Savini & the forest gallery

04/08/2018

Skogsgalleriet er historie, livet byr på nye eventyr – og jeg vil snart legge ned denne siden.

For de som ønsker å følge arbeidet mitt videre, så vil det bli delt på min nye facebookside: https://www.facebook.com/selvoppdagelsesreiser/?modal=admin_todo_tour

På denne nye siden vil hovedfokuset være å dele om ELSK DEG SELV sesjonene - nakenfotografi i skogen, og reiseskildringer og fotokunst relatert til selvoppdagelsesreiser (indre -og ytre reiser, og livsreiser).

Jeg har et splitter nytt firma: "Savini Aspholt - kreativitet og livsdybde" ;-) - nytt domene: www.selvoppdagelsesreiser.no (foreløbig er domenet videresendt til min gamle nettside, men endringer er underveis). Så hvis du har interesse av arbeidet mitt og å følge meg videre, er du hjertelig velkommen til å like min nye facebook side – og jeg vil holde deg oppdatert.

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12/05/2017

A blogpost that was born a soft winter morning couple of months ago :-) ..and use the opportunity to check out Dharma Mountains blog with reflections, delicious healthy recepies and sharings from the heart

It is Monday morning. My grandmother’s old coffee cup, with golden edges and hand-painted flowers, is warm between my hands. I sit by the table in front of the window, with my pen and notebook. Breathing in the morning. Breathing in the freshly brewed coffee. Some lazy, low clouds are resting on the...

16/01/2017

I have written a blog post in Dharma Mountains web-page – about death and meeting my own mortality. And about the gifts that opened through it.
http://dharmamountain.com/death-and-a-flooding-sun/

She had hoped to live another spring. She loved her garden – the fragrance of the soil in the spring time. The rusty statue of a deer by the pond, with one of the antlers missing. The birch trees. The stone wall flower beds. The big rocks leaning on each other, making a natural fireplace. The mighty...

04/09/2016

"You cannot be happy
unless you are serving
the truth of your being,
however that service looks."
- Gangaji -

12/12/2015

It happens all the time in heaven,
and some day it will begin to happen again on earth...
that men and women who are married,
and men and men who are lovers,
and women and women who give each other light,
often will get down on their knees
and while so tenderly holding their lover's hand,
with tears in their eyes,
will sincerely speak, saying,
"My dear, how can I be more loving to you;
how can I be more kind?"

- Hafiz -

01/11/2015

Beautiful quote from Osho on art and creativity :-)

"Be creative in that sense and your creativity will become an offering to God. God has given you so many gifts, Garima; something HAS to be done just in deep thankfulness. But remember: with no motive, not as a means but as an end unto itself. Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake, and prayer for prayer's sake."

- Osho -

21/10/2015

The snow has arrived for its first visit in the forest this season. A thin layer of soft, wet white is almost covering the ground.
It is already about to melt again.
For now, she is just teasing us :-)
I have moved my office to the bed, with the warm, cozy duvet around me and a bunch of papers – writing on an interview I did with one of the beautiful beings I photographed this autumn.

Reading through my notes, feeling so blessed to experience and share so much beauty with fellow travelers – on this colorful, happy, painful, delicious, wild, intense, deep, beautiful adventure of life.

It is so rich... and cozy ;-)

20/10/2015

I love this picture. It is so... real... So human.
It makes me reflect about the human heart, the life in this human body... How beautiful we are, when we allow the masks and the protections to fall. When we dare to be naked – in all our beauty, in all our fragility, in all our insecurity, shyness, courage, helplessness... In all our strength, in all our love, in all our longing...
How beautiful we are, when we give up "keeping it together", when we give up "posing for the photographer" – or for our friends, or for the world or life...
How beautiful we are. When we are just ourselves... When we are just nature, natural...
Yes, I love this picture. I love this "work" :-) I love all the colors of nature, and all the colors of being human.
Thank you for sharing your naked heart, your sacred skin – your sacred heart, your naked skin... Thank you for sharing all this beauty...

20/10/2015

"The fire in my heart"
Yes, the glowing sun and the fresh air towards the skin is reminding us; we are so alive – so beautifully, deliciously, intensely alive... ;-)
It was such a gift to photograph this beautiful being

20/10/2015

Nature is getting ready for its winter-rest.
This morning there was snow in the mountains. The leaves that have been dancing, one by one, fallen gracefully from the trees... Now they are letting go in flocks when a small breath of wind is coming.
Soon everything is naked. And then, the white shining winter-duvet will come, silently embrace the forest and whisper softly in Nature`s ear: "It is time to rest now, sweet lover, it is time to rest".

I am part of this nature. Also in me, everything happens a bit slower than in the summer. My bed and my duvet is so warm and soft, and difficult to leave in the morning.

The days are getting shorter, the night arrives earlier each day. In the darkness of the night, everything dissolves. Only the night-sky left. Only eternity. We are dissolved in emptiness.
With stars.

But the sunlight in the afternoons... Like the sun is glowing more intensely than ever, reminding us... "yes, we are alive, we are alive, we are so intensely alive..."
Silence and rest is calling us, embracing us with its warmth and calmness. But inside this warm, cozy embrace of silence – inside our own skin – we are so alive – so deliciously and intensely alive...

That beautiful being that I thought would be the last one I photographed in the "I Am Nature" project for this season – ended up not being the last one after all.

The sun and the heart were calling one more beautiful being, with their soft whispers or with their wild yearn. And, yes, we are so alive... we are so deliciously alive, inside this precious, sacred, glowing skin...
Pictures will come soon :-)

19/10/2015

Ah... The innocence of this happy face! The glow of joy and autumn sun :-)
A beautiful, deep and adventurous heart... Thank you for allowing me to see your beauty

18/10/2015

I have to admit it is getting cold – and I am slowly realizing that the season of playing naked in the forest is coming to an end ;-)

Yesterdays photo-session happened with the forest and us flooded in beautiful autumn sunlight. Even if it was in the afternoon – the frost were still many places making the forest-floor white and "crispy". Walking barefoot and naked in this cold, crispy forest-floor, the last(?) adventurous being I photographed for the "I Am Nature" project for this season, was a Brazilian :-)
(pictures will come soon)

I love it, when we are jumping out from our comfort-zones. When the adventurous heart beats, and gets stronger than our ideas and habits. When the beauty of our heart, soul and spirit stands up, raises its voice – and glows straight through all the bad things we are used to think and say about ourselves.

I remember my daughter when she was maybe about 4 years old. She loved to look at herself in the mirror. She was so thrilled by her own beauty. She loved herself with such wonder, amazement and pleasure. As small children we are like this: We do love ourselves. We are so amazed by being in this fantastic, delightful body!
What happens on the way? How does it happen, that we learn to hate ourselves, to criticize ourselves so brutally, to feel ugly, to feel not good enough, to feel like a failure etc etc?

Ah... let the beauty of our hearts and beings be seen! Let our spirit again stand up for the wonder of life, of nature – for the mystery of who we are. Let us step by step (or with a big jump or a falling) regain the love for ourselves, the amazement – for being alive in this wonderful, delightful body :-)

I love it, when we are jumping (or stumbling) out from our comfort zones. I love it when a small, whispering voice (or a load yearn) inside of us defies the lies we have been told, and that we have told ourselves – about that we are not good enough, that we are not beautiful, that there are something "wrong" with who we are or how we are. I love it, in these moments when courage gets stronger than fear.

I realize that many of these beautiful people I have photographed the last months – had to take a jump to dare to do it. Had to take a jump out from their comfort zone, or from their idea about themselves. I realize they all had to find the courage – to allow their naked and vulnerable beauty to be seen.

I am grateful, to have been trusted to see all this beauty