Surapsari Fujimaru
Find and Follow Your Inner Compass
We all experience transition. It is inevitable as long as we exist. It is the order of nature: weather changes, seasons shift, and people...
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Surapsari Fujimaru
- 4 min
Setting and Releasing Goals
On every New Year’s Day I take a time for a long meditation to clarify the mind and open up for all the possibilities the new year may...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 3 min
End of Year (2020): Reflection & Letting Go
It’s the time again: the time to look back at the current year and release whatever doesn’t belong to me anymore. I sit on the porch of...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Find Peace in Uncertainty
The sun shines through the pond, with its light caressing me underwater. A breeze makes a current and sways my stalk. I'm a lotus,...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Planting Seeds of Mindfulness
Jessica shows up at our Youth Mindfulness Summer Camp with a thermal bottle. “I brought green tea,” she smiles. “I love green tea!”...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Mindful Art
I draw a curvy line of a vine with a complete focus. The end of the swirly vine yields to the beginning of a new one. I repeat the...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Silent Retreat at Home
Silence is the most vibrant sound of all. It is the sound of life, the sound of the universe. As white light contains all colors, silence...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Switching the Lenses
I love spending time outdoors. I enjoy taking photos of the beauty around me while hiking or just relaxing in my backyard. Lying on the...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 3 min
Healing the Whole Being
I teach a class called Healing Culinary Traditions from Asia. This four-session series features diets, ingredients, cooking methods, and...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 3 min
Standing Up For Your Values
“I’m fine Catherine’s smile froze at the end of the sentence. Her strained voice and frowned eyebrows betrayed her words. “Are you sure?”...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 1 min
Spring Self-Exploration
A wind blows through the tall oak tree in front of our retreat cottage. It shakes off dried leaves, the only reminder of the winter storm...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Restoring Peace and Harmony
While making a Balinese offering sample, my mind wanders the rice paddies in Ubud, the village where I lived with my family for over 15...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Gods' Delight
Okame (the Lady of Happiness), Hyottoko (the Funny Man), and Ebisu (the Lucky Gods). I smile while going through Kagura masks one by one...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Plant Seeds of Joy
Yellow daisies, Indian blanket, prairie verbena, and buttercup. Rainbow-colored wildflowers popped up in our yard. Butterflies and bees...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 4 min
Entering the Dream World
It’s happening again. The departure time for my flight is fast approaching. I have so many items to pack in my suitcase, but it is still...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Keep Your Doors Open
"Mike wanted me to leave. It was so obvious in his attitude," Jeff says bitterly. He recently resigned from the company he had worked...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Meditative Art
The calligraphy brush descends into the ink as black as night. It absorbs the darkness in every hair and rests on the hill of the suzuri...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Kintsugi: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Imperfection
The earth-colored ceramic bowl was decorated with golden lines. They were not arranged in patterns and flowed like a stream, freely...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Pause, Feel, and Move Forward
My heart is tightening with a feeling again. I’m familiar with this experience. Sadness, irritation, or resistance — whatever the emotion...
Surapsari Fujimaru
- 2 min
Finding and Following Your Inner Compass
We all experience transition in life. It is inevitable as long as we exist. It is the order of nature: weather changes, seasons shift,...