Positive thinking was largely negatively viewed decades ago, before it became widely embraced. Slowly but steadily, this concept, born in the 60s, encouraged people to start pumping up their self-esteem and showering themselves with self-love and praise. Everyone became involved in the lemonade making business.
Read MoreFall carries the invitation to contemplate nature’s transformation and merge with it, slowing down the pace. It’s the time of harvesting and preserving. Did the seeds come to fruition according to our aspirations?
Read MoreTo feel alive we must embrace this world as is - yes, like a fixer-upper you are ready to buy because somehow, even with all its imperfection it speaks to you with its enigmatic, magnetic, and palpable to you special energy. To feel alive we must accept ourselves the same way, and with the same brutal honesty - noting all the peculiarities, idiosyncrasies, potentiality, capriciousness, and aspirations.
Read MoreDeep there, in the middle of it all, there is stillness - unassuming, invisible, weightless. There is this force that holds it all together. It’s hidden, yet always palpable. It’s strong and powerful, yet delicate and gentle. That mandala within is what pulls me up when I feel like falling apart.
Read MoreThe scent of roses represents home for me. I love to splash and rub rose water between my palms before I sit in stillness, meditating on something that I feel evokes my own essence. I find it to be a powerful self-searching tool that brings clarity to my inner inquiry.
Read MoreI woke up in my childhood. Lately, I’ve been visiting often the vast green fields behind the house I grew up in. I see myself as a 7-year old playfully running on the soft grass, joyful and care-free, with two symmetrical pigtails adorned with huge, shimmering red bows framing my smiling face.
Read MoreI was born in the heart of the Valley of the Roses in Bulgaria - home of the most rich (and one of the most expensive) scents in the world. There, Nature created perfection - the way only Nature does.
Read MoreI love cooking, and I diligently devote time every day to it. It’s my creative outlet, and it’s my Pratyahara practice - “gaining mastery over external influences.”
Read MoreWhat can the sound of my heart tell me? A myriad! It knows it all better than I know myself. When I try to hide from life, people, hurts, and insecurities, my heart is perfectly aware. Not my mind - it invents things in the spur of the moment, and cannot be trusted with accuracy. But the heart, it knows!
Read MoreHow often, when a teacher invites us to set an intention at the beginning of a yoga class, do we choose joy as our destination for the practice, or we make a commitment to observe its omnipresence in our lives? Usually, there are “urgent” matters that we deem more important than noticing joy in and around us at each moment.
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