Our Manushya on-the-ground reporter Pipaw asked defenders at our UPR Capacity and Movement-Building Workshop in Khon Kaen and shares simple joys that keep the spirit strong. ✨ นักกิจกรรมในภาคอีสานดูแลกายและใจของตัวเองกันอย่างไร? 🪷 มาฟังเรื่องราวจากผู้สื่อข่าวภาคสนามของเรา ทีมManushya ✨ This weekend’s gentle healing ideas: 🥓 Thai BBQ - because good food feeds both your belly and your heart 🌳 A walk in the park - nature has a quiet way of restoring us 🌬️ Letting go - happin

On the road to a people-led Thailand’s #UPR IV, care is at the center of our movement-building strategy ✊ That’s why wellbeing is a signature part of every Manushya workshop! At our recent UPR Capacity & Movement-Building Workshop in Chiang Mai , we closed the year by holding space for collective care through decolonial, community-rooted wellbeing practices. Activists from across Northern Thailand were invited to rest and recharge through: 🌿 Herbal body soaks 🤲 Traditional

You can’t spell Resistance without Rest! 🪷Here are 𝟰 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱:  ✨ Tibetan Singing Bowl  💆 Thai Massage with Wooden Tools  🍫 Cocoa Making as Mind Therapy  💖 Happiness Board During our recent UPR Capacity-Building Workshop in Hat Yai, we facilitated a Wellbeing session where activists and Indigenous leaders across Southern Thailand could pause and reconnect through practices rooted in loc

Our #UPR  Capacity-Building Workshop last week was full of passionate discussions, learning moments, and advocacy planning… but we also made sure to have time and space for collective wellbeing and relaxation. Thanks to our partner LBT Wellbeing  (𝗟𝗕𝗧 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴), participants were able to enjoy several 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 throughout the two days of the workshop, including:  Thai herbs for body and mind care  Traditional Thai massage

📱It continues to be important for us to stay  #Connected  online with others, and updated about things happening in the rapidly shapeshifting world we live in. ✊But in order for us to sustain our (much needed) long-term  #Resistance  and (re)building efforts, we must take active steps to avoid the  #Burnout , exhaustion, as well as loss of self and spirit that come from not being mindful about our  #Digital  habits, such as  #DoomScrolling . 🙌This is absolutely not to say w

Every month, amidst our busy schedules, our team gathers for our Collective Care Circle. It is an opportunity for us all to convene, unwind, chat, process and simply be in community with our lovely team. It is a rare moment for us to slow down, and a very cherished one at that. While it is often hard to find others who understand what we are going through, we must be here for each other. This month, we gathered to do some therapeutic coloring – while processing current global

Saturday, 17 May | 2:30–5:30PM | Yellow Lane, Ari Looking for healing energy, inner peace, or just a reset from the chaos of the world? 💜 Come join us this Saturday at the Reiki Share & Sound Healing session hosted by our beautiful friend at @soulfulhealingjourney(IG), with Sound Healing by @anahata_energy_alchemist(IG) and @magicalmoonpearl(IG) — and support a cause close to our hearts. #Donations will go to Manushya Foundation to provide food, shelter, and essential suppor

Though we might call it different things, ‘new year’ and ‘water festival’ celebrations are shared by our global East, South and Southeast Asian community , united in our traditions, no matter where we are. Additionally, we are also united by the centrality of water to our rituals, our regard for water as a symbol for new beginnings, and how its properties might inspire us as we begin a new cycle. Now more than ever, as our current society becomes increasingly detached from ou

#Songkran2025💧 Though Songkran is known by many members of our international community as a nationwide 'water fight’ - it is so much more than that! Songkran is Thai New Year, and is observed for a week every April, with Songkran day held on 13th April. Similar celebrations are held in many other nations as well, including Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. 🪷 The significance of ‘water’ in the Songkran holiday is important. The holiday overall is associated with ‘rebir

What care practices can we apply to help us stay connected and present to both our online and offline realities, and how do we prepare our mindsets and boundaries to help us navigate an increasingly complex and intimidating online space? It continues to be important for us to stay connected online with others, and updated about things happening in the rapidly shapeshifting world we live in.  But in order for us to sustain our (much needed) long-term resistance and (re)buildin

It goes without saying that in light of current global events, many of us are currently collectively immersed in uncomfortable but transformative processes of reconsidering and reimagining our values. We thus feel compelled, as we approach the end of Women’s History Month, to do some reflection, through our Intersectional Feminist lens, to hold ourselves accountable and grounded as we navigate this difficult time. And in the spirit of our ongoing efforts to decenter the colon

How can we cultivate our mindsets surrounding love to center interconnectedness? Swipe to read more! Where the Oppressors are fueled by fear-driven hatred that encourages individualism, we must choose to be fueled by courage-driven love that fosters collective-driven action. But in order to do this, we must divest from the limitations of the status quo surrounding ‘love,’ and expand our imaginations of what ‘love’ is, and can be. Our last #CollectiveCare post  discussed steps

🥶 It goes without saying that President Donald Trump’s 2025 Foreign Aid Funding Freeze and Stop Work Order have had a deeply destabilizing effect on our community. As part of our weekend series on collective care, we reflect on how systemic oppression, as demonstrated through recent events, have affected the collective wellbeing of… ...our team, ...the grassroots and local organizing community, ...our Southeast Asian relatives, and ...the Global Majority collective... ..and

💰#CapitalistChristmas and the holiday season is upon us again, a time where companies bombard us with endless #HolidayDeals and temptations to encourage us to spend money. While we place no judgement in the #Human desire for #Material goods once in a while, #Balance is important, as well as a consciousness surrounding our spending and #Consumption habits. We believe some of the best #Gifts are ones made with #Renewable materials, with #Love, by people who care. We also belie

❤️‍🩹 While the ‘holiday season’ can be a great time to celebrate, reflect, and spend quality time with our loved ones, we need to recognise that nobody is ‘obligated’ to subscribe to the ‘holiday spirit.’ As we approach the end of the ‘2024th year of the Common Era,’ let’s recognise that there are many reasons why people of the Global Majority might have complex thoughts and feelings about this time. Even through the ‘holiday season,’ some continue to endure grief, genocide,