The Flow Fest returns to Gulshan in August

The Flow Fest returns to Gulshan Shooting Club on Aug 21 and 22 for Summer Flow, an event built around the Eight Pillars of Wellbeing.

These eight pillars are: “movement, the body as the gateway; nutrition, food as fuel and care; mindfulness, which is breath and attention and calm; rest, meaning sleep and stillness and recovery; connection, belonging chosen over isolation; gratitude, perspective under pressure; creativity, expression as release; and purpose, direction and meaning,” The Flow Fest said in a press release.

Most people in Dhaka are “quietly short of at least one”, it says.

The festival grounds will be laid out into four zones, with each zone representing two pillars. This means a person will have to visit the whole site to experience all eight.

“Body holds movement and nutrition, where yoga, dance and mindful movement sit beside bone density scans, blood sugar tests, skin analysis and ayurvedic consultation-health you can actually measure, in a city that usually measures it too late. Mind holds mindfulness and rest, with breathwork, meditation, sound healing and the Recovery Corner, which is two days of permission to stop. Heart holds connection and gratitude, through the Gratitude Wall, community circles, honest support conversations and the Market, because healing happens through connection, not in isolation. Spirit holds creativity and purpose, with live music, art, poetry and the DJ truck rolling down Hatirjheel expression is not the decoration around wellness, it is part of it,” the statement says.

Those excited for the event can take a short, free wellness quiz at the Flow Fest site to show them if they have been neglecting any of the pillars.

Registration for The Flow Fest is open now.