Tag: spirituality
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some insights to share
Beautiful reunions and time with people that bring out the best version of yourself are just amazing! The travel life is just so fulfilling. Control of the mind I shared with my friend that yoga, astrology, plant medicine and all these concepts help to break free from your mind. He asked me: are you not…
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10-day vipassana meditation retreat: insights
Lessons I learned during Vipassana retreat, I kept my journal and wrote down some of my teachings. The idea behind this concept is that we reach the depth of the mind and get to our deeper attachments and release them. At first I realized mind is so active. it keeps going places all the time.…
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learning to listen to your body: when it’s too much
Sometimes, someone shows up with all the right intentions – open heart, grand gestures, a willingness to give. And yet… something inside you feels off. Your body tenses. Your heart closes. Your nervous system goes into overdrive. And you don’t know why. For a long time, I thought love meant pushing through that discomfort. If…
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love is to be fully seen
Recently I had the opportunity of opening my heart even deeper. To be seen, to be loved, to feel, to open up. It is the most beautiful gift of this journey called life. Unexpectedly people can enter your path and show you what was there all along. When we do the inner (shadow) work, at…
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stay curious
Curiosity is such a beautiful thing. It allows us Not everything needs to be figured out right away. Not every feeling needs a label. Not every path needs a clear destination. Curiosity softens the need to control. It opens space where certainty tries to close it. What if, instead of needing to know, you allowed…
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drinking water: a ritual
Water is essential to us humans for survival. She has been with us since the beginning of time on this earth. We forget, especially when she is super accessible, how special she is. But then yet she is. Without her we would not live. We can hydrate our cells. Wash our bodies. Clean our clothes.…
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porque te quiero tanto
Medicine music is so powerful, there is this song called porque te quiero tanto. I love this song. It means I love you so much. It could be a lullably for a child, yet also a song to be shared with a loved one or like it is used in cermony or sacred space. This…
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the shipibo and ayahuasca
The Shipibo-Conibo people are an indigenous group residing along the Ucayali River deep in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. Once two distinct groups: the Shipibo (“apemen”) and the Conibo (“fishmen”). They gradually merged through intermarriage and shared rituals to form the unique Shipibo-Conibo culture we know today. Most live in scattered villages across a vast jungle…
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visiting the shipibo tribe in the amazon
I got the wonderful opportunity to spend a month in the amazon learning from a wonderful linage of shipibo maestros. The father Sina and 3 sons: Emilio, Huber and Limber. This specific linage has been maestros for several generations. It was the most magical experience to sit in plant medicine ceremonies and do a plant…