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Mind Body & Yoga

From Burnout to Balance: How Yoga and Meditation Help You Reconnect with Yourself

Mar 27, 2025

I’m sitting in a café in Ubud, Bali, thinking about where we’ll go next. But then it hits me—we’re not traveling in the conventional sense. My husb...

Relationships

Outgrowing the Hands That Once Held Us: Letting Go, Growing Stronger, and Knowing Your Worth

Mar 30, 2025

Friendships are supposed to uplift, support, and encourage us to grow. But sometimes, what we believe to be friendship is something else entirely—manipulation disguised as loyalty, control masked as care. True friends want to see you thrive, even if that means watching you walk away into something better. But not everyone in our lives fits that ...

Bali

Slow Travel in Ubud, Bali: A Journey into Presence

Ubud isn’t just a destination; it’s an experience—a place where time slows, where nature and culture intertwine, and where every moment invites you...

Bali

The 5 Best Vegan Spots in Ubud for Soulful, Nourishing Meals

Ubud is more than just a destination; it’s an experience—a gentle yet profound unfolding of self through nature, movement, and food. A place where ...

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Mind Body & Yoga

From Burnout to Balance: How Yoga and Meditation Help You Reconnect with Yourself

Mar 27, 2025

I’m sitting in a café in Ubud, Bali, thinking about where we’ll go next. But then it hits me—we’re not traveling in the conventional sense. My husb...

Yoga Transformation: The Student, The Teacher And The Integration Of The Teachings

Mar 11, 2025

The road to transformation is rarely linear. It twists and turns, revealing lessons we didn’t anticipate and demanding patience we didn’t know we n...

Why Yoga? We asked a Yoga Teacher what makes Yoga so special.

Oct 21, 2024

As a regular writer for Words and Contemplations, I decided to share the common questions I have been getting asked as a new Yoga teacher. These qu...

Exploring Mudras in Meditation

Oct 06, 2024

Mudras are how we position our hands when meditating. Each Mudra can seal the energy in the body, and when meditation, we want to seal that energy ...

9 Books For Psychological & Spiritual Growth

Sep 22, 2024

It’s all about finding the right book at the right time. I have said it before, but it is taking on a life of its own; every time I get to the end ...

Meditation, The 10 Benefits Found In Less Than A Month

Jul 26, 2024

I’ve reached the halfway point in my Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher Training and it’s been profoundly eye-opening. I have been meditating con...

Perfect Timing, Trust or Divine Intervention?

Jul 07, 2024

This last month marks the halfway point of my accidental transformation year, 2024 has been a wonderful journey filled with unexpected and incredib...

Fai Mos

A journey through life should be filled with yoga, meditation, joy, travel, photographs, books and many many words.
Sally Priestley

A yoga teacher & embodiment mentor passionately bringing spirituality & science together in embodied teachings.
Bronwyn Cain

Obsession with beauty in all its expressions, fascinated with health science and food as a healer.Bio

Travel Diaries

Ubud Unraveled: A Journey of Yoga, Stillness, and Self-Discovery

I have been in Ubud for three weeks now, and thanks to an extended visa, we get to stay for another 30 days. It mig...

Living, Not Just Working: Redefining Success

In a world that glorifies hustle, it’s easy to forget that life isn’t just ab...

Travel Diaries - Adult Gap Year, Week One

The first week of my adult gap year has arrived, and with it, a sense of libe...

Finding Depth in Your Favourite Travel Memories

Travel is so much more than the destinations we reach—it’s about the emotions...

What is an Adult Gap Year?

An adult gap year is a chance to step away from your day-to-day life and embr...

Relationships

Outgrowing the Hands That Once Held Us: Letting Go, Growing Stronger, and Knowing Your Worth

Mar 30, 2025

Friendships are supposed to uplift, support, and encourage us to grow. But sometimes, what we believe to be friendship is something else entirely—m...

How To Use Challenges To Welcome Change

Nov 29, 2024

As I move through what seemed in the moment to be one of the most challenging yet eye-opening experiences of myself to date, I realise that it is n...

Love, Perception Verses Reality.

Apr 30, 2024

To love is to be at ease with another, this ease can sometimes create a false perception for onlookers. Ease does not mean easy. After a recent col...

What is self-love? Why is it so important and what benefits will it offer?

Apr 04, 2024

Self-love is when you put yourself first, it might be for a moment or once a week or maybe it's whenever you need to self-soothe. It’s finding thi...

Love, it's When

Nov 22, 2022

It’s when you truly want good things for someone other than yourself,It’s when you offer your time, unconditionally,It's when you buy something the...

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New Years Resolutions Or Renewed Ways Of Thinking About Things

Dec 27, 2024

Three years ago, when our blogs were hosted someplace else, I wrote: Finding The Right Vocabulary To Make Your New Years Resolutions Attainable. It was a time when we were all in different places; many of us had no freedom, very little in the world of choices, and we were all a little gloomy. This year, ending 2024, feels hopeful, empowered and freer.

Words & Contemplations

Learn To Trust Yourself

Aug 25, 2024

Finding trust in yourself so that you can trust the journey you are on. Choosing to believe that not to know that what is happening at any given ti...

Words & Contemplations

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Jun 13, 2024

One day you will look back upon the things you believed and it will seem as if someone else’s voice was directing you. The voice inside will evolve...

Words & Contemplations

What Is The Meaning In A Raindrop?

Apr 26, 2024

When the rain drops from the sky it transforms the ground beneath it, if only for a moment, this temporary change is part of the cyclical nature of...

Words & Contemplations

Moments of Clarity

Oct 29, 2022

You watch day by day thinking that these things you witness are normal, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere, you see something in a new light a...

Words & Contemplations

Finding The Right Vocabulary To Make Your New Years Resolutions Attainable

Dec 31, 2021

Away with friends this year instead of the time old classic of going for drinks and dinner, watching the fireworks or any other habitual example yo...

Words & Contemplations

Natures Patterns

Nov 21, 2021

Have you ever thought about the patterns that we live amongst, the nature that surrounds us and the peace that can be found in the symmetry, the d...

Words & Contemplations

Your Desired Change, Your Responsibility

Sep 25, 2021

It was Einstein that said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” I think we al...

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