door Shamna | jul 7, 2026 | AYITLOS
Episode 9 — Equanimity Part 1 of my Vipassana Integration This is Part 1 of a short reflection series born from the weeks after Vipassana. These insights took time to ripen. I am writing this five weeks later, and that already tells part of the story. Because...
door Shamna | jun 9, 2026 | AYITLOS
Episode 8 — Twelve Days of Nowhere to Hide I thought silence would be quiet. That sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Ten days of Vipassana. No phone. No talking. No eye contact. No writing. No music. No scrolling. No Netflix. No René. No little message to send the...
door Shamna | mei 18, 2026 | AYITLOS
Episode 7 — The Week That Refused to Be Quiet I had a plan for this week. A quiet one. After the fullness of England — the funeral, the family, five days of London living itself awake — I told myself this would be the week of settling. Slowing. Preparing for the...
door Shamna | mei 14, 2026 | AYITLOS
Episode 6 — Coming Home Through the Long Way Round This week I went to England for a funeral. That is the sentence that started it. But what unfolded across those five days became something far bigger than grief. It became about home. Belonging. Ritual. Flexibility....
door Shamna | apr 30, 2026 | AYITLOS
Episode 4 — When Life Feels Noisy, Structure Becomes a Form of Peace There was a moment this week — somewhere between a WiFi outage, uncertainty around my building, physical pain that would not fully leave, a four-hour drive to Belgium in the dark, and watching a...