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Today, I caught my first mini cutbacks!! ;)) baby version, but it feels like a massive milestone. Improving surfing is not as quick as one might think... it takes consistency and dedication. Embodying the same qualities, the water teaches us. Understanding the ocean is about letting rigidity loosen and flow gracefully through the waters.

This is yoga. Meditation in movement with the elements. This is the true Tao.

The magical lens of @bugsybazzatone somehow caught me twisting on the corner... he taught me how to do them on the earth, and then , like honey, they appear over water.

I know today I will sleep with a smile on my face ;)

Thank you, friend.
Best water teacher and lens in bali!
@bugsybazzatone by @danielamandala

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3 years ago

Happy, excited, and fully inspired to share my home with you... SōHA ELEMENTS - 100 hour Yoga Tracher Training is happening in Uluwatu!

Imagine waking up with in the fresh summer ocean Bali breeze... walk to meditation and/ or qigong... followed by a juicy mandala practice.

Then, possibly dip in the cold plunge or pool before heading to a delicious brunch in @kayumamabali Forage restaurant...

Have some free time to write and enjoy the sun...
Then back in to draw some meridians or learn about the 7 emotions and which organ stores them... and how to see them in your body.

Gather with an intimate group of amazing yoguis from all over the world. Eat some colorful, unique bali fruits in the break.

And finish off with a session to learn the postures and movements of each element or a guided Thai yoga session with beautiful music.

Day off to surf, beach visits, water dance sessions, bonfires, dance, and ceremonies... all included in a delightful journey into yourself.

Amazing musicians, amazing facilitators, amazing locations, amazing teachings that will change the way you walk and feel in your own body.

Just writing this makes me feel the tingles!

We have a couple of rooms left.
Do let us know if you feel the call...
Bali awaits... and I do, too !

This training will bring back your relationship to nature and this beautiful planet.. and all that composes this human body experience!

November 14-25, 2023... just when Bali gets cool, fresh nights and bright sunny days!

Dm for more info ...
Or check the link in bio . Check out the accommodation options within our beautiful resort or come as an offsite stay participant. Pay in full, or pay in with installments.
Whatever, however, we've got you.

Come join the bliss
With massive love...
Om swaha!

🎶 @_giselle.world_ by @danielamandala

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Come join our Yoga Mahā Experience
Where your heart can melt into infinity...

Join us! Dm for deets
And in June for our 200hr and 300hr programs...

Spots fill quickly!
Link in bio and DM for more info!

I'll see you in the stars ✨️

#yogajourney #yogalive #savasanabliss by @danielamandala

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4 years ago

There is a big difference between knowing the teachings and living the teachings...

Something powerful happens when the wisdom of yoga begins to shape the way we think, act, relate, and live.

LIVING DHARMA is a live online journey through 20 values from the Bhagavad Gītā, exploring these increadible virtues that we will consciously cultivate and bring into our day to day lives.

These will guide you to grow in clarity, emotional maturity, self-awareness, and inner freedom.

Life sometimes catches us with unexpected turns... and I myself find it sometimes hard to stay within dharma... this is why ive created this immersion.

To support us through the ebbs and flows of life, bringing greater awareness into the choices we make, the relationships we create, and the way we respond to life.

Because the true measure of our practice is how we live.

Join me for 4 weeks of study, reflection, and practical application of these timeless teachings.

✦ 20 Values from the Bhagavad Gītā
✦ 10 Live Classes via Zoom
✦ October 13 – November 13, 2026
✦ Tuesdays & Fridays | 6 PM Bali Time
✦ Recordings available

Practice extends far beyond the mat. Let it become your way of living.

Come JOIN through the link in bio.

With love,
D.

#LivingDharma #BhagavadGita #YogaPhilosophy #Vedanta #YogaBeyondTheMat SOHA by @danielamandala

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The forest of emotions. Somehow, life always has a unique way of presenting uninvited guests.

One thought calls another... And suddenly a feeling grows louder than your breath.

We all have been there.

Feelings are real, and they deserve to be felt. We just sometimes get lost in them and forget to give them an expiration date.

This is where wisdom comes in. It gives you a clearing to stand in. A space to take a few steps back, where you can see the whole forest again instead of just the tree in front of you. The storm is still there. And now you can see its edges too.

Same life. Same feelings. More sky.

That clearing is something you can learn to find.

Breath by breath, value by value.

Its been a truly poignant time, now that saturn retrogrades into the last sign of the zodiac... so much arises in life and this is why ive decided to run LIVING DHARMA,

Our new live online journey through 20 values from the Bhagavad Gītā, explored as real qualities for real life. The way we meet challenge, change, fear and uncertainty.

10 live classes, October 13 to November 13, and enrollment is open now

And for those ready to go all the way in, Vaidika Dharma awaits in Tulum this November. by @danielamandala

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There is a big difference between knowing the teachings and actually living them.

We can practice yoga, meditate, study philosophy and read the Bhagavad Gītā.

But something much deeper happens when the teachings begin to shape who we are becoming — and how we meet our lives.

LIVING DHARMA is a live online journey through 20 values from the Bhagavad Gītā, explored not simply as philosophy, but as qualities we can consciously cultivate and bring into everyday life.

Because the practice is not only what happens on the mat, in meditation, or while we study.

It shows up in the moments that matter.

In the choices we make.
The relationships we create.
The way we respond when things don’t go our way.
The way we see ourselves and others.
The way we meet challenge, change, desire, fear and uncertainty.

Over 10 live classes, we’ll explore 20 qualities offered in the Bhagavad Gītā as preparation for greater clarity, steadiness and freedom.

Not as ideals we need to perform perfectly.

But as qualities to understand, practice and slowly embody.

This is where philosophy becomes something lived.

LIVING DHARMA
20 Values from the Bhagavad Gītā
10 Live Online Classes
October 13 – November 13

✨ Enrollment is now open.

Link in bio to join. by @danielamandala

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... little glimpses of light ✨️... slowly but surely, my body's coming back.

I cannot explain the feeling. im just humbled and super excited to have some energy coming back

#grabmyflow #mandalalove

🙏 ✨️ 🙇‍♂️ by @danielamandala

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Sometimes things go upside down… Even the disorder is in order. Look around. The sun rises on time, every single morning. The tides know when to turn. Your heart has been beating without a single reminder since before you were born. Nobody manages any of it. And it all holds.

That same order does not stop where your plans fall apart. The cancelled flight. The path that ended. The chapter that broke your heart and quietly turned you into who you are. There is a background to everything. Life knows what it is doing, even in the seasons where nothing makes sense yet.

We usually only see it afterwards. Looking back, the mess had a shape. The detour was the road.

So if you are in the middle of something messy right now, take heart. You are not outside the order. You never were. Even this belongs

We sit with this deeply in Vaidika Dharma. Eleven days in Tulum this November, learning to trust the intelligence that holds it all. Nov 22 to Dec 2.

Can’t wait to be with you! by @danielamandala

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18 days ago

Working around healing the body has been quite the challenge and a big eye openner.

No planks, no handstands, and nothing on my feet... finding cardio that is not boring has been quite interesting.

Yoga without fully using a wrist and a foot has been fun and ego crushing at the same time. And yet ive learned so much on how to properly take care of healing broken bones, something ive never experienced!

I can even feel the fascia around the bones forming callus when im being impatient and overusing them... ita so clear and so freaking ego drenching!! Its the perfect medicine to redefine myself outside my body's abilities and disabilities.

... what else is possible?

For now, ive found my happiness being a gym rat. Something I judged for so many years lol... and here i am, working out inside walls . Something I said I would never ever do.

Here's to never saying never.

Enjoy life and adapt to what comes making the best of it. Theres only one way through ...

Flex that namah muscle 💪

Om namah śivaya by @danielamandala

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We remember how people made us feel ... Safe. Seen. Calm. Somehow, just by being near them.

That kind of presence has a reason. Twenty values. Twenty qualities of a mature heart. Humility. Kindness. Patience with what we cannot change. Honesty, even when it costs something. Being the same person on the inside and the outside.... and many other increadible values that build this beautiful dharmic reality.

Simple words. A lifetime of practice.

A value becomes yours the moment you feel its worthed.
When honesty turns out to be louder than pretending. When softness turns out to be stronger than armour.

Over the coming weeks we will walk through them, one at a time. Twenty small doorways into a freer, lighter life.

Tell us, what is one value you never compromise? by @danielamandala

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Space. Air. Fire. Water. Earth.

Everything we experience is woven from these five elements.

And so are we.

Space is the openness within us. The space between thoughts, between breaths. The space that holds everything without needing to become anything.

Air is breath. Movement. Prāṇa. The invisible force that reminds us, moment after moment, that life is moving through us.

Fire is our capacity to transform. It digests our food, but also our experiences. What we are able to digest becomes nourishment. What we cannot digest, we carry.

Water is what allows life to flow. It nourishes, softens, cleanses and connects. It teaches us that not everything needs to be held.

And Earth gives us form. Our bones. Our muscles. Our body. The ground beneath our feet reminding us that we belong here.

The wisdom of the five elements is actually very simple:

There is no nature “out there.”

The same intelligence that moves the ocean moves through our blood.
The same fire that lives in the sun lives in our belly.
The same air that moves the trees enters our lungs.
The same earth beneath our feet becomes our body.

We are not separate from nature.

We are nature experiencing itself in human form.

And this is why ritual matters.

Flowers for space.
Incense for air.
A flame for fire.
Food for water.
Sandalwood for earth.

Not because the Divine needs our offerings.

But because we need to remember.

To remember what sustains us.
To remember what we belong to.
To remember that this life itself is sacred.

This is what we live every morning in Vaidika Dharma.

11 days in Tulum
November 22 – December 2 by @danielamandala

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Pūjā is a way of living. The altar is a representation of our inner and outer universe... it is there where we bring the flowers, the flame, the morning offering.

The way we offer our prayers becomes the way we walk through this life... the way we make tea , the way we water plants. The way we place your feet on the mat. The way we greet the people we love.

When we ritualise our life, we move through it differently. With more care. More presence. More devotion.

This is what ritual keeps teaching us. Every moment is sacred. The washing of the dishes is sacred. The walk to work is sacred. This breath, right now, reading these words, is sacred. The morning pūjā simply reminds us that all in this life is sacred.

And slowly, life itself becomes the offering. Nothing rushed past. Nothing taken for granted. An ordinary day, lived with a devoted heart. That is the quiet magic of it.

This is how we live in Vaidika Dharma. Eleven days in Tulum this November, where morning pūjā, mantra and meditation weave into everything, and the sacred becomes a way of moving through the world.

Nov 22 to Dec 2.

Sign Up via Link in Bio by @danielamandala

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