Sonia Galante - Yoga & Reiki

So, it's 9am and I am on my train back home, still dressed like the party I've been to last night, puffed eyes and messy (more than usual) hair. I turn around and I see what I'm sharing in the pictures and in a second I'm off the train at Circular Quay walking towards the Sydney Opera House. I sit here alone looking at this incredibly blue sky and try not to collapse at the thought that precisely 30 days from now I'll say yet another goodbye. My heart is so full that it's breaking.
I'm sitting here still. I'm starving, smelling like BBQ but I don't move.
I'm trying to protect myself from the strong sun and the strong emotions that has given me the most massive cold sore ever.
I feel alive, wild, sexy, vibrant with energy I would squeeze the whole world if I could.
It's so beautiful that I almost cannot take it and it's a rollercoaster and some days I curse it but still somehow I'm always up for the ride, I love this rush and I must be ready to pay the price.
@ Sydney Harbour

In Sydney, today! Love you 💙💙💙
@ Sydney, Australia

To 2018!!! The wildest and yet the most simple year of my life! Saying thank you toasting with a spontaneous and random session of Pimm's (of course), thank you London 😏 In the second picture there is too much light and too much happiness to even keep my eyes open, YES TO THAT!!! Squeezing tight who I love dearly, the one and only gets the physical version of me but I'm as close to everybody else, I hope you can feel it. In the third and fourth, well...that boss that nature is. You're welcome 😁
2019 I'm so ready, onward we go!!!

#2018 @ Sydney, Australia

Precisely 9 years ago a younger, very sad, very lonely, numb, exhausted, way too skinny, utterly lost, full of acne, and blindly unaware me boarded on a one way trip to London. I didn't have a dream, nor goal, and obviously not a plan whatsoever. I just wanted to go. Going to a city I never visited, with a language I didn't speak, living on my own for the very first time. I did have some money saved and I kept saying: I am going only for a month and let's see what happens, but of course I knew that wasn't true, I wanted to stay with all my might. Moving to London has always been my best friend and mine little dream. Life happened before and after but at the very last minute Elisa did buy a ticket too and we shared our first month together. We would look for a job and I would stand in front of the shops with my CV's printed and Elisa would kindly arrange a sentence for me to repeat while handling them out! We would be wondering in awe at what welcomed us, from the little British houses, to the foxes wandering around. Since the second I moved I knew London wouldn't be my forever home, but during those almost 8 years London was my life and my heart and my school with all the good as all the bad. I always thought that the only thing that allowed me to stay was the money I had brought with me, which is actually true as the first few months were supported by my founds, what I didn't realize until late was that I actually stayed because there was me with me. There was Sonia, this resilient, strong, powerful, humble, excited, adventurous, brave, hard worker, stubborn, woman called Sonia. Little me slowly slowly got to meet her and viceversa. They often argue and they both work hard trying to let the other one talk but most of the time they work as team. I love you from the bottom of my heart little Sonia, thank you for strongly believing in you and giving yourself a chance despite all that pain, the 5th on November is your day, I'm so incredibly proud of you 💙

To whatever has brought me here, thank you thank you thank you. Thank you Sonia, thank you life.

I am travelling the world and currently planning to seeing it all, if meant to be. I am feeling fulfilled living a life I honestly would have NEVER EVER thought it could be mine. Ever. I have it all YES, BUT I need to stress the fact that I shed so many tears and sleepless nights, I went to work smiling at customers with a way too quick beating heart and breath stuck in my throat feeling absolutely miserable doing my best not to burst into tears, I doubted myself no matter knowing my resilience and strength, I had more than one moment where I hated myself to the point where I would have easily given away a limb for not being me just for half a day. I am insecure, shy, extremely sensitive, stubborn, with an extreme personality often swinging from feeling too much to not enough. When I’m scared, sad or hurt the whole world crumbles and I tend to hide and get very very quiet, when I’m happy I’m loud, confident, empowered, fearless, adventurous and passionate. My biggest fear is to completely lose myself into another person. I love food and cooking and writing and meditation and chanting and cats and doing absolutely nothing and all my belongings right now are a 18kg backpack and I called home countless houses and a car and sometimes my feelings scare me to death and FB keep telling me that 2 years ago to this day I was in India solo and my heart cracked open and I felt held and now I’m in Sydney and I’m writing and crying in front of THE BEST handmade cinese dumplings. I believe in signs, in meant to be and of a life made of opportunities for your own growth if you will. I don’t know where I am going with this but it feels liberating. I’m tired of proving myself to everyone and to myself trying to be perfect and strong and silently agreeing at this era of look at how greener my grass is. It’s not. Let’s all stop hiding the brown leaves at the back of the house, lets get together and celebrate by making art with it. We all struggle and have bad days. I’m exactly like you and you are exactly like me, it’s so easy to forget. There is no perfect life, just the life we have the courage to live with the most amazing and most awful and the everything in between days.

Believe it or not, but today I ended up spending 3 hours with .
So special, completely random (do you believe in random? I don't) and so so moving. My heart melted over and over and over again. If you have the chance, please do go and take place in one of his events, and of course listen to his beautiful Kirtan.
- We're all just doing the best we can -
So much gratitude, thank you 💜

Just over 48 hours in Sydney and I'm already singing my heart out!
It's called Kirtan and I LOVE this practise so much, it makes me feel like I belong, like when you just have to be and nothing else -no labels-, how much it deeply moves me this singing from your heart thing. It always makes my whole body shiver and I cry every.single.time. I love the harmonium and one of my dreams is to play it and maybe lead a Kirtan session... Maybe one day!?
Have you ever been to a Kirtan session?
You don't have to be a singer but I promise you'll be vibrant with energy and overflowing with love.

2 years later I fully stand behind my words. ❤️

In one of the very first Yoga classes I ever been to, the teacher said: "You can have anything you desire in life, everything you want is just out there for you to take it" I was about to come out of Savasana and ask: are you sure? Even for ME? Do you mean ANYTHING?
I stayed in Savasana and left puzzled.
Many years and Savasanas later I still sometimes do wonder about it. Who am I to do that? Do I really deserve the best scenario that my heart is picturing for me? Fear, unworthiness and perfectionism are human feelings that we can sometimes tap in.
Through the years the answer has changed massively: why NOT me?
You have to make your dream becoming true and not ONLY because you simple totally deserve it, but because by repressing it you hold such a power inside of you that is desperately asking to be released.
ALSO, by not making it happen you are depriving the whole wide world of the great contribution you are meant to give with all your heart!!

-Everything you want is on the other side of the fear-
Be fearless, you DESERVE IT.

...and at 6pm, always with 💜

6am, Koh Pha Ngan, Thailand. On my way to practice and to study. Good morning!