Is there a language to relating?

What happens to how we relate in a country where there are so many languages and dialects?

How do we hold caste and religious oppression in our bodies and how does it manifest in the way we relate?

Manngathi is born out of a need for a voice and visibility of an existence that goes beyond language. When we are in the womb and then we are born, we have no language or coherent memory. What we have is the manifestation of feelings in the body. As a person grows, they may go through several difficulties that find no spoken language because the processing of traumatic experiences is immediate and most times does not involve the higher faculties of the brain.

Much of the research in Psychotherapy focuses on techniques and less on the relationship between the client and the therapist. This may be because there is no easy way to quantify the relationship and also of language falling short to describe an experience of closeness that is unlike any other relationship.

At Manngathi, we try to explore the ways we relate be it through the relationship with the therapist, with our own bodies or the way we connect in groups. We try to hold a space where it is safe to question the order of things as it is. In small ways we hope by questioning what is a given, we hope for a change that is not just at an individual level but at the level of the community as well.