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    Meditation to deal with chronic stress

    29th June 2021

    We can be our own worst enemy, I should have done this, said that, I’m such a …. Thinking like this, allowing the negative self-talk and beliefs to take over, has an impact on your overall wellbeing. Moreover, this constellation of negative thoughts can increase your stress levels towards chronic stress ...read more

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    ‘Just breathe’, how difficult can it be?

    6th October 2020

    'Just breathe, just follow your breath, allow the body to breathe', you've probably heard these words before at some point in a yoga or meditation class. Resulting in a sweet roll of the eyes perhaps. An understandable roll of the eyes as it can be seriously boring to observe your breath. I ...read more

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    2021: How love and kindness might just be our way out

    22nd September 2020

    In our daily newsfeed, love and kindness don't seem to exist. Most people are completely fed up with all the Corona talk, the news, the negativity, the fear, all the opinions and the expert views? Plans getting cancelled, urgh… over and over again. Corona has catapulted us into a completely different world. I often ...read more

  • Cultivate more Peace of Mind with the So Hum Meditation

    30th May 2020

    After years of practice, reciting So Hum is still one of my favourite meditation techniques to teach. It is a very powerful and yet, a very simple technique. The mantra, so hum is like a tool for the mind. Something to hold on to, and something to go back to when the ...read more

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    Yoga for the Mind: a 5 Step Process to Overcome Fear and Anxiety

    27th April 2020

    Even for the most grounded person, it’s really not easy to rest in that calm abidance that is often times mentioned in Buddhism. These are seriously challenging times and so many feel pulled in all kinds of different directions. As a human species, we have been through a thing or two ...read more

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    Stress or Anxiety? Give Meditation a Try!

    6th May 2019

    When you’re anxious, you’re not able to control your emotions, your thoughts spin all over the place and you might not be the best company for yourself or for your environment. Understanding what causes your anxiety can be the first step in managing it. And this is exactly where meditation steps ...read more

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    How to Get into a Daily Meditation Routine

    4th May 2019

    Nowadays, it seems you either do yoga asana, which is all about physical wellness, or you focus on the mind and get into meditation. I hear it all the time, people who keep making the difference whether they are more into ‘yoga’ (referring to physical postures) or more into meditation. Which is ...read more

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    4 Easy Ways to Create More Awareness

    17th April 2019

    Mindfulness and awareness are wonderful theoretical topics to read about. However, instead of reading about it and keeping it theoretical, I’m an even greater fan of translating it all, very practically, into modern day life. How can you create more awareness in your modern day life? It’s all about making small shifts, nothing ...read more

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    How to master meditation in 4 Steps

    12th April 2019

    Meditation is not hard, impossible or time consuming. Your mind is not too busy and, there is hope. I will show you how to master meditation, using these 4 simple steps. 4 Steps for your mind training

    1. Relax
    Before anything, you need to learn how to relax and to be comfortable with what is. You ...read more

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    The Real Reason Why You Don’t Meditate and How to Overcome It

    16th October 2018

    Why is it that so many people are 'into meditation' but don’t seem to be able to set aside those couple of minutes to attend to the mind? As most people know by now, meditation has immense benefits. Meditation develops your mental balance so you can stop sabotaging yourself. A meditation practice makes ...read more