Michaël Bijker - Life Awareness Project

Michaël Bijker - Life Awareness Project We offer: Online courses, Yoga/Meditation retreats and Yoga classes teaching you specific techniques. The Life Awareness Project was founded by Michaël Bijker.
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The Life Awareness Project offers online courses, Yoga and Meditation retreats and Yoga classes that teach you specific techniques to awaken your full potential as a physical and spiritual being. Learn how to take care of your mind and body to live a healthy, content and connected life. Michaël began diving into the workings of the mind and body at the age of 14 and is now dedicated to serving humanity in helping people to become more awake, healthy and truly self-aware beings. His approach to yoga is to encourage individual self-study and self-practice with the aim of improving one's self-discipline, insight and wisdom that comes from within. Michaël is a certified 800hr YA teacher with a yoga therapy certification from the Paramanand Institute of Yoga Science & Research in Indore, India. He currently lives in Portugal where he teaches Life Awareness techniques in yoga and meditation retreats.

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10/10/2026

Take a moment to remember that you are already enough. That this life, exactly as it is, is already enough. 🌿

Slow down. Breathe. Let go of the endless search for something more, something better, something beyond this moment.

Come back to the present. Feel the aliveness within you. Notice the beauty in the ordinary, the peace beneath the noise, and the love that is always here.

And perhaps, in the stillness, you will feel the presence of God. Not somewhere far away, but here. In every breath, every heartbeat, every encounter, every little detail of this miraculous existence.

You don’t have to become someone else to be worthy of this life. You don’t have to reach somewhere else to experience its beauty.

You are here. You are alive. You are part of it all.

Let this moment be enough. Let yourself be enough. 🙏✨

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

05/10/2026

There is a wide open space within we can feel if we balance and quiet that cluttered mind. ❤️

24/09/2026

Trust the quiet unfolding of life.
Even when you cannot see the way,
something beautiful may already be finding its way to you.

Keep walking. Keep your heart open.
Let go of what you cannot control,
and trust the river to carry you where you are meant to be.

Good things are coming.
Not always in the form you imagined,
but perhaps in a form even more beautiful.

So breathe, surrender, and give thanks to God
for the blessings already here
and for the ones still on their way.

Peace and love friends 🙏❤️

WHAT ARE YOU CONNECTING TO? ✨Why do we sometimes lose connection with ourselves?Maybe because we are constantly connecti...
21/09/2026

WHAT ARE YOU CONNECTING TO? ✨

Why do we sometimes lose connection with ourselves?

Maybe because we are constantly connecting to something else.

Our phones.
Social media.
The news.
Work.
Other people’s opinions.
Endless streams of information.

And even when we put the phone away, the stream often continues inside our own mind.

Thoughts.
Stories.
Worries.
Plans.
Old patterns.

But are these thoughts really who we are?

Or is there something deeper underneath them?

A simple question can open a whole new space:

“What am I?”

Not what do I do.
Not what do I own.
Not what do others think I am.

What am I?

This is the space we begin to explore in meditation, dynamic meditation, dance, yoga and breathwork.

When the mind becomes a little quieter, we can start to experience ourselves beyond the constant stream of thoughts.

Coming back to the body.
Coming back to the breath.
Coming back to presence.
Coming back to the source within.

Maybe the practice isn’t about becoming someone new.

Maybe it’s about remembering who you were before all the noise.

Come explore this journey with us at our next Breathwork Retreat in Portugal.

1–6 October 🌿

Michaël Bijker • yogalap Founder
Florian Meise | conscious life & business mentor
Thomas Mathias
Conscious Flow with Zoran
Mukta

Breathwork • Yoga • Meditation • Dynamic Movement • Inner Work • Cacao • Ecstatic Dance

👉 Join us:
[https://yogalap.com/breathwork-retreat-portugal/](https://yogalap.com/breathwork-retreat-portugal/)

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17/09/2026

SHAKE IT OUT! 🌀

Sometimes the mind is simply carrying too much.

Too many thoughts.
Too much stress.
Too much doing.

And sometimes, the way back to clarity isn’t another thought.

It’s movement.

Jump.
Shake.
Breathe.
Dance.

When we move our body, we can interrupt repetitive thinking and shift our physiological state. Even short periods of physical activity have been shown to reduce stress and anxiety.

So instead of trying to think your way out of overthinking…

Move your way back into your body. 🌿

Let the energy move.
Let the mind become quiet.
Come back to yourself.

We explore this connection between breath, movement and awareness at our next Breathwork Retreat in Portugal.

1–6 October 🇵🇹

👉 https://yogalap.com/breathwork-retreat-portugal/

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17/09/2026

Sometimes just allow yourself to be.

We spend so much of our lives trying to become someone, fix something, reach somewhere.

But what if this moment isn’t asking you to change?

What if it’s simply inviting you to breathe, feel, soften, and be exactly where you are?

You are allowed to not have all the answers.
You are allowed to rest.
You are allowed to feel deeply.
You are allowed to change your mind.
You are allowed to be imperfect.

Life doesn’t require you to be perfect before you can experience its beauty.

Sometimes the deepest healing begins when we stop resisting ourselves and simply allow ourselves to be.

Breathe. Feel. Be.

16/09/2026

Sometimes the most "spiritual" thing you can do is to just pause.

Step away from the noise. Put down the pressure to achieve, fix, become or understand.

Take a breath.
Feel your body.
Listen to the silence.

You don’t always need to move forward. Sometimes you need to stop long enough to remember that you are already here.

Life is not only found in the moments when you are doing. It is also found in the stillness between them.

Sooo, take a break.
Come back to yourself.
And let life breathe through you. ✨

14/09/2026

Take time to return to nature.
Take time to return to yourself.

Be still enough to feel the love that is always there, flowing from the Source, through you, and into the world.

When you reconnect with that love, you don’t need to search for your light.

You remember that you are the light.

Let it shine through you.
Let it touch everything around you.

You are a star. ✨

Dear friends,We have 3 beautiful events coming up, and I’d love for you to join us for one of them. ✨ ONLINE BREATHWORK ...
27/08/2026

Dear friends,

We have 3 beautiful events coming up, and I’d love for you to join us for one of them.

✨ ONLINE BREATHWORK INSTRUCTOR TRAINING
29.08.
Learn powerful breathing techniques, deepen your own practice, and learn to guide others with presence and care.

✨ ONLINE MASTERY PROGRAM
05.09.
A 12-week journey beyond technique and into true embodiment, working directly with Michaël in a small group.

✨ BREATH, BODY & MIND RETREAT
06.09.–11.09.
Take a pause, reconnect with yourself, and recharge through breathwork, movement and meditation in beautiful Portugal.

Come join us, connect, learn and grow. 🙏🏼❤️

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24/08/2026

There comes a moment when you realise that the life you’re looking for cannot be found by adding more to your life, but by removing what distracts you from what is already there.

A Life Awareness Retreat is an invitation to disconnect from the noise and reconnect with what is real.

To step away from screens, routines and constant stimulation.
To return to nature.
To breathe.
To move.
To become deeply present.

Through meditation, breathwork, movement, self inquiry and time in nature, we train both mind and body to become still enough to access deeper states of awareness.

Not to escape life, but to experience it more fully.

To remember who you are beneath the stories, habits and conditioning.
To listen inward.
To reconnect with your body, your heart and the intelligence of nature.

🌿 Life Awareness Retreat, Portugal
✨ Upcoming retreats in September & October

If something inside you is asking for a reset, perhaps this is your invitation.

Disconnect. Reconnect. Remember.

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