Yoga Yangchen

07/10/2025

It was such a joy to welcome Miss Sally from Singapore and her wonderful group for a serene Sound Bath session. Thank you for choosing to share this beautiful experience with me, for connecting through sound, stillness, and presence.

Beyond their wellbeing journey in Bhutan, Miss Sally and her team deeply touched our hearts by meeting with the founder of Nazhoen Lamtoen and generously contributing to support the children at the halfway home.

Thank you for traveling with such intention, for being mindful, conscious travelers who not only explore but also give back and uplift the local communities you visit. Your kindness and presence mean so much to us and to Bhutan. 🌸

04/10/2025

Happy World Animal Day. My heart is full remembering every small life that trusts us, may we continue to care for them gently and kindly, every day. Thank you to everyone who shelters, volunteers, and chooses compassion; your small acts change lives. 💕🐾 Nadine Koch

04/10/2025

Today, on World Animal Day, “Save Animals, Save the Planet!”, we spent the day at Jangsa Animal Saving Trust celebrating with the animals.

My friends Nadine Koch, Deki and I volunteered to give the cats a little upgrade: fresh litter trays, new scratching mats and a cozier cat house. Nadine is visiting Bhutan for two weeks and, as she always does when she’s here, chose to spend time volunteering at the shelter, such kindness means so much.

It felt like the perfect way to honour today’s theme: gentle, practical care for animals and our shared home. Thank you to everyone who supports local shelters and travels mindfully, small actions add up. 💚🐾

03/10/2025

Today I had the joy of finally meeting Kat and Carolyn in Thimphu at my studio, two lovely women who messaged me earlier this year saying they hoped to visit Bhutan and would love to meet. We had never met in person, but our shared love of yoga, animals, travel and simple kindness made the connection feel immediate and effortless. It reminded me how small the world can be when hearts are open. Kat has completed yoga-therapy courses, the same path I am on, so we immediately spoke the same language of yoga. Both Kat and Carolyn are conscious, mindful travelers: wherever they go they try to make a positive impact by supporting local communities, reducing waste, and travelling with care. Thank you both for travelling, for your warmth, and for the beautiful conversations. Moments like this make teaching and hosting so rewarding. 🙏🏼🌎✨🧘🏻‍♀️

01/10/2025

Did you know? Jangsa Animal Saving Trust has started an exciting new venture called “Jangsa Foods”offering 100% plant-based foods lovingly prepared by the monks of Pema Yoedling Monastery in Gelephu.

They are creating amazing alternatives like tofu milk, tofu tempeh, smoked tofu, tofu cheese, tofu hard cheese (chugo), and more, seven varieties in total.

Today I got to taste them all, and I truly loved the flavors. 💚

As someone who has been a lifelong vegetarian and is also trying to reduce my dairy intake, I really appreciate this initiative. It’s inspiring to see such creative, sustainable, and compassionate food being developed right here in Bhutan.

Gratitude to Lama Kunzang Dorjee Rinpoche, Dr. Chaitanya Hoskote, Narhari Gupta, and everyone supporting this vision. 🌸

Soon, these varieties will also be available in our local markets. We will you posted.

Let’s celebrate food that is kind to animals, kind to our health, and kind to the planet. 🌏🙏🏼🌸🐾💕

30/09/2025

28/09/2025

A beautiful morning session in Lobesa, overlooking the breathtaking valley of Lobesa, Punakha ⛰️🍀🧘🏻🧘🏻‍♀️

Thank you and your wonderful group for bringing such beautiful energy to the practice. 🙏🏼

27/09/2025

Kuzuzangpola from Dochula Pass, a breathtaking hello from 3,100 meters above sea level, surrounded by the beautiful 108 stupas, prayer flags, and the Himalaya 🏔️🌈✨

25/09/2025

"What is the true nature of a dream?
It is just openness and spaciousness.
What we need to do to be liberated from suffering
- is to realize that all appearances are of the same nature.

We need to realize that our suffering
does not come from these appearances,
- but from our taking these appearances to be real.

If we realize this, then we will experience
the true nature of everything that is,
- which is openness and spaciousness also.

When we first learn about emptiness,
it appears that emptiness has to do with outer phenomena,
that outer phenomena are empty of true existence.

But really and truly, true emptiness,
- the true nature of reality, - is the true nature of our mind,
the true nature of this very present and ever present mind.

And the true nature of this very present mind is openness,
- spaciousness, - complete freedom from all thoughts,
complete freedom from all ideas about the way things are or are not.
Openness, spaciousness, and relaxedness."

~ Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

22/09/2025

How I still get excited about Blessed Rainy Day, even today. It takes me right back to childhood, the anticipation of rain and the feeling that each drop would become a blessing. I am holding a singing bowl filled with milk, water, and flowers, an offering and a reminder that blessings arrive in small, quiet ways.

As I receive these blessings, I dedicate them to all sentient beings, near and far, friends and strangers, humans and animals, seen and unseen. May the rains of compassion wash away pain, illness, and sorrow. May every heart be showered with loving-kindness, healing, and peace.

Wishing everyone a Blessed Rainy Day. Thruebab Tashi Delek. 🌧️🌸🕊️

21/09/2025

“When both myself and others
are similar in that we wish to be happy,
what is so special about me that I strive after happiness only for myself?
And when both myself and others are similar in that we do not wish to suffer,
what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?” ~ Shantideva

As long as this body is healthy and capable, may I serve all sentient beings in need.

20/09/2025

On Tuesday we celebrate Blessed Rainy Day here in Bhutan 🌧️✨. Today, I passed by a meat shop and saw people rushing to buy meat for the festival. It pained my heart deeply 💔 seeing the flesh, the blood, and imagining the pain and suffering the animals must have endured. These are living, feeling beings, they know, they sense, and they are scared. What hurts me most is imagining them being dragged to slaughter when they don’t want to go, kicked, pushed, even shocked, and then forced to die. Nobody wants to die in pain. A small cut on my own skin feels miserable, I can’t bear to imagine their fear and suffering.

I know this tradition has been here for generations, yet I can’t help but feel the sorrow of it.

It also reminds me of one of the Buddhist meditation practices, Tonglen (giving and taking). Whenever I pass by, I try to practice a little tonglen, breathing in the suffering of these animals, and breathing out healing, love, and positive energy to all sentient beings, including those that have been slaughtered.

All I can do is hold compassion in my heart and pray: may I never be reborn where compassion for living beings is absent. May I be reborn where kindness and mercy prevail. May this Blessed Rainy Day remind us all of compassion, for humans and for animals alike. 🕊️🌸

✨ This is simply my personal reflection, shared from the heart, with no intention to criticize or target anyone. 🙏