I hate meditations, mostly because I am not a quiet person. It is hard to sit with your thoughts when you would rather spit them out at anyone who will listen, as I do. And yet, I recently put all that aside for Brad Pitt.
Well, more specifically, it was for his cashmere line, God’s True Cashmere, which he co-founded with friend Sat Hari. In honor of their holiday collection, they decided to host a sound bath instead of a traditional preview. I have been to only a handful of sound baths in my life (which I am now realizing is maybe a lot?) but never in the name of Brad Pitt and cashmere, so I, of course, decided to go.
I walked into it blind—quite literally—because I had run out of my contacts earlier in the week. Once everything came into a blurry focus, I was able to make out around fifteen yoga mats laid out with a plaid cashmere blanket by the brand on top and a small plaid pouch, which contained an array of crystals. A standing bell and crystal bowl sat in front of the sound therapist, sitting criss-crossed at the front of the room, who would be leading the session. Pitt was not in attendance but I presume he was present in spirit, coming through to us with each passing gong.
Before that could happen, Hari took a moment to talk about the brand’s origin story. The brand was Pitt’s idea, even if he didn’t know it. He had come to Hari in a dream and asked her for some “softness” in his life. When she approached Pitt about it in person, he said he actually was in the market for some really great cashmere. And when Hari couldn’t find it, she decided to make it. “Our touch is our love made more palpable,” she said to all of us ahead of a meditation that required us to set an intention.
After a couple of deep breaths, we all laid down and the sound of a ringing gong filled the room. My head was nestled into the cashmere blanket and I held the pouch, my fingers grasping at the sharp amethyst inside. Thoughts circled through my mind that I felt the need to tell the person next to me, despite not knowing who they were. I silenced my internal monologue after I remembered where we were and started to think about what I could do with this quiet time to better my mental health, my well being, and my anxiety. And then suddenly, I was asleep.
Unfortunately, Brad Pitt did not come to me in my dreams. Actually, nothing did. I hadn’t even noticed I was asleep until I heard a loud gong and a set of soft exhales. I realized everyone in the room was in a different position I hadn’t been aware we were supposed to shift into. I’ve never once gone through with a meditation or ever fallen asleep at a sound bath, so I will attribute this rare moment of sleepy peace to the cashmere that wrapped around my head and hands.
Once I got up, Hari asked me to let the cashmere on the racks behind us embrace me. And so I reached for a bright orange shirt with an amethyst button (each shirt has 7 buttons that represent the chakras and 11 buttons total which is the number of mastery in numerology). “It will hold you,” Hari said. And it did. As I slipped my arms into its soft sleeves, I could feel myself drifting back to a state of peace, as if I was able to fall asleep again right there, swaddled in cashmere.
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Tara Gonzalez is the Senior Fashion Editor at Harper’s Bazaar. Previously, she was the style writer at InStyle, founding commerce editor at Glamour, and fashion editor at Coveteur.