Tag: balance
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How to find balance in a demanding (teaching) job
The past year I’ve worked soo hard. There is nothing wrong with working a lot, every single person that reached something in life, worked their asses off. This is a fact. So I work hard and I love it. But this year I find it hard to relax during summer recess. Every semester in the…
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Nature & Yoga
It is that funny feeling in your stomach when you are outside. Almost magic. You can feel that the wind is telling you a story. The water is crying for help, but you leave it beside you because ‘this couldn’t be possible’. But it is possible: nature is communicating with us. How could that be?…
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Living more mindful after crisis
Despite all the horrible side effects of this lockdown and the corona crisis, there is some benefit from it. We are living more conscious and mindful. Because we had to stay at home and couldn’t join all our social activities, clubs, sports, dinners and birthday celebrations, we actually became much more peaceful. We feel more…
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Overcoming our ego with yoga
The hardest part of moksha or liberation (the main goal of yoga) is conquering the ego-self. And that is only possible with our most difficult life experiences like losing a job, not getting what we had in mind, too high expectations, earning less money than expected, failing an exam or any other type of ‘failure’…
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Sattvic is in balance with nature: every part of the plant is useful
What does this mean ‘in balance with nature’? I always like to use the example of broccoli. Most people only use the outer part of the broccoli, in Holland we like to call them ‘the roses’. The other part of the broccoli, the sticks so to speak, are always thrown away like trash. As if…
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