Synaesthesia: My Superpower: My life in living colour
Cloudia Vardon | TEDxBrixton
" ... Having Synaesthesia means I have a super heightened sensual awareness. I feel colour. I taste colour. I read the world through a riot of colours and patterns ... "
Heritage
A true Afropolitan, Cloudia’s Ghanaian, Lebanese and English heritage have woven themselves – along with her upbringing in London and West of Ireland – deep into her work, and the Brand DNA. For EmethicaLuxury.
Ethical Policies
Ethics and Luxury are questioned, what are they, and how does Luxury fit with sustainable fashion? Organic and fair-trade sourced fabrics are made into luxurious clothes with the processes gained from luxury brand artisans. Using local production, from retired craftsman, and artisans in London to local tailors in Ghana.
Creative Director
As a designer Cloudia is strongly cerebral and researched based. She designs with a narrative and a desire to widen perspectives – one example is creating textile prints that illustrate how people with colour-blindness see the world.
Cloudia also brings a fresh and unique perspective into her design because she has Synaesthesia – a neurological skill that produces a criss-crossing of the senses. Cloudia feels colour. She tastes pattern. Her first language is visualisation before speech. Through Cloudia’s kaleidoscope – the world looks, feels and works differently. See the TedTalk above.
Sattva Yoga - Create. Evolve. Thrive.
Cloudia is also a Yoga teacher. The Yamas and Niyamas, the ethical principles of Yoga also inform her Fashion practice. In my enjoyment of body movement, I was also on the British synchronised Olympic swimming team as a child,and also did Gymnatics and dance. Claudia is a registered with the Federation of Wholistic Therapists as a Reiki Level 1 and 2 healer, and is in year 3 of a 4 year Healing Science Degree at the Barbara Brennan School of Energy Healing. barbarabrennan.com
Sattva Yoga is Himalayan Kundalini, with Tantric Roots. Her training was in India, for 200 and 500 hour training, and including 4 months of retreat, deep in the Himalayan Mountains in Rishikesh, the Yoga Capital of the world. Sattwa incorporates the Vedic tradition from 4th Century BCE, merged with pure Tantric roots taught and was handed down in the oral tradition by ancient Yogi Masters to Yogananda, his student, and to my Master teacher Anand Mehrotra.
Cloudia currently teaches at a Hot Yoga studio, one to one in clients’ homes or small groups, in offices at YouTube, Google, Yu Life, MVF Global, with Yogi2Me. The styles vary from Sattva Yoga, Warrior Flow, Kriya, Power Vinyasa Flow, Yin, Restorative, Chanting, Breathwork and Meditation and Mindfulness, Naad, and Himalayan Kundalini, Chi and Laya movements,Hatha, Mantra, partner work, Vedic and Tantric transcendental wisdom.
See Samples of Sattwa Yoga below.
Yoga is about Self-Mastery, about evolution and thriving! Our purpose here is to experience Radical Aliveness, to transform and evolve.
