by Sonja Semyonova | Apr 5, 2022 | Awakening, Emotional Digestion, Journal, The Nest
(Listen to the audio version below) What would it mean to have a sunrise kind of life? Maybe you’ve never heard these words – a sunrise kind of life – strung together like this before. But perhaps simply hearing them creates a welcome sensation in your body, one of...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 23, 2022 | Emotional Digestion, Journal, Strength, The Nest
What if feeling what we feel is the greatest strength that exists? Too often we uphold the ideal of strength as stoicism, sobriety, or indifference. We are taught that we are at our strongest when no appeal, whether from compassion or anger, can sway us. But that’s...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 18, 2022 | Journal, Love Letters, Surrender, Wisdom Bites
Love letters are healing for the writer, recipient, and reader. May this letter offer healing and celebration of my partner on his 44th year. Dear Robin, I wanted to give you a gift for your birthday, but your preternatural satisfaction with what you already have...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 16, 2022 | Journal, Strength, The Nest
March’s Awake in The Nest recording is live! (Available to all Nest members at the Silver level and higher.) Our theme this month is strength, but strength isn’t always as it appears. Jump in to walk the continuum between strength, shadow, and...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 9, 2022 | Intuitive Ayurveda, Journal, Nourish Ayurvedic (un)Recipes, Strength, Surrender, The Nest
If you would have asked me five years ago for my bone broth recipe, I would have stared back at you blankly. That was a time of high-horse vegetarianism for me. I was studying with a teacher at the time who was militant about not eating meat, so I fell in line. I...
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