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MANDALA GUIDANCE

It could be said, that a Mandala is like a compass, a tool to help you navigate your mind. It has a square in the middle that has platforms to the north, south, east and west, and there are also points for north-west, south-west etc for when you need a mix of two focus points. … Continue reading MANDALA GUIDANCE

TUNING IN TO INTUITION

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“Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.” Pema Chödrön … Continue reading INTUITION

MANDALA ON MY MIND

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"We go for a hike in the mountains, and everything as far as we can see is our mandala: the clouds, the trees, the snow on the peeks, even the rattlesnake coiled in the corner... We don't set it up, we don't get to choose what or who shows up in it... And we embrace it … Continue reading MANDALA ON MY MIND

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Totally in my #happyplace...4 of my favourite things... #barefoot (because there is temple behind me), top of a v steap hill I had to scramble up, stunning view & #Sunrise. Does it actually get better? 📸 Photo sneakily taken by a friend from the #Ashram I was staying in for a few days. ⛰ This was the only thing I could actually count as a #hike on this trip and it was amazing! Lots of walking and lots of views.. but this one goes in the meditation/happy place bank. 🇮🇳 #Kerela, #India, it has been an incredible 16 days! I have met so many interesting people from all over the world and local to Kerela and it's been fascinating to see how different the two ends of India are. 🙏 I've got back into the habit of daily #yoga and #Meditation practise which will continue into tomorrow morning before I head back to work, so help me God, as the benefits are only just starting to reappear. ❤ I hope I will take some of the lessons from my trip into my life, like eating mindfully without distractions, thinking about the journey the food has taken from seed to spoon as well as walking and moving mindfully, to just move slower and more considered. Maybe starting with cutting the mad rush to the train in the morning down to twice a week, would be a great improvement. I am not sure you can live 'normal' life as mindfully and present as you can when #hiking or #travelling but I am going to give it a try. 🕉 Also smiling at people... we all must smile at each other more when we meet eyes, spread some kindness, connect human to human. 😊

Sunset dinner view at @cliffstories looking out to sea. Bare sandy feet are the second best thing after hiking boots ❤ Had a day of yoga, reading, wandering and relaxation. Trying not plan at all, and after 6 days I am still figgity to be busy but I am finding stillness listening to and watching the waves. They are my focus, silencing the fluctuations of my mind. Letting time pass without filling it with 'doing something', to just be, is my challenge. Anxiety comes in waves, like a wave crashing, and then back to still contentment. Will be putting travel posts on @jenrosegilligan at some point to share the places I have been. #dreamcatcher #windsofchange #varkala #travelindia #sunset #seaview #clifftop #indiansun #travel #yoga #meditation #Anxiety #solotravel

Good Morning #Kerela. Roof top #yoga in my heart home country. ❤ Been over a year since using either of my Instagram accounts despite hiking a lot in the UK, these trips will be posted as Blog posts soon I hope. ⛰ I've taken a break from building what I hope @mandala.hikes will be one day, as my priority has been to give myself a stable home and income to build some grounding while I work on healing both my heart and mind from the amount of change over the last wonderful year & a bit, that has been full of learning and growth. 🕉 That's why I have returned to India, to help me tap back into what I gained on my last trip here 2 years ago, and once again move forward. 🙏 I am at the opposite end of the country however, but it smells the same. That spices/insence/pollution/heat/burning/chilli smell. I would know I was in India even if I couldn't see. To smell a smell 2500km away 2 years ago, and it is the same smell here, is amazing. It makes travelling alone to somewhere new very comforting. #travel #yoga #India #shanti

Happy New Year everyone! Hope the festive season has been wonderful, and you are all feeling positive and excited for the year ahead. 🎉 I saw the new year in in North Wales, on the banks of Llyn Yr Arddu, and no it wasn't actually that cold! Was a great little adventure. Took a leaf out of 'Britain's best Small hills' by @phoebersmith for the hike up to Yr Arddu.. and my that's a scrambly, boggy, way finding hike, but totally worth it for this wild camping spot! Not another soul in sight apart from us. Love this stunning little-visited corner of Snowdonia, despite the wet weather. On a clear day we would have been able to see Snowdon to the north, but instead just got the view out to sea SW and the near surroundings as everything over 400m was in the clouds. ⛰☁️ 2018 was a turning point in my life, a lot happened and a lot didn't happen. I am grateful for all of it. I have had a year of self discovery and growth and all I hope is that continues in whatever form in 2019. I've said.. "this will be 'the year'"... to myself every year for as long as I can remember... and finally, due to my own change of mindset, I think it might actually be true. ❤ #wellnesswednesday #waleswednesday #wildcamping #adventure #2019 #countrysidewalks #lakesidecamps #ordnancesurvey #mandalahikes #walkingmeditation #themountainsarecallingandimustgo #walesadventure #newyear #snowdonia @walkinguk @ukhikers @ordnancesurvey #hillwalking #hiking #walking #walkinguk

I have had 1 month off Instagram! No stress about posting regularly, no stress about sharing every walk and every activity. It's been great!🙌 Amazed that my followers have not plummeted, so thanks for sticking around. Very grateful 🙏 I have however been in a difficult place, trying to find my way through the forest of unemployment and still constant rejection and leads turning out to be nothing... hense the picture from a walk a couple of weeks ago at Thetford Forest on the Suffolk/Norfolk border 🌲 Some life progress has been made... I've bought a car🚗 so have some independence back, I've been going to a Buddhist meditation centre🧘‍♀️ once a week which is wonderful, I am clearer on my life path and the direction I am heading, ive started bouldering/climbing once a week and am now not a beginner 😄 and I am improving & gaining various relationships ❤ There have been both physical and #mentalhealth set backs and as you can imagine no progress has been made on my blog and writing.. BUT.. I am staying positive🌞 as much as possible and progressing in personal projects keeping busy all the time... While yoga asana and hiking have taken to now be more occational, meditation is still daily or twice daily at least in the form of @calm guided meditations, which help me focus in the morning and relax and sleep at night 😴 I hope to post again before #Xmas, but If I don't, have a wonderful time what ever you are doing. Be grateful always for the good you have in your lives, be kind, always, and never take anything for granted. Love and happiness to all x 🕉 #talkingaboutmentalhealth #wellnesswednesday

On this #mindfulmonday, #Autumn Days like today #walking in the warm sun☀️ through fields and woods🌳, remind me of the primary school song of the same name. Going over the lyrics now is a strange but familiar feeling. Some of the lines do truly ring home as things to be #grateful for and to say thank you to! I never truly appreciated the message in this little kids song when I was 9 years old. But the nostalgia is lovely and makes me appriciate how I now see the world. As the days grow shorter and the nights longer it is even more important to find just 2 mins a day to be grateful for the little things that bring a #smile to your face. 🧘‍♀️ "Autumn days, when the grass is jewelled And the silk inside a chestnut shell Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled All these things I love so well 🌳 (*Repeat after each verse*) So I mustn’t forget No, I mustn’t forget To say a great big thank you I mustn’t forget. 🌲 Clouds that look like familiar faces And a winter’s moon with frosted rings Smell of bacon as I fasten up my laces And the song the milkman sings. 🌳 Whipped-up spray that is rainbow-scattered And a swallow curving in the sky Shoes so comfy though they’re worn out and they’re battered And the taste of apple pie. 🌲 Scent of gardens when the rain’s been falling And a minnow darting down a stream Picked-up engine that’s been stuttering and stalling And a win for my home team." 🙏 Have a great week and remember to smile often 😊 #mandalahikes #whitewaveyoga #essexyoga #yogaessex #sunrisesalutations #sunsalutations #crescentlunge

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