Conscious Body & Soul

Feeling Off? It could be your Metal element out of whack🥸

Been dealing with colds or the beginning of it, dry skin, or just feeling emotionally stuck?🤔

These might be signs your metal element is out of balance!

As summer is coming to an end, the weather starts to change, we have less sunlight and definitely a colder morning breeze, it’s possibile that we are starting to feel a little off. But not all of this is the end of summer’s fault!

From respiratory issues to a weakened immune system, the metal element plays a key role in how we feel✨

Also, let’s remember that we are soon entering into the very Metal season, Fall, so it’s always a good idea to check for these signs and notice if we need extra care in this changing moment.

Are you experiencing any of these symptoms?🥹🧡

Feeling a little “meh” about summer ending? 🍂

Don’t worry!! Here are 6 quick and fun ways to transition smoothly from summer to fall, keeping your vibes high and your stress low.

This is all I am in for, grounding yoga poses, warm drinks & cozy routines! Small changes/ additions that will have you feeling so ready for the new season🍁

Honestly, every season is my favorite season. If you feel aligned with it, there are so many pros even if you think you don’t like it. So let’s embrace fall together🧡

Just some affirmations you can include in your daily rituals💫

…and if you don’t have any, just some affirmations to repeat to yourself when you need a “pick-me-up” moment✨

Happy new week🤍

Did you know that your vagus nerve holds the key to lowering cortisol levels and keeping your nervous system in check?✨

The vagus nerve is like a superhighway between your brain and body, promoting relaxation and balance.

When you activate it with simple practices — like deep breathing, humming, or eating the right foods — you stimulate your body’s “rest and digest” response, reducing stress hormones like cortisol🌿

Swipe through to discover the best foods to nourish your vagus nerve and bring calm into your everyday life🌼

It’s time for a change✨

I don’t even know how many times I have heard people around me telling me that they feel anxious and stressed out during this seasonal change.

Moving from Summer to Fall🍂 can be pretty daunting, much harder than moving from Spring into Summer☀️

🥵We might feel:
• stressed & anxious
• overwhelmed
• unhappy
• overwhelmed with a sense of malinconia
• sad and at times a little depressed

… and that’s why I have decided to create this e-book “Shine through the Seasons” - it’s a series dedicated to all of the elements and how we can support ourselves through these seasonal shifts.

😍It will help you with:
• feeling happier and in control over your emotions
• establish healthy eating habits in transition periods
• support your energy shifts while moving into Fall
• taking care of yourself daily without overwhelm
• falling in love with Autumn
• start or restart your Yoga practice
• lower your cortisol levels and regulate your nervous system

This e-book will be all dedicated to the Metal Element: you will be able to recognise if your Metal Element is balanced or out of whack 😅, how to restore equilibrium, what to eat to support your lungs and large intestine, which Yoga practices and Meditations can help you along.

Head over to the Bio and sign up for the Early 🐦 price or DM to be added to the list🧡

5 signs your nervous system is relaxing:
𖡼 yawning
𖡼 feeling sleepy
𖡼 body tingles
𖡼 sighing
𖡼 shoulders drop

A regulated nervous system has incredible benefits for our body and our minds. Obviously, daily life is full of stressors and we can’t avoid all of them😅 But there are ways to cope with them..

This is a simple body scan exercise that can help relax your nervous system in the present moment:
• sit down comfortably
• close your eyes
• start relaxing all of your muscles (start from your feet and work your way up)
• slow breathing through your nose, paying attention to its rhythm.

If you can, do this for about 15 to 20 minutes and notice the change you feel in your body, mind and soul.

Our emotional health is linked to our physical health and viceversa.

In TCM and Macrobiotic each emotion is connected to a set organ and the weaker a particular organ system is, the more susceptible one is to experiencing associated emotions.

For example, you know that say that goes “worry makes you sick to your stomach”?! Well, digestive issues are often linked to overthinking, worrying, feeling anxious..

Same goes for “I am so mad it eats my liver” (literal translation from an Italian saying 😅) but the liver is in charge of the free flow of Qi and it’s also linked to the emotion of anger and frustration…

Learning how to take care of our organs and emotions is the ultimate expression of self-care🤍

That’s why I have created a simple practical TCM and Macrobiotic guide to shed some light on this topic and share with you simple ways to take care of them daily❤️

Comment “GUIDE” to receive your free practical guide of ways to taking care of your organs and your emotions.

The Full Moon coming in 🔥

I found these prompts in a book I am reading “Sacred Seasons” by and well, the timing couldn’t be more perfect.

Just leaving these here, maybe one of you will find them as useful as I currently am🤍

(I clearly won’t be able to journal on all of these today because there is so much to unload for each point, but this Moon is a brand new chance to let us get freed of all of the things that are blocking our potential and that WE put on our own way)✨

What to do while the Lion’s Gate Portal is wide open✨

There isn’t right or wrong, whichever spiritual ritual you are comfortable to perform, this is your time to get to work!

You can:
• flow through a powerful Yoga practice, to ground, to expand, to connect with the above

• charge your crystals in the sun, all of the stones you have around you let them lay under the sun, this planetary alignment will take care of them energetically charging them!

• journal on your dream life. This is the perfect time to set your intention on your life goals!

Also notice if you have experience anything unusual or if you felt different in a way (you still have time to feel or experience many things since the gate closed on the 12th of August).

Take some time to tune inward, to settle within yourself and to ground if you feel all up in the air🪽

It’s a powerful time for manifesting, calling in abundance and making your dreams come true🤍

The one thing we should all start doing more🪽

Celebrating ourselves!

So as we turned into this new seasonal phase, take a few moments to just do that. To celebrate yourself!

Celebrate your being, you being you, what you have achieved (yes, even if you think you didn’t achieve anything, it’s a lie!!)

Celebrate what you have manifested into your life and what is finally coming to fruition☀️

You favorite summer salad☀️

This Yin salad is easy, quick, energetically balanced and will perfectly complement your Yang summer day🎈

All you need:
• 1 peach
• 1 fig
• a bunch of cherry tomatoes
• some basil leaves
• a small burrata
• some lemon zest

For the vinaigrette:
• EVO
• the juice of half a lemon
• some Himalaya pink salt

Chop all of the ingredients and plate them together, add the burrata on top and sprinkle with the lemon zest. Add the basil and the vinaigrette☀️

Enjoy it🥰

Will you try it?

Do you need a lifestyle change? This is for you🤍

Everything you need to know to get you curious about a more natural way of approaching your nutrition, your mental, emotional & physical wellbeing🪽

💌 DM for a introductory 20 min call where I can share with you all of the books, info, practices you need to do to start your journey!

Come back to yourself🤍

I started my Yoga journey (both on and off the mat) in Sri Lanka.

That’s where I took my first YTT and remotely my Masters in Macrobiotic, tiptoeing into TCM as well. Everything and everywhere around me was bringing me back to myself but also to nature.

Sri Lanka is a very spiritual country which made it “easier” for me to be totally absorbed and absorbing all I had around.

Once I left, pieces of me stayed back and this deeper connecting I had with nature got a bit lost. With it, many other parts of me changed, or better, went back to old patterns, emotional shifting, memories of beings I didn’t want to be anymore stuck to me, and no, I am not that proud of that.

I looked for so many ways, I tried so many ways, getting curious and turning my head one too many times towards different ways of healing and being.

What I forgot though is that, I have it all within me.

Western culture makes it harder to see beyond what’s to the eye. Makes it harder to connect with your natural environment and living in alignment with nature.

It makes it harder but it doesn’t make it impossible.

So that’s my mission. For myself and for you.

To bring back traditional and ancient tools and techniques for the modern world.

To feel better. To feel whole❤️

📸 by .storie 😍

Sunday’s blues?!

Tomorrow’s a brand new week, new possibilities, new chances of growth, a step forward towards your wellness goals✨

These affirmations will help you stay grounded, in the present moment, think about wellness & selfcare🤍

Pick your favorite one to start your week right!

You Monday’s mantra✨

All the things I wish I knew a little sooner☀️

At the same time, remember nobody is running after you… there is a phase for everything in life🍒

All the ways you can use to infuse a little wellness & self-care into your daily life✨

That one thing that made me change my entire perspective on self-care🍒

It’s truly not about that monthly massage, the spa day, the manicure…

It’s about carving out the time to live in alignment with your core values, your wishes and dreams🤍

Filling your own cup, so you can actually pour into someone else’s🪽

If you are ready for a healthier, happier July, this is for you🤍🍒

Pick a few rituals you would like to add on to your day, I promise, give it 30 days and you will feel like your best version so far❤️

We start today! HAPPY JULY☀️

Once upon a time there was a lawyer (he still is) and an UN project manager (me not so much)..

One morning they both decided to attend a Yoga class in Colombo☀️

After 3 weeks of knowing one another, COVID hit, and they got stuck together in the same house, for 6 months…

After 9 months from that first “hello” (which I said it first😅), they decided to get married…

Forever teaching Yoga with you❤️ forever doing life with you.

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6 ways you can keep hydrated during the warmer months🍋

I am really bad when it comes to my daily water intake but I find these tips super useful to keep myself hydrated from inside out!

Which one is your favorite?💧

It’s all about the small daily habits🌙

Which one is your favorite?

Your JUNE GLOW UP CHALLENGE IS HERE

Summer is upon us… these habits will make you feel incredible, nourishing you from inside out🌸

A glow up is not only about physical appearances but it’s mostly about your emotional response to it.

It’s about how it makes you feel about yourself🤍
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Do you?🤍

As hard as it can be, our thoughts are our decisions. They are in our control.

Not many things are but we can decide on what our minds are focusing on.

Notice when your flow of thought becomes distracted and takes you to places you don’t deserve to go, bring it back to a more loving and caring space🌸

📩 save it and repeat it as many times as you need❤️
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The only affirmation you’ll need today🪴

Our minds are so fast to find the negative of everything, which is fair enough if you are not living at the best of your capacities or walking through a difficult path in life.

But good can really be found everywhere and especially in all of those acts we do daily.

Acts which are now done in autopilot so we don’t have the awareness we used to in front of something that became usual.

Go back to that feeling, go back at being surprised of a perfectly made cup of coffee, at a good night of sleep, at your new shower soap…

It’s all in the smallest things❤️‍🔥

💌 share this post with someone you think would need to read this today❤️
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Make sure you take time to nurture your mind & your body equally💗

May is here, so make this affirmation your daily mantra for the next couple of weeks, till it actually roots into your soul and you can come up with 2 to 3 ways to equally nurture both your mind & your body🪴

You could try:
🌱 10 mins of conscious movement + 1 chapter of your current read

🌱 cook a nourishing meal + 10-15 mins of skin care and a warm shower

🌱 a walk in nature/park + meeting up with friends

Which are your to-go ways to nurture your body & your mind?
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Number 1 remedy against stress🪄

Nature🌱

Wherever you are, step outside and soak up the beauty of your environment.

A dose of fresh air and sunshine can do wonders for your mood and for lowering your cortisol levels🫠

Which one is your favorite outdoor spot?
P.s I am clearly ready to go back to the island life🏝️
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This is for you if you want to fall into a restful sleep.

We know that an elevated amount of stress isn’t good, and even if you sleep a full 8 hours you still wake up tired, probably you have something on your mind that doesn’t allow your mind to switch off.

Explore these simple yet effective tips to enhance your sleep quality and release stress from the inside out.

Which one is your favorite?😍
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Learn it from Mama Earth🌱

Nature shares with us valuable lessons that can help us improve our mental & emotional wellbeing:

𖤣 Take a leaf for example. If there’s a lot of sun, it will be smaller, thicker, and will change its pigmentation, while if growing in the shade, it will be larger, greener, and thinner, so to absorb more sunlight. Nature adapts to its surroundings. It doesn’t resist change.

𖤣 In the world of nature, everything revolves around self-preservation. Nature is able to balance its constructive and destructive processes to thrive and grow. By listening to our intuition, developing a growth mindset, doing the inner work, we will be able to understand our intentions, values, and purpose better, while recognising our emotional needs, and maintain a balanced life.

𖤣 Everything in nature changes. We, on the other hand, cling to things. We can find it difficult to embrace change even when we deeply desire it because change reminds us that everything is transient. What we need to learn is that accepting change makes us more adaptable, and that sets us free.

𖤣 Nature never hurries, and yet, everything is accomplished sooner or later. We instead, are alway in a hurry. We overload ourselves with work that we can’t fit into 24 hours and then we get stressed out. Stop for a moment. Breathe. Disconnect in order to reconnect with yourself. Set your priorities and change your life’s tempo.

𖤣 In nature everything has a purpose. Humans sometimes spend their entire lives trying to find their purpose in life, maybe thinking that it must be something very deep and difficult to comprehend. Often forgetting what is right in front of us.

𖤣 In nature, everything circles back to where it came from. All the actions have their natural consequences. If you know how the system works, it’s not too difficult to figure out what the right thing to do is. Sometimes, us humans think we can just do whatever we want. We should learn how to appreciate everything we have been given, appreciating the smallest things.

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Affirmations you can use to start your day better🪽

Even though it doesn’t happen every day that I set aside a few minutes to start the day with a more spiritual note, now that the spring Equinox is upon us, I will be using the following affirmations while lighting up my incense and starting the day more mindfully🌸

1. I embrace the renewal of spring within and around me, welcoming new beginnings and a fresh perspective

2. With each breath, I create space for growth and vitality, I cleanse my body and my mind

3. I align with the energies of the season, inviting harmony into every aspects of my life

4. I am open to the transformative power of nature, allowing it to inspire and rejuvenate my being

Which one would you choose?🫧
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