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21/08/2026

What does a full day actually look like?

Coconuts opened by hand, kids fully present, nobody chasing anything. Just a day at The Essence.

— Chi Om

19/08/2026

Living in the essence, a simple day, one moment at a time, constant change.

We are here to connect, to share, to support, and to be supported. Life makes no mistakes when we are one with life.

17/08/2026

When did you last actually feel your breath instead of just breathing?

Pranayama is not a technique. It's a doorway back into the body.

Slow nostril breath opens something still and old inside you. Fast mouth breath cracks open what the mind has been gripping onto. Add real cardio, movement that pushes you, and the body has nowhere left to hide. Thought can't keep pace. What's left is presence.

This is the same thing meditation does. The same thing Qigong does, martial arts, walking with full attention. Different door, same room. The body moves, the mind follows.

You don't force this open. You stop interrupting it.

We practice this together, every day, here.

— Chi Om

16/08/2026

Do you breathe when you stretch, or do you just move through it?

Stretching is more than the body. The breath is what connects body and mind, in the same moment. When you breathe into a stretch, you open the body and open the mind at once. More space in the body means more room to hold what is uncomfortable, without pushing it away.

This is what we practice every day at The Essence. Breath opening body, body opening mind, one movement at a time. Not forcing anything. Just breathing into what is already there, until there is room for what wasn’t there before.

Come breathe and stretch with us.

— Chi Om

13/08/2026

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12/08/2026

You bring something up. Not even a big thing. Two sentences in, you're both raising your voices about something that started as almost nothing.

New on the blog — Chi Om on why the fight is never really about what started it. Comment "ARGUMENT" and we'll send you the link.

08/08/2026

Most of what we call separation is a story running in the background, an old prediction about what will happen if we let someone see us. The body already knows something different. It knows how to soften, how to trust weight to another person, how to stop managing the distance.

This is what’s actually available between people, all the time, underneath the story that says stay guarded. Not something rare. Something covered over.

When did you last let contact with another person be that simple?

04/08/2026

Food supporting us to be who we are, when we are conscious of what we are eating. It affects the way we think, to be who we are, to be happy, to have energy, to be ourselves. We need to be aware of what we are eating, what we are thinking.

-gluten awakening

03/08/2026

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14/04/2026

Most of us grew up hearing "be careful." We say "be aware" instead. It's a small shift — but it changes what a child feels in their body before they've even taken a step.
We just published our first children's book, and this post is about why it exists.
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