When you meet people that are grounded, that evidently know what they want, that are experiencing life in a unique and deeply happy way, you cannot just pass by.- You want to talk to them.- Something in you is called to understand the way they think of life and what choices that point of view helps them make.- You are inspired to try their thoughts…

We are all somehow looking for a better experience of life, but we often miss the fact that when we want to buy a bigger house or a better car, we are actually chasing the feelings we believe will come from that activity.And yet, if you’ve been listening to Misha and Marina’s podcasts enough, you probably know that given the thought/experience conn…

This episode is a big question in itself. Because we recognise that questions and curiosity are tools to help us get the information we need to have a better collaboration with life, that a state of openness and receptivity is necessary to access guidance, in this episode, we bring you vivid examples of the way we find clarity, but also offer seeds…

When a baby is born, it has a pure experience of life. It’s identity, the “I” or ego, does not exist yet. For some time at least, the child simply takes life as it is.Later on, however, ego appears. From the creation of identity onwards, it is precisely through this sense of “I” that the experience everybody calls “personal” happens. Personal thoug…

What does the expression “to cope” mean to you? Are you aware that you -and everyone around you- have been developing coping mechanisms throughout your life? How does that happen? How does a coping mechanism work? Think about it for a second before you continue reading...For some people, coping with emotions they don’t want to feel looks like escap…

Human beings experience. This is a universal truth. But not only do we have experience, we need it, we thrive on it, and sometimes, we crave extreme ones. However, out of the whole plethora of human experience, there are certain things we definitely want to feel while there are others we are desperately trying to avoid feeling, and will go to extre…

What determines how a relationship flows? Often, one of the things that influences the possibilities is whether we have “instructions” and “scripts” for it or not. This is true for every relationship: with ourselves, with others, with our thoughts and emotions, with circumstance.It is true that thoughts create our reality: they can make us happy, t…

Try to imagine one of those people whose story we have all heard again and again in life, the one in which there was the all-too-common dream of being rich and then, even though the dream comes true and they find themselves in blissful abundance, they still do not find the happiness they thought would come with the circumstance. How is this possibl…

The year 2020 has come to an end and it surely has been a special one, or do you remember many years like this one? Even if you do, you can’t deny that it has forced pretty much everyone to go through massive transformations, sometimes through loss and difficulty, but also through opportunities and invitations to create.The game has changed. Nothin…

What is the difference between a busy mind and a mind in flow? What is the natural design of our consciousness and what are the true desires it has? Why are we driven to achieve more, have more, feel successful, feel safer, if we are spiritual beings? Should we feel ashamed of these impulses? Why?In this episode, Marina and Misha will explore the n…

Is it possible to have a life we absolutely love and enjoy? How do we go about creating it? Or is it more about realizing it? What is abundance and how can we connect with it? Is it possible to experience unconditional joy?In this episode, Marina and Misha go deep in their exploration of how they fell in love with life and actually managed to estab…

Do we have a say on how we are going to live life? Is it possible to find peace in trying to live from a set of values and preferences while meeting life fully on and facing the challenges it brings?In this episode, Misha and Marina explore the nature of values as beliefs and the many ways in which they can affect our lives by limiting our possibil…

What is self-esteem? How is it created? Is it possible to “work” on it?In this episode, Marina and Misha share personal stories about their own journeys with self-esteem, from the role that parents can play in it to the ultimate liberation that can come from a different understanding of the term.In this episode you will learn:- The misunderstanding…

On our episode #12 we explore the many ways in which women sacrifice themselves in the world today in the name of their “role”, today we explore the counterpart of this fact by exploring the male role in the world, the expectations it creates, the pressure it imposes, the consequences it brings. It is only through awareness that we can begin to tac…

Coaching is an art.This implies that there is way more than technical aspects to it, that it actually requires long hours of practice, trial and error, exploration and repetition to actually begin to understand what it is about for each individual coach out there. There is no way to copy or imitate good coaching, because it is inherently dependent …

The world is divided by imaginary boundaries in endless different ways, but some of these ways affect our lives much more than we might think. Such has been the case of gender roles, especially since the establishment of the patriarchy, for both males and females. On this episode, we explore life from the point of view of a woman: the implicit expe…

They say knowing what we want is the most difficult thing in life. Most people can spend half a life time without gaining any clarity around it, partly because there seems to be a belief that it is something we can actually choose and that the choice should be made according to what our rational mind -and our culture- think is “the best option”. An…

Most of us are familiar with that beautiful, mind-freeing, exhilarating experience of being in love, yet we all can easily recognize that our take on it has not truly been unconditional; on the contrary, our relationships seem to be filled with expectations, rules and demands. There are very few people that can honestly say they have had the extrem…

Every single human being on the planet comes naturally equipped with a perfect, elegant, infallible guidance system designed to direct us towards our highest, most rich possibility at every moment. Unfortunately, most human beings are not aware of this fact, and most of the ones that don’t really understand how it works, how it communicates with th…

The way men and women perceive life can be very different, and one of the areas in which the contrast can be especially dramatic is sex. As always, there are two ways to deal with the gap – to deny it or to explore it.So let’s talk about sex, the perceptions that both men and women have of it, how that shapes our capacity to explore it, and how all…

In the Gospel of Matthew, specifically in the part known as the Beatitudes, we find a description, attributed to Jesus, of the qualities that we would need to develop in ourselves in order to receive blessings or consider ourselves blessed. The disciplines the text points to– meekness, hunger and thirst, purity of heart-, are sometimes understood a…

The creation of concepts, judgements and beliefs is inevitable in us, it is part of our human design and happens without our active participation or will. We can only see and become aware of them once they’re already there.But in becoming aware of those thoughts lies the possibility of renouncing them, and that is a valuable exercise that opens the…

We never really know what is going to change our lives, it could be anything at any given moment. Oftentimes a very challenging and difficult situation becomes the catalyst for a change of trajectory in our life, and only later, looking back, can we understand its importance and be grateful for it.Have you ever experienced such grace in a situation…

Do you set goals for yourself?Have you ever thought about the nature of goals? We often set goals to escape from current reality. We also set goals because society thinks is a good way to live our lives. But are all the goals must be achieved to make you feel satisfied?Why do people mostly give up when they fail?The truth is that successful people …

In this podcast we will explore happiness.We all want to feel better. But there is always a crisis for someone — for different people in different time. Today it seems we all have crisis at the same time. Many would believe that if you don’t feel the negative part of live you won’t see the beautiful part, because there would be no contrast. This is…

In this podcast we will learn how not to be afraid or how to be courageous.Daily we fall asleep expecting for the morning to come. But how do we know the morning will come? Why we are so sure? Ain’t we dying every night to be born every morning? Does death feel any different? What does it have to do with fear and courage? What is the real reason of…

The School for Mystics is both the answer to an old calling that for the longest time did not find a way to express itself in the world and a most extraordinary example of things coming together and into life without any struggle whatsoever, as if wished by a higher will. Misha and Marina have managed to intuitively create a space in which to share…