Mainstream has taught us that meditation is easy: sit for 5 minutes, breathe a little, and you’ll have a stress-free life. When it doesn’t work like that, we think we’re bad at meditating. Or that this is all bullsh*t. Well, it’s not. I’ll use the word “yoga” a lot here. When Patanjali - the guy who wrote the actual manual on this, the Yoga Sutras, says yoga, he doesn’t mean poses (asanas). He means the whole path, preparation included, that leads to and culminates in a still

How Do You Teach Meditation? I've been asking myself this question before starting my certification, but my more important self-inquiry was: what do I want my students to carry away from our sessions together? I don't believe in the power of knowledge on its own - not because knowledge isn't valuable, but because meditation without experience is just philosophy. I believe in lived experience. If I hadn't experienced the process myself - the struggle, the deeper states, the ef

I often reflect on hardness versus softness as two opposing forces in life. While many people see the world in terms of good and bad, I tend to see things through the lens of soft and hard. My long journey of healing and personal growth has shown me that the only way to truly live is through softness and flexibility, not stiffness and rebellion. That’s the exact opposite of what I used to believe, even just ten years ago. I was always in opposition to something, convinced tha