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Samatva offers a combination of Mindful Coaching, Mindfulness practices, Méditation to create space for your well being…

31/12/2025

New Year, New Beginnings [mindful, mindfulness, meditation, inner work, self work, coaching, breathwork, awareness, evolving, sangha]

27/12/2025

As the new year begins, may it bring clarity, steadiness, and gentle awareness…

From January 5, 2026, Am resuming one-on-one mindful coaching and group sessions in Meditation, Breathwork and Reflective practices.

If you are drawn to start the year with intention and presence, you are warmly welcome.

Details above…

May the year be evolving and enlightening,

Ritika

PS- Do share forward with anyone you think may be interested and will benefit 🙏🏽💛

[Mindfulness, Meditation, Intentional living, Inner clarity, Embodied awareness, Sacred pause, Conscious beginnings, Reflective practice, Emotional wellbeing, Presence, Somatic awareness, positive psychology, MBSR]

17/12/2025

Some spaces don’t just teach.

They touch, stretch, and stay.

Just completed a grief workshop with Aruna Gopakumar and the School of You…as always, it was intense, deep, and quietly transformative.

Grief was met not as something to fix, but something to sit with.

Through beautifully designed activities, embodied practices, reflective pauses, and gentle holding of space, we explored what it means to make meaning…personally and professionally.

There was depth without heaviness.

A sense of shared humanity…captured perfectly in our group photo, with everyone offering hearts on screen ❤️ a small but powerful reminder that even in grief, connection leads…

I come away richer. With tools, language, and techniques I can’t wait to weave into my own support circles, mindfulness spaces, and one-to-one coaching, to accompany others in healing, sense-making, and gentle integration.

Grateful for spaces that don’t rush the process….for teachers who trust the wisdom already present in the room.

15/12/2025

I have been asking myself …What’s essential? What can wait? Where is my energy best placed?

Especially during interactions that stir an inner agitation. Having just completed the first module of my Somatic Experiencing® certification, my effort is to stay with the body…noticing the subtle tightening, the urge to defend or explain. This realisation that when the nervous system settles, perspective follows…feels like the real learning.

It also brought to mind the Buddha’s teaching of the second arrow…the suffering we add through overthinking, patterned reactions, making the hurt sharper…a conscious choice of not releasing that second arrow is a quiet discipline…

Whether it is Mindfulness or Transactional analysis, the pause supports in being present to what is now. Not withdrawing. Not overextending. Just meeting what is, without assumptions…

Even this season of winter teaches boundaries… just like trees don’t cling to every leaf…They let go trusting the rhythm of the seasons…what I too am learning is that proximity doesn’t always mean connection…and it’s okay to let go…

So, my practice for this winter is…

• Awareness before action

• Regulation before response

• Kindness without entanglement

Not forcing, Not defending, Not pandering…simply Wintering…PC: Parul Datta

01/12/2025

Heart is full… Long live the Dalai Lama… My family, My Mindful Retreat participants…24 of us were blessed, graced, touched by His Holiness’s Karuna, Love and Acceptance… thank you Universe and everyone who made this beautiful day possible 🙏🏽

14/11/2025

This memory showed up on social media space… just as I get ready to learn, explore, be part of Peter Levine Somatic Experiencing cohort…it reminds me of my faith and belief that…The universe has my back and

“The famous Hindi dialogue by Shah Rukh Khan “Kehte hain agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaho toh puri kainath usse milane ki koshish mein lag jaati hai”

Gratitude…small steps in the right direction…when I completed grade 10, the heart wanted to pursue psychology, friends influenced me in a different direction. When I cleared grade 12, heart called out for psychology and I had an offer from a college but again peers dictated a different course in a different highly reputed college… when I graduated … the heart reminded me once again but father wanted me in a different field and I yielded yet again…through work life always played a part, lest I forget and as life is a circle I find myself studying, learning, sharing, facilitating, working for what always was my calling…thanks to Aruna Gopakumar, Navgati, my colleagues, my therapist, my family for supporting me as I find my way back… … happy to be here now.

Thanks to Navgati, Aruna Gopakumar, Sunitha Krishnamurthi, The Healing Circle

13/11/2025

On Gossip and the Quiet Unease Beneath…

Want to talk about my strange relationship with gossip. I do indulge in it sometimes. It can feel like harmless connection, like sharing whispers over chai. Yet, I also feel this subtle anxiety rise inside me when the tone turns malicious or when it crosses into territories that feel out of bounds especially when it is about people I don’t know, like celebrities. There is a part of me that feels complicit, and another that withdraws in discomfort…

Is that hypocrisy? Maybe. Or maybe it’s the tug-of-war between my human curiosity and my deeper values… that I am trying to align with…

Psychologists say gossip isn’t inherently bad infact it’s one of the oldest forms of social glue. Anthropologist Robin Dunbar even called gossip “the human equivalent of grooming in primates” our way of bonding and understanding social norms. But Buddha would probably raise an eyebrow at that justification. In the Right Speech teachings, he said, “always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?”

When I hear or share something unkind, even subtly, I can feel the dissonance. I believe in karma, in the idea that what we put into the world in words, thoughts, or actions … circles back in some form. So why do I still get drawn in? Maybe because gossip offers a quick, glittery illusion of closeness. Although temporary…

when I do try to gently step away or say, “let’s not go there,” I sometimes sense people looking at me like “Oh, here she goes, the holy cow!” (I say that with humour, but also truth.) The middle ground is hard to find. Maybe the middle path is awareness… noticing when gossip feels like connection and when it feels like corrosion. Noticing the tone in my heart when I speak or listen. The Dalai Lama once said, “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” Even in conversation.

So I write this not as a declaration of virtue, but as a note to self… I am a work in progress.

09/11/2025

A day I will always hold close…Gratitude to our teacher ji and guide, Michelle, who led us to a meeting that felt like grace itself …with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo at the Dongyu Gatsal Ling (DGL) Nunnery in Himachal…The air there felt washed…verdant, still, touched by prayer. Every leaf seemed to breathe meditation…To sit before Jetsuma, radiant and clear-eyed, was to meet living wisdom. Her story humbles…twelve solitary years in a Himalayan cave, devoted to practice and awakening. Yet her life’s greater work has been to open the path of deep spiritual training for nuns across the tradition…creating DGL as a sanctuary of study, contemplation, and inner freedom…Her words carried warmth and clarity, humour and strength…Thank you, Michelle, for guiding us to this rare meeting…to the light, the laughter, and the quiet power that lingers still.

20/10/2025

With Gratitude 🙏🏽 💛☘️

14/10/2025

I often hear the left arm being called the “dormant arm,” the less dominant, the one that quietly supports while the right takes center stage. But the irony hit me recently…when I was asked to rest my left arm because of tennis elbow, I realized how much of my life it actually carries. From typing to cooking, lifting to holding, this so-called dormant arm was anything but asleep!

It made me pause and wonder…how many things, people, or even parts of me… do I label as secondary, only to discover their true weight when they step aside? The unnoticed is often the indispensable…

Life has this way of revealing the quiet heroes whether in the body, in relationships, or within our own being… What I have dismissed as “lesser” sometimes holds the balance of my existence…

Perhaps that was the real invitation for me…to look again, with softer eyes, at what I take for granted. The left arm. The overlooked effort. The silent presence. They may just be the axis on which my world spins.

“Maybe the left arm is not dormant at all…it is just humble. And humility, like the left arm, doesn’t announce itself. It simply holds everything together until the day its absence is noticed.”

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