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Yoga session invitations
5 designs
Free with an account: your invitation as a link, a QR code and a short video for WhatsApp.
Indigo Block Print
One small block printed edge to edge in indigo, as in Rajasthan.
About this design
Block print: one small repeating unit, printed edge to edge, in a single indigo on undyed cloth. The calmest family here and the one that suits an event nobody wants to look festive — a study circle, a professional meetup, a farewell. Its restraint is a different restraint from kasavu's: kasavu removes ornament, indigo repeats one piece of it until it becomes texture.
Kalamkari
Pen-work from Andhra: uneven vegetal borders in madder, iron black and indigo.
About this design
Andhra pen-work: flowing vegetal borders in madder red, iron black and indigo. The research records two sub-styles — Srikalahasti's freehand pen and Machilipatnam's block print — and this family draws the freehand one, which is why its line is uneven and its borders never tile exactly. Deities are the tradition's most famous subject and are deliberately not drawn: a template that puts a deity on a party invitation makes a religious claim the host did not.
Kasavu
Cream and one gold border: the Kerala sari's whole idea.
About this design
Cream and one gold border, nothing else — the Kerala sari, whose whole aesthetic is that restraint. Adding ornament to it would be the mistake; the family refuses motifs beyond the border and the pookalam.
Warli
From the Warli people of Maharashtra: white figures on clay, gathering and dancing.
About this design
Circles, triangles and stick figures in white on clay — the painting tradition of the Warli people of Maharashtra. It is indigenous art with a Geographical Indication, so it is named here and everywhere it renders, never described as folk art or as an Indian pattern; a family that borrows a protected tradition and declines to say whose it is has taken something. The figures are the tradition's own vocabulary of people farming, dancing and gathering, which is why it suits a community potluck better than a wedding.
Usually a park, at home and a clubhouse, for friends, the wider community and family. Any time; International Yoga Day is 21 June. Free invitation designs with RSVP and calendar, and no account for your guests.
Each one is a different visual tradition rather than a recolour of the same card. Tap a colour underneath to change the palette; every design carries your own wording, date and place.
About Yoga session
- When it falls
- Any time; International Yoga Day is 21 June
- Who is usually asked
- friends, the wider community and family
- Where it usually happens
- a park, at home, a clubhouse and online
- How the invitation speaks
- Casual — short, direct, the way you would text a friend
- Customary opening line
- “Join us for a session”
- Colours it is associated with
- Neutrals
- What guests bring
- A mat and water
- Marked by
- Hindu and anyone else
Wording that works
Yoga in the park
Eight o'clock by the north shelter. All levels. Bring a mat; we have spares.
Questions people ask
- Do my guests need an account?
- No, and they never will. A guest opens the link, types their name and taps Going, Maybe or Can't go. No password, no phone number, no app. If a page ever asks your guests for a password, it is not us.
- Can I text my guests?
- Only the ones who asked to be texted. A guest gives a number on their own — on our page, never yours — and confirms it with a six-digit code before we will send anything. You never see the number. Texts are limited to three per event so an invitation cannot become a mailing list, and cancelling or moving an event is never counted against that.
- Does it work in WhatsApp?
- That is what it is built for. Pasting the link shows a picture of the invitation with the date and who is hosting, before anybody taps — and the page opens in whatever browser your guest has, on any phone, including the ones that are not iPhones.
- Can guests add it to Google Calendar?
- Google, Apple, Outlook and anything else that reads a calendar file. There is a button on the invitation itself, and it works before anybody answers. If you change the time or the place afterwards, their existing entry updates — it does not add a second one — and cancelling removes it.