Regaining your inner power

                    As some of you might know, I’ve started this year attending my first vipassana retreat in the South of Thailand. It has been a really insightful time for me and I feel like, Life willing, this will be the first but not the last.  The place where I attended the vipassana was called Suan Mokkh International Dharma Hermitage . The name “Suan Mokkh” is translated from Thai language as “ The garden of liberation ” and I can corroborate that the name really makes justice to the place…Why?  Well, check my story down this post ( “When Silence is the Best Answer” ) or  check my video above and judge for yourself . It was really interesting to take a dip into Buddhism wisdom, which has a lot of parallelisms with yoga philosophy. One of the lakes at Suan Mokkh.   We often think about meditation and yoga as two different things but actually, meditation and yoga are, at its core, the very same thing . The purpose (if we can say there is a purpose, which I doubt) of

Beginnings  I started taking steps and making life-changing choices that supported my dream of pursuing a career as a yoga facilitator back in 2007. I started dipping myself into the pool of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga and occasionally, Yin yoga. The transformative power of a daily Ashtanga practice (from the Sanskrit root ashta, meaning eight), really got me hooked for about eight years. Back at that time, I choose to label myself as a yoga instructor because I started teaching yoga to others and because asana practice was my main interest and most dedicated physical activity. Today, my interest is grown and so is my practice. I find my approach to be more wholistic and comprehensive and my teaching and physical practice isn't just limited to asana. In koh Samui. Pic by Sarah Pierroz By the end of that eight-year-cycle of a dedicated six-days-a-week Ashtanga yoga practice, I started to open up. I began to explore and integrate other forms of asana and movement into m

Art in all of its forms can be an extremely powerful tool in the process of unleashing darkness and healing the emotional body . I am sharing below some of the pieces of art that I've created lately and posted on SM a few months ago. For the response I've got from those posts, it seems to me that they somehow tapped into the collective unconscious as they represent emotional archetypes of the human psyche.  They are "beings" that we might have embodied at any point in our life. I think they are worth to be re-shared in here. This is one way to channeling emotions and connecting with that inner world. If this art resonates with you and you feel inspired, I invite you to create your own. You don't need to be good at drawing, you just need to sit down with some painting material and try. These are my very own creations, I hope you enjoy them! Thank you very much for reading and please feel free to share my blog if you think it can be useful to others! "M

I feel extremely blessed to be able to say that I am taking a month-break from employment. I’ve just finished a working period of almost three years in the wellness industry and I am allowing myself to take some time off, before starting a new job at a different company. I see this chapter as a necessity, a shifting time for me. I sense that this is the perfect opportunity for granting myself with this ‘luxury’. No much to do, no big responsibilities…just trying to keep my life simple, nourishing myself in different levels and resting. That’s all. I have also tried to be physically active and I have been taking classes with a personal trainer for about three to four times a week. I’m focusing on resistance training, which is way out of my comfort zone. Sometimes, I have been joining other classes at the gym too, for inspiration, like body combat, gentle yoga flows and I have also dedicated some time to self-yoga-practice. However during this period, my self-yoga-practice is mainly fo

Unlike the way our ancestors lived for so many generations, today’s pace of life is extremely fast. Although we are aware of the negative impact this hurried way of living has on the planet, increasing global warming, and we know the effect high levels of stress has on our health, it seems that we usually cannot stop this behavior. As a society, we are somehow forced to run towards the dead end of self-destruction. As individuals, society is constantly pushing us to quickly adapt to a faster world, without having much time to pause, reflect or to look back on our lives. Who hasn’t at one time or another felt like they are living in a “rat race”? I was having a good conversation with a close friend of mine and he taught me for the first time about the term “VUCA” — have you ever heard about it? VUCA is an acronym that stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. The notion VUCA was used for the first time by the U.S. Army describing the extreme conditions which