by Srila Devi | 1. December 2025 | Indian Spirituality, Meditation, Personal Transformation, Reflections
Many, if not most, people begin meditation for simple, human reasons: to settle their minds, soothe their emotions, and find some peace inside a world that never seems to slow down. And meditation does exactly that. Studies show it can ease anxiety, depression, and...
by Srila Devi | 24. November 2025 | Healing, Personal Transformation, Reflections, Trauma
I’m just finishing Virginia Giuffre’s raw and unflinching autobiography Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, and it’s made me reflect once again on the importance of healing trauma – and the enormous cost of leaving unhealed...
by Srila Devi | 17. November 2025 | All Posts, Personal Transformation, Reflections, Restorative Justice
About twenty years ago, I evaluated a restorative justice project at Wellingborough Prison in the UK called “Drugs and Crime Mean Doing Time.” It was a grassroots initiative where at-risk children — or those already on the edge of offending — visited the prison for a...
by Srila Devi | 3. November 2025 | All Posts, Personal Transformation, Reflections, Relections, Spiritual Writing, Writing Life
As I’m immersed in — and blown away by — Liz Gilbert’s new book All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation, I’ve been reflecting on what makes a good writer. People often say to me, “I can’t write,” or, “I’d love to write a book, but I don’t know how to...
by Srila Devi | 27. October 2025 | All Posts, Divine Timing, Film News, Indian Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Spiritual Journeys, Spiritual Writing
Some dreams do come true. It has always been my wish that my first book, Meeting Shiva – Falling and Rising in Love in the Indian Himalayas, would one day become a meaningful film — one created by a director who truly understands the message of transformation at the...
by Maitreyi | 7. March 2022 | All Posts, Personal Transformation
Today I would like to share a beautiful reflection on death by the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, who recently laid down his mortal body. The text is titled A Kaleidoscope. “As a child, I loved playing with a kaleidoscope that I made myself from a tube and a few...
