Shamanism practice has vital importance in human history and is gaining momentum again for multiple reasons. Shamans are the first “spiritual, healing and consciousness traditions” of history. They alter “the phenomenological pattern of attention, perception, cognition, an...

Contrary to popular belief, the ego is a very sensitive part of our psyche. It is, essentially, who we believe ourselves to be. The ego is an integral part of all of us, which serves to protect us, but it is very important to learn how to control it. If you allow your ego to be ...

Women go through many seasons in their lives. Some seasons are for welcoming what comes through our path with open arms and some for letting them go so that we can feel light as a feather. Being a woman teaches us to give birth to ourselves over and over again, creating, dissolv...

Boundaries are invisible limits and rules we choose to follow in our relationships. Unlike popular misconception, boundaries don’t set people apart, they help people build healthy relationships without cruelty, abuse or manipulation. They define how you want to be treated by o...

Music is all around us, woven into the social basis of our lives. It is a matter of general knowledge that the rhythm of drums, various melodies and sounds of instruments are known in ancient folk medicine. Before modern science, this was known to the ancient Indian sorcerers wh...

Spirituality and religiosity are two terms that have been used synonymously historically. However, over the past couple of years, these words started to adopt distinctive characteristics. More and more people move away from conventional religious practices and adopt a spiritual ...

Chakras are focal energy centres from various ancient meditation practices. The word itself is from the Sanskrit word for 'wheel'. These centres are like spinning disks of energy. There are seven main chakras and overall up to 114 in the body. Since they are connected to ner...

Tantra is a spiritual Indian tradition defined as the practice and belief system with the principle that everything in life is a manifestation of divine energy. The history of Tantra can be traced back to the 8th century AD. The word itself means “to weave”. Tantra works...

Somatic psychology emphasises the somatic experience embracing therapeutic and holistic approaches to the body, aiming to recover the mind-body connection. It studies the link between physical matter and energy, the association of bodily structures and mental processes. Pier...

According to anthropologist Ernest Becker (1973), the society we live in today is a symbolic defence mechanism against our own deaths. People find various “immortality projects” to feel like they are part of something bigger. Conflicts between these immortality projects are ...

Truly knowing yourself without facing your dark side and embracing it is not possible according to Carl Jung, one of the most influential names in psychology. In his theory, Jung suggested that we are a combination of many different characters within us, one of them being the �...