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15/08/2025

16/10/2024

The full moon on October 16, 2024, carries significant spiritual meaning, especially in astrological and mystical traditions. Each full moon is considered a time of heightened energy, completion, and reflection. Here's the spiritual significance of this particular full moon:
1. Harvest and Manifestation
This full moon falls in the season of autumn, a time often associated with harvest and gathering the fruits of one's labor. Spiritually, it’s a moment to reflect on what you’ve accomplished and manifested in the past months. It's a time for gratitude, acknowledging progress, and setting new intentions for the coming cycle.
2. Release and Transformation
Full moons are powerful for releasing negative patterns, emotions, and anything that no longer serves your highest purpose. This particular full moon encourages deep inner transformation. It’s a time to let go of emotional baggage and make space for new growth, allowing personal breakthroughs to occur.
3. Astrological Influence (Aries)
The full moon in October 2024 is in Aries, a fire sign known for courage, passion, and individuality. Spiritually, this full moon might inspire you to take bold actions, embrace independence, and assert your personal power. Aries energy is also about breaking through limitations, making this a time to confront fears and step into new opportunities with confidence.
4. Balance and Relationships
October full moons, especially around this time, often shine light on relationships. You may be asked to find a balance between your needs and the needs of others, whether in personal or professional relationships. It's a good time to evaluate partnerships and work on strengthening or releasing connections that aren't in alignment.
5. Heightened Intuition and Clarity
Full moons amplify intuition, making this a potent time for spiritual practices such as meditation, journaling, or divination. You may experience heightened dreams, insights, or synchronicities that guide you toward a deeper understanding of your current life path.
This full moon is about aligning your actions with your inner truth and stepping forward with renewed purpose.
Love and Light 🙏

25/08/2024

Weight-loss plateau is when someone who is losing weight reaches a stage where their progress stops. The weighing scale doesn't move no matter what they do.
People who try to lose weight quickly secrete high levels of ghrelin; a hormone known to increase hunger. Sudden weight loss plus increased intensity of exercise impacts cortisol and further adds to fatigue, promoting fat storage. At an endocrine level, energy restrictions lead to decreased leptin, insulin, testosterone, and thyroid levels, hormones that are responsible for fat loss.
If weight loss is not accomplished in a calculated manner, a large amount of lean muscle mass may be lost instead of fat. And if muscle mass is low, it becomes difficult to lose fat.
Estrogen fluctuations, which are among the hormonal changes that begin to occur during perimenopause and menopause, may affect fat accumulation and metabolism. It can also be difficult to maintain the same degree of weight loss due to lifestyle changes such as food and exercise habits, including stress, additional obligations, and less time for self-care.
To overcome this challenge, you need to make small changes to your routine.
- You can start by re-evaluating your calorie consumption first. Your body requires fewer calories when your weight drops, so you might need to cut back on your calorie intake a little or find other strategies to generate a calorie deficit, including increasing your physical activity.
- Mix up the routine if it's not working for you. You may be burning fewer calories while exercising, since your body can get more proficient at it. Adding new exercises to your routine can be beneficial.
- Focusing on strength training is another important aspect of building muscle, which can increase metabolism.

Love and Light!

04/08/2024

Why Hydration Matters

Water plays a crucial role in the body, performing several vital functions that are essential for our health:

Regulating Body Temperature: Water helps maintain a stable body temperature through processes like sweating and respiration.
Transporting Nutrients and Oxygen: Water in the blood carries nutrients and oxygen to cells and removes waste products.
Protecting Organs and Tissues: It acts as a cushion for the brain, spinal cord, and other vital organs, protecting them from shock and damage.
Lubricating Joints: Water serves as a lubricant and cushion for joints, helping to reduce friction and maintain smooth movement.
Aiding Digestion: Water is essential for saliva production, which begins the process of digestion. It also helps dissolve and process nutrients.
Removing Waste: Water is involved in the excretion of waste products through urine, sweat, and stool.
Maintaining Electrolyte Balance: It helps balance electrolytes (like sodium and potassium) that are crucial for muscle function, nerve signaling, and hydration.
Supporting Metabolic Processes: Many chemical reactions in the body, including those that produce energy, require water.
Preventing Dehydration: Adequate water intake prevents dehydration, which can lead to various health issues such as kidney stones, urinary tract infections, fatigue, and cognitive impairment.
Maintaining Skin Health: Proper hydration helps maintain skin elasticity and appearance, reducing the likelihood of dryness and skin disorders.

​Love and Light!

28/07/2024

Why does Downward Dog Pose is so important?
Adho Mukha Svanasana or Downward Facing Dog is very interesting asana. This pose include: standing pose, forward bend, preparation to inversion poses, plus it has a little part of backbend in upper back.
We call the middle of the thoracic spine the “posterior surface of the heart.” If this part really stretches out in the Downward Facing Dog pose, lengthens as in a backbend, then this gives the heart and the entire vascular system rest and energizes it.
In order for the thoracic part of the spine to stretch, you need to be able to work your limbs correctly: transfer your weight to your legs and stretch your spine almost in one line between the tailbone and the crown of your head.
Did you know that Adho Mukha Svanasana requires more use of the inner side of the arms and the outer side of the legs?
This is how your arms and legs become good tools for stretching the spine in this pose.
If you understand this pose, then you will begin to be able to do many advanced asanas: inversions, especially Sirshasana, forward bends, all standing poses, abdominal poses and even backbends.
Most importantly, having learned to perform Downward Facing Dog correctly, you will be able to quickly and efficiently rest your heart and restore strength in just a minute.

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22/07/2024

Did you know that Supta Virasana helps you to improve backbends?
To perform Supta Virasana on one leg at a time is better, this way you will avoid stress on the lower back and will more easily open the front side of the pelvis for backbends.
In Supta Virasna, one leg at a time, quadricep will be stretched intensely, this stretch is very beneficial for the knees and lower back.
All asymmetrical poses correct the body more effectively, you just need to understand how to do it.
Stretching the back surface of the legs from a lying position on the floor, such as in Supta Padangushthasana, also helps to improve backbends.
The stretch can be somewhat very painful, however, it is good pain, it frees up the lower back and diaphragm.
As a result of such preparation, we manage to get to the chest, which we need to do backbends.
Then, Urdva Dhanurasana - the bridge becomes easier, such preparation contributes to the correct position of the female pelvic organs as well.
Love and Light!

14/07/2024

Psychosomatic features of patients with gallstone disease (scientific review)
Nowadays, chronic stress and provoking conditions are becoming more and more socially significant risk factors for a wide range of somatic diseases. It is already shown that the physiological characteristics of the organism can vary depending on the form of the individual reactions to external stimuli. The aim of this project is to identify the key psychological factors of gallstone disease (GD) pathogenesis and potential neurotransmitters mediating interrelation be-tween psychological features of the patient with this somatic disease. As a result of the literature review the following trends were revealed in the psychological portrait of GD patient: 1) inclination to act for the benefit of others, known as sacrifice, altruism and compassion; 2) commitment to hard, earnest work, equity, responsibility, authority and perfectionism, authoritarian parents; 3) a tendency to follow social and professional rules and principles with the denial of one’s immediate needs and desires, which becomes a source of discontent and frustration and results in feelings of injustice, painful thoughts, anxiety and stress, and aversion to conflict. Four patients with GD were observed and revealed the following psychological features, equal to listed above, such as ambitiousness, responsibility, authority and perfectionism, as well as willingness to help people. All patients had authoritarian parents and unsolved conflicts, re-pressed emotions and desires, excessive demands and expectations from parents, the idea of denying one’s interests in the benefit of other family members, domination and suppression from parents’ side. The data match the literature review results and enable the authors to make a proposal about the important role of the psychological factors in GD pathogenesis and about the great interest in psychological correction to increase GD conservative therapy efficiency.
Removal of the Gallbladder often helps with pain but without the inner work on anger then issues can pop up elsewhere in the body.

What is your relationship to anger? Injustice? Is this a theme in your life? Is there anything from your past that still enrages you?

07/07/2024

A rich message for you today so let’s read it and implement it!

You’ll find the 7 little habits below worth practicing:

1. Starting your day with exercise that uplifts the tone of your entire day.

2. Reading 30 pages every day.

3. Having a reward meal after a week of eating clean.

4. Meditating each day, even if that just for a few minutes.

5. Going a week without sugar.

6. Walking, do not put 10 000 steps as a final destination, just start walking.

7. Tell your loved ones you love them every time you leave them. Who knows what day can bring.

Love and Light!