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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.

www.rommelyoga.no

Beyond - "Holy Men of India"

I´ve seen this film many times and everytime I´m as facinated like the first time I ever saw it.
Altough I´ve been studying the concept of sadhus and it`s a lot of different meanings around their purpose out there.

I encourage you to watch this. 43 minutes. And then meditate :)
And here is a link to the photoserie ( and also the video ) :
Beyond

"BEYOND"
is an exclusive documentary featuring photographer Joey L. Set in Varanasi, India. The documentary by filmmaker Cale Glendening follows Joey and his assistant Ryan as they complete their latest photo series- "Holy Men."

Almost every major religion breeds ascetics; wandering monks who have renounced all earthly possessions, dedicating their lives to the pursuit of spiritual liberation.Their reality is dictated only by the mind, not material objects. Even death is not a fearsome concept, but a passing from the world of illusion.

The photographer largely focused on the Aghori, an intense sect of Sadhu who overcome all things that are considered taboo. “They may meditate on corpses, eat human flesh as part of a sacred ritual, or keep a skull as a reminder of the impermanence of life,”

Going into Silence

s t i l l n e s s

“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

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain — to just be with it all

-- Ram Dass

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way

Native American saying

Open

Empathy is Sexy

Trust and Believe

Life will come along and screw you up!
Commit to change!

Dive deep inside, explore, rest ♥

Sognsvann

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens

Mark Nepo

Present Moment at Ängsbacka Sep 2013

So, believe in yourself. Feel yourself. Incorporate that inner child, make those choices, go for it, have a good day.

Tom Kaypacha Lescher


Mercury, also known as the Divine Trickster, goes direct  today November 10.
Time to move forward again.


Click here for the latest Pele Report :
Astrology Forecast for November 6, 2013

In Love everysingleday -  Maria

 me manifesting at Ängsbacka 2010

This view

Imagine see this magnificant view over Mount Amiata every morning?
And meditate with the energy of Her.
So precious.

I recognize how easy it is to get used to daily impressions.
I see the same woman smoking her cigarettes in the window across the street every day.
The sky from my bedroom in early mornings.
The roses in the backyard.
And so on.
While teaching a retreat in Tuscany a couple of weeks ago I could indulge in this amazing view over sacred Monte Amiata every day.
I just couldn`t get enough of "her". I could drink this view throughout the day and night.
I´m quite sure I get used to it if I lived there. Maybe.
Or maybe I would indulge and merge with her as often and amazed as I did the ten days I had there.
Who know?

I will remind myself to look around and see my usual  surroundings with even more curiousity.
With childlike wonder.
With presence.
And allow myself to be moved and touched by the everydays Beauty.

You must unlearn what you have learned

Yoda - you are my spiritual Master :)

Our ego’s needs are endless.
We can indulge into the past and our ego will find problems and a need to solve and get rid of them.
But our problems cannot be solved on the level of our minds.
At most they can be understood and accepted on the level of the mind.
But then all we can do is living in the present moment.
Delete the old program and start over.
Every single moment.
The thing that is so important to remember is that beyond your logo, beyond your identity, your tribe, your circle of friends, family and company – is the Essence.
Your own radiant soul.

every moment is a new adventure

I like Souls Of San Francisco

Lovely eyes and stories - 6 minutes of beautiful connection -watch and listen here: soulsofsanfrancisco
Read more about the project here: look into the eyes....

"Life is made infinitely easier if we see each other as friends exploring the mystery of life together"

www.soulsofsanfrancisco.com

You are extraordinary ♥

what is perfect about right n o w ?

practice

Patience is great power!

I`m reading a beautiful book by Sharon Salzburg right now.
A heart as wide as the world.
In one chapter she is writing about patience.
Love every word.
I think patience is one of the most challenging
and amazing thing to practice.
I wear an amulet, almost every day,
with  p a t i e n c e  engraved.
It reminds me to believe in patience.
To stay strong.
To be alive.

I believe that being alive means to practice.
Patience, compassion, whatever...
doing the best we can and then follow the flow of nature.
We plant a seed, nurture it, water it, and let it be.
Patience.
Knowing there's something bigger that we don`t know yet, allows us to be more peaceful, to learn as things unfold and grow.
True patience is to be here, right now, in this present moment.

True patience is strength.

my patience