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01/02/2026

Happy New Year!

This is a photo of Mt Fuji. I was very fortunate to catch a glimpse of her on my return home from Japan

As we step into this new year, it’s a perfect moment to pause, reflect, and reset.

2025 taught us lessons, shaped us, and prepared us—but it doesn’t get to define what comes next. This is your invitation to let go of what no longer serves you: old doubts, old habits, old limits. You don’t need to carry them forward.

A new year isn’t about becoming a completely different person. It’s about showing up with a new mindset—one rooted in growth, clarity, and intention. Small shifts in how we think can lead to powerful changes in how we live.

May this year bring you fresh energy, new opportunities, and the courage to move forward with purpose. Start where you are. Trust the process. And remember: every day is a chance to begin again.

Wishing you a year filled with growth, gratitude, and meaningful wins.

Here’s to new beginnings

Sok Hwee Tay

12/30/2025

Sitting in my hotel room finally resting up after a day of traveling from Kyoto to Haneda Airport

I leave for the States tomorrow

The last day of 2025

As I sit thinking about it, it all started to hit me

Kyoto’s energy has been gentle; generous; healing and loving in a very quiet and still kind of way this year

I felt incredibly loved and supported but did not feel the so called spiritual high that I felt in previous years which honestly reflects where I am on my spiritual journey now

2025 honestly has been one of the most challenging years I have ever experienced

I questioned myself endlessly this year

Everything felt so confusing

And then everything fell apart

Or so at least it felt that way

I now know that sometimes things have to fall apart so you can build it back with a stronger foundation

Things fall apart not to break us but to rebuild us

I learned so much about myself (not in the way I wanted but the way I needed)

I learned so much about the people around me

Illusions fell

I saw beyond the surface

Myself included

I may have been sick while in Kyoto but I know now that even that was spiritually guided

On days when I felt good enough to be out, Kyoto guided me exactly where I needed to be

I saw more temples than I have even seen before

I am realizing now that it was not a coincidence that I was guided to temples after temples after temples

It was as if Kyoto was blessing me with all the beautiful energies that exists in these spiritual places

As I sit here close to the end of 2025

I am so grateful

I am grateful because Japan…. Specifically Kyoto has been such a gift

Such a gift for my body; mind and spirit

See you all in 2026

Much love,
Sok Hwee

12/29/2025

12/27/2025

Imakumano Kannon Ji

12/25/2025

Today’s Kyoto Diary

A story of how I was guided to exactly what I needed without trying

But it took surrendering ; letting go of my agenda and trusting my intuition

A true lesson of:

What is meant for you will never pass you by

Much love and light,
Sok Hwee

12/24/2025

12/23/2025

My 4th trip to Kyoto

My 4th time to this mountain

My 3rd year in a row back at this mountain

Mt Kurama is where the founder of Reiki sat; meditated and received profound insights about spiritual enlightenment

One needs to only be at this mountain to understand why he was able to receive such insights

This mountain is very spiritual and the energy can be felt just in the town

The energy gets stronger and stronger the higher you ascend

As a reiki practitioner, I always make a visit to this mountain when I am visiting Kyoto

I come to experience the energy of this mountain

To receive insights for myself

To pay respect to the mountains

To the temple

To the trees

To nature

And to Reiki practice

I never leave this place the same as I arrived

Something always shift within me

I am truly grateful to be communing with the mountain today

Much love from Kyoto,
Sok Hwee

12/22/2025

Visited one of my favorite temples here in Kyoto

I stopped by two days ago and was honored to witness their year end ritual called susu-harai

I returned today to pay my respect and to sit in meditation

What an honor to be sitting in a space with such beautiful energy

12/19/2025

Arrived in Kyoto Japan yesterday

As always, it feels like I have arrived home

What will unfold this trip?

Only Kyoto can tell me

Love,
Sok Hwee