Retail Therapy
April 2009
One is never quite the same after a brush with spirituality. Samira Amin’s domain changed after reading The Celestine Prophecy a few years ago, and so did her business. She gave up her successful career as a designer and converted her boutique into a charming outlet for healing devices as well as for conducting therapy sessions.
Spirituality on Sale The Ostara Shop, at Gowalia Tank in Mumbai, is a treasure trove of healing devices ranging from aromatherapy to crystals and everything in between. Aromatherapy diffusers and essences, acupressure slippers and massagers, a whole range of crystal rocks and jewellery, tarot and angel decks, books on various modalities, and numerous knick knacks like stained-glass charms, metal and crystal pendulums, dream-catchers, and charms to ward off the evil eye and even Tibetan bowls. Her crystal collection from around the world consists of rocks, jewellery, pyramids, towers and wands. It is said about crystals that you do not pick them – they pick you. Crystals are known to ‘call you’ so the piece that you just ‘happen to’ pick up or ask the price of, is the piece for you.
Samira’s acupressure slippers are meant to be worn for 15 minutes every day. These have markings to show you how to interpret the meaning of pain in different parts of the foot. A detailed chart explains how every organ is represented on the soles of our feet. This can be a very useful way of detecting health problems even before their onset.
A quiet area of the store has been set aside for one-on-one therapy sessions with clients – be it for tarot or angel card reading or counselling. Angels are nothing but energy aspects of our self, explains Samira. She does not like to measure out her counselling sessions by the hour because she feels that you cannot impose stringent time limits on an intuitive process.
Contact : theostarashopmum@hotmail.com
9820035831
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