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from MUBBLE FUBBLES to GIGGBLEMUG and back ~

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:46:05 GMT

When physical or mental suffering are knocking on our door, we lock our body temple as the safest treasure. BUT it finds its way through the opened shutters of our heart and it stays and it grows till it is being welcomed with heartfelt gratitude.

Life isn’t perfect. As I love to say perfectly imperfect. But we don’t have to let perfect be the enemy of good as Ella Mills says.

Life is about being present for all moments.

To free ourselves from the prison of isolation.

Sometimes it means to be literally soaked in emotions. This is a healthy way how to be busy.

Busy to be happy.

Busy to be loved.

Busy to be sad and even angry.

To numb one emotion always means to numb all of them and get paralysed by uncontrolled situations, which even might be dangerous. It’s very common to hardwire ourselves to intensify the good emotions and extinguish the bad ones.

Each time we suppress any emotions they escalate. We become more and more like a walking target. Then almost everything makes us sad, jealous, angry..etc. We waste so much energy in unimportant moments like when we gossip a lot, because we feel insecure. Moments when we fight a lot, because we don’t know how to communicate.

We can't afford energetically to keep going on this trajectory. Do not cheat life that way. It’s extremely energetically damaging.

There is always a ray of light to follow:

~ it's so ok to live life day at a time

~ there are no quick fixes

~ remember if you feel it, you can change it and only YOU can transform it

~ find what makes you feel better: yoga, meditation and food (of course highly recommended:)

BUT

don’t start the habit today you don’t think that you could do 10 years from now.

Dont force yourself to be good. Yoga and Meditation help you to know the difference between a closed and open mind, gradually developing the self-awareness and kindness as Pema Chodron says. This helps you to unlock love.

If we acknowledge the love that we feel now and nurture it through these practices, the expansion will happen by itself.

And if you don’t know??

Let others love you more and more and more until you learn to love yourself.

You deserve it.

WE ARE WATER

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:51:40 GMT

From the Teardrop to the Ocean and back ~

ancestors

running through my veins

what’s trapped within

eventually evaporates

I will be recycled over and again

through the rhythmic pull of moon and sun

deep and shadow

of a collosal wave

returning to the earth

not so little anymore

To be with water reminds me to be the water. Ideas flow within my body only when I feel safe and grounded. I still can get inspired by the power of the ocean, deep dark blue lake, wild mountain river or melting snowflake by staying in my own shell. Our comfort zone is fluid and fluorescent. It’s very unhealthy to push ourselves out of the zone when we are not sourced.

Would you like to change the direction of your inner water?? Notice how you breathe in the outer space and how you breathe out the inner space. Somewhere in this little pause in between is your shore. The safe space. Where your attention repeatedly circulates there your energy arises. Go with this flow and feel the connection to the stream of life doesn’t always mean to leave port.

How to connect with your inner water??

~ drinking purified water with drop of intention

~ dance in the rain

~ jump in the puddle

~ build any creature but snowman :)

~ cry as much as you need

~ bath with your favourite essential oils (dilute it with coconut or jojoba oil)

~ shower with warm/cold water

~ dive your feet, hands or whole body in the river, lake, sea or ocean

Our feelings inform our beliefs ~

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:17:44 GMT

I deeply believe you are worthy of dreaming where self-care has to be essential.

One of my favourite self-care tools for building a flexible cognitive mind and thinking body is Sound Meditation.

Invite yourself for Sound Bath, where there is nothing for you to do, but to be, who you are right now at this precious moment. Space where you are guided through (un)comfortable times to a place to feel safe and warm, where everyone is welcome.

At the beginning it can be helpful to check in with your mind by asking yourself a series of questions to help you contact your mind and to help you to become aware of what’s happening right now. I found out how difficult it might be for us to name, what we are feeling. Sometimes we get confused feeling over emotion , thought over mood. .. According to Brené Brown without understanding how our feelings, thoughts and behaviours work together, it's almost impossible to find our way back to ourselves and each other. Brené believes when we don’t understand how our emotions shape our thoughts and decisions, we become disembodied from our own experiences and disconnected from each other. So long as we don’t understand how our emotions work, we’re at their mercy. The hopeful part about it is ~ when we can name it, we can heal it. Mark Solm describes, that feelings make us aware that something unexpected (or something unpredicted or something uncertain) is occurring. The work of the mind is thinking. In the primary case, in the standard situation, feelings come first. Thoughts are ways of dealing with feelings – ways of, as it were, thinking our way out of feelings – ways of finding solutions that meets the needs that lie behind the feelings. Brené describes human emotions as layers of biology, biography, behaviour and backstory. A strong feeling deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

Lets give it a try.

How are you really feeling??
Can you contact what are you feeling??
Are there any emotions??
Are you experiencing any physical sensation??
Any thoughts??

What is the quality of your mind at this moment??

Do not change it.

Do not seek for the best answer.

Do not judge it.

Find your limit and expand there ~ truly, kindly and fully.

Give yourself time and space today to feel. It is all valid.

Why is it so important??

Very honest moments allow you to experience you fully at the present moment. To be willing to stay with yourself during the session is never wrong. Even though you might experience your mind wandering into places you didn’t want to go. Your opinion how did it go is not important. What is important that you try to develop this loyalty being here and now with yourself for yourself with everything that’s happening. During Sound Meditation you nurture kindness to pamper any thought, feeling or emotion calling for your attention without questioning. Each repetition cultivates more flexible cognitive mind as thinking body where you are accepting unknown, seeing everything clear, relaxing into the present moment and developing courage to feel underlying emotions. This is not magic, this is a transformative process.

Why should we imagine??

It improves your mental flexibility, wakes up your imagination according to Bessel van der Kolk. Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of your lives, because it helps you to leave your routine everyday existence by fantasising about love, travel, food - all the things that make life interesting. When you imagine, you get an opportunity to envision new possibilities where hope is planted and can bloom. Imagination fires our creativity and helps our pain. Without it there is no hope to envision a better future.

How to boost your imagination??

I have an answer called Sound Meditation. Sound Bath is very nurturing and cultivating all feelings, thoughts and emotions.
Did you know the real purpose of meditation?? As Pema Chodron says: “ Meditation gives you the opportunity to have an open, compassionate attentiveness to whatever is going to. The meditative space is like the big sky - spacious, vast enough to accommodate anything that arises. ” Picture your thoughts, feelings and emotions like clouds that dwell and pass away. All of them (good and bad and everything in between) comes and goes. To be 100% loyal to yourself no matter what without labelling and judging .

The quality of your life depends on the quality of our actions. Here is one waiting for you. Experience is often better than explanation.

Sound Meditation can teach you about your place in the world.

enJOY with curiosity, courage, vulnerability, love and everything in between.

L O V E

Breath - the Cornerstone of Sound

Tue, 24 May 2022 15:42:45 GMT

Poetry resonates in some people, in some, there is noise

Our world is our mind and our mind is nothing but sound.

If we want to change the world, we need to change our inner and outer sounds.

Did you know that the first sense that we developed was hearing? That's where it all begins. We hear and REACT.

In the body, the vibration of sound is easily measured. How can we “tune or untune” this frequency? By using awareness in our asana practice, we realise that overcrowding in our outer world really does not need to result in overcrowding in our asanas, either in number or in the size of the movements. The body needs movements that are conscious and in which the breath is (the best) agent. Breath is the cornerstone of sound. There is no breathless sound.

Conscious interconnection will eventually affect speech, not only in the art of being silent, but also in the art of telling what my inner strings are strumming on and giving them an external symphonic form sounding from an oral cave, perhaps without self-evaluation and, hence, others. The mind then becomes a platform of affection for changes that are sometimes bounded statically within the frame and their pattern repeatedly enters into meditation as a large mucus that envelops us and does not allow us to move, neither forward nor backward. Physiologically, the backward movement is thus healthy and the forward movement is even healthier. And the right tone can give it a skilful balance.

According to the the Yoga Sutra, sound can change the vrtti. Vrtti can be translated as intention, thought, consciousness. And I can only change what I am aware of, if I want to be aware of it :)

Personally, I get inspiration from teachers, whom I greatly value "just" because I feel their purity in learning what they live. For several days, I experienced a major sense of sharing with Nitya Mohan. Yes, that Nitya.

When Nitya entered the Yoga Shala, it happened immediately; it was happening before and actually, it is still happening - another of the many meanings of the word "organic“. She sat up, closed her eyes, put her hands together in the Anjali Mudra, took a breath, and I somehow couldn't follow her, but I didn't stop observing her. I took the opportunity to invite the present into this moment and, in this way, to experience it in every sense. She began to sing. Such subtlety, so much power, such wisdom, so much of everything I have never lived in a single moment. At first, I felt like angel dust was sprinkled on me and my skin was shimmering with bliss. I felt not only her, but the energy of the entire hall, which is with me; we are together, we are one. We are all one. It is beautiful. After literally the first word sung as I would wish to everyone in the present, a tear is falling down on my cheek and the others are in deep friendship with it. I can't believe how I believe. I am. I am one. I'm everything.

Those blissful days were set in a beautiful centre in the charming Irish town of Wicklow, a short distance from the sea, which you feel in the air. We enjoy delicious food from a local eco farm. The group is from around the world; I meet Canadians, Germans, Dutch, Norwegians, Americans. All have the same intention. Nitya. Sound. Mantras. I always enjoy being abroad. Everyone intersects with everyone and as we embody, we incarnate a little differently when we go home. Richer. It's healthy and so beneficial. One man attracts my eye. His body is decorated with perhaps thousands of characters ; his head is bare but his beard reaches his sternum. He is adorned in more jewellery than I, and his presence cannot be overheard in every sound he gives. And so, somehow, this eye-based magnetism will connect us after a few hours. I like its interior, just like the exterior, where the rawness resides in its playful coat. Splendour. We go on playing word ping pong. My breath is slipping and my voice falls, down to where my singing teachers from Prague taught me. My released sound is inspired by his! Wow. Suddenly, I am wrapped around him and he around me. The sentence runs through me in a moment: Mind has no gender. YES!! I wanted to wrap his voice in a snack napkin, take it home and eat it every day in a pinch. Humbly, but fully. This gives me the idea of how external sounds really can affect us.

Spreading the sound

I am literally a magnet for sounds now, because I enjoy them. I started from the inside. The sounds emitted by my thoughts and by those of my students, intertwined with emotions and feelings like internal vibrations. From this, I became obsessed with exploring how these sounds, whatever their frequency, respond to those outside sounds, and that there are so many around us. Difficult, as the poet would say. The mix has a span of hummingbird wings to an eagle. Studying sounds in connection with gender is not interesting for me. Somehow this separation is like dividing life into black and white for me. However, observing this shagginess, which is incredibly organic, is essential to my personal practice. Now. We sometimes do not realise how much we are surrounded by sounds; but notice the sound everywhere you are. It won't give us peace anywhere. In the doctor´s waiting room, in the shopping centre, during yoga lessons - loud, quiet, creeping, disturbing, luring. Have you ever seen what this outside noise is doing to you? How does your skin, your organs, your mind, your heart respond? How many of my students are disturbing the silence, because they discover how much restlessness can be there. The inner one. It's so fascinating. So I try and spread it myself. I spread the silence in which we resonate so that it becomes contagious and healing for every cell of our body.

If you have read this far, maybe there's something inside you that wants to resonate and be heard ... listen up.

Personally, I have the deep feeling that the more we immerse ourselves in the teaching of yoga and ourselves ABOVE ALL in the new tint, the more free we become; the more we extend the borders of our comfort zone, the kinder we are to ourselves and thus to the surroundings. We sharpen our own lives, thus what happens between good and bad.

First, find your own sound that will become healing for you. The sound of nature, the sound of a song, the sound of your voice, the sound of your living throbbing heart.

It is not at all important how much we know in yoga, but how much we are able to imprint into our practice.

Close your eyes for a moment, inhale consciously, and try to silently or loudly murmur MMMM, like a bumblebee on a flower. What happened? Maybe nothing. The rare nothing. MMMMs sound changed the frequency of your thoughts for a moment. And what if you try the proper mantra in the group :)

Allow yourself to marvel at your voice and like it is alive.