India, June 7 -- The aim is to share the calming, tactile power of clay with one thousand people

Every art form has a stage. Pottery lost its. What happens when an ancient craft has nowhere left to stand?

Why do people say that plunging bare hands into wet earth is the best form of therapy? There is a sharp, startling feeling when skin presses into cold mud. The clay we throw today holds thousands of years of history, yet we live in an age of glass screens and non-stop notifications. We always hear people call the wheel a form of therapy, and researchers actually see the proof happening in real time.

Kneading wet earth actively drops cortisol levels in the brain. It triggers the vagus nerve, telling an exhausted, panicked nervous syste...