Mindful Georgia

27/04/2024

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” — Lao Tzu

11/11/2023

Wake up early and witness sunrise - the miracle of the day 🌅

20/10/2023

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear” ~ Rumi ~

Our mind is often so busy that it does not get enough time to rest, and it is hard to quiet it. However, as soon as we achieve a peaceful state of mind, we understand that there is so much to listen to in silence.

10/10/2023

🙋‍♀️ Resilient Rural women cultivating healthy food for all 🥙🥗

Mindful Georgia provides some unique opportunities to enjoy organic agricultural activities in agro touristic locations.

დოშკანა • Doshkana

09/10/2023

“Mindful eating is not based on anxiety about the future but on actual choices that are in front of you and on your direct experiences of health while eating and drinking. Mindful eating replaces self-criticism with self-nurturing. It replaces shame with respect for your own inner wisdom.” Jan Chozen Bays.
Creating new combinations of flavors gives us the opportunity to express ourselves creatively in the kitchen. Mindful Georgia will give you the opportunity to meet interesting chefs who can teach you how to savor Georgian, as well as varied fusions of flavors.

Exploring creativity in flavors 🥗🥙 mindful cooking 🧑‍🍳

AGROguesthouse

საოჯახო სასტუმრო თბილი სახლი / Guest House Cozy House

01/10/2023

When you find yourself in chaos, confusion, take a walk, breath in and breath out, find your tree to embrace and listen, listen mindfully… feel the feelings of the trees and nature.. you will find the answer 🙏🍀

26/09/2023

“Man Cannot Discover New Oceans Unless He Has The Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore.” – Andre Gide

23/12/2021

🍇 ~ Italian scientists analysed 204 genomes of common grape vines in Georgia and found that evidence to suggest that a single 'domestication event' occurred in Western Asia.
The experts found that the birth of the grapes used in wines such as Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir took place during that event, which was followed by numerous and pervasive interbreeding with grapes from Georgia and Europe, reports The Times. ~ 🍷 🍇

👇 Read the full article

Italian scientists analysed 204 genomes of common grape vines in Georgia and found that evidence to suggest that a single 'domestication event' occurred in Western Asia.

22/06/2021

Embracing Creativity in Flavours

“Mindful eating is not based on anxiety about the future but on actual choices that are in front of you and on your direct experiences of health while eating and drinking. Mindful eating replaces self-criticism with self-nurturing. It replaces shame with respect for your own inner wisdom.” Jan Chozen Bays.

On June 19, 2021, Mindful Georgia organised an inspiring world lunch performance “Embracing Creativity in Flavours” during the 24 hour online Global Peace Conference ‘Weaving a Shared Future Together’.

The performance introduced the Ayurvedic as well as meditative cooking approaches in helping participants to balance their physical and mental status for living a healthier lifestyle. Mindful cooking performance provided the opportunity to enjoy the present moment with the ingredients present in front of us.

In Ayurvedic cooking approach, mindful cooking is a great feeling about how cooking helps to improve the overall health status of the entire family! It is about excelling the art of creating products from unknowns with the help of kitchen tools and ingredients by tuning ourselves to attention and care on balancing tri-doshas in the body, selecting seasonal and organic ingredients, taking care of good or bad combinations, managing heat and cold impressions, caring acid and alkaline interactions inside stomach and proper combination of main food with spice or herbs for boosting immunity and managing bloating. Overall, it is all about balancing physical and mental status and living a healthier life, which we call ‘mindful eating’.

This creative performance explored and uncovered the “mindful cooking” approaches as a way to reconnect to our bodies and become enraptured by the whole process building thus the inner peace and resilience. Speakers gave the participants the opportunity to travel to Nepal and to Georgia while exploring these two countries traditional flavours.

A full recording of the performance will be available soon!

Speakers:
Sharada Jnawali - is a Development Specialist, currently working as a Freelance Consultant. She has Master Degree in Economics (Nepal 1980), Professional Leadership Course on Health and Nutrition (Cornell University, USA 1988) and Rotary Peace Fellow (Chulalongkorn University 2017). Combining her hobby of Healthy Cooking with Self Care, Sharada continues to share creative recipes, both local and fusion, to groups interested in wellbeing. She has authored the recipe book “Nepali Home Cooking for Healthy Living”, promotes Nepali spices and herbs through cooking classes and educates women and youths on healthy eating practices. To turn her learning experience to practice, she is currently engaged in mentoring youths under the initiative “The Nutri Kitchen’ by producing healthy foods and beverages.

Nino Lotishvili is an intercultural communication specialist (University of Lugano, Switzerland) and a peace building practitioner (Chulalongkorn Peace Center, Bangkok, Thailand) based and working in the country of Georgia. Nino’s life-changing peace path inspired her to unite inner and outer peace concepts and launch an initiative of Peace Research Centre Tbilisi and Mindful Georgia to promote well-being and inner resilience throughout Georgia and the South Caucasus region. Her research and praxis have included how to support women in conflict transformational processes and peace-building in the South Caucasus.

Mindful Georgia is an incoming tour operator, founded in 2020 to promote a holistic and a well-being tourism throughout Georgia.

31/05/2021

Dear Mindful Georgia community join this performance on Embracing Creativity in Flavours through mindful cooking approach and learn how to cook one of the Georgian traditional dishes mindfully, by engaging all of our senses.

This event is part of the Global Peace Conference "Weaving a Shared Future Together" to take place on the 19th June 2021.
See the program here: https://lnkd.in/dss_dii.
You will receive the links for participation after registering here: https://lnkd.in/ej8gYQa.

04/05/2021

Love is the vine that grows into our hearts

13/02/2021

~The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing and its sound is love: When love renounces all limits, it reaches truth. How widely the fragrance spreads! It has no end, nothing stands in its way~
Kabir

~ Do not die with your unique music still in you~
Wayne Dyer

Get ready for our offers to play your unique music and to express yourself in mindful connections:
http://mindfulgeorgia.com/destination/tango-and-mindful-connections/
http://mindfulgeorgia.com/destination/experiencing-polyphonic-singing/

Galope - Performance at Teatro Municipal de Lomas de Zamora
Buenos Aires, Argentina

24/12/2020

~Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love ~ RUMI

Mindful Georgia wishes you Merry Christmas and Happy New 2021 Year! May this new year of aquarian age be more balanced, mindful, full of love, abundance, inner light, gratitude, and inner joy!

e Felice Anno Nuovo!
et Bonne Année!
and Happy New Year!

27/10/2020

Love Wine Peace
Lotishvili Wines for Peace
LWP Winery harvest 2020
Reviving Family Qvevri Wines Tradition

“There is no country where they drink more or better wine” with these words Jean Baptiste Chardin encounters 8000 years of uninterrupted wine-making culture in Georgia. LWP Winery wants to capture a special taste and feeling of this continuous tradition with its mindful approach. Since ancient times, the wine-making process has been a sacred practice for people preserving this culture. It has been a ritual accompanied by Georgian Polyphonic sounds. Thus, LWP Winery goes deeper into this culture and invites wine-lovers to feel the whole process, to try to see beyond the glass, and to appreciate the invisible links between each part of the whole process of wine-making orchestra.

24/08/2020

"Make more decisions in every day. Because a decision is a summoning of life. That’s why a little chaos is good for you, because often you don’t make a decision until you get yourself in a jam. And then, in the middle of the jam, you make a decision, but that decision summons Life Force. Have you ever been a place where you couldn’t quite make up your mind and you just felt sort of limp? “Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.” And then you decided, and you felt alive again. We want you to know that you’ll never get it done. So don’t approach this from, “I gotta get on this” because you’re not ever going to get it done, anyway. And the other thing we want you to know is, you cannot get it wrong. So, make a decision. Let it flow". Esther

14/08/2020

“The quieter you become more you are able to hear.” - Rumi

14/08/2020

13/08/2020

"If there is no source of illness, why are there so many sick people? It is because they have found lots of excuses to hold themselves in vibrational discord with wellness. They are not letting it in. And when they don’t let it in, the absence of it looks like sickness. And when enough of them do it you say, “Oh, there must be a source of sickness. In fact, let’s give it a label. Let’s call it cancer. Let’s call it AIDS. Let’s call it all kinds of terrible things, and let’s imply that it jumps into people’s experience.” And we say it never jumps into anybody’s experience. It’s just that people learn through trial and error, and — through banging around with each other — patterns of thought that don’t let it in." Esther Hicks

Indeed, we can let the well-being in, just by breathing and admiring pure nature which surrounds us 😍🙏

10/08/2020

Going with the flow

03/08/2020

”In India it is said that the most beautiful hour is that of sunrise, when the night still lingers in the air and the day is not yet full, when the distinction between darkness and light is not yet clear and for a few moments the man if he wants, if he knows how to pay attention, he can sense that everything in life appears to him in contrast, the darkness and the light, the false and the true are but two aspects of the same thing. They are different, but not easily separable, they are distinct, but they are not two. Like a man and a woman, who are so wonderfully different, but who become one in love.” (Tiziano Terzani)

11/06/2020

À la source du vin!
"La vinification Qvevri est pratiquée dans toute la Géorgie, en particulier dans les communautés villageoises où sont cultivées des variétés de raisins uniques. Le Qvevri est un récipient en terre cuite en forme d'oeuf utilisé pour la production, le vieillissement et la conservation du vin." déclare l'UNESCO en 2013 et décide de l'inscrire sur la liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité.

Voici un documentaire intéressant sur 8 000 ans de la tradition ininterrompue de vinification Qvevri.

Pour Mindful Georgia, le processus de vinification est également un processus conscient et spirituel. Donc, quand sera possible, nos visiteurs auront l'opportunité incroyable de se laisser séduire par l'orchestre œnologique!

New French-made documentary on Georgian Wine by Philippe Gasnier

01/06/2020

"When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it"

26/05/2020

“The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.” ~ Osho

21/05/2020

05/04/2020

“Dance When You're Broken Open.
Dance If You've Torn The Bandage Off.
Dance In The Middle Of The Fighting.
Dance In Your Blood. Dance When You're Perfectly Free.”

"In your light, I learned to love
In your beauty, I found poetry
You dance in my heart
Where I only see You " ~ Rumi

Whatever circumstances you are in, put your favourite music on, feel your body and perform your unique dance. Allow your inner light, your heart to guide you

https://www.facebook.com/Mamala28071993 LAZURI - SUXISHVILEBI

28/03/2020

“Mindful eating is not based on anxiety about the future but on actual choices that are in front of you and on your direct experiences of health while eating and drinking. Mindful eating replaces self-criticism with self-nurturing. It replaces shame with respect for your own inner wisdom.” Jan Chozen Bays.

Enjoy while 🥰🍀

18/03/2020

“The quieter you become more you are able to hear.” - Rumi

"In a pandemic, self-isolation is called quarantine. In spirituality, it is called retreat. From the cave of our home, like the meditators of ancient times, we can consciously kindle the lamp of compassion and connection." ~ Lama Willa Miller

Our mind is often so busy within this frenetic routine that it does not get enough time to rest, and it is hard to quiet it. However, as soon as we achieve a peaceful state of mind, we understand that there is so much to listen to in silence.

Let us slow down our pace, and come back to our true nature and embrace compassion and connection

08/03/2020

"The woman can be of immense help in creating an organic society. She is different from man, but not unequal. She is as equal to a man as any other man. She has talents of her own which are absolutely needed.

Women’s liberation is automatically men’s liberation. Women’s slavery is automatically men’s slavery. They go together."~ Osho

Happy International Women's Day to both - women and men - a great reminder to embrace each other's freedom!

05/03/2020

05/03/2020

* Are you looking for different ways to travel and completely relax from your everyday life?
* Are you interested in deep, mindful and meaningful connections while at the same time experiencing the diversity of the multicultural South Caucasus region?
* Are you curious to discover spiritual and mystical places in Georgia?
* Are you a wine-lover who would like to experience the wine-making process as a conscious practice?
* Are you a lover of tango looking for different ways to express yourself within the dance and make mindful connections?

@ Then, you are more than welcome to trust your intuition and choose Mindful Georgia to make your holidays one of the most precious and meaningful experiences of your life.