Back To Yourself - Alexander Technique, Energy work, Modern meditation

08/04/2026

The moon upon the water—
that is where I see you.
The rising sun’s first breath of light—
that is where you walk beside me.
In my shadow you travel,
silent and faithful,
as our path unfolds
through the turning of time.
A lone bird crossing the sky
whispers your nearness.
The robin at the break of dawn
sings the language of your love.
In the quiet garden
primrose and crocus awaken—
they remember what the earth knows:
love is a seed that returns each spring.
So I will tend the garden,
as I tend the sacred space between us,
with patient hands
and a heart that does not forget.
And when the swans glide
upon the river’s silver skin,
they teach the ancient way—
to move through the river of life
and the river beyond it
with grace.
Side by side.
Soul beside soul.
Always.

27/03/2026

MICHAEL STIPE and AARON DESSNER: [performing “No Time for Love Like Now”]

No time for breezy
No time for arguments
There’s no time for love like now

There’s no time in the bardo
No time in the in-between
No time for love like now

Where did this all begin to change?
The locked-down memories can’t sustain
This glistening, hanging free fall

I turned away from the glorious light
I turned my head and cried
Whatever waiting means in this new place
I am waiting for you

There’s no time for dancing
No time for undecideds
No time for love like now

There’s no time for honey
No time for psalms and thresholds
Whisper a sweet prayer sigh

Where did this all begin to change?
The locked-down memories can’t sustain
This glistening, hanging free fall

I turned away from the glorious light
I turned my head and cried
Whatever waiting means in this new place
I am waiting for you

Your voice is echoing love, love, love, love, love
I hear it far, far away
And I am waiting for you
Yes, I am waiting for you

Whatever waiting means in this new place
I am waiting for you
Yes, I am waiting for you
I am waiting for you

13/03/2026

A few years ago I noticed something simple but unsettling.

Most people I met were tired in a way that sleep does not repair.
Not only physically tired — but tired of reacting to life in the same ways.�
The same tensions in the body.�The same patterns in relationships.�The same inner pressure to keep moving, producing, responding.

And yet the body often knows another way.
When we slow down enough to notice how we stand, breathe, move, and respond, something begins to shift. Effort softens. Attention returns. We rediscover possibilities that were hidden inside habits we barely realised we had.

This is the space I will be holding this summer in Val Pellice, a beautiful mountain valley near Torino, Italy.
Rather than a tightly structured retreat, this will be a retreat-holiday that moves with you. Each day we will meet for Movement Integration sessions inspired by the Alexander Technique and Systemic Constellations, alongside time in nature — walking mountain paths, sitting by the river, journalling, drawing, and allowing the nervous system to settle.
You can engage in the way that feels right for you:
• a single daily session�• several shorter sessions across the day�• or full intensive days of exploration.
Participants choose their accommodation in the valley, and we meet daily for the work itself.
If you feel curious about embodied awareness, movement, and understanding the deeper patterns that shape how we respond to life, you are warmly invited.

08/03/2026

A Thread to Life — Women’s Day Walk
Today there is a new thread leading.

The Thread to Life offers a kind of membership — not the kind written on cards or locked behind doors, but one that gathers us into centering spaces: soulful places, a modified bench,
softened by the art of our surrounding, the beauty of London.

Movement flows like a river — dance, missteps, reflections— each moment correcting and re-weaving itself as we go.
A room, a garden, a kitchen.
Small worlds of belonging.
In these places, multitudes quietly watch over us in the loose state of being alive.

Layers of connection form a living tapestry: stories of being born, stories of becoming beauty, seeing beauty.
Each thread extending outward, a blog of the heart — a vessel travelling from my heart to yours, across this wonder-world.
Life can feel simpler in these moments. A shock of aliveness.
An embroidered flower stitched on a pair of jeans.

Cultures meeting in an embodied mixture that spreads joy and warmth.
Two friends speaking deeply while a dog rests beside them.
Colour filling the spaces we make together.
There is the rigidity of a cold body walking through winter air.
And then the liquidity of warmth, tea with cardamom seeds, a cup held between the hands.

Beauty lives in between things.
Where does the ecstasy come from?
Perhaps from the small explosions of the old ways dissolving. The old story loosening its grip.
And something new asks quietly but firmly:
Be here.
Pay attention.
Look.
Feel.
Sense.
Touch.
Taste.
A new thread is asking to be woven...

03/03/2026

I have walked through the world as a listener more than a speaker.
Not collecting places, but encounters. Not chasing landmarks, but moments of recognition — between myself and a tree, a stray animal, a stranger’s eyes, the hush before rain.
Travel, for me, has never been about movement across maps. It has been about dissolving the illusion of separation. I have sat with mountains, with oceans, with insects tracing invisible paths, and understood that we are participants in the same breathing field. There is enough air for each of us. Enough sorrow. Enough wonder.

I do not linger in idle talk or borrowed ideologies. I am drawn instead to what trembles beneath the surface — the unspoken ache, the quiet courage it takes to be real. I value conversations that peel back the visible layer and make room for what dares to be seen.
Grief has been one of my teachers. It has shown me that loss binds us as surely as joy does. That every living being knows something of parting. And that tenderness is not weakness, but recognition.

My way of seeing the world is simple: we belong to one another — humans, plants, animals, even the creeping ones. We share breath. We share impermanence. We share the fragile privilege of being here at all.
And so I move through the world with attention. With reverence. With a willingness to sit, to listen, and to meet what is true when it rises.

This summer I will be in residence at Kalikalos in Anilio, from mid june to beginning of July .
I will be facilitating Movement Integration sessions inspired by the Alexander Technique and Systemic Constellations.
You can meet me for:
• Daily one-to-one sessions
• Small group workshops
If you are curious about embodied awareness, relational patterns, and conscious movement, I would love to work with you.
Feel free to reach out to ask for more information.
Kalikalos-Anilio

Do join us and explore community living .

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Welcome to Kalikalos! a simple, safe place in nature for connection, exploration and growth. More than just a retreat centre, Kalikalos is a seasonal international community for

20/02/2026

The Touch of Attention: A Simple Practice for Connection in Disconnected Times
Our brains are wired for connection. Touch and social engagement are not luxuries — they are essential to our wellbeing. From infancy onward, nurturing contact shapes our nervous system, sense of self, and overall health.
But what happens when physical touch is limited?
In these moments, another form of connection becomes available: the touch of attention.
When we bring mindful, caring awareness to the body — placing a hand on the heart, noticing the breath, or feeling our feet on the ground — we activate pathways associated with safety, regulation, and presence. The body responds to attention. Intention matters.
This isn’t a replacement for human contact. But it is a powerful, accessible way to reconnect with ourselves when external support is limited.
Even a few minutes can make a difference:
Pause with a hand on your heart and notice your breath
Sense the weight of your body grounding into the floor
Allow a small, gentle movement and observe how it feels inside
These simple acts can calm the nervous system, restore balance, and support resilience.
In a world where connection can sometimes feel fragile, the ability to meet ourselves with presence may be one of the most essential skills we can cultivate.
Connection begins within.

11/02/2026

Can Ancient Principles Live in Modern Culture?
We live in a time of acceleration.
Performance is measured. Productivity is praised. Visibility often defines value. The pressure to achieve can be so strong that it blinds us to what quietly sits beneath the surface — grief, disconnection, inherited patterns, and unprocessed fear.
In such a world, I find myself asking:
Can ancient principles still guide us in modern culture?
By ancient principles, I do not mean rigid traditions or nostalgia for the past. I mean principles rooted in natural law — integrity, embodied presence, stewardship, deep listening, humility, and responsibility toward the collective.
For centuries, leadership was understood as stewardship. It required awareness of land, community, timing, and consequence. Actions were taken with an understanding that their impact extended beyond the individual.
Today, we operate in digital ecosystems, global markets, and complex organizational systems. The context has changed dramatically. Yet the human nervous system has not evolved at the same speed as our technology.
We still long for belonging.
We still react from fear.
We still carry ancestral conditioning in our habits and biases.
We still seek meaning beyond metrics.
Modern culture rewards speed. Ancient wisdom honors timing.
Modern culture values certainty. Ancient wisdom respects not knowing.
Modern culture often amplifies the individual. Ancient principles remind us that we are always participating in a relational field — influencing and being influenced.
To bring ancient principles into modern life is not to reject innovation. It is to integrate depth with progress.
It means pausing before reacting.
It means listening not only intellectually, but somatically — noticing posture, breath, tension, impulse. It means recognizing that emotions are not distractions to suppress but energies to understand and deploy wisely.
It means practicing leadership as presence.
Leadership, in this sense, is not dominance or control. It is the capacity to hold space. To remain grounded and upright in complexity. To resource oneself while resourcing others. To create environments where trust allows difficult conversations without fragmentation.
In achievement-driven cultures, we often demand change from systems while resisting change within ourselves. Yet real transformation begins internally.
Often what we call “wanting change” is actually a longing for attention to what hurts — to grief, trauma, loneliness, or exhaustion.
Ancient disciplines teach us to return to center. To find our anchor. To sense our alignment. When the nervous system settles, clarity emerges. From clarity, wiser action becomes possible.
This is not abstract spirituality. It is practical.
A warm, genuine gesture can shift someone’s physiology in seconds. A leader who listens deeply rather than reacts impulsively alters the tone of an entire team. A moment of humility can restore trust faster than authority ever could.
At the same time, living by ancient principles in modern culture requires courage.
It requires tolerating ambiguity in a world addicted to quick answers.
It requires discernment about when to engage and when to pause.
It requires acknowledging that we are shaped by collective emotional fields — and choosing conscious response over habitual reaction.
Communities that aim to heal or transform will inevitably encounter conflicting voices. Ancient principles do not eliminate conflict; they help us remain in relationship through it.
They ask us to stay rooted and adaptive at the same time.
Rooted in values that honor life, integrity, and interconnection.
Adaptive enough to translate those values into digital platforms, organizational systems, and global conversations.
Internally, this work can feel like sitting beside a busy highway of thoughts — ambition, fear, excitement, doubt, wisdom. The practice is not to silence the traffic, but to listen more skillfully. To recognize which voice serves the moment and which one is driven by old conditioning.
In a world that sometimes appears at war with itself — politically, socially, even literally — separation begins in the human nervous system. When fear dominates, we withdraw or attack. When presence stabilizes, connection becomes possible.
Ancient principles survive not because the world slows down — but because individuals choose to anchor themselves differently within it.
They live when embodied.
They live when practiced daily.
They live when translated into compassionate leadership, conscious systems, and intentional communities.
Perhaps the real question is not whether ancient principles can live in modern culture.
Perhaps the question is:
Can modern culture remain humane without them?
I would be curious to hear your perspective. Where do you see ancient wisdom informing modern leadership today?

27/01/2026

I came to this work by learning—through my own body—that effort and intelligence alone are not enough to carry a meaningful life. What I discovered instead was that how we organize ourselves, moment by moment, shapes what is possible far more than trying harder ever could.

I came to the Alexander Technique through pain and persistent patterns that insight alone could not resolve. Learning to change how I use myself—how I move, respond, and orient to the world—revealed that sustainable change happens at the level of habit, not force, and at the level of choice, not correction.

Today, I work with people in pain and stress-related conditions who want to address the habits of use that underlie their symptoms through the Alexander Technique. I also work with capable, purpose-driven people whose bodies are asking for change—not to slow down, but to reorganize how they live, lead, or create.

The Alexander Technique works at the level of use, habit, and choice. Transformational coaching works at the level of meaning, identity, and direction. My work lives at their intersection. I am a teacher of embodied change, working at the level of habit, identity, and nervous system organisation—where lasting change becomes possible because it is lived, not imposed.

Book a free online intro call with no obligation. We’ll gently look at how your habit patterns might be interfering with the life you want to live and explore whether the 5-week program can support you in reaching your full potential.

22/01/2026

Quick reminder in case you missed it: I’m opening a 5-week online program based on the Alexander Technique.
It's for anyone dealing with back/neck/shoulder tension and that classic "stress → collapse" feeling in the body.

This is for you if:
- you feel tight most days and then stress hits and you collapse,
- you’ve tried a lot but the pattern keeps coming back,
- you want something practical you can apply in daily life.

📌 Details + registration: [LINK]

🎁 Special price if you book a short call with me by Monday 26.
If you’re not sure it’s a fit, just reply "INFO" and I’ll tell you in 2 lines.

14/01/2026

And ultimately I can coach you or your organisation if needed ...

I see myself as a body-oriented systemic coach working at the intersection of embodied awareness, leadership development, and transformational change. My coaching practice integrates somatic intelligence, systemic inquiry, and trauma-informed principles to support clients in aligning mind, body, and will.
I work from a place of deep presence and attunement, using embodied awareness as data within the coaching process. Through reflective dialogue, somatic inquiry, and intentional questioning, I support clients in recognising patterns that shape their behaviour, decision-making, and leadership presence. Energy, posture, movement, and sensation provide valuable feedback that informs awareness and choice.
My approach is client-led and future-oriented, grounded in clear contracting and intention-setting. I work with individuals navigating high-demand professional contexts, chronic stress, or disconnection, supporting them to restore clarity, vitality, and purpose.
I hold a systemic perspective, attending to individual dynamics alongside relational, organisational, and social contexts. I believe that sustainable transformation emerges through embodied awareness, conscious action, and small shifts that create meaningful change within larger systems.

14/01/2026

30 Years of Practice: Cultivating Presence, Awareness, and Grace
For more than three decades, my work has been devoted to one essential question:
How do we live, move, and relate with greater clarity, integrity, and humanity?
At its core, my practice is about developing intuitive presence—the capacity to slow down, pause, and meet life as it is, rather than react to it. In a world driven by speed, productivity, and overload, learning how to stop is a radical act. It is in this pause—between stimulus and response—that awareness, choice, and freedom arise.
How I See My Work
I teach modern meditation and embodied awareness as practical tools for daily life. The work invites people to observe habitual patterns—mental, emotional, and physical—and to re-educate how they respond to the world. This is not about fixing or forcing change, but about creating the conditions for insight, balance, and renewed vitality to emerge naturally.
Awareness begins in the body. When we reconnect to sensation, breath, posture, and movement, we rediscover what clarity actually feels like. From there, confidence and intuition grow—not as techniques, but as lived experiences.
The Modalities I Embody
1. The Alexander Technique
A foundation of my work, the Alexander Technique offers a revolutionary approach to psychophysical balance. By learning to pause and attend to the present moment, we regain the original quality of how we use ourselves. This restores equilibrium, reduces unnecessary effort, and brings coherence between thought, movement, and action.
2. Modern Mindful Meditation
When the mind becomes still, a new language is born. Meditation trains attention, reveals the energy behind thought, and reconnects us to breath—the power of life itself. As awareness widens, compassion deepens, and we begin to see that we do not perceive the world as it is, but as we are.
3. Movement, Psychology, and Somatic Intelligence
Through conscious movement and sensing, we explore how ingrained habits shape our actions, emotions, and relationships. Integrating principles from Eastern philosophy and embodied practice, this work frees movement, reduces pain and stress, and reconnects intention with action.
4. The Art of Grace
Grace is not perfection—it is ease, attentiveness, compassion, and quiet strength. It is how we inhabit our bodies, how we move through space, and how we affect others without words. Grace transforms ordinary moments into meaningful encounters and restores dignity to how we live and work together.
What This Work Cultivates
Clarity of thought and action
Emotional intelligence and ethical awareness
Improved physical and mental wellbeing
Deeper connection—to self, others, and environment
A renewed sense of purpose beyond goals
I have worked for over 25 years across health, education, and corporate environments, supporting individuals and organizations as whole systems—emotional, psychological, and physical. Change does not come from adding more, but from learning to observe, stop, and listen.
Perfection is boring.
Being human is interesting.
My work is an invitation to rediscover balance, meaning, and grace—one moment at a time.

12/01/2026

Tending the Field: Reflections on Collapse, Coherence, and Commitment
We gathered with an intention rooted in present-moment wellbeing — to communicate honestly from where we are. Through shared time, journaling, and listening, we cultivated a field of attention in which self and other could be sensed together. In these moments, coherence emerged not as agreement, but as presence: a shared rhythm of listening, reflection, and care. Even briefly, we experienced what it feels like when individuals align around purpose and curiosity rather than fear.
At the same time, we named where old structures are visibly burning down. Social systems we once relied upon are disintegrating, while new forms have not yet fully taken shape. The collective field is heavy with disillusionment and a growing fear of authoritarian control. Many of us feel the limits of personal power; effort alone no longer suffices. What is required now is deeper purpose, deeper presence, and a strengthening of our nervous systems’ capacity to remain responsive in times of uncertainty. We are living at a threshold, witnessing aspects of our shared humanity collapse, even as we sense something new struggling to be born.
In this context, many of us recognize where we have been swimming against the stream. Choosing to slow down, to listen, to act from core values rather than urgency or conformity often places us at odds with dominant cultural currents. Refusing neutrality in the face of environmental degradation, disrupted seasonal cycles, and artificial interference is itself an act of resistance. Staying grounded in care, reverence for nature, and ethical responsibility requires courage when speed, extraction, and denial are normalized.
The image of the farmer offers a guiding metaphor. A farmer who puts their hand to the plow must look forward. Despite exhaustion, heat, and uncertainty, they still hold seeds. What calls us forward in our own lives is this same resonance: the commitment to tend what sustains life. Reading the moon, feeling the soil’s moisture, waiting for the right moment to plant — these practices reflect a devotion to timing, patience, and relationship. The work is strenuous and often unforgiving, yet it carries grace. We do not seek ease, but integrity.
We also reflected on the difference between cultivating land and cultivating the human mind. The earth responds to care more directly, while human systems are layered with history, trauma, and pollution — both literal and psychological. Yet tending the land in reverence teaches gratitude and reciprocity, while tending people asks us to slow down, honor complexity, and remain open-hearted. New ideas, we recognized, do not arise from abstraction alone, but from lived, felt experience and from the wisdom of those who came before us.
In remembering those who have crossed the threshold of death, we turned toward the essence of their lives rather than their achievements. The gifts they leave us are not wealth, but health; not accumulation, but enough. Warmth, togetherness, food grown from the earth, and stories shared by firelight — these are inheritances that shape who we are. They remind us where we come from and what truly matters. To honor them is to continue cultivating connection, humility, and care.
As students of history, we carry both realism and hope. We trust that justice can prevail through patience, persistence, and accountability. Like flowers opening and closing with sun and moon, life requires balance — light and dark, action and rest. Even the tears of a world at war with itself become water for new growth.
Though much is unraveling, the spirit among us remains alive. It is ready to root, to grow, and to share its gifts. By tending this field together — inner and outer — we participate in the emergence of new social structures, new ways of being, and a future shaped not by domination, but by conscious cultivation.

U-lab Journaling group January 2026