Rita Tojal - Psychotherapy & Travel

29/11/2025

Returning to Rishikedh ✨ where i’ve been coming periodically for the last 21 years ✨ a place so special that always calls me back 🙏🏽

On my comings and goings, one yoga teacher always remained the same 😊 while others were great for a season or even one class 🧘‍♀️ I’m finally here to study with him more 🍃

For a while I was also coming here for satsang, usually twice a day, sometimes even three 🍃 now that’s not part of my plan. my old vedanta teacher is no longer my active teacher (his teachings however, stay with me) 🙏🏽 i’m not called to sit in inquiry like that right now - i’m doing it in other ways at the moment ☺️ different seasons call for different things.

The Sanskrit teacher i never got to study with is still here 🧡 I have always wanted to learn Sanskrit 😊

Ganga ji is so beautiful in her winter colors 🩵💦 it feels a bit too cold for a dip but let’s see ☺️

Visited some of the old places, and discovered new ones 🌿⭐️ I found a new favorite restaurant 😍

And I feel blessed to have found my old massage therapist sitting at her shop, happy to schedule our next session as we smiled and smiled ☺️

It’s incredible to walk around town and have so many memories! My old ashram, hotels i stayed at, hotels where friends stayed at, many cafés & restaurants, the momo corner, spontaneous satsang under the tree with Mooji, buying copies of the Baghavad Gita at the bookshop by the Ganges, meeting people here who became such a special part of the path, sharing moments of profound insight in this Divine filled town ✨

I’m so grateful for Rishikesh being a part of my life 🙏🏽

💛 I love coming back to sacred places! Nothing on Earth feels quite like them 💫

28/11/2025

I arrived into this world by the hands of an Indian woman doctor who my mum chose for the delivery.

I even have an Indian name (the same name as the daughter of the doctor who help me arrive).

Today the hands of this beautiful woman welcomed me back to India 💛

Trip number 24 in India 💫

Grateful for all the amazing travel buddies of the day! Insane “coincidences” through and through! ✨🙏🏽

SO HAPPY BACK to this sacred place!

21/11/2025

20/11/2025

today is my dad’s birthday, but i got the sweetest dessert ✨ a day too special to unpack. the mystery of Life so present. ❤️ yummy to the heart. a day full of gifts.

18/11/2025

ADMIT

Admit:
your distant love affair
is with yourself,
and that
no one
can play
harder to get:

the unwritten letters,
the plays for time,
the heartbreak
over never being
properly answered.

That coy look
of false seduction
in the mirror,
or that hard look
of self-satisfaction
to hide
what should not
be hidden.

the invitation
to undoing,
and to allowing
yourself to want
at last
what you feel
you never deserved,

the fervent wish
to come closer,
and the loving
word
of understanding
you say
to your self
when you finally admit
to it all,
the only
declaration
that counts.

…

by David Whyte
from ‘STILL POSSIBLE’

17/11/2025

🩵

so much love in these autumn skies

15/11/2025

In a world of storms
Let there be no wavering
Of our human hearts;
Remain as the pine tree
With roots sunk deep in stone.

from Meiji jingu, in Tokyo

12/11/2025

11 Nov 2025
18 years after my big car accident
19 years + 11 days after B died in Tibet

yesterday was proof that time heals everything

✨

i had such a beautiful day. with extra GRATITUDE for being alive, and so much JOY in the simple things.

every year around this time of the year i feel so grateful to be alive. it becomes so solid, so tangible, i can taste it and feel it, i can almost eat it. grateful to be able to do things. to be able to walk. to breathe. to grow old. to fall in love. to stare at the ocean. to go to my favorite mountains. to get to be afraid of bears. to miss people i love. to find novels that change me. to create new projects. to help friends in their creations. to plan trips. to do my work. to exchange christmas presents. to send letters in the post. to be overjoyed with good news from friends. to expand how i know myself. to discover a new tea. to finally find a particular tea i missed for a long time. to be surprised by a friend from long away who gets in touch. or suprise a friend myself. to make new friends. discover a new scent. and that unique joy of discovering a new thing to do that i haven’t done yet.

always fascinated by the unknown.

i love simple days. they’re so grounding and nourishing.

the atlantic ocean. one of the best pastel de nata in portugal (and therefore, in the world). a friend’s exhibition with a very beautiful heart. got my car checked and ready for another year. then matcha latte with way too much matcha in it, but who cares when i was really there for friendship. seeing a friend i really missed. it’s so beautiful to be part of other people’s lives ☺️ and to have them in our life 🙏🏽 friendship is such a secret to happiness. and so is reading. all day the anticipation of going back to the yummy pages composed by Mieko Kawakami. yesterday, “all the lovers in the night” fit the moment so perfectly well.

✨

happy to have an yearly reminder of the transient nature of life. always a good nudge to be present in each moment, to love what’s here now, never leave things for later, and say yes when life offers her precious gifts ☺️🍃🙏🏽

11/11/2025

a beautiful day ✨ enjoying home for a little while longer

10/11/2025

⭐️ grateful for this moment