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home together in our bodies+spirit+earth
planting seeds of change & peace in the mountains
📍yamanashi, japan📍park yoga, syd aus
🌱 by @nina.pirola

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precious lil wild life

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Travelled right into an autumnal wonderland just like my dreams. This year I haven’t shut up about wanting to live amongst the colours of autumn reds, ochres, Burnt orange and deep green yumminess or about being in Japan. It’s rare to experience these colours this early in October unless you’re in some mountainous regions so seeing this while doing an incredibly challenging hike was a true gift and summiting at sunrise with Mount Fuji towering in front of us was godlike. Within these moments I remember who I truly am, who we truly. Exactly as is I am enough

The funny part is I had food poisoning throughout, the exact same thing as my last girls trip except it lasted for a year. Making everything feel extremely difficult sacred that by body was going back into a state I remembered far too well , there were parts where I zoned out into a kind of haze nor here nor there. It took a lot of perseverance and taking breaks alone. But perhapssssssss being simultaneously confronted by the fragility and discomfort of my body and then the immense wonderment felt. Getting to experience weakness, awe, pain and wonder all at once The beauty wasn’t diminished by the difficulty nor did the difficulty disappear because of the beauty.

I was reminded that we are capable of holding both. The divine isn’t found in transcending our humanity but in experiencing it so fully that we remember what we are

@nina.pirola Thankyou for capturing the essence and sharing your home and self with us

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Moments from last few weeks 🌀🩷📝

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slowly emerging from an incredibly magical week cohosting the latest addition of @yama____yoga with my beautiful @nina.pirola

we lead a group of epic AF women to the summit of Kita-Dake the second highest mountain in Japan

we moved as one… cultivating a high so crazy i don’t know if ill ever be able to hike alone again….

PROUD AND EXCITED

more to come ✨

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I can’t feel my legs but my heart is so full. I just feel soooo grateful, I can’t believe my legs work so well I can climb a mountain and that my heart is always open enough to let the love of new friends in and that my eyes are able to keep seeing all this magic the world has to offer

Mount Kita Summit with my beautiful angel @yama____yoga girls, can’t put into words how grateful I am to have spent a week in a new part of the world, learning from and learning with the most inspiring, unique and kindhearted women 🥺 I feel so warm and looked after and loved 🩷🩷🩷🩷

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a sliver of moon smiles at us
held by the gaze
of the stag
kitadake calls
pre~dawn seven souls answer

warm womb of mountains
glowing gentle and kind

second day of my bleed
and i am strong, steady
even when it’s hard

pre~dawn and the horizon glows
pre~humanity, post~humanity
all colliding

when the sun rises
i feel both immense
sadness + peace

i bow my head & pray
open my heart to kindness
show me the way

i let the light burn through

// wrapped up a divine @yama____yoga adventure edition to mt kitadake with the most special humans. feeelin juiced up with spirit. ありがと〜

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@yama____yoga artist residency でお料理を作って来ました。(家庭料理のシンプルなものですが😌)

毎朝瞑想から始まり、自分の心で感じたことをみんなとシェアする日々は、
できるだけ効率的に、生産的に過ごそうとしてる毎日とは違う時間が流れていて。

富士山が見える美しい環境と世界中から集まったガールズのクリエイティブなエネルギーで、私自身も創る喜びをまた感じることができました✨

一方水道が止まりみんなで雨水を溜めたりタンクを運んだり、半分キャンプのような一週間でもありました。
AIではなく自分の中や周りの人との会話の中から生まれたアイデアで助け合ってなんとか乗り切って、大変な状況も楽しむ方法があるんだって学んだり。

大切なことをたくさん教えてもらった一週間でした。
@nina.pirola とってもスペシャルな機会をありがとう🫶

I got to cook for a @yama____yoga artist residency this month. (Nothing fancy ~ just home cooking 😌)

Each day began with meditation, followed by sharing what we were feeling in our hearts. It felt like a completely different pace from the everyday life where I’m always trying to be as efficient and productive as possible.

Surrounded by the beautiful view of Mt. Fuji and the creative energy of girls who had gathered from all over the world, I found myself reconnecting with the joy of creating again. ✨

At the same time, it was also a bit of a camping experience. The water stopped running, so we collected rainwater, carried water tanks, and figured things out together.

Rather than relying on AI, we came up with ideas through conversations with ourselves and with each other, helped one another, and somehow made it through. I learned that even difficult situations can be approached with a sense of play and joy.

It was a week that taught me so many lessons.

@nina.pirola Thank you for such a special opportunity. 🫶

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our september art residency I ask the rain to be my teacher. i forget how closely she listens here and the lesson comes almost immediately. the pipes connecting to our tank are disrupted - cause unknown but potential reasons: landslide, deer or wild boar, debris further up the mountain… and all our taps run dry.

and yet it rains. clean mountain water dripping heavy from the clouds above. so I hunt the shed for buckets and we place them by the gutters as the rainwater fills them. my teacher is close by and murmuring that she is here, even though I’m tired and stressed by the situation. the lessons come even if you don’t feel ready.

how careless I was in my presumption of clean water running through taps - when it is such a gift. I fill the toilet’s tank with rainwater and am amazed that it takes 3 full pots for one flush. I think about how much of the world doesn’t have access to clean water and here I am wasting 5L every time I pee. I make a solemn vow to come back to its preciousness. we spend the week manually filling up the toilet with rainwater, boiling it for dishes and getting cases and cases of clean bottled water delivered.

I remember being with the Indigenous communities along the Baarka, for a corroboree I did as part of uni environmental activism. also known as the “Murray Darling” river it was in extreme drought at the time due to western colonial cotton farming, a thirsty plant incompatible with the land. I remember them telling us their skin blistered when they showered using the bore water the government told them was safe and how they had to wash their babies with bottled water. we raised funds, cried and danced together. I came home and would pray in gratitude, staring in wonder at a glass of water. I lost that awe over time but this week I felt it return, the rain filling up our pots faster than we could keep up with.

thank you 雨の神様 rain. thank you my teacher.

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of course after earth and rain element days, for fire day the sun comes out. the following days are warm and dry and we go to the river. making art by her side, as the rain of the previous days sings beside us.

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just a month out from co-hosting an art residency and yoga program with the magical earth fairy that is @nina.pirola from @yama____yoga in Yamanashi, Japan. let me tell you, this offering feels incredibly close to my heart, sharing our heritage and motherland with you ♡₊˚ 🦢・₊✧

we begin our day with elemental yoga with Fuji-san as our backdrop, flowing into river swims in the forests of the sacred mountains, and for the rest of the day we explore our curiosity through art practices of sashiko ~ line drawing ~ clay play ~ and so much more. what makes it feel even more special is we will co-inhabit with nature in Nina’s grandparents home for the week we have together.

we have two spots open | 26-31 october 2026

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Collabing with the wonderful @yama____yoga for the next Club Moss event 🐚

Looking forward to creating some magical memories by the sea, having a swim and helping our home 🐢

Sign up link in bio 🔗

P.S. If you can’t make it and want to help reduce plastic pollution, please sign the petition in our bio 🪧

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designed a t-shirt for my family’s shooting range in japan, founded by my jichan (grandpa) and now managed by my uncle and aunt. I grew up reading books there with the sounds of gunshots in the background, the hunters my grandparents are friends with gifting us local deer and boar that my bachan would make a stew out of. I always found it funny that my jichan doesn’t like to hunt and barely eats meat, he’s a big softie at heart.

for the design I drew a moon/sun shape using our family emblem kiri which is printed on the clay pigeon target, mountains and clouds that feel like home, where the range is. on the front I drew my jichan’s favourite rifle the italian perazzi and the hanko (stamp) above that he designed for the range (a mountain silhouette on a target). my jichan hires people from the community who have gone through hard times and often can’t get work elsewhere and I’m always so proud of him. 大好きよ。

film portraits by my darlin sister @sachikobayashipirola

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Learning quick pickling has become a way for me to connect with ancestral gut health and build food sovereignty in my everyday life 🐛

Preserving produce extends its shelf life, helps minimise food waste within our communities, and keeps us in relationship with what we grow and harvest. The fermentation process means pickles naturally develop probiotics that help your digestive system and support your immune system with vitamin k and a.

In my Japanese lineage, fermented and pickled foods are part of daily ritual. My jichan and bachan eat umeboshi (pickled plum) every morning, alongside a variety of seasonal, meal-specific tsukemono.

Quick pickling involves making a brine and allowing the vegetables to lightly ferment outside of the fridge for a short period, developing flavour while retaining their texture.

For this batch, I pickled okra, cucumbers, cabbage, and garlic. My dad grows okra in our garden for my mom, one of her favourite vegetables, so it’s always felt like a vegetable that expresses love. In Japan, it’s appreciated for its natural gooeyness, but when pickled it’s surprisingly crispy.

Thank you @ancestral.hands and @ashs.earth for their beautiful Brine & Bottle class. I’m still learning what flavours I’m drawn to, so I experimented with some jars leaning Mediterranean, with za’atar inspired by Renk’s Turkish roots, while others explore more Asian flavours. Each one feels like a small exploration of taste, memory, place and an appreciation for all that nourishes us.

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