable board games. “People are learning how to play board games other than the typical versions of Ludo, Monopoly, and Scrabble. These are distinct board games, such as European board games and strategic thinking, that people in Pakistan have not had exposure to.”
“Through board games, there is a lot of happiness, endorphins, strategising and it adds to the wellness and the feeling of community meeting new people and doing something new,” said Ansari.
One of the attendees at the festival said that she had participated in various and diverse sessions, including how to deal with sadness and flash mob.
“There is a lot of diversity here which promotes celebrating yourself and our different aspects. This is a great festival for kids and adults and there are not just sessions here, but food stalls too.”
One of the mothers shared that she had a lot of fun with her daughter. “There are different art and activities that we normally cannot provide to the kids at home. It’s a good event for people to bond with their children. You can spend a good and healthy time with your kids.”
