Living consciously can require so much energy. As you know, an hour of mindful breathing and movement can take on quite a bit of our energy and concentration. Now try keeping this focus as you leave your mat and enter your daily challenges at home, and at work. The truth is we can’t do interacting…
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YITP Day Out – Through the Mangroves
Through the mangroves, we go! Our YITP spend the morning with our friends at serendipET as they guided us through Singapore’s beautiful mangrove forests. Situated out and around Pulau Ubin. A beautiful way to spend an early Sunday out in the open waters surrounded by nature sounds and spotting resident eagles up close (but not…
Cultivate Your Safe Space
My closest and dearest friends know, I have chosen not to get vaccinated. At least not yet. Many people’s reaction to hearing this was relatively calm and very supportive. There are, of course, some who were shocked and questioned my anti-vaccine rebelliousness. I have to inform them that I am not an anti-vaxer but a…
The Virtues of Patience
When I think of patience, I think of monks living within a sanctuary, with nowhere to go and no one to meet. You stick to a routine each day – for some, it could feel like torture, but to others, bliss. I often admire the patience it takes to just ‘be’. To not lose your…
Making Yoga Accessible to Everyone
I am so humbled for the opportunity to share my voice with our Vibefam partner and it’s community. In their June’s newsletter, we discuss intentions for Yoga in the Park as well as my passion as a fitness instructor. Making Yoga Accessible to Everyone This month, we interviewed our fitfam Sheila, Founder of Yoga in…
Changing your Beliefs
This weekend I was keen to sit down to re-watch The Matrix trilogy to its entirety, which included rewinding the dialogue of what I call – the mind f**ks, which are scenes that are hard to understand. Characters like The Oracle, Smith or even Morpheus – In the second movie, when The Architect explained the…
The Inner Child
When you hear talk about bringing out the inner child in you, you would mostly think about bringing yourself back to thinking back as a child again—carefree, zero inhibitions, innocent and full of possibilities. Consider for a moment who your inner child is. What is the earliest un-impressioned memory you had as a child? Research…
My Musings on Mindfulness
So as I am writing in my little black diary I realise that my writing is starting to make more sense (at least to me)… and the more I read back what I’ve written, the more I fell compelled to journal this down here in hopes that hopefully someone would read this and think the…
Farewell 2020
What a year 2020 has been. As we bid farewell to the year looking back, it’s been so surreal that it’s hard to even put it in words how grappling this year as been. It started off as any other New Year – but by March the onset of this virus that we now call…
Quintessence of Life
If you are thinking of a fun uplifting movie to watch this holiday season with the family; I would recommend watching (or rewatching if you have seen it) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I thought about this movie one afternoon at a doggy Birthday party – hanging out with the girls and a glass…