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This blog has been suffering for a while now.
I started writing my weekly themes for my yogaclasses and a wish to share my thoughts about life in both text and pictures here.
Right now I`m writing less. And mostly I share my pictures at Instagram.
Please follow if u want to stay in touch and enjoy some goodies from my percpective of life and yoga.
I will still share and post here. Maybe with more intensity and fire soon again.
Thanks for reading.



Much Love Maria

Tuscany Love

Thank you 2014

2014 -
A year with lots of quiet, support, painful growth, abundance, change, stillness, and new insights.

A couple of memorable moments in 2014:

The best New Years Eve 2013 - 2014 happend with beautiful friends manifesting the New Year with Tarot readings.
10 Days of Deep meditation lying totally flat (literally) at the hospital after a complicated spinal puncture. What a journey.
Dream It Yoga Collaboration with one of the most precious souls on Earth: Fatima

The yearly Celebrate retreat at Crete with my yoga brother Surya.

Crete is forever magic and it became even more magic when I had an surprise visitor coming to stay with me. Jannik will never stop surprising me. Deep love.
Lazy summer Days in Skåne with my favourite person.
Bordeaux and Silent Retreat together with Fatima. New insights and so close to center.
Crystal clear meditation.
Restore and Revitalize yogaretreat in Tuscany late Sept. So much love and beauty.
And all everyday moments in- between days
The best x-mas and ending of the year happend. In a cabin at the countryside in Värmland Sweden.

I´m grateful for every person in my Life. Thank YOU.


2014, thanks for holding me. For guiding me in right direction.

2015, I believe in Miracles

 ♥ ♥ ♥ Namaste.

Love is confusion and where there is confusion there is a chance of enlightenment

Maria Rommel

daily tarot@TheWildUnknown

Celebrate Love today and Everyday

You are Loved. You have you.

the chariot 

Life, Love & Death

Contasts creates creativity.

From vibrant NYC to peaceful Ängsbacka.
For me, it means moving from outside pulsation to inner pulsation.
I can hear my heart a little more clearly in Nature.
Who doesen´t?

Life. Love. Death.

It`s just the beginning.

Let your heart explode.

Ängsbacka

Like a Love balloon

So, the theme for this week is coming up here pretty late. I know :)
I´m overwhelmed with getting used to have a young man in my house.
My youngest brother, only 23 years young, lives with me for a while.
I`m learning how to expand and stretch my heart ( and patience) a little bit more.
New routines and schedules.

So, it is late but not a tiny bit less important.
It´s been all about trust and self care the latest weeks.
Establishing trust and inner peace.
Contact.

I think, that if we create a solid foundation of trust, it´s so much easier to enter our own heart.
The Anahata Chakra
Be more loving to ourselves.
Be more loving to our friends, partners, familys and community.
More loving to the Earth.
Make space for more.
It is a practice we have to choose over and over again.

To live from the heart.
Act from the heart.

Be love.
Live love.

One of my students said that she felt like a love ballon after the heart class Monday morning
I couldn`t agree more.

That`s a brilliant metaphor.
A Love Balloon ( ( ( ♥ ) ) )

tulip love

Looking for your face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it

Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for

Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold

I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine

Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you

Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
for me
the earth and sky

My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer

audio clip - GIFT OF LOVE

 

 

Thought Of You

The    n e v e r e n d i n g    dance

Have a romance with Life

Bhakti Yoga - The yoga of Love

The word yoga means "to connect."
In the West, Yoga are mostly known as postures (asanas) on a yogamat.
The old Vedic texts explain that yoga is meant to connect with God. (or the Divine, Nature, something greater)
Bhakti means "devotion," or "devotional service," or "pure love."
So Bhakti-yoga means to practice connecting with God, through acts of love and service, or devotional service.

The practice of Bhakti Yoga can be listening to, reading, and studying the scriptures, meditation and chanting mantras.

All these practices of devotion lead to the last one: surrender.
When we have surrendered our egos and its need to cling and control, we free our hearts to live through love and in faith.
We have surrendered ourselves to God and to a life of Love.

For us earthlings the practice of Bhakti maybe sounds a little strange.
We are human after all.
For some of us, practicing Bhakti Yoga may mean reading holy texts, such as the Yoga Sutras.
For others it may mean a daily meditation, being in nature or even asana practice.

How can we cultivate more sweetness into our asana practice? More sweetness into our lifes?
Cultivate more compassion for ourselves and others.
Diving into our yoga with empathy, curiousity, and acceptance?

Make an altar. Inside your heart our in your home. Or both.
Pimp your altar with things you love and worship.
Pictures, flowers, stones, fruit, chocolate, notes, candles, loving thoughts-  whatever you want.

Unconditional love can be healing.

Have a romance with life itself.

note

Puppylove

When I’m able to risk messing it up,
And I go for it, giving all I’ve got,
I am being the best I can be,
And no matter what happens,
It’s (I’m) OK by me.


Tom Lescher





balipuppies



L O V E

In the end what matters most is,
How well did you live,
How well did you love,
How well did you learn to let go?

Buddha

a present moment: birdlove in london summer2012

People whose hearts are full of gratitude and appreciation are truly beautiful.
A humble heart is the wellspring of great growth and development.


- Daisaku Ikeda -





a rock with an open heart - triopetra 2012



c o u r a g e

bravery, boldness, fearlessness.... your choice
what Wikipedia says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage

courage in a calender

If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path

 ~Buddha

one of my lightwarriors

The art of giving

We all know that giving on any level feels really nice, maybe fantastic, but internally all forms of giving are not equal. When we give with the expectation of receiving something in return, we are not really letting go of what we are giving.
If we don`t let go completely, then we are still clinging to whatever we gave.
And the magic will not happen.

In our culture there is a lot of “me first” programed into our systems.
That blocks us to give fully, openly and let the magic happen.

When we give freely without expectation, it can come back to us in some very unexcpected ways. Note to self,  if we are giving simply to get something back, then we also put limits on the ways that we can receive.
This can be quite difficult to practice, especially if we are having a hard time meeting our own needs.
It takes time to practice, again and again.

Learning to expand our hearts and give freely.
Embracing unselfish giving.

Learning that giving from the heart is truly a gift.

Giving is its own reward.

omsorg = care

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep

Elbert Hubbart

sweet sharing between soulsisters december 2012

Juicy Morninglove





A heart of sunflower seeds from someone special give some sparkles to the morning.

Follow your inner compass

It is smart to have roadmap during traveling. A guide.
Especially while exploring our inner journey.

Your feelings are like a compass, your inner compass.
Directing you through your life. 
Feelings are part of the language of your inner guidance.
Listen what they have to say, and they can guide you into making the right choices.
Your inner wisdom is brilliant - yet most of us ignore it by denying or own intuition.

Your feelings are there for a reason.
That`s nothing new. But a good reminder.
You may find out that if you choose to ignore your feelings,
they often get stronger and stronger and will not just go away!
And maybe find out that a big, messy bird nest is growing in your head. (or under the bed)
Often your feelings will increase until you listen to them and pay attention to them.
Let your feelings guide you!

And when we finally do that, we get in contact with our heart. 

In conclusion, our feelings are often the voice of our deepest desires which are waiting to be heard. We can learn so much from following our hearts, growing into the wonderful people we are meant to be!

I choose to have compassion for myself
I choose to respect my feelings.
I choose to be honest to myself and other.

I choose to follow my heart  ❤

heart compass