When I travel, I don‘t lug my big journals with me, usually. If I am teaching dance, I write my workshop notes on separate sheets of paper, so they can be easily transported, shuffled, revisited and rewritten. For note-taking, planning and journaling I use a travel-sized – preferably lined – mini-notebook, like the one in… Read More Travel Notes

Yesterday morning, our water supply had been cut off unexpectedly. There were engineering works further down the street. Water pressure was back up after an hour. Not long at all. Long enough to make me think. How easy it is to be wasteful with what we imagine to be in infinite supply. How resilient are… Read More No Water, my Friend

An update on this January’s Journaling Post: Daily Journal: I still write in this one almost daily, recording dreams, gratitude, ideas, todos and a movement log Book of good ideas: This one is full(!) so I will need to find a new one soon. For now I’m jotting down ideas in the daily journal, but I… Read More Spring Recalibration – Journaling

This is a (handmade, modern version of a) Puukko.  A small traditional Finnish general purpose belt knife. A thing of beauty, and practicality. It was created – forged – by Muspell Forge In Finland, receiving a puukko as a gift is considered an honour, the idea being that the presenter is giving the recipient a tool… Read More A Puukko for your Thoughts

Jin Xuan (also called ‘Milky Oolong’) is a Taiwanese tea discovery. I first tried it this winter at Dharma City – a gorgeous Tibetan tea house, adjacent to the Tibetan Convention Centre & BnB in Florennes, in the heart of the Belgian Ardennes. It felt like a moment of quiet, comfort and calmness in a cup. I love… Read More Taiwanese Tea

Do you know that feeling.. a physical sense that you might be on to something.. something important, even.. when something energises and inspires you, but you‘re not sure yet where it will lead you? Follow it. Follow your gut, tune in to your ‘body mind’, be sure to add some heart to whatever you do,… Read More On the right Track

Going all the way back to how I came to start writing this daily blog. The inspiration was.. movement. And inspiration itself. When I started taking Martial Arts classes a few years ago, the movement discoveries there inspired me to go deeper in ballet, which in turn motivated me to renew my bellydance practise, as… Read More Inspiration

Last summer I have invested in tools to help me up my instructional video game – or in other words transitioning from camcorder recordings to mobile video. It was a bit of an adventure, but very much worth the effort and time spent researching, testing and investigating. The result has been inspiration and motivation for… Read More Capturing Motion

As promised in yesterday’s post on hayfever, this is the meditation routine I am working with right now to relax my body before dance practise, as well as to lessen my seasonal spring sniffles. Note: I prefer to do this routine right before starting my movement/dance practise. You could however also try it at a… Read More Meditation vs Hayfever