Karuna Yoga Journeys

🦆🦆🦩🦩🦤🦤our early bird ends 1 st April.
Come with a friend or lover and receive a £100 discount.🦤🦤🦩🦩🦆🦆

Less then 3 months until we meet in Corfu for this very special retreat.
10th June - 15th June 2024
Exquisitely placed atop a winding hillside, far above the bustle of the still relatively untouched, quaint north-eastern Corfu coastline, sits Villa Koúkos. Koúkos boasts breathtaking sea views and offers a beautiful, calm sanctuary in which to unwind and escape from the rigours and stresses of daily life. It is the perfect space for our Nourish Yoga and Wellness Retreat.

5 days of flavour filled healthy food, nourishing conversation, rituals, reiki, workshops, mindful movement, pranayama and meditation.

Your hosts and I are passionate about wellness, nutrition, having fun, laughing, learning and ensuring you experience a retreat that will change the way you think and live.

The house is beginning to fill up and some rooms are already taken. Comment for more info or ways to reserve your spot.

Who else has cats that are desperate to get on their mat with them? There is nothing better then being able to go to a studio and be part of a real community but second best practice at home where you can skip poses you so r like, stop to hang laundry and share your mat with your cat.

Thanks for the practice

When your cat wants to join your practice.

https://www.wetravel.com/trips/nourish-yoga-and-wellness-retreat-leyla-meredith-corfu-41650627

Nourish yoga and wellness retreat in Corfu Exquisitely placed atop a winding hillside, far above the bustle of the still relatively untouched, quaint north-eastern Corfu coastline, sits Villa Koúkos. Nestled on the edge of local village Santa, Koúkos boasts breathtaking sea views and offers a beautiful, calm sanctuary in which to unwind an...

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Our yoga teacher training goes way beyond asana.
Yes there will be ample physical practices where we dive into mindful movement and creative sequencing but also abundant opportunities to be geeky and ask questions about life and yogic philosophy.
Set on the banks of the Ganges in the heart of all things yoga. This training will equip you to approach life differently
- and also to teach yoga yourself should you decide you want to.
Yoga Alliance Accredited.
26th October - 9th November 2024
Limited places available!

Less then 3 months until we meet in Corfu for this very special retreat.
10th June - 15th June 2024
Exquisitely placed atop a winding hillside, far above the bustle of the still relatively untouched, quaint north-eastern Corfu coastline, sits Villa Koúkos. Koúkos boasts breathtaking sea views and offers a beautiful, calm sanctuary in which to unwind and escape from the rigours and stresses of daily life. It is the perfect space for our Nourish Yoga and Wellness Retreat. 5 days of flavour filled healthy food, nourishing conversation, mindful movement, pranayama and meditation. Your hosts Laura Dean Amina Foramitti and I are passionate about wellness, nutrition, having fun, laughing and learning from each other and ensuring you experience a retreat that will change the way you think and live.

Click here for trip details and ways to confirm your spot. Some rooms are already taken so be quick....and join with a friend before 1st April to receive an early bird discount. Dm for more details

https://tri.ps/8hI95

Everyone, Leyla, lives the life of their choosing.

Not just what they chose, but what they're choosing.

Game on,

The Universe

Practice when you feel like it. Don’t wait for the right outfit, right time of day or right anything. There is no right way. Just get on your mat or sit still and there you go….

Detachment is not that you own nothing, it’s that nothing owns you.

What a dream to be heading back to India to lead a 200 hr yoga teacher training with the wise soul

14 days on the edge of the Ganga immersed in everything yogic.
Ritual, asana, kriya, meditation, pranayama, sequencing, philosophy, satsang, arti watched over by 100s of gods and goddesses with two yoga geeks who like to be nerdy but also keep it light and real.

26th October - 9th November
Places are limited.
DM for more info

There is something quite magical ..•~🦋~•.. about returning home. Home physically to my house and family but also home to myself. An inner feeling of stillness and contentment.
Today was new moon 🌙 yin
I am loving my new mat and the way the set up looks. No wonder every cat in the neighborhood wanted to be on the mat with me.

How to be an ARIES
By Rob Brezsny

1. Aries says, "Just because I'm an Aries doesn't mean I will fall into an astrologer's assumptions about who an Aries is 'supposed to' be or how we're 'supposed to' act. And I'm being a thoroughly intense Aries by telling you so." —Elisa Jean

2. If you don’t vividly ask for and eagerly welcome the exciting gifts the Universe has in store for you, you may have to settle for trinkets and baubles. Never settle. —Monica Ballard

3. When people don't get it done fast enough for you, be ready and able to DO IT YOURSELF. And don't waste any time or energy being mad at the slowpokes.

4. Even when your courage has a touch of foolhardiness, even when your brazen quest for adventure makes you a bit reckless, you can be resourceful enough to avoid dicey consequences. Maybe more than any other sign of the zodiac, you periodically outfox karma.

5. You like challenges—especially those that you consciously choose and especially those that aren't imposed by others.

6. If someone tells you that you are too aggressive, invade their personal space and demand to know what the hell do they mean by that!!!

7. Smile when you have absolutely no reason to. Smile when your reasons for smiling are still in the future. Smile as you concoct outlandish, farfetched reasons to smile.

8. When you Aries are at your best, you are attracted to people who tell you exactly what they think, who aren't shy about being purely themselves, and who dare to be as vigorous as you.

Possibly one of my favorite cities in the world. Seeped in mysticism, mayhem and magic. Beautiful days were spent in tropical botanical gardens where trees are natures AC system, exploring museums, learning more about mythology and ancient history and of course the chaotic and colorful markets.

Every corner something unexpected. A conversation with a baba at a temple or the coconut seller on a street corner. Each sharing wisdom that only life experience brings.

Next time I am here will be before I co lead a . Deep gratitude for this time in India.

Possibly one of my favorite cities in the world. Seeped in mysticism, mayhem and magic. Beautiful days were spent in tropical botanical gardens where trees are natures AC system, exploring museums, learning more about mythology and ancient history and of course the chaotic and colorful markets.

Every corner something unexpected. A conversation with a baba at a temple or the coconut seller on a street corner. Each sharing wisdom that only life experience brings.

Next time I am here will be before I co lead a with . Deep gratitude for this time in India.

A dip into some of the photos from our Mindfulness retreat

The foot is usually the part of the body that is venerated; the feet of elders are worshipped by the younger generation; the feet of religious teachers and holy men by their followers; the feet of idols by their devotees; the feet of innocent persons by wrongdoers seeking forgiveness.

Learning from my cat.
Stillness, gentle movement, meditation, self care and to have fun 🤩
Online yoga with

YTT
October/November 2024
Rishikesh
https://www.yogafactory.eu/courses

From the 58th verse of the Tao Te Ching
Change your thoughts change your life by Wayne Dyer

“Change your view of the peaks and valleys of all of life to an attitude that allows you to discover what’s hidden in both of those experiences. Begin to see wholeness rather than good or bad fortune. See opposites as parts of oneness, rather than disrupting surprises. In a world of pure Taoist unity, there’s no good or bad luck; it’s indivisible. What you’re calling “bad” fortune has “good” just waiting to emerge because it’s the other half.”

Wish you all a blessed 2024

What if, Leyla…

Every "no" meant "not yet"?

Every loss meant "even more is on the way"?

And every disappointment meant "pucker up, buttercup"?

Yeah, precisely -

The Universe

Tell me something you did in 2023!
Brag 🧡

When yogis get together it’s my kinda gathering. We talk animal rescue, recycling, how to kite surf and try to figure out the meaning of life and whether there even is one. It is varied and colourful, we debate and challenge each other then dip in the pool or drink a green juice or coffee.

Missing moments like these but excited to be back with this type of conversation soon.
India here we come

📣📣We have a spot opened up for our India Retreat📣📣📣

Mindful Exploration Yoga & Culture Retreat
Kutch, Gujarat – India
22nd – 29th Jan 2024
Gujarat Mindfulness Retreat was created as a yoga and culture retreat that transports yogis outside of their studios to further develop their practice while discovering the colorful and enchanting landscape that is Gujarat.

We have a few places left if safe travel with interesting people light you up.
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Love tells me I am everything

Wisdom that I am nothing

Between the two my life flows

Jack Kornfield

It’s not so often we get to spend time together these days.
New directions, pandemics, the changing world created something unexpected for us but when we do it’s as special as the very first moment we declared we would partner for life like the African Ground Hornbill.

See you in Gujurat for our signature Mindfulness Yoga and Exploration Retreat. I know it will be as incredible as previous retreats.
January 2024

I love you

Today is Giving Tuesday! Thank you to all the people who have donated towards Shadows care in Capadocia.
You’ve helped me vaccinate, feed and board her and with a few PayPal donations I’m getting closer to my fundraising goal!

A $25 donation will help me neuter her this week whilst we wait for her rabies antibodies to appear.

If you are looking for a place to give today, I hope you’ll consider donating to my GoFundMe or sharing it with others. Thank you 🙏 so much

Until I have a loving home to go to, organized by Leyla Meredith Hello, I am Leyla and I am fundraising for Shadow a tiny kitten that crept into my… Leyla Meredith needs your support for Until I have a loving home to go to

The Two Wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.”
“One is Evil – It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
“The other is Good – It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf wins?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

with and many other beautiful souls. 🌴
So much gratitude for this path and awareness and love

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Guiding this beautiful group during our Nourish Retreat. Considering - How do we nourish the body - movement, food, hydration, sleep. The mind - meditation, kriya, pranayama, conversations. The emotions - acts of kindness, gratitude, being of service.

Sun rising on the last day.
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Creating delicious experiences with this one the next few weeks