Most of this was never written down.
Everything we teach came from women who were never asked to write it down, and mostly never asked at all. We'd like to do that differently.
If your nani, your dadi, your mother — whoever raised you — had a way of doing this, we want to learn it. Not to fold it anonymously into a course, but to record it as hers: her name, where she's from, and what she did.
In 1973 an American woman watched Indian women massage babies at an orphanage, took the practice home, and built an organisation now taught in seventy countries. The women who taught her were never named.
That's the whole reason this exists. We'd rather not repeat it.
The parts that vary.
The broad strokes are similar across most families. It's the specifics that were never recorded — and they're the interesting part.
- The oil — what she used, how she warmed it, whether it changed with the season
- The order — where she started, where she finished, what she did last
- The timing — before the bath or after, morning or evening, before or after a feed
- The words — what she sang, counted or said while she worked
- The rules — what she would never do, and why
You don't need to remember all of it. Half a memory is still more than anyone has written down.
Start with your name.
Leave your details and we'll write back — properly, by hand, not with a template. You can tell us as much or as little as you want, and nothing gets published with her name on it unless you say so.
Later on we'd love to record grandmothers showing this themselves, in their own words. If that's something your family would consider, say so when you write — that's exactly who we want to hear from.