by Sonja Semyonova | Jan 11, 2023 | Journal, Nourish Ayurvedic (un)Recipes, Sensuality, The Body
I don’t know when the ritual of tea-drinking began, but I’m guessing it was a very long time ago. Maybe it started before we – in the form we now think of ourselves – were born. I imagine the rudimentary form of us watching a flower from a nearby tree fall into a clay...
by Sonja Semyonova | Jan 5, 2023 | Journal, Sensuality, The Body
I know where the divine lives. I have the holy GPS coordinates. I’m in the DMs of that sacred inbox. I’ll share it with you. Follow my hands as they peel off the dress that has hidden this sublime site. Watch my skin prickle as you see the goddess revealing Herself in...
by Sonja Semyonova | Dec 14, 2022 | Emotional Digestion, Journal, Nurturance, Self-love
My wish for you is simple: may you never experience pain. Or sadness, or grief, or terror, or the anger that too often masks these emotions. But that is a false wish, the type that I might have made one adolescent evening only to forget it the next day. It is...
by Sonja Semyonova | Dec 8, 2022 | Confusion, Journal, Nurturance, Self-love
(listen to the audio recording) There’s a woman who travels with me everywhere I go. Her name: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Aka, “Virgin Mary.” Whenever I go somewhere new, meet someone new, or have to do something I would rather not do, I loop her image etched into...
by Sonja Semyonova | Dec 1, 2022 | Freedom, Journal, Love Letters, Relationships, Self-love, Sensuality, Space, Surrender, The Spiritual Side of Sex
If you want to know me, as you say that you do, then follow me into the deep, dark wood. Find me resting in the spongy, loamy soil. That place where your feet will practically bounce on the beds of three hundred generations of leaves. You will wonder if you...
