When does someone's spiritual journey begin? At birth? At the time of the first big loss, however that manifests itself? As heartbreak, illness or death? Or ...

It was only last week I think, that it dawned on me, that things will never go back to how they were before. That this isn't some little interlude, a nice li...

Would we have this pandemic if we didn't treat animals like objects? If we didn't produce chicken breasts like we produce car parts? Letting the birds live t...

The company we keep is of utmost importance. The Buddha knew it and stressed it way back when. Many other wise women and men have known it. But now, when lon...

I think we can all agree that we spend too much time in the past and in the future. When reality is always NOW. The practice of yoga and meditation is really...

But first it will piss you off. Satya, or truthfulness, is one of the yamas, meaning one of the ethical guidelines of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, by many consid...

Renowned meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein said when asked what the biggest benefits was, of his over forty years of steady meditation practice. His answer...

I've never wanted to put children into this world. It has always seemed like an overwhelming responsibility, one that I neither felt willing, nor equipped to...

Towards the end of 2018 I decided that 2019 was going to be my year of no flying. A pledge that I've sadly most definitely not kept. 2019 also happened to be...

Today is the last day of the month November. I just looked at how many so called check-ins I had from members of a certain platform capitalist venture. It gu...

I have always been bothered by the lack of men in yoga. For some time I was also actively trying to recruit more dudes, because I felt it would be a good thi...

(achtung! Warning! this blog post is perhaps just me thinking out loud and getting sentimental, and may therefore be of limited value to anyone else) I found...

You know those platonic friendships that almost feel like crushes? You want to be near her, hear her voice, her stories, her laughter? Be close to her dimple...

In the last few days I've seen two mothers hip-deep in the mediterranean sea, each with smartphone in hand, eyes glued to their tiny screens, each with a tod...

In year 2000 I fell head over heels in love with yoga. And finally I had found a love that wouldn't let me down, or so it seemed. At least at first. Actually...

You've surely had someone say to you: It's all in your head. And now I'm telling you it's true. Every experience you've ever had and will have, is experience...

A few years ago, I was sipping an over-priced cocktail at a sky bar with one of my oldest, closest friends and my boyfriend -- two of my absolute favourite h...

I make a living teaching yoga. I feel incredibly 'blessed.' Before I was a full-time yoga teacher, I've had a wide variety of so-called 'bread jobs.' As a te...

The ancient yogis knew that changing ourselves and the way we view the world was going to be hard as fuck! The human race haven't exactly been wired for blis...

Once upon a time, near the Arctic Circle, I was a lively teenager, with really bad skin, who got angry easily. One of the things that kept me going was music...