22/12/2025
Being here—in the Himalayas—feels like coming home to myself, again and again.
Life is everywhere. Birds calling, wind moving through trees, footsteps on stone. And yet, beneath it all, there is a gentle, steady quiet—a presence that holds me the moment I stop reaching and simply arrive.
Not silence as the absence of sound,
but silence as presence.
As aliveness.
As being.
Meditation helped me recognise this inner stillness, but it doesn’t belong to meditation alone. It lives in walking these mountain paths, in resting deeply, in one conscious breath that brings me back into my body.
Ayurveda keeps reminding me that awareness itself is healing. That when we soften into presence, balance returns—naturally, without force.
The Himalayas don’t ask for anything.
They don’t demand.
They invite—
to slow down,
to listen differently,
to remember what truly matters.
This is the stillness that lives at the heart of the retreats we create through House for Positive Change, in support of Root & Rise Foundation. Not as something to achieve, but as something to gently remember together.
A stillness I love returning to—
in my work,
in my life,
again and again.
— Elianne
