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Hajj Experience 2024
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. I write my reflections on completion of my Hajj pilgrimage this year with gratitude in my heart. Hajj has many purposes, teachings and endless benefits for Muslims. All of which are accessible in books and online, and so will be…
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TOO CRABBY FOR LIFE
Travel & Quarantine experience in Abu Dhabi We paddled our kayaks through a narrow channel and hoped this path would take us out unto the main river so we can head back to the docks at bay. The branches of the Mangrove trees kept closing in, the water underneath felt…
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٤ نصائح غذائية لصحتك النفسية
لقاء مع اختصاصية التغذية آية سمارة To read this article in English click here. من اصعب الامور التي نواجهها في الحجر المنزلي هو الحفاظ على الصحة الجسدية والنفسية. وفي الكويت نعيش الآن أوضاع الحجر الكلي في الايام الأخيرة من الشهر الفضيل. فايروس كورونا فرض علينا التباعد ولكني استطعت لقاء آية…
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4 Nutrients to Boost your Mood
This month Kuwait is in total lockdown for 20 days. Luckily Zoom allowed me to meet (virtually) Aya Samara, a local clinical nutritionist. She shares with us some insights on how nutrition can elevate our mood and help us feel better!
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5 Reasons we should not go back to Normal after Quarantine ends.
“Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.” Bessel A. van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). Here we are, collectively going through a struggle together. And it is a mistake to think or even…
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A Break-Up in Isolation
How dare you see the light? The following intro has been written by my ex himself. There will always be a time in our lives where we are forced to look in the mirror to ask, question, and accuse our Being for its insufficiency and lack of wisdom. Why are…
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Managing Stress by Managing Self-Interest
This is not going to be a long read – just a thought that came as a result of observing myself the past 7 weeks after my stability was shaken and I moved back in with my family (I’ve been living alone and independently with a secure job for almost…
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6 (NOT) to-dos on your Yoga Teacher Training.
I started teaching yoga before I even received the 200 hour yoga teacher training certification. I believed yoga was healing, but back then my belief was still within the physical parameters. My friend started suffering symptoms of a herniated disk in his lower back and I did what I could…
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Prayer at 7:00, Salsa at 9:00.
My aunt Arwa stayed a weekend with me in Abu Dhabi. The weekend I was looking forward to a Salsa (Dance) Festival on Friday, and I invited her to join me. She was always keen on beginning dance classes but never found the courage to walk through the door. We…
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Keep left at the fork..
I never thought I would have the courage to leave Kuwait I have been living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the past year now. If I learned one thing living here is that people drive A LOT. There are people that work in an emirate and raise their…
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ONE daily routine that changed my mindset.
You probably caught the sunrise at least once in your lifetime. You might not be an early bird but you might have needed to make it in time for an appointment or maybe you just couldn’t sleep all night. Maybe you ARE an early bird and watching the sunrise is…
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Home is where you are.
home is where the heart is ? I used to think that saying meant home is where your loved ones are, no matter where you are. That wherever you physically are, your heart is present elsewhere, where your affection is pointing towards. And probably that’s the universal meaning of it.…
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Happiness, one mindful decision at a time.
My mother is a Palestinian who was born in Kuwait and lived pretty much most of her life there. My father moved from his home town in Palestine to go and work in Kuwait at age 18. A few years down the line they got married, gave birth to me…
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Yoga Teacher Training (RYT200) – a sudden peak in your teaching skills or a personal journey?
First things first. What does RYT200 stand for? RYT 200 – Registered Yoga Teacher whose 200 hour training in “yoga studies” meets the requirements of Yoga Alliance, a non profit organization based in the United States. Writing about my first yoga teacher training course (yttc) almost five years later makes…
