In Tune with a Season

 Yassas dear friends and family,

The end of November has been a little tough for me. I felt a lot of anger, frustration and hopelessness. I was fed up with lies, new conspiracy theories, control, division and general bullshit. I felt scared and paranoid about the future. Nothing made sense anymore and I lost my ground.

In this kind of situation my first reaction was to flight. I started looking for different projects, volunteering opportunities, one day I was checking flight tickets to Bali, next day to Mexico, next to Morocco and so on. My mind was going crazy. I felt like I wanted to run away. But where to?

Here I was in Greece. In Evia island, with beautiful friends and family, cooking nutritious food, walking beautiful dogs, working in a garden, meditating, doing yoga together and I was still so restless?! I felt so spoiled and angry with myself that I am not appreciative enough. But what one can do with a mind full of fear and paranoia.

And then December came. And somehow, for the first time I felt in tune with stillness. Everything calmed down. Life slowed down. I stopped running. And the fear and paranoia disappeared. My hope for future, for beautiful future was back. I ditched those dark thoughts and started enjoying the moment. Day by day.

The nature was my teacher. A beautiful and still sea was inspiring me. I started feeling grateful for the moment to reflect and dive inwards, for such generous friends letting me stay for free, giving me food and their wonderful company. And you know what? When you stop worrying, you create space inside your head. And in that space, solutions are born, and Universe starts sending you opportunities.

And one wonderful and very special opportunity just came to me by chance. I’ll tell you more next month. Just one spoiler- I am going to my beloved Sevilla.

This year for me has been so full of lessons. I am feeling so so lucky with my still very very privileged and free life. I have met beautiful souls, created fantastic memories, played and cried, laughed and danced, swam naked in the moonlight and digged deeper inside.

Don’t let those controlling freaks at the top of the pyramid to infect your lives with lies. Live your truth and continue doing things you love, creating beauty in this world. Life will always stay as a gift, remember that!

With much love and hope,

Ligita

Summer of Fire

Hello my dear friends,

I was and still am a little bit quite out of online world. And I am so happy about it, computers and all online distractions give me headaches and turn me into a somehow robot. But I thought I will drop few lines here and give a bit of the update.

Once I left Austria it felt so weird, I have been living in remote mountains for a year and I have realised that my normally very developed social skills got worse. It was strange and draining to be around many people again but within little time I got back to my normal self.

I went to Slovenia for 5 days to visit my dear friends and absolutely fell in love with Ljubljana. It was so good to be surrounded by culture and action again. I found Slovenians very friendly and curious people. I chatted lots-like a butterfly going from one flower to another. It was so good to meet new people again, it was so good not to think about all the crazy social distancing, masks and all that.

I loved Ljubljana for it’s vibe- small city with so much going on. I met local urbans- people so passionate about activism, politics, art, culture- I loved that. For the last months I was hanging out with sporty people so it was quite a big difference in topics and vibe.

And then masked, sprayed and pretending to care about all these new measures about Covid I left Austria for new adventures, different life chapter.

It felt good I must admit. Not because I wanted to leave Austria or anything but because I was following my heart that was yearning for unknown. It felt good not to have home again, to get my dirty traveller’s identity back, it felt good to hear different languages floating in the air and to arrive in a melting pot- Athens.

Greece greeted me with intense heat, the fire that burns through your bones and I liked it. Chaos outside, intense fruit and veg colours on each corner, sugary and syrupy desserts melting in the shops window sills, greeks taking life slow and not worrying about too much order. You know how much I appreciate that in cultures.

For the past 3-4 weeks I’ve been back in my beloved Thai yoga massage centre Sunshine House to volunteer, to meditate, do yoga, chant, sing, play, touch, swim in the sea. A complete retreat for my soul. My heart that has been a little hardened by the mountains cold breeze, I must say, is opening. I feel happy, I feel good, I feel content and present. Future exist and somehow not at all in the same time. But it feels good not to know. I can hear you asking for how long this gonna last, and I truly cannot answer you. For now it feels good and right exactly how it is. And about later, hm, we shall see.

Keep your hearts burning with love and fire and if you ever manage to be around this beautiful part of the world- let’s see each other.

Love you all ❤

Ligita

Ljubljana

street art in Ljubljana

when you don't have a mask, you have to improvise :)

Beautiful Slovenia

new home

I love you summer

Blue Skies, Crispy Air, White Peaks and All That Jazz

Servus,

At the moment I am living in the nature paradise. Call me lucky, brave, adventurous, crazy or all that but somehow I get to call these places home so often.

Some people are chasing careers, fame, family matters, money and so on. I feel like I am chasing the most beautiful spots in the world. And not just to buy a postcard and send to a friend, but actually become a part of that postcard.

The nomadic life that I lead rewards my eyes and my soul. But from time to time I forget to appreciate all that beauty around.

That nagging routine always gets me spoiled. I forget to look around, breath in and out.

Now close your eyes. I want to take you to my world.

Imagine majestic white snow peaks around you, some pine forests, icy cold river nearby and then on one hill, tucked away, remote and out of that buzzing civilization we created there stands a house. A slackline outside. Hot tub, some trees. No cars, no traffic, not even a neighbour around. Just a house. And in that house a kitchen, equiped to cater vegan feasts. A storeroom full of toys- skis, snowboards, ropes, climbing gear and all the fun activities you can think of while living in the mountains. A yoga room that doesn't need any artificial pictures of some majestic nature, all is just there, right through the windows.

Imagine being in that house. You wake up and the first thing you see is 3 deers outside, right in your garden. Just walking undisturbed.

Imagine some snow storms and everywhere you look is white and cold. But you are warm. Sitting cosy wrapped up in a blanket with a cup of tea and watching nature being wild and powerful.

To me, it's my reality. Constelations of stars, tranquility, pure unstimulated life.

We do pay the cost for such beauty. But it's worth it.

I am extremely lucky to be living here.

Don't forget where you live. Don't forget to look around.

with snow and love,

Ligita

stolen pic from Becca

and another one

and another one

and another one, ha

Summer Lover

Hallo!

Dips in a cold mountain river, plant based food cooking, wild berries, scream of marmottes, thunderstorms 3 seconds away from you, laugh, planks, acro yoga, early yoga practise each morning, falling in love with rock climbing, mountains air...Ohh, I feel that this summer is slowly leaving.

I had so much fun in the last months. I always dreamed of remote place somewhere in the nature. It's hard sometimes, I do feel lonely a little bit but it's such a pure life here. No cars, no traffic, no adds everywhere around telling you are too fat, too old or too free. No competition, no tv, no lying politicians. Pretty easy life. And I am so grateful for it!

Summers are my favourite. I absolutely love that high energy it has. But I can feel it in the wind, I can see it in the colour of slowly changing leaves, this energy is slowly dissapearing, creating space for colourful but moody autumn.

With leaving summer some new adventures are brewing. This time I am coming back to the same place in the winter which gives me a month and a half in between. If any of you have some crazy adventures and are looking for a partner, let me know. I feel that I will be heading towards my beloved Spain. But wko knows.

Much love,

Ligita

looking for gold

hiking in Dolomites

cold swim

making clover syrup

I live in that small house!

my favourite bilberries

strawberry flapjacks

energy balls

berries cake

chocolate cake

ravioli times