Short reflections on what tends to come up in AURA spaces, and in life outside them.
A trauma informed look at what actually makes a space safe: not a vibe, but a nervous system reading a room, and the training that goes into holding it well.
READJOURNALMonika on quitting the golden cage, losing herself while looking for herself in Bali, and the walk from Munich to Rome that changed how she understands presence and purpose.
READJOURNALWhy we sometimes need a held space, not an empty one, to actually find quiet, and what happens inside the stillness at AURA.
READJOURNAL“Follow your intuition” stays a buzzword until you can actually feel it in the body, and a somatic exercise to find your way back to it.
READJOURNALThe physiology behind breathwork: what the vagus nerve actually does, why your body reports to your brain more than the other way around, and how slow exhales change that report.
READJOURNALWhat somatic work actually means, why the body holds what the mind moves past, and what a typical session at AURA looks like.
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