Kristina
Know Thyself. Be Thyself.
Ever since I was a child it seemed that life and my reason for being here was an intense search for:
Finding out who I really am
and then
Having the courage to live it fully
Visiting India in my 20s answered my first question when I had a very clear realisation - I am free.
Ever since I returned, life has been answering the second part of this question on a moment to moment basis, meeting whatever arises in the challenges of daily human life.
Life is this ongoing, magical, mysterious journey to NowHere!
It has taken most of my life to really allow myself to just be as I am. It is a strange paradox because who I truly am is timeless and constant, always simply Here. Yet the character of Kristina seems to change or move in new ways and often in ways that are a complete surprise to myself! I never know what is around the corner! I can say that at the essence, there has always been a deep love and reverence for people, Truth and Stillness. This is expressed in all that I do, whether that is teaching yoga, offering inquiry and stillness sessions or leading business projects. This is also why I’m very passionate about doing inquiry for people in business because I know the value and benefit of living it on a daily basis.
The Work of Byron Katie is an immense gift in my life for HOW to live Truth fully including how to love and meet reality and my whole Self (both the messy human part and divine nature) as it IS.
What I know for certain:
Who we truly are, our original nature/true Self is always FREE. We need to add nothing to it to be happy.
The only thing which could ever appear to inhibit this freedom, joy, love and peace … is a thought. Thankfully, it can be questioned/inquired into.
I love to meet other beings who feel called to something deeper in life than the usual desires (money, business, relationships etc.). I feel there is nothing more exciting and precious than to simply BE and and inquire into this magical existence. It takes alot of courage and humility to be willing to stop, be seen and look deeply within.
It is both a great privilege and joy to live and breathe self inquiry as a way of life, a way of Being and Seeing. As Socrates said so wisely - an unexamined life is truly not worth living. Katie also says it in a very beautiful, simple way - “a mediocre life is an amazing life!”
I am incredibly grateful to all of my teachers, past and present, for showing me the way Home.
“Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”