Don’t tell your biohacking coach, but the best self-care is actually free

Every night before going to bed, Ambika Agnihotri a practice in technique or a jostling for money. It is not even a portrait of someone real. The form, the expression and the aura that the woman will take is unknown to Magotra. “I just throw him on myself on paper,” said the 54-year-old man.

This night ritual began 28 years ago when the design academician was confined to rest for the entirety of his first pregnancy. At the time, she would sketch the imaginary characteristics of her unborn child. A few years later, by sailing on the family, the work and her sense of self, she started to scribble the face of a woman. It was both an expression of her anxiety and a manifestation of everything she wanted to embody. “With exaggerated lips, daring eyes and impossible hair, my women are unruly, unconventional, ahead of their time. In a world that still fucks women in the corners, they come out loudly and, through them, I do it too, ”she explains.

Magotra’s aimless creative routine – something that she had been practicing every day for over 20 years – is the recall we need “Self” in personal care. In an irreducible and linked to the context, the ego cannot expect a model of healing of the factory line with bath bombs, snail masks, sensory deprivation tanks and catch-all products that flood each well-being list online. There is a version of Care, like Magotra, which is not approved by algorithms or focused on trends. It is done by hand and fiercely personal.