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Haal-Chaal means well-being
I help you improve the basis of your well-being through Yoga & Ayurveda

Haal-Chaal translates to well-being in the Hindi language

Well-being, when referring to a person or community, is the state of being healthy, happy, or prosperous. The Haal-Chaal project is an alternate approach to your personal well-being, with a detailed design layout to learn more, produce health benefits, improve your overall wellness and thrive everyday.

19/02/2026

You expect me say Ayurveda changed my life.

It did. But not because I learnt something knew. It taught me all those things I knew already but had forgotten.

Ok it also taught me to make sense of all the qualities I see around me and now I’m always on a dosha-spotting exercise.

Like this walk on a nice-ish day out in Blessington, Wicklow.

The wind, the damp, the cold, the heaviness in the air… once you learn the language of Ayurveda a simple walk becomes a full body check-in. And then you start noticing how your body responds to them.

And then the REAL fun starts. Deciding what response is good for you, and what not so much. This knowledge is so subjective which is what makes me love it and use it to help me because o find it so empowering.

Is all of this goobledygook to you? It was to me. But if you’re interested in the simplest (and I mean the SIMPLEST) language of well-being ping me. I’d love to chat 💬

Also day 3 with challenge 🙌

17/02/2026

Some people meal prep. I sunshine prep.

When blue sky appears in Ireland you can’t just think about it, you have to go for it.

This is not just aesthetics. It’s an aesthetic positive lifestyle choice to live healthy and not take simple healing solutions (like sunshine) for granted.

I also meal prep btw. Do you?

13/02/2026

Believe it or not, endless rain & “waiting for spring” is ACTUALLY shaping my lifestyle in a positive way.

For starters, calling it “bad weather” does me no good!

I’m using it as a cue to build habits that protect my mood, energy and balance.

• I’m learning to recharge routines. These grey, wet weeks are actually pushing me to get intentional (and clever) about my movement, recovery and routine.

I’ve been creative with ways to nourish my body and mind, warm meals, early nights, journaling routine 🙌

• I’m chasing daylight on purpose. For example, I see a bit of blue skies showing and I immediately step out for a walk, even if it’s only for 10 mins.

I would’ve NEVER dreamed of doing that in my pre burnout life. Tbf for about 3 years in London o didn’t even have a window anywhere close to me to spot the damn sky, blue or grey!!

I look at Dublin rain and wind and call it “fresh air weather”, a little reframing didn’t hurt anyone.
So here I am continuing to build gratitude and momentum because spring is just around the corner.

10/02/2026

I did something 10 years ago that I haven’t done since.

It might sound trivial but hear me out.

10 years ago I went BACK to Venice for their carnivale 🎭
It wasn’t a big deal, but at the time, when travel to me was like this infinite thing with endless possibilities, but also (IRONICALLY) a checklist activity. Every new place was proof, every passport stamp was progress
I knew travel was going to be huge in my life. I could feel it coming.

Which made the decision to go back to Venice… weird. I was just there less than a year ago in 2015 summer.

My story was: see everything, go everywhere, don’t waste a trip on repetition.

But i did it anyway.

In hindsight, that decision to return to something instead of chasing the new - interrupted the pattern o was building. I just couldn’t see it.

I forgot about my ability to make intentional choices. I was swinging between staying stuck with too much familiarly and pushing myself to the other extreme.

I forgot. I burned out. I recovered. I’m rebuilding.

And now I’m looking back at those Venice photos from 2016 and finally getting it.

Also, 10 years ago the crowds were very well manageable 😅

09/02/2026

O M Gheee I have a whole toolkit for the use of ghee (especially living in Ireland 🇮🇪)

🥣 Eat it → digestion & energy
Personally, I love the taste of ghee. And if you’ve had Irish butter (gwan Kerry gold) you can imagine how good ghee made from that would taste now. Eat it for the taste, get all the nourishment!

💋 Wear it → skin repair
I didn’t do this much in India because I wasn’t a fan of smelling like ghee (which is basically oil), plus my dry skin wasn’t really that bad in tropical weather. But in the winter here in Ireland I’ve been using a wee touch of ghee on my (no longer!) cracked lips, elbows and cuticles (I have serious dry hand 🤚 conditions) and I gotta say, no smell only benefits.

🍳 Cook with it → nourishment
Ghee has a high smoke point so it won’t burn easily. I’ve been roasting my veggies in it, adding to my most fav carrot-scrambled-oats breakfast, and even putting it on toast. It’s a lot easier on digestion than many oils.

That’s it. No extremes. No “wellness performance”. 🎭

Full spectrum care - inside, outside, day, night.

Very lifestyle as medicine. Very me.

01/02/2026

January on film (lens) 📸 because I want the emotional benefits of film without the admin 😅

28/01/2026

THIS specific road in Dublin grounds me instantly. My reset spot.

Military Rd in the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains, lucky for me starts quite close to where I live.

Swipe to the last photo to see me ACTUALLY taking a moment to breathe a few years ago LOL 🥲
This Dublin mountain stretch is all untamed, rugged valleys. Narrow, bumpy paved roads with plenty of cyclists and sheep for the drama of it (the sheep drive Fred CRAZY when he can smell/see them from the car but can go nowhere near them lol).

Untamed Ireland at its rawest.

I drive this route when life gets too loud in my head. That vast, grounded, untouched quality out there is exactly what I need when I’m spinning. It settles my restless energy fast. Being high up in those mountains somehow grounds me deeper than anything else.

This is how I live my Éire-veda. Ireland’s wildness isn’t just pretty to look at. It’s medicine. These rugged, open spaces balance the overstimulated, overthinking, always-moving parts of us. The heaviness of damp Irish air may weigh you down, but up on Military Road that lightness and space cuts right through it.

Being outdoors just works.

Would love to know if you’ve driven here before? And love it as much as me 😀

24/01/2026

If I were in school I’d be asking for a study from home day 😅

Swiping through this week’s dampness in Dublin - Those thick droplets clinging to branches, wet ground thats stuck to my boots, air that I can feel weighing me down. Everyone’s layered in rain jackets, umbrellas up, life keeps going anyway.

Rain got you feeling heavy too?

What about balance, I would’ve previously wondered.
But now I’m being soft and intentional as I still go with the flow. Warm chai. Layers. Staying extra cosy. Warm, healthy and filling meals.
Fred is also napping extra cozy, eyes half-closed. My breakfasts have been nourishing from inside - porridge, eggs, carrots, cinnamon, a drop of ghee.

January rain doesn’t cancel the day; it just asks for warmth to match it.

If you live in Ireland how are you coping with rainy days? Help us out! ☔📸

20/01/2026

Ireland is windy. And wet.
And? Is that bad?

Qualities are value-neutral. Windy. Wet. These are all just plain qualities.
Wind brings movement, change and breath.
Wet is nourishing, cooling and balancing.

Ireland is cold, wet, windy is over simplifying it.
Ireland offers movement, moisture and softness.

A quality becomes challenging only in excess, or without contrast. What feels heavy and hard in one place is light and easy in another.

So this weather doesn’t need fixing, it just needs responding to with care and meaning.

I love these pictures from a walk at Powerscourt waterfall in the winter. This place is buzzing in the summer, on a sunny day when everyone’s got a bbq going. I didn’t realise I’d enjoy the quiet stillness in the winter.

Fred LOVED it. Too many people and children all around makes him nervous. So there you go, it’s all contextual.

18/01/2026

Everyone is romanticising 2016. So why not jump on the trend.
2016 was lighter, for sure. But 2026 feels truer!! You know what I mean?
I had only been living in London one year. My ma would ask to send her pictures of me often (we really missed each other ok) and so I had loads of work selfies. Also work was life so… 🤷‍♀️

I was starting my peak travel era. I loved it, was always my dream. But I was doing it recklessly, always rushing. I once booked a flight to New York return for 4 hours only (was supposed to be 2 weeks) because my brain was absolutely fried. I don’t even want to think about how much money I spent 🫥

Like most people in their 20s I drank a lot. Nothing unusual. Nothing impressive either.
My average weekday meal was chillangos burrito bowl with all that cheese (they still wouldn’t start a loyalty program, I asked) and Guinness + wine for dinner.

We did the quick-after-work-drinks often, especially summer evenings to make most of the long days. Except most days “after-work” only started after 12ish hours at 9.30pm!!! I’m in bed by that time now.

Fitness and “wellness” never even occurred to me. Hence the picture next to “well road” cause I thought it was hilarious. I signed up for the JPM 5k run twice. I didn’t make it either time. One year I went straight to drinks instead.

I also moved houses in 2016 and I couldn’t take time off work to move. So I moved at night.
Every night.
For two weeks.
One night I fell asleep in the uber at midnight and the driver felt bad for me and helped carry two boxes up.

I was starting to notice bits of toxic work environment and the downside of hustle culture.
But I didn’t have the language for it yet.

I loved my 20s. When I was in my 20s. None of these look extreme. It’s why it lasted so long. And also why I crashed so hard.

15/01/2026

Irish winter challenges my bodies natural rhythms.
But within that rude disruption is a chance to move differently. Seasonally. Softly.

Rhythm isn’t fixed, it’s responsive. It’s also built internally. And that’s how rhythm becomes medicine.

Before Ireland I lived in Hong Kong. And before that I lived in London. And BEFORE ALL THAT, it was southern Indian (Bangalore). So I’ve been swinging between very different winters.

Why is this important Naomi?!
Great qn, I’m glad you asked.

Desha refers to your habitat in Ayurveda and geographical land (bhumi desha) influences your health and wellness.

Understanding the qualities in tour environment is so much better than blindly following winter Ayurvedic remedies.

The dominant dosha in Irish winter is Vata (followed by kapha). This generally causes an aggravated nervous system. Your Agni (fire 🔥) is also quite suppressed. And the seasonal length feels long and dragging.

Eiré-Veda (Ayurveda in Ireland) asks you if you can stay regulated while everything slows down and darkens ❓

Yes, boss!!

This is not a guide on how to manage Irish winters. This is me sharing my observations and knowledge while I make sense of life after burnout, in my 30s, in Ireland! 🇮🇪

You will see me:
☀️sharing pictures of sunshine whenever I capture it (because light exposure for pitta energy)
🏃‍♀️moving gently (slow running and yoga) because gentleness is key
⏳ prioritising routine over intensity (because Vata is already so high)
🍲 having warm, cooked food (already craving my carrots oats for breakie tomorrow) because 🔥 Agni has to be protected.

How/Where are you wintering this winter?

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