On Saturday, Ministry of Coffee, a place USC students know and love, hosted the USC club Peace Unity Love @ Sc’s (PulSC) for its “Morning Mischief” event. From a guided sound bath, discounted cafe items, to a live DJ set by one of PulSC’s founders, Aadi Tibarewala, the event showcased a vibrant community of students and their talents that come together in peace, unity, and love to celebrate life through holistic wellness.
“The underlying motivation behind PulSC is to remind college students that you don’t need drugs and alcohol to have a good time,” said Tanisha Saraff, a senior leader of PulSC. “We’ve come to college, hoping that we meet people and connect with people at daytime social events, because most of the time, people are so intoxicated and disconnected from their conscience at night.”
The event was inspired by a meditation workshop the PulSC team attended last April. It was at the Academy Club meditation event that Saraff realized, “the future of socializing is not in clubs, not at bars as once was, but in coffee shops.”
This inspired the PulSC team to kick off the event with a grounding sound bath led by USC’s own, Dr. Ariana Deans.
Outside the Ministry of Coffee, students laid down towels and yoga mats anywhere they could to be part of the healing and meditative sounds of chimes and relaxing, ocean-like noises. Some students who forgot their towels were offered space on other attendees’ towels to make sure everyone felt included.
After getting their minds right in the sound bath experience, students removed their eye masks and tied up their laces for a morning run.
In keeping with the organization’s passion for holistic wellness, senior Finn Garrigan from USC Run Club and other USC Beach Run Club members got everyone moving with a 30-minute morning run.
“ I love Run n’ Tub for the community it represents on campus. Community and giving people a feeling of belonging is what I’ve looked to build my entire college experience,” Garrigan said. “The whole idea of building a club based around beating hangovers gave it a fun marketing with a real wellness message at the root.”
The club provided attendees post-run recovery with an optional cold plunge and a cold-plunge challenge. Whoever stayed in the tub the longest received a free bikini from senior Michelle Gomez, the founder of Mamivea Bikini Co., one of the many student vendors at the event.
Michelle Gomez, founder of Mamivea Bikini Co., is launching her product this spring, after coming up with an idea in one of her entrepreneurship classes at USC. She said that Morning Mischief gave her a great opportunity to showcase her brand.
PulSC hopes to continue hosting these wellness events and inspiring people to socialize in a way that helps, not hinders, their well-being.
“We just want this movement to strengthen and help people find strength in themselves to do activities that energize them,” Saraff said.