Stillness
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My White Tantric Yoga with strangers experience
A few years ago when I was living in Barcelona I was in a low place in my life. Not bad place, I just was not contempt. I had lost my apartment, my stuff and everything in between. Basically from one day to another my life as I knew it had changed. I was renting a room in the city that was far from what I used to live in. I never made dinner, just bough something from a restaurant on my way home from work and I just was not positive.
One day at yoga class I met a girl who was just visiting Barcelona and she told me about White Tantric Yoga. It is like a workshop, where you preform these long yoga poses. I remember one of the “poses” we help for 45 minutes !!
It is all done in one very large group. If I am not wrong I think we must have been a couple of hundred people in that place in Barcelona. You have to wear all white and you have to cover the top of your head. It was one of the most bizarre things I have ever done.
The part that had the biggest effect on me ( besides entering this place and thinking I had mistakenly joint a cult and I would be stuck here for ever) was the very first exerciser. We all were asked to stand in a double giant circle facing each-other. The only thing we needed to do was to hover our hand over the person across from us and then when the bell rang, step to the left to do the same with the next person.
Its not a big deal but I dont think anyone has experienced the power, the effect and the intensity coming with starring for what felt like a long time into a strangers eyes. Never the less hundreds of strangers.
I never think about this my White Tantric Yoga experience anymore. It was many years ago and it is just something I did to try it out. End of story.
But today I came across a video on Youtube where they were asking strangers “What’s the most painful thing you’ve been told? The camera is filming these strangers up close and if you concentrate you can really see into their eyes. And you can almost feel the pain they are describing.
And this is just a stranger, not someone who is close to you. And I got the same intense and powerful feeling.
So maybe we all are One. Maybe the eyes are the way into the soul.
Reflecting time on the Yoga mat.
This is at one of my favorite hotels I have even been to.
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Inspiring mornings and trashy afternoons
I do this all the time – staring a new routine all over. Sometimes I finish them, often I dont.
I very much enjoy the idea to have a routine. A set of rituals ( without the voodoo sound to it ), especially in the morning – it is my favorite time out out of the 24 hours we get.
So, I started a new set of morning rituals for myself haha. The bits and pieces are not exactly new, just the hardcore commitment to them. I could not find any other word then hardcore – I’s sorry..
This is one of the blessings in disguise that comes from me commuting 4 hours per day. At least I get to listen to inspiring talks from interesting people. And also watch funny videos but that’s not important. It cant all be inspiring for F-sake, its 4 damn hours !! hahah
But this one thing I have actually been really great at. To use the morning commute time for inspiration, learning new things and things that makes me progress. And the afternoon commute I dedicate to trash TV and things that just makes me laugh.
Its all about the balance. Here is one of the videos I came across this morning on YouTube
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Amazing morning, amazing life
This is how I started my day this morning. Amazing morning means amazing life. At least that is the case for me. I absolutely adore mornings. If I decide, a perfect morning include these details; stillness, meditation, no stress, no sounds but natural sounds ( like birds, wind, waves etc). Another must for an amazing morning is breakfast. And it has to be enjoyed slowly for a long period of time. Mornings with rush are some of the worst things I know.
Hotel buffet breakfast is another thing that just puts a smile on my face. My goal is to have the opportunity to stay at hotels with Ambrose and our future family just for the sake of it. Hotels and hotel breakfast…..amazing life.Last night I did not get much sleep. Ambrose had a work party and came to the house at 2am. I wish I was one of those cool girlfriends that go to bed, but no. I just can’t sleep until he is home. I might snooze off a bit, but no deep sleep Weird..
So today I had just that, an absolutely amazing morning. Drove down to my favorite cafe and had my favorite breakfast – coconut latte with cinnamon and a “Mademoiselle”. This is heaven, if you guys are in Sydney come to Tascott and to This Little Piggy.
Even though it is winter I was able to sit for over an hour in the sun with my breakfast and a book. Amazing!
After a while I saw Ambrose coming ( my phone had no batteries so did not get his text). We sat in the sun, reading deep and meaningful life question from my book Think and grow rich. And we just laughed and laughed answering these important questions. I don’t know why we laughed, but we had a good time.
This is the rest of my day. The whole theme of today could be summed up in ” stillness”. After a couple of hours at the cafe Ambrose went back to bed. He had a big night and could not keep up with my out and about lifestyle today.haha
I went to the beach and listed to a podcast with Dr Joe Dispenza , just for 45 minutes or so. More than that makes me feel restless, like I am wasting my life just lying around on a beach. haha. Just the way I am!Now it is 10 pm and time for me to do my meditation and go to sleep. Hope all of you also had an amazing morning like I did!
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interior design magazine
It’s already Tuesday and except working nothing much has been going on over here. That why I think we should go back to the weekend instead. A weekend with open house inspections, forest walking, sleeping in and flipping trough a magazine while having a coffee in the sun. Ahh love the last one the most. Favorite activity, well if you can call sipping coffee an activity. I say yes we can!
I especially like it when it is cold outside and you get a spot right by the window and the sun trough the window warms your body. So you see, this is a hobby of mine hahaThe magazines I am interested nowadays are mostly interior design magazines. All I want to spend my money on are things like a lemon tree, new paint and solar panels for the roof. Just the thought of shopping clothes makes me tired.
At one of the cafe´s we visited there was an interior design magazine that featured 101 tips on how renovation for the home. Super interesting and valuable now that we are buying a house. By the was, what an exciting sentence that is – we are buying a house!
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sand between my toes
These last few days I had a lot in my head. Sometimes it seems like I can’t get it to stop – all the thoughts. Mine is mostly about the future I think. I don’t dwell too much in the past, well, not as much as the future anyway haha.
The bottom line is that I am not where I want to be, where I need to be. Which is in the Now. Its super annoying. Especially for someone like me whose been reading, studying and interested in these sort of stuff for years.
Moving on. But before I do that I just want to say that I am often, almost every time when I am writing in here, finding myself wanting to be more transparent in here. Less about nothing such as sand between my toes and more about, you know “the whatever you want to call it” stuff.
I guess I didn’t really move on to something else today. Lets just end it here, don’t really feel like writing anymore today.
See you all back tomorrow. Hopefully I manage to be more transparent than. xx
Cant promise anything.
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lazy days with a newborn baby, poke bowls and surfboards
There has been a lot going on these past few weeks – honestly most of 2018 has been full on. So some weekends it’s really appreciated to just have a couple of lazy days. Here is one of those lovely lazy weekends, filled with no plans.
Don´t get me wrong, I have loved everything we have done so far in 2018. Just nice to have some lazy days with a newborn baby, poke bowls and surfboards and nothing more.
I am an auntie again! We did see little Archer just a couple of hours after he was born at the hospital. Here we are visiting at their home. Congratulation to Rachel & Daniel!
I keep telling them to just keep having children,they make such gorgeous and lovely babies! So far Xavier and Archer are 2 of the most beautiful people I have seen in my life.
Then we drove to collect Ambros’s new wet suit he order from the surfboards shop. And like always there was a little surfboards drooling (Ambrose not me haha) Who wants to carry around this giant?!
Yep – lazy days are better whenever including something nice like these poke bowls.
Seriously – get yourself to Manly and order one of these poke bowls. Best lazy day food! MmmmmmNormal people recommend useful stuff – I recommend poke bowls……
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obsessed with the amazing nature of Australia
I can’t even remember when I became this nature obsessed person – but I am. Cannot get enough of how beautiful the nature is here in Sydney, well most of the parts of Australia that I have visited.It’s all so dramatic and majestic! Okey maybe that’s enough of my whole nature obsession but you will see more of that in here for sure haha.
I am sitting having my avocado sandwiches before heading into Sydney for a meeting. Think I am about to start working here in Australia. Last time I worked here was years ago and I cannot wait to get back. Back to a “normal” life. I wont say the Visa process has been the hardest thing in my life but it has for sure been the weirdest thing in my life to go through. But that is thank God over and done with! Maybe that’s why I have time to obsess over nature nowadays ?! 😉Now a quick shower and getting ready for my meeting and then I have tickets to the theater – Alice in Wonderland. Just have to find someone to go with me. I need to start making friends hahahaha
Have a great Thursday xx
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Becoming better in small steps
This morning I came over this list from Wit & Delight which suggested a whole lot of small changes to implement over 30 days.
Some of them you might already do, I know I did. For example sitting at the bar ordering small plates. I have always done that, especially when I am eating alone I love sitting at the bar.You see, it is not always the major adjustments we make that changes our life’s for the better. If you want to change a habit or add a habit into your everyday life, research shows that you are better of doing it little by little everyday.
Like starting a Ritual. You can read more about it HERE in an earlier post I wrote.Here are some from the List that were the most appealing to me :
℘ Abandon social media for a day
℘ Unsubscribe instead of delete unwanted emails
℘ Say no to plans that don’t sound fun
℘ Put a water-glass by every sink and at your desk
℘ Get a lynda.com subscription and learn something weird or new
You can read the whole list HERE , maybe you will find something you like to add from this list that suits you better.
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