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410 days

Today we’ve been traveling for 410 days since we left Finland. 360 of them has been spent in New Zealand. And today is also the day we are leaving Bali. We’ve had a very good time here, trying out different yoga styles and classes have been fun but challenging, food has been so tasty and […]

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Aerial Yoga

We had quite an eventful day, and therefore this blog is so late published. But. We had seen aerial yoga on the schedule, and I have to confess that it sounded tempting, even though I have quite limited yoga experience. One girl I spoke with last week said she had tried it and it was […]

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Sadness

A sadness is catching me, for we are soon to leave a truly great place, where we have gotten so much relaxation and recovery. We are going for awesome things, but still, I’m sad to leave this place so soon. -Petra

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The reason

And no, this isn’t meant to be a trip down memory lane with Hoobastank’s song (even though I have a perfectly clear memory of a Sing star competition years and years ago, when the grand finale was with this song). This morning I woke up, feeling rather not so normal, with a headache and just […]

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Next plans

Yeah yeah, you’ve now read almost full 3 weeks of our relaxing plans. What’s next? When will we stop posting holiday pictures on our instagrams? Unfortunately, our life is still very open and unplanned. But I’ll let you in on the plans we do have. We have another half a week left in Bali, and […]

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First yoga class

Today we took our first yoga class here in Bali! Also Petri’s first class ever. We decided to take a private class, as the prices are favourable and to ‘ease into’ taking group classes as well. Our teacher took good time to explain about the alignments in many of the basic yoga positions, help us […]

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Adventure time!

We went on an adventure on a beautiful tropical island. And got proper sunburned! We had bought “Gili island package”. So we got picked up early in the morning, to the harbour and with a boat to Gili Trawangan island. On this island we had 1,5 hours for cycling around and enjoying the idyllic scenery. […]

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Finally some action!

Though today has been ‘another day in paradise’, we finally have made some exciting news for the coming days! We’ve booked a day trip for tomorrow, going to the Gili island, snorkeling, cycling, visiting the largest Buddha statue and a few other things! We’re very excited, but a tad nervous about having a long day […]

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Forgiveness

Last night I attended a workshop on forgiveness, both on forgiving others and forgiving oneself. And something that the holder of the circle said really stuck with me, and though I don’t remember it word by word, it went something like this. “By forgiving someone else, it doesn’t mean that we are accepting the action […]

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First time washing the dreads

It was quite a task, and one that I was putting of for until the early afternoon before I finally got myself into the shower. When the water first ran through my scalp, it was such a nice feeling. But it quickly became a confusing feeling. Because when the scalp gets wet, that means the […]

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