Editor's Letter: February

Hello Friends,

Welcome to February!

Well done, you got through January!

I hope you're finding the start to this new year and new decade inspiring and exciting. Or...perhaps you're not?

It's all too easy to fall into the pattern of the days; forgetting to stop and look around and marvel at how absolutely incredible this life is when, in fact, it's quite the miracle that we are here at all. 

Dr Ali Binazir, author and happiness engineer, estimates that the chances of us being born at all are basically zero.

He writes:

"Imagine there was one life preserver thrown somewhere in some ocean and there is exactly one turtle in all of these oceans, swimming underwater somewhere. The probability that you came about and exist today is the same as that turtle sticking its head out of the water — in the middle of that life preserver. On one try."

I don't know about you, but ruminating on that gives me a true jolt of realisation; that this life is to be lived, to be enjoyed, to be cherished.

Do with that what you will, but do something.

Til next time.

Blue Skies,
Jasmine
Balance Garden Editor

Introducing...The Retreat

Sun. Sea. Stretch. Sail: A Yoga, Sailing and Island Hopping Retreat
6th - 13th June 2020
Croatia

You're invited on the holiday of a lifetime: Join yoga instructor Tamara Smith and an experienced ground and boat team for “Sun. Sea. Stretch. Sail” a week-long yoga and island hopping retreat around the Croatian islands of the Adriatic Sea.

There will be yoga, meditation, rock climbing, vitamin sea, rest, feasts, peace, movement, and so much more.

Jasmine Pradhan is the editor and co-founder of Balance Garden, and is also a London based yoga teacher you can find her on instagram @stretchandthecity or on her website www.stretchandthecity.co.uk

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