How yoga and meditation can change us.

Yoga means everything. It gets me through the shifts of life. It's like my home. A safe place where I always can go back to when I forget what is most important in my life. And to me yoga and meditation goes together. Today I started with a grounding and calming meditation. I was about to teach it in my class this evening so I did it this morning to feel and be able to share my personal experience with that meditation. In Kundaliniyoga there are more than 1500 different meditations so there is a meditation for everything! All we have to do is to do them. To experience a real shift in our lives we need to meditate on a regular basis. If you sit down in meditation you will feel lots of different things. So you can't really tell after just one session. But when you do it regularly you start seing a shift in yourself. You will get more aware of your thoughts. You will be quick to detect negative thoughts and then you will also be able to shift them. Because you have to be aware of something to be able to make a change.


Why we are recommended to do yoga and meditation in the morning is because that will lay the foundation for the rest of your day. You will be much more prepared to meet the challenges during the day. Just think about it, imagine that you stress the first thing you do. You rush away to school or the office or what ever you do. You are tense. You bump into somebody else who started her day the same way. You start yelling at each other. Perhaps not loud, maybe just in your head. But the damage is done anyway.
Now go back and start the day over again. Start with yoga and meditation. This will make you feel balanced, focused and yet relaxed. When you bump into that lady you will not start yelling and you will not be offended by her yelling. That's how yoga and meditation works and it changes you.

Wednesdays means a day off with Charlie!

Hi there! I love my Wednesdays with Charlie. On these Wednesdays we try to have no schedule but enjoy the day as it unfolds. We often stay in bed a bit longer and sometimes we read books in the bed. Often Charlie orders an early breakfast consisting of grapes and dates. We enjoy smoothies together and cook delicous  plant based meals. Today we tried a papaya for the first time! There are not many things that makes me so happy as eating a ripe juicy tropical fruit. I can truly feel that we are meant
to eat fruit.



Before lunch we went out to play in the snow and had sooo much fun!

These days are totally de-stressing for the whole family. No deadlines and no rush. Like a very welcome break in the middle of the week! On these days it's also easier for Mattias who goes to work. He can just think about himself in the morning and he can work late if he desires. Or come home  when the dinner is served. On Thursdays Mattias is home with Charlie and that's why it's perfect for me to have my yoga classes un Thursdays for example.

And of course this is just wonderful for Charlie! Being with mom and dad. Play with his own toys. Just be. Be able to express all his feelings. Because he, like all of us, often play roles when we are not at home. He has to act in a certain way. He might not show all his tears and anger. But with his family he is totally safe to express all his feelings which is very important when it comes to building ones self esteem.

I hope this will inspire you to take that time off. To be with your children. Because they grow so fast. Me and my older boys father did the same thing with them when they were younger and I don't regret it for a second.

Recharge.

I love spending time in the forest. Here in Sweden the forest shifts with every season and I really love it. Now, in the winter, many of the trees are sleeping. I think that is a beautiful thing to learn from. This is the season when we should rest more and accept the fact that the energy will not be the same as during the rest of the seasons. It is a cycle. To be in full bloom we need to rest.

Nevertheless I can always count on the forest when I need to boost my energy. Actually it doesn't matter if it is heavy rains and the rest of the world looks grey. I always feel uplifted while in the forrest. And to get an extra deep boost I combine it with a run.

These photos were taken during my lunch break today. 

Yoga Thursday.

I just gave my second yoga class in my newest group. It is such a blessing to watch them leave with relaxed faces and bodies. To watch the shift taking place fills my heart with love. All of them are women and as women we are created to give. Give life and give love. Nurture. But in a yoga class they get to focus totally on them selves. They get to give back to them selves. Refill. In Kundaliniyoga there is always a longer rest. And giving yourself the opportunity to just lay down on your back for up to 10 minutes is luxurious. I recall when I was pregnant with my second son and I went to prenatal yoga. I recall thinking that the rest was the best part of the whole yoga class! 

On my way home from the yoga class I listened to the Rich Roll podcast. Rich is one of the best interviewers I've heard. It is more like a conversation than an interview.

When I came home Mattias had made a delicious dinner. He had his day off with Charlie today. I love the fact that Mattias and I take one day off each every week to be with Charlie. Tomorrow Charlie will go to his daycare mom and I will work with Pearls of Yoga.

Just had my first Yoga and Plant-based event!

So it's Monday again! What happened!? Well Maja and I had our first Yoga and Plant-based cooking event yesterday!!! Yay! We were at my house and we really enjoyed ourselves.

It feels so great to spread the message of yoga, meditation and plant-based eating. We shared our experience and the health benefits we have had in our lives since adopting a plant-based diet.

Open New Doors.

Good evening!

I had yet another wonderful lunch with my brother today. We meet once a month to have lunch together at Open New Doors in Gothenburg. I love that place! Everything is plant-based, gluten free and organic. You can have both raw and cooked meals and they serve the most delicious cakes.

Pearls of yoga tomorrow.

So, good evening. I just edited some of the information Maja and I will handle to the guests on our Home Party 2.0. When doing so I came over this Ted talk by Dr Dean Ornish. He has shown that heart diseases aren't only preventable but even reversable on a plant based diet. Did your doctor tell you that? I hope she has because otherwise she is not up-to-date with the latest data. Did you know that Dr Kim Willians, former President of American Collage of Cardiology once said:

"There are two kinds of cardiologists: vegans and those who haven't read the data."

 No, you can't force a diet on anybody. But everybody has the right to know what their choices are.

Today was my last day this week as a Project Manager och tomorrow I will work with my own company, Pearls of Yoga.