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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.

Winter blessings

Winter Solstice, New Moon and soon a New Year.
Time to dream, manifest and create.
Breathe deeply. Listen.
I wish you a peaceful holiday.
Stay true to You.

Maria

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

~ Viktor E. Frankl

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

 ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

this beauty made my day -thank you

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything

 - alan watts

tree in solitude nesodden 2010

“If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.”

Ram Dass 

be humble

Playlist Crete summer 2014

Ed Sheeran - I See Fire
Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi- Jonas Kvarnström
Azawade - The Touré-Raichel Collective
10 Laws -  East Forest
Crazy (Nôze Remix)   -Ornette Body Language
Govinda - Atman Eternal Dance
Only - Ormatie Balance (Mixed By Nick Warren)
Hanging On - Active Child You Are All I See
Optimist (Live)  -Zoë Keating Into the Trees
Satnam Sri Wahe Guru (Kirtan) -  Jagjit Singh Mitr Pyare
Temple Prayer - MC Yogi
I´m on fire - Bruce Springsteen
Guru Mantra (feat. Marti Nikko) - DJ Drez Jahta Beat: The Lotus Memoirs
Magic Mantra-Ek Ong Kar Satgur Prasad - SatKirin Kaur Khalsa Lightness of Being
Earthgarden  - Nada Butterfly Dawn
Crazy Heart - Bahramji & Maneesh De Moor Call of the Mystic
Gobinday Mukunday-  Spirit Voyage Artists Yoga Living Series
Peaceful Pathways  Desert Dwellers Asudha - Yoga Dub Grooves Electronic 
Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
Kärleksvisan- Sarah Dawn Finer
Oh, Why - Balam Acab Wander
Flying-  Garth Stevenson Flying
Durga Gayatri Mantra- Shiuli Subaya Raa Maa
Om Tryambakam- Indiajiva Universal Mother
Power of Prayer (so Purkh) -Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa Kundalini
Pranayama - Baird Hersey & Prana The Eternal Embrace
Shiva Shambo  - Buvana Songs of Light: Bhajans & Mantras
Mul Mantra -  Joseph Michael Levry Somethin' Else Mantra

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

Maria Rommel

daily tarot@TheWildUnknown

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself

—Thich Nhat Hanh

bold and beautiful 

S P R I N G

It´s happening again.
The Spiral Of Life
We have already passed Spring Equinox and the days are getting longer.
But I have to admit that I still feel like a hibernating Mama Bear.
It`s time for cleansing out old winterdust with heaps of meditation and breathingwork.
Plant the seeds you wan`t to grow in your inner garden.
And nourish the ones who`s already there.

Keep your heart planted in the dirt.



there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see

charles Bukowski

Tussilago Farfara

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way

Native American saying

Open

Always Time for Abhyanga

Abhyanga अभ्यंग or अभ्यङ्ग in Sanskrit,
(ayurvedic self oil massage)  is a wonderful way to show yourself some sweet love.
Makes you glow from the inside.

Benefits:

• Cleansing your body (detoxify)  
• Nourishes mind and body
• Rejuvenates the whole body
• Increases longevity
• Delays aging
• Relives fatigue
• Builds stamina
• Increased circulation
• Toning of the muscles
• Calming for the nerves
• Lubrication of the joints
• Increased mental alertness
• Softer, smoother skin
• Better, deeper sleep at night
•  Pacifies vata and pitta

How to Do Abhyanga, a Self Massage with Warm Oil ( Banyan Botanicals )

Celebrate Love today and Everyday

You are Loved. You have you.

the chariot 

Mercury Retrograde

Mercury goes Retrograde February 6–28 in Pisces then Aquarius.

Mercury is both a Magician and a Trickster.
There's magic if we listen carefully.
And opposite - it is like slipping on a banana peel if we not listen and rebel against the flow.

This happens three to four times per year, when the planet Mercury slows down, and appears to stop (station) and move backward (retrograde).
It's an optical illusion, since there is forward movement, like speeding by a slow-moving train -- as it recedes, it appears to go backward.

Mercury is the planet of communication, and more broadly, it rules connections of all kinds.

Under any ‘Retrograde Phase’  it is wise to get more rest, sleep and rejuvenate. 
This is truly a time to slow down.
In this case it is the ‘Mental Energy’ and mind that requires rest. 
If you rebel against it, it is possible to become more irritable, impatient and create more confusion.


This is also a time of feeling a lot, and very deeply. Allow your feelings and review of emotional experiences and growth to lead you to decisions and actions that result in a review of what we know or how we perceive things.

Don't assume that the other person is "on the same page" that you are.

Miscommunications are very common, and what you think was communicated may not be what was actually heard.

Double check everything, and be prepared for surprises and delays.

Stay flexible as much as possible.

Give your brain a holiday by spending some time in your Right-Brain :)

You can read more of this insights here: mysticmamma.com

Värmland

Empathy is Sexy

Goodbye 2013

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2013 - A year with lots of love, change, growth, grief, illness and new insights.

And the most inportant - it`s been guiding me right back into my heart, over and over again.

A couple of memorable moments in 2013:
 

Celebrating my way into the 40`s in Tulum Mexico.

My beloved brother moved to Oslo- I can`t decribe how grateful I am.
Zen Coaching Training completed at Beautiful Ängsbacka.
The yearly Celebrate retreat at Crete with my companion Surya.

Spending a month on the wild and energetic Island of Crete is such a blessing.
Almost 3 weeks holiday in New York celebrating life. As it is.
My yogaretreat Restore And Revitalize were held for the first time in Tuscany late Sept.
And all everyday moments and meetings in- between with amazing people.
The best x-mas and ending of the year happend. In a cabin at the countryside in Värmland Sweden.


And the best and scariest of everything. Having a pause from teaching.
Doing "nothing".
Working fulltime on healing my body inside out.

Thanks to my loved ones for being there.
To all my teachers.
And thanks to all my students for going this path with me.

I bow to you.

2013, thanks for holding me. For guiding me in right direction.
 

2014, I meet you in silence

 

 ♥ ♥ ♥ Namaste.

Magic in New York 2013

 

X-mas Light - Winter Solstice

Wish you all a peaceful holiday.
Celebrate light and connection.
Stay close to your center.
Be a Love Warrior
In the midst of this madness.
Heal yourself inside out.
Own your truth.
Love unconditionally
Believe
Receive
And enjoy the silence.

Yours Sincerely Maria

retro postcard

Rest, accept - Repeat!!

Our regular hathayoga practice is a real luxury.
And often we take it for granted.
It is not until we are unable to practice we really understand the value of what it brings to us.

And of course -  the fact that you are unable to have a physical practice -  will guide you deeper into your already existing practice.

I have said those words. Many times.
And believed those words.
And for sure heard those words, a million times.
And it is not until now I understand the meaning deep into my core.

It comes to my mind that I`m used to process a lot of my everyday life on my mat.
Both mentally, emotionally and physically. Thats not uncommon. We all do.
And moving things around physically also kept my body healthy and vibrant.
Now, when Im unable to use my physical body in that process it`s been tricky to really surrender and accept how things are.
It was a whole lot of easier a couple of years ago when I had bad fracture in my left hand.
After 2 surgeries and 2 months I were teaching a retreat in Costa Rica.
Happily convinced that I were back on my hands during summer the same year,
It happend.

Today it`s different. Of course. It always are.
More painful. More resistance.
And thats a good thing.

I`m still learning how to be more gentle. More kind. Patience.
Really going outside my comfort zone.
To truly dare to rest is being far out of my comfort zone.
Being still. At peace. Watch every moment grow.
I surrender. And I reflect even more.
I`m closer to the present moment even when I´m not teaching or practicing a challenging asana.
And I wan`t to share that wisdom.

I witness Life as it is.
That`s such a great gift.
I am forever grateful.

Truth

Maybe the deepest part of who we are is what scares us or breaks our hearts and we don’t want to share that with anyone and when we do, we don’t want to lose those people

 - unknown

 

 

Healing Hippie Love