The Archive

Dear friend , I hope you are well and healthy these days and that 2023 started smooth and pleasant. I recently had some conversations regarding food and eating habits in relation to the practice of yoga. It made me reflect back to the changes that I made in the past ~15 years as part of my yoga path in terms of diet and lifestyle. I surely made some mistakes along the way in my attempts to better my wellbeing but I also managed to learn from them and gain some insights.  I wa

Dear friend , I want to wish you a happy new year full of love, meaningful experiences, good health, lots of joy and laughter! I also want to thank you for allowing me to share my yoga experience with you, it is always a huge source of fulfilment for me to be able to that. For me living a good life is really about making choices that will not later be regretted. This requires a continuous state of introspection, inquiry, humility and honesty. It also involves acting and inter

Dear Friend, I hope you are doing well these days as winter is present in its full glory. Seems like some people really like the winter vibe while others lean into some doom and gloom. Of course, the lack of sun, the cold, the short days, do affect our bodies and minds in different ways, but this can also be a wonderful reminder that the stories we create in our minds have a huge impact on the quality of our life, and that through continuous contemplative practice like yoga w

Dear Friend, A few weeks ago I had a few episodes of some emotional pain. It was seemingly rooted in an external situation, however I used that opportunity to take a closer look and see what is actually going on and how these very unpleasant feelings have such a strong impact on my wellbeing. There were the obvious psychological layers, which in the yoga tradition are called ' Samskaras ', but there was a need to dig beyond them into the more subtle levels of experience. Year

This Month I will break down the classic one-leg balancing pose, the Tree Pose (Vrikshasana). Spoiler: It is more about balancing the mind t

Dear Friends, I hope this email finds you well, in good spirit, taking life's ebbs and flows with some lightness in the heart and a Mona Lisa smile  ;-)  I got lots to share with you this month so if you have a few minutes and feel like it scroll down and check it out! To continue from last month's topic, I wanted to share some thoughts with you about the role of ambition, particularly for those of us who try to live a more mindful conscious life whether through yoga or any o