It’s quite remarkable how the past six months have shifted things in my life. It started with my first Ayahuasca journey late last year. A deep insight from Pachamama. From there further signs and tools and wake up calls trickled in – from conversations with friends, understandings from my yoga students, more sacred ceremonies, tantric…
Category: yoga
Learning to celebrate 🎉
Learning to celebrate might just throw the biggest question mark on my Leo friends’ faces. Why does one have to learn to celebrate a birthday? I loved them so much yesterday as they whole-heartedly shared during my birthday circle how they don’t only have a birthday party, but fully indulge in a whole month…
Roadtrip South
Road-tripping South. First hour and a bit still detaching from farewells and other left-behind issues, rolling through Sydney traffic. Once on the southbound highway I crank the music up and start singing. Jason Mraz talks to my heart. Time for long phone conversations as I roll on without traffic. Each town I pass, the memory…
Some-er Yoga just for me
I’m just slowly cranking back up to the 1001 demands of everyday life after the most chillaxing sailing Christmas Holidays. I cannot stress enough how soul-nourishingly good it is to turn off those screens. It’s no new term, but nothing describes it better than ‘disconnect to reconnect’. Also disconnecting from teaching has refilled me energy…
Yoga teachers are only human too
If this October the moon was in Libra, then my usual intunement with ‘la luna’ has failed me. Harmony and cooperation is some of the adjectives that least describe this past month which I will happily leave behind. Instead, there was a lot of deception and disappointment amongst those supposedly dearest, loneliness and lostness amidst…
Your mat is where the magic starts. Your life where it continues.
It has been almost 20 years that I have been working with bodies – on and off a yoga mat. And yet, I feel there is still so much to learn. For many years I pretended that this was just a part-time thing while I figured out how to properly make use of my university…
Dini Martinez 