Mashal is a textile practitioner, educator, and trainee humanistic counsellor based in Karachi. She works with craft as a liberating, decolonising pedagogy, and as a source of joy. Her practice brings together handweaving, spinning, stitching, growing fiber from seed, and other heritage textile traditions as forms of embodied knowledge and relation. She leads workshops on weaving, handspinning, and stitch as communal practices of repair, with a focus on intergenerational transmission and healing. Mashal’s earlier experience founding an education social enterprise informs her participatory, process-led approach. Drawing on her training in meditation and counselling, she integrates somatic awareness and person-centred principles to create grounded spaces for collective learning and repair.

She holds an MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art and a B.Sc in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She is a meditation teacher certified by the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.