PSA: white wellness spaces are literally coded with the color white.
Here’s why we need to rethink the aesthetics of our wellness spaces.
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And to be sure, its an urgent problem that needs a solution.
It was always very confusing to me and also oppressive.
You often see a very consistent look, feel, and usually appropriated religion in spaces.
Elisa Shankle married her love for design (she holds an interior design degree from Pratt Institute) with her passion for holistic health to create HealHaus, a cafe and healing space in Brooklyn. Elisa is Reiki 2 attuned and explores her own healing practice through different mediums to access mind, body, and spirit.
[At HealHous], I also wanted to have a very neutral space from spiritual practices.
Beyond being visually oppressive, whitewashed wellness spaces rife with appropriated decor back up other problematic roots of whiteness.
White dresses are the chosen uniform for baptisms, first Communions, purity balls, and debutante balls.
To be sure, there are connections to the color white that a number of global cultures hold.
In Chinese feng shui, for example, white representsthe metal elementand signifies endings giving way to new beginnings.
And in Japanese culture,white represents holiness, purity, and even joy.
You come in, and you see what resonates with you.
I feel like thats not often the agenda of the wellness industry.
Its very much telling you and selling you what it’s crucial that you do.
But for [HealHaus], its just about literally holding space.
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