Today I was inspired by my groceries. My summer system is to pack everything that is refrigerated in one bag, so the items can keep each other cool. Isn‘t that the greatest thing. A reminder that everything is interdependent, and how all relationships (to our environment, to everything/everyone one that is part of it, as… Read More Interconnection

If you’re reading this.. give yourself a little re-set.   Look up, or out the window, see the sky.   Take a deep breath.   Oxygenizing your brain. Relaxing your nervous system. Lowering your blood pressure. Softening your body. Softening your mind. Listening. Sensing. Calm.   Take another deep breath..       There you… Read More Take a Breath

I seem to be in a bit of a time warp. A group of images, a list of titles, piles of posts in waiting. I still have notes with unfinished ideas, and my post calendar has ‘gaps’. Months of daily blogging has kicked up a well of inspiration.. And now, even when I don’t write… Read More Blog Posts in Waiting

Sometimes I marvel at how intense, colourful, yet fleeting travel memories can be. Nevertheless, each experience we have shapes us, and they can nudge our path in a certain direction. Next to that, our attitude and inner life also influence what we perceive. So, in that sense, I’d say it’s very important to choose your… Read More Suitcase of Inspiration

When I travel, I don‘t lug my big journals with me, usually. If I am teaching dance, I write my workshop notes on separate sheets of paper, so they can be easily transported, shuffled, revisited and rewritten. For note-taking, planning and journaling I use a travel-sized – preferably lined – mini-notebook, like the one in… Read More Travel Notes

Yesterday morning, our water supply had been cut off unexpectedly. There were engineering works further down the street. Water pressure was back up after an hour. Not long at all. Long enough to make me think. How easy it is to be wasteful with what we imagine to be in infinite supply. How resilient are… Read More No Water, my Friend

An update on this January’s Journaling Post: Daily Journal: I still write in this one almost daily, recording dreams, gratitude, ideas, todos and a movement log Book of good ideas: This one is full(!) so I will need to find a new one soon. For now I’m jotting down ideas in the daily journal, but I… Read More Spring Recalibration – Journaling

This is a (handmade, modern version of a) Puukko.  A small traditional Finnish general purpose belt knife. A thing of beauty, and practicality. It was created – forged – by Muspell Forge In Finland, receiving a puukko as a gift is considered an honour, the idea being that the presenter is giving the recipient a tool… Read More A Puukko for your Thoughts

Jin Xuan (also called ‘Milky Oolong’) is a Taiwanese tea discovery. I first tried it this winter at Dharma City – a gorgeous Tibetan tea house, adjacent to the Tibetan Convention Centre & BnB in Florennes, in the heart of the Belgian Ardennes. It felt like a moment of quiet, comfort and calmness in a cup. I love… Read More Taiwanese Tea