# @mahi.meditates on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C17MPlvI1TO
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59715789-mahimeditates-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-01-10T15:31:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Mahi Davide (@mahi.meditates) — https://gondola.cc/mahi.meditates

## Caption

This is a photograph of personal victory, taken 1 year ago.

The journey that led me to create this online retreat, 10 Days of Rest, all started a little over a year ago when I captured this moment. 

This evening I took the last train home, something that was physically impossible after 1,5 months of battling exhaustion. 

The diagnosis I received in November prior demanded a break from all my social activities, and on this day, for the first time, I felt a gentle return of life-force.

That November I underestimated the toll of prolonged stress on my body. A warning signal manifested, compelling me to listen. 

Grateful for a month of challenges—bad sleep, tears, and work struggles—because it reconnected me with the wisdom of my body. When I started hearing and holding her, my body slowly allowed me to work with her again.

Throughout that period, I spoke openly about my exhaustion to my surroundings, and it revealed a common thread. 

Almost everyone I spoke to had experienced similar prolonged fatigue, burn-out, or a confronting stint of exhaustion. It felt like a silent epidemic.

If you resonate with this experience or sense you might have been overriding your system, this retreat is a natural antidote—a vehicle for profound expansion in an often underrated ‘activity’: resting.

In the dance of life, 
Yang requires Yin,
Action requires stillness. 
They cannot exist without each other.

🕊️🌿
#peace
#burnout
#exhaustion
#RestAndRestore 
#10daysofrestretreat

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