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Week 2 of Earth Series: The Center Holds-Returning to the Wisdom of "Enough"
This week, we explore a different kind of repair. Not the frantic fixing of what's broken. Not the urgency to restore a former version of...

Gabie Ruiz
Sep 7, 20253 min read


Week 1 of Earth Series: The Center Holds-Returning to the Wisdom of "Enough"
We begin week 1-Stabilize the Signal: the Body is the Antenna There’s no need to rush. There’s no need to solve. There’s no need to do...

Gabie Ruiz
Aug 31, 20253 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 24
All day, nothing but welled up tears from everyone. I can honestly say we have this bittersweet feeling inside as we did our last...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 30, 20255 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 23
Today a typical morning with the atypical afternoon. In my extended break in the morning and after lunch, I sat down in the library...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 29, 202510 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 22
The season is coming to an end. I can feel the “chill” schedule which now only consists of our 3 prayer and meditation sessions at the...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 29, 20255 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 21
Every morning I walk toward the shrine, I think about all things feminine. But I think about feminine as a global consciousness or in...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 28, 20255 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 20
Saturdays…why are they so glorious even though I’m still getting up for 6 am meditation? Because I know that after that, I get a yoga...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 26, 20255 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at The Himalayan Institute: Day 19
Yoga, yoga, and more yoga. 7 am, 11 am, 5 pm. We even got off our karma yoga hours early because these programs are considered part of...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 26, 20254 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 17
Day 17 came and went. So much so I had forgotten about it and skipped blogging to get myself to bed. Today we were on regular schedule...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 26, 202513 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 18
“Wealth…is meant for spiritual practice.” -Swami Rama “Yoga is to feel so at home, it wants to stay there.” I can’t remember who said...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 25, 20259 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at Himalayan Institute: Day 16
For a “usual schedule” today was pretty magical. With the mornings being cold (Florida cold), I have been saving my walks outside for...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 23, 20256 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 15
The activity-filled weekend and Sunday spent escaping the yogic matrix out in Scranton brought me to a morning with the voices in my head...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 22, 20253 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 13
This morning after morning prayers and meditation, I saw a yoga class on the schedule and I decided to attend, not realizing I knew the...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 19, 20258 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 12
This morning felt crisp outside at a balmy 73 degrees. I had to head to meditation with my jacket! I was tempted to sleep in but that...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 19, 20259 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 11
Today was time 3 that I had the shrine to myself, and that feels magical and is on the list of why I can’t just stay in my room and sleep...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 17, 20259 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 10
This morning began with a message from my body to take it down a notch. This morning’s yoga practice after prayers and meditation turned...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 16, 20258 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 9
A Seva sister and I had spoken last week about a project she had, working on her handstand. She had just found out I was a yoga teacher....

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 15, 20254 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 8
First thing in the morning, I noticed an interesting shift in my usual morning practices. First of all, I finally found a scale and...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 14, 202516 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 7
Written under the inspiration of Olafur Arnalds & Talos https://youtu.be/UmG4anxNJYI?si=owt0Iu96Wbg-SsQb All of the program participants...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 13, 20256 min read


Voyeur Summer with Gabie at the Himalayan Institute: Day 6
Today was our “day off”. What was still on were the rituals that start my morning at 6 am. I don’t know what it is about being at...

Gabie Ruiz
Jul 12, 20255 min read
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