Category: travel
Tantra
Tantra is a pathway not only for sexual ecstasy, but also for healing and fulfillment. Private Tantra Sessions In a private session, whether alone or with a partner, we’ll be exploring a variety of breath, movement, cognitive, verbal and emotional release tools to create more connection. Unless we can feel the wholeness within, any relationship…
Dear human…
Dear human who I share this planet with, I want you to know that my shining heart is reaching out to you. Some mornings past hurts and pains still fog up its brightness, But if I react to you from the fog, know I am aware that it is my reaction that triggers me, Not…
100 years
Some people live 100 years. Some people live one year 100 times. Which one are you?
Sometimes you have to lose yourself…
Sometimes… You have to lose yourself to find yourself again. You have to let him go, to fall in love all over again. You have to say your goodbyes, to experience the tender love and hopeful freshness of hugs when you embrace them again. Sometimes… You have to lose yourself in nothingness to redefine who…
From a burning country
It’s been quite eerie since I got back from India two weeks ago. Australia is burning like never before. In a chat with my kids today we realized that either this was going to go down as an unprecedented disaster in history, or, alas more likely, as the new norm for decades to come. Over…
Peace. Gratitude. Joy.
My friends’ Sri Lankan hospitality has been nothing but humbling, heart-melting and all-encompassing. Today they send me off with a traditional farewell ceremony. When I bowed my red-ochre-dotted forehead into the rice, three rice grains stuck to it. Customarily this means I will have three children – and I do, and now that I’m sitting…
Varkala – India’s Bondi Beach
The conductor at the train station proudly shows us the 50+ year old equipment which allows him to manage the passing trains without interruptions, nor crashes. The five ancient phones on his simple office desk remind me of visits to my great-granny’s when I was a little girl and the round dials were still put…
Amma’s Ashram
The 2.5 hours train trip from Thirandrum to Karunagappaly went almost disappointingly smooth. After all the adventurous and tumultuous Indian train stories I had come across, my awesome travel friend Cat and I were prepared for the worst – only to find ourselves with ample space, remarkably clean toilets and chai and sweets vendors passing…
Dini Martinez 