Somehow, the universe came together so that on my last day of employment with ABC, my first yoga teacher from Bangkok was holding his first weekend yoga retreat and invited me and my friends to join. It was a perfect combination: closing the chapter at work followed immediately by a weekend filled with yoga, meditation and discussion of goals and how our brains work. It was the perfect launchpad into my current state of navigating opportunity and adventure.
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| Our blue dot, far away from Bangkok. |
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| The house and my favorite hammock. |
After a long time spent in the car thanks to Friday traffic, we arrived finally at a beautiful lakeside home in Kanchanaburi province. This place was home to a caretaker family, their dogs and some very talkative birds. We spent the weekend yoga-ing, meditating, talking about the social environments that have influenced our beliefs and goals. Some people also played around on the ATVs, motorbikes and jetskis, but I preferred to lay in the hammock reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and take breaks to play with the puppies.
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| Kirstie on the moto. |
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| Nat and Haley on the ATV. |
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| Me and the pup. |
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| The bird who speaks Thai. |
I came away from the weekend feeling lighter, more purposeful. This may be thanks to one of the mindfulness exercises we did in which you sit down and chat with your future self. It was fun to come up with a version of myself that I dreamed of being, ask her how she got there and after that was finished, think about what I can realistically do to make that vision a reality. If you're wondering, she lives on the beach, does/teaches yoga and cooks delicious food. Other details vary from a life of academia to one in HR at my beloved Nordstrom to owning a hostel/bar on the beach and beyond. We shall see, won't we?
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Nat (yoga teacher), Nikon (mindfulness coach),
Haley, Kirstie, me, Gift, Romain. |
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