This week has been one of the most challenging since I started the course. I live in a city where the authorities decided on Saturday to close down everything (schools, metro, shops, theaters, cinemas etc.) for an imminent threat, after Paris attacks. I never experienced anything like this. Until now, we are in maximum alert and we see everywhere armed police. Everybody is stressed, nervous and we are advised not to take buses or trams. Our life changed brutally. I am especially sad for my kids: even the Christmas party in the school was canceled and how can we be serene in a context like this? I keep on restarting again and again my mental diet, it is just not working, especially because I need to be connected to the TV to know what is happening here. I just simply cannot shut it down under those exceptional and absurd conditions. This is really ironical, because, before all this, I was used to never watch television! Before even starting this course, I was already imposing me a diet from it, as I realized how negative it can be to watch it… So, it looks like everything is going in the wrong direction here. I experience anxiety and only meditation can help me to remain grounded. I love the flower visualization exercise, I find it refreshing and helpful. I can even smell the fragrance of it, with a bit of concentration. So, I know that what I have to do is to increase the good habits: more meditation, more use of affirmations, more yoga. I find it comforting to have such a beautiful community in the MKMMA, supporting each other with love and compassion. We need more people like that in the world! So, let’s do our part ♥.The affirmation we learn this week from Haanel is also very powerful.
I notice that in such a situation the old blueprint keeps on coming back stronger than ever, but I will not let it win the battle and I will grow stronger. By the way, now, everybody is asking me opinions on this situation and sometimes I find myself giving a lot of them, so I restart again and again. What a challenge! I hope this will finish soon.
A positive note to end with: many people around the world contacted me to ask if I am ok, and this warmed my hearth. I know that I am loving and I am loved. The more we give, the more we get.
I am ready to go now to a yoga retreat for the week end, and I feel that it is just the right time… A lot of yoga, meditation and mantra chanting will do wonders with me, so I hope to start next week recharged and full of energy!
Om shanti, om Peace to the world.
Chiara is a Certified Sampoorna Yoga and Meditation Teacher (RYT 500), Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT 95), Yin Yoga Instructor (130 hours) and Reiki practitioner. She comes from Italy, but now she lives in Belgium. Living in an international environment, she speaks Italian, English, French and German.
Chiara’s yoga and meditation path started in 2003, in Brussels, during a stressful period at work. She soon experienced the fullness of the practice and the transformation in the body and mind through the system developed by Shri Yogi Hari, called “Sampoorna Yoga”: the Yoga of Fullness. The enthusiasm for yoga and meditation changed the course of her life and career. After experiencing different Yoga styles and meditation techniques, in 2012 and 2013 she took the Sampoorna Yoga Teacher Training Course with Shri Yogi Hari. The same year (2012), Chiara left her job as a lawyer and now dedicates her time fully to sharing yoga and meditation with children, families and adults.
She loves teaching and practising meditation and yoga. It helps her remain strong, grounded and happy and enables her to deal with the ups and downs of life. A daily meditation practice is an essential part of her life.
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Chiara é un’insegnante certificata in Sampoorna yoga e meditazione (500 ore), yoga per bambini (95 ore) e Yin Yoga (130 ore), oltre che praticante di Reiki. E’ italiana di origine, ma ora vive in Belgio. Siccome vive in un ambiente internazionale, parla Italiano, Inglese, Francese e Tedesco.
Il suo cammino di yoga e meditazione comincia nel 2003 a Bruxelles, durante un periodo stressante al lavoro. In quel frangente, Chiara fu conquistata dall’impatto della pratica sul proprio corpo e mente, grazie al sistema sviluppato da Shri Yogi Hari, chiamato Sampoorna Yoga: lo yoga della pienezza. L’entusiasmo per lo yoga e la meditazione cambio’ cosi’ il corso della sua vita e carriera. Dopo aver sperimentato diversi stili di yoga e meditazione, nel 2012 e 2013 decide di diventare insegnante di Sampoorna Yoga con Shri Yogi Hari. Nello stesso anno ( 2012) , Chiara lascia il suo lavoro di giurista ed ora dedica tutto il suo tempo per diffondere lo yoga e la meditazione tra i bambini, le famiglie e gli adulti che cercano la calma interiore, in un mondo pieno di stimoli continui.
Ama insegnare e praticare lo yoga e la meditazione. Questo la aiuta a rimanere forte e felice, in modo da affrontare con facilità e leggerezza gli alti e bassi della vita.
La meditazione quotidiana é ormai divenuta una parte essenziale e irrinunciabile della sua vita.
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