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Strong and soft…  My yoga teacher (Yoga with Adriene) invited me the other day, for a moment to think about why I'm doing yoga? What makes me roll out my mat every morning? What are the effects I wish for, short and long term? The answer came quickly to me; I...

The best hug I ever got…  3 years ago...TODAY...the 19th of October, I had spent 19 days on the Camino. The days had passed, walking through beautiful scenery, cute villages, busy cities,sometimes long stretches of asphalt, some days alone on a muddy path, In the...

Helena Swanstrom  Three years ago, beginning of October, I had just started walking from St Jean Pied de Port in France towards Santiago on the west coast of Spain. THE Camino. About 800 km on foot were in front of me. I hadn't booked any accommodation...

I’m a “gratidude”  Wanted to write about gratitude and noticed that I'd spelled it "gratidude" which made me smile! I am rich. I am richer than I could ever dream of...and the currency I'm counting the richness in, is love. And the source of this richness comes...

Connected…  I would like to share something that happened to me during one of my many walks in the Botanical Gardens in Montreal today. I like spending time there, I do it often, many times a week, walking different rounds different days...just feeling where I...

An unexpected night time visitor..  The other night I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night feeling something soft touching my cheek..I turned on the light and there on the pillow beside me was a big green grasshopper (about 5 cm long) I looked at it in...

“Bergtagen”..  ..or "spirited away" as Google translates...I'm fortunate every now and then to go to the west coast of Norway to work in a small hospital. For over 10 years I have returned here not only because of work...I simply love this place with it's people,...

How it all started..  Yesterday I posted a quote on my Fb page from Marion Woodman, who died just a couple of days ago at the age of almost 90. She was a Canadian author, poet and psycologist. She spent her life and career studying the work of Carl Jung and...

“I don’t believe in weeds”  ...sister Monica Joan says, in Netflix series "Call the midwife", when asked to remove the weeds from the nuns garden. I just LOVE that statement! Who decides who or what is a weed?Call 514-224-1701Email [email protected]...