GET BRAVE: Remembering Your Courage During the Pandemic
Thoughts from a songwriter… It’s easy to feel helpless and fearful after ingesting daily news headlines. It can all take a toll on our mental well-being. Here in New York City – an epicenter of the U.S. COVID-19 crisis – essential workers are literal heroes that keep the city alive and moving. And day after […]
Finding Calm During Crazy Times
Sometimes things just don’t go to plan, and unexpected crazy situations can take over your normal day to day life. With the whole world in chaos over the current COVID-19 pandemic, it can seem difficult to find calm and stay sane. Therefore, we have put together these helpful tips on how to stay calm and […]
How to create your own meditation retreat at home?
What if quarantine was our best opportunity for growth, healing, and self-development? A few weeks ago, when I found out about the lockdown, I told myself: “Alright, we can do this. I’m a meditation teacher, so let’s use this time wisely and focus on mental health and personal growth.” Guess what happened next? I woke […]
The Art of Silence – The Sound of Awakening
It’s still on my mind, the sound of the bell in Himawan sanctuary (where I joined a meditation training) around the dining room at two places: the first one – in between the dining room and rest room, the other one – in front of the dining room, the place where I loved to sit […]
Finding Inner Peace Through Minimalism
The two terms minimalism and inner peace are both equally difficult to explain in their true entirety, but at the same time, the latter is an end goal of the former. Let’s try and understand the two concepts first, which will make it easier to explain the connection and how we can use minimalism to […]
The Inner-Work of Positive Affirmations
“I Am Safe” but “Am I Really?” Positive affirmations are not about suppressing reality nor about using a mask to cover up what’s “really underneath”- on the contrary, positive affirmations are powerful assertions that are meant to open up a dialogue with the experience of embodying the ancestral and everlasting universal question of Who Am […]
3 Steps to Finding Inner Peace At Home
The world we live in seems to be getting more hectic with each passing day. And while it’s certainly true that now is probably one of the best times to be alive, finding peace of mind and some much needed inner peace can be quite a challenge. Making your home a space where you can […]
How to live in harmony with the world nowadays?
We live in a global economical culture that is geared towards doing, succeeding, “crushing it”, making more whether it’s money or of ourselves. These actions are based on outwards and external movement. Just like nature, human life too is all about balance, and to maintain this balance, we need to spend time cultivating our inner […]
This Is Not the Headspace I want to Embrace
Back in the days, being old enough to say that, I was a Star Trek fan. As a child of the 80’s, I was quickly enamoured when I saw the Enterprise D for the first time. Watching it with my older brother Jon in our parents’ house, if I remember correctly, I was probably eating […]
5 Essential Steps to Inner Healing You Can’t Ignore
Inner healing is never a linear process. People who go through our training and other healing spaces often have different experiences to share regarding their healing path. Nonetheless, several people have reported similar underlying tendencies in this process that may be useful for you to know or even place your inner healing story in a […]