Oh gosh! Where do I begin!!
So much has happened, and I have been so caught up in living it all that I don’t even know where to start…
Not the beginning, obviously! We would have way too much catching up to do 😆 but I suppose… let’s start here:
I’m sitting in a super sweet little Villa in Bali right now, with Ganesh at my door and surrounded by the symphony of nature sounds that is actually quite loud - roosters and trickling water and frogs and cicadas and dogs and geckos (did you even know gekos came with SOUND??!! It’s like a frog and a donkey had a baby huh HUUUHH huh HUUUH … maybe you’ll just have to come hear them yourself.)
It is warm and balmy and I am absolutely filled with a buzzy feeling of joy.
I love it here!!
And I get the bonus feeling of absolutely nailing the Air BNB assignment! I’m staying for just one night at a villa south of Ubud where the kids and I will stay for a whoel month later in the year when Toff is off completing the second half of his Tantra Yoga Teacher Training (the same training I’m beginning in just a few hours!)
Which is why I am in Bali…. and my husband and children are in Japan!
We left our home in South Australia two days ago (our beautiful home!! The house of dreams!! That we fully manifested ourselves into and that has been a dream upon a dream to live in for four years!!) and will be travelling for the entire year.
We’re starting here - Toff and the kids in Japan for a month or two, skiing and visiting family friends (Toff’s mum has joined them for the start of their journey!) and visiting all the fun Japan things, like the Poop Museum, cat cafes, and all the anime our 13 year old can wrap his heart around!!
And me here in Bali, a land that holds so much energy for me and where I’m delighted to be stepping more deeply into Tantra and Yoga.
So how did we get here?
Well… we followed the energy!!
The idea first bubbled up as a logical choice… since selling our bakery last year Toff and I have yet to step into jobs that provide us with a living wage - but we’re both keen to let the next chapter of life unfold for us and are obviously wildly blessed that we can even make the choice to draw from our mortgage and get to lead from our hearts (….wildly blessed and also possibly wildly crazy… I don’t know many people who could handle the stress of just watching that number go down!!!)
And both of our paths were already leading us towards Bali for a good chunk of this year anyhow…
So we packed up the kids for a month back in October and brought them to Bali for the first time, slowly feeling into what it might be like to live here as a family for the year…
And they hated it.
It was too hot.
Too busy.
Too far and too different and with too poor of a wifi connection…
So we started to wonder… what was the best thing for them? What’s the best thing for a kid?
To have one solid home with a healthy community around them so they can have the experience of sports and friends and camping and regular routine…
or to follow their parents around the world on one wild adventure? Packing up all of their belongings, strapping a backpack on their backs (the only things they could bring are what they can carry) and tearfully saying bye to family & besties they’ve had since they were 3….?
Well, you can see which path we chose.
And it came down to the energy.
When we returned home from that month in Bali, wondering what next and pondering all possible scenarios… Toff and I both noticed that the beautiful energy in our home suddenly felt… flat.
And all I can put it down to is that we’re just not meant to be there right now.
So we’ll follow the energy.
And now, fast forward through a summer with my parents visit from the states for 6 weeks, their first Christmas down under, a 93rd birthday followed fairly quickly by a celebration of Life ceremony for Toff’s beloved Nan, finding someone to rent our house for the year, packing up all of our belongings and getting rid of a few trailers worth of stuff…. we’ve done it.
We’re doing it!
We’ll start the year like this, but are quite aware - we have no idea what life will look like by the end of it.
And as I sit here, surrounded by the sounds of the Island of the Gods, the energy buzzes vibrantly to life within me.
I cannot seem to stop smiling.
xx Cara
So nice to be 'reading' you again. I love the Boldness of it all, that's what life's about! Yay 💕
Looking great and looks like you have let go of a lot of emotional stuff.
Enjoy your training.
Ron