A Caminhante

Once in a while I get out. This tourist soul takes a stroll in the old streets of the city. There're no tears no laughs. There's no sadness nor happiness but just a genuine state of simple bliss. To be what one is. At least until it's time to go back.

Dear God, please let me be free from bad memories, from the hate and sorrow. Please help me to release my blind expectations. I wanna be free. To look at the sky, to view the trees, to breathe the nature and feel content. I let go of what is not for me and doesn't do me right. I move forward into my destiny. Dear God, thank you.

  P.S. Foto tirada do comboio a caminho do trabalho

Dark Moon, Barefoot, red cloak, starry veil… She, the earth’s daughter, walks the secret paths of her ancestors. The tears unravelling through her chick meet the floor next to where her blood has poured. She’s the sorceress. She’s the priestess. Not too young. Not too old. Ageless. She’s the nurturer of her own being. She’s the magician. Her roots are strong. Nature’s sap runs in her veins. Her eyes see far above as she stares at the sky. She speaks without words. She feels with such an intensity that it even aches. She’s every woman. Every woman is her similar. Every woman is you and you are every woman. She’s you. Imagem: Sisterhood of the Divine Feminine, por Lila Violet

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel

Come come little witch, sit by the tree! You are part of all the nature that your soul can see! Above father sky, below mother earth, They both enlighten your heart and make you tough. Ask sister moon for guidance when you feel uneasy The truth will speak from her core into every fibre of your being Do not fear little witch, you are never alone And never alone will you be! 💓 Lydia Alaya

“I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.” –  Oprah Winfrey P.S. Imagem retirada da net

"I no longer force things. What flows, flows. What crashes, crashes. I only have space and energy for the things that are meant for me." (Unknown)

 

"Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing." | Joanne Raptis Metrosidero no Jardim Teófilo Braga (da Parada)

I like being a woman.

One day I will write to you with all my heart.  I will let my shadow out and you will know me and you may hate me. One day, when you're ready to know me and I'm ready to accept the fact that you may hate me then.

Such a long road ahead of me. "Be brave beautiful soul", I hear like an echo from the past!

Choose to connect instead of disconnect <3

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”  Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

So, I’ve decided to put my yoga practice on hold. After 7 years of ashtanga, I switched to yin yoga (for about two weeks) and currently I am practically not practicing at all except for the few poses that I do on my mat. It may sound odd why on earth would I leave behind something so important to me. Truthfully speaking, I am not. I’m not leaving yoga. I am leaving the way I used to see yoga and how I felt I should live it. There’s a saying from Master Yoda where he advises us to “let go of everything we fear to lose”. I had almost always been afraid of losing everything that I thought my body had accomplished. The strength, the flexibility, the dynamic, the discipline. All these things that I believed were making me an amazing person. The thing is I was never better nor worse because of it. We use our body to go deeper like a kind of temple that we have to gain access in order to realize things about ourselves that otherwise we probably would have missed. I am so glad that my yoga...

Today Guru Purnima is celebrated, the day of the Guru and gratitude for his teachings. I have no gurus just people, simple people I admire and some how help me to grow. Lately I've been choosing to let go of these themes, philosophy, spiritual journey, masters, astrology. Only yoga survives... barely!!! None of it bothers me though, what I chose to leave behind and what I decide to chose instead. I think it is ok to chose a different path when we feel in our heart the path we've been following doesn't work anymore. And if the choice ends up being a total mistake, the "mistake" will definitely be the greatest teacher. HAPPY GURU PURNIMA whether you believe it or not, whether you have a guru or not, whether you feel like you need one or not, whether you are ready to have one or not.

I went to yoga yesterday but it felt different. Nowadays it always feels different. One of my longest relationships has been with yoga. It started 7 years ago. We have had good and bad moments. I went from wanting nothing else but to practice, practice, practice to having to force myself to go to the shala, and the other way around. I hit the bottom several times, I filled myself with disappointment and allowed my ego to get the best of me. But then I would come back and try again. Every thing that was supposed to happen did happen. A mix of joy and tears, trust and disbelief. I had the uauuuu moments and the crappy moments. I did great and I did poorly – all entirely necessary. But relationships are meant to evolve and change. It’s natural! Truly speaking, I’ve lost my addiction and I’m happy for that. It is when we lose the addiction that we can start healthy relationships. Furthermore, my inner child - that was once so lost - is now content with what is, with how fa...

More than one person has told me recently that I do not listen nor accept advice from anyone. Any kind of criticism can be hard to handle but I have to admit they are probably right. I always wondered how could anyone see something in me that I do not see or realize something about me that I have not yet realized. And then it hit me. We usually don't look to ourselves because it can be very painful to look deeply into our true nature. So yes, I don't always listen. I don't even listen to my own breath. As a yoga practitioner I should. I should take the same to listen. And I should take the time to breathe calmly instead of rushing things. My yoga teacher always says: the breath will take you there, not the muscles. But it is easier for me to rely on my muscles, as it is easier to avoid the things I cannot handle with, as it is easier to run away when things get too messy. I have become a little runaway without noticing it. It is time to stop. My fears are waiting for me ...