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Balanced living: Making the Commitment
Balanced living and well-being means considering all aspects of your life: work, rest, fitness and health, food, mental peace and emotional well-being. And while for some of us one or the other aspect for a balanced living might come easy, others require more...
Activate your Immunity and Self-Healing Powers During Crisis
If you want to boost your own immunity without leaving the house here are some great acupuncture points to use daily, that may help you feeling better, boost your innate self healing abilities or even to decrease pain. The points I introduce to you are based on...
Top-3 Surfing Tips For Beginners to Get Started Surfing in Sunny Goa this season!
Surfing isn't something you're likely to just "pick up", but plenty of people have it on their bucket list. Find here our Top-3 Surfing Tips For Beginners to get started surfing in sunny Goa already this season. 1-Don't Learn by Yourself. No matter how easy you think...
The healing powers of springtime
Welcome to our favourite retreat season 🙂 At times, we must give to ourselves first if we expect to have anything to give to others. This year, we bring you 2 distinct opportunities to give yourself the gift of healing and nurturing yourself. Yoga,...
Live Purposefully
5 Steps to Setting Powerful Intentions For The New Year. Intention setting is the first step in the manifesting process. It is the kick-starting spark and creative power that pushes our desires to be heard by the Universe so the Law of Attraction can work her...
Let It Fall Away: 8 Yin Practices To Soften The Heart and Let Go of Your Old Habits.
Let It Fall Away: 8 Yin Practices To Soften The Heart and Let Go of Your Old Habits. Winter, by the solstice of December 21st, moves us into the holiday season. It is that time of the year that moves us into high gear with a lot of things happening all in once –...
It’s All About The Balance
The motion of yin and yang generates all things in nature. Yang is known to be more will-oriented, and dynamic in nature. It is eternal motion and cosmic action. Yin on the other hand is receptive, supportive and magnetic. It is eternally stabilizing and of cosmic...
Why We Like Mantras
A mantra is a sound (maybe a word, or sentence), that is considered to be able to lead us to liberation. The word mantra comes from the two words: ‘manas’ referring to mind, or consciousness, and ‘tra’ which means ‘to free’. Thus we could say that a mantra can...
The Powerful Benefits Of Embarking Yourself On A Solo Retreat
It may be the simple desire for connecting with like-minded people, or maybe attaining of inner peace and stillness right inside your busy daily life. Perhaps you’ve been long looking into going on retreat but never made it, committing yourself to a truer lifestyle,...
The Water Element Sequence
Here i introduce my favourite sequence to the Daoist Water Element, working with the kidney and urinary bladder meridians. I skip all the technical details but let you know my approach to the poses. For guidance of how to get into and out of poses www.yinyoga.com is...
Breathing in, I see myself as still water. Breathing out, I reflect things as they are.
Breathing in, I see myself as still water. Breathing out, I reflect things as they are. "Stillness is the foundation of understanding and insight. Stillness is strength." Kudos to Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Master and a true inspiration when it comes to putting mindfulness...
Mind Full or Mindful?
Mindfulness methods can be traced back to the yoga traditions of Hinduism. Buddha refined its practice some 2,600 years ago as part of a spiritual discipline leading to enlightenment, where the mind is free of suffering and in a state of complete wisdom and...