It all begins where you are. Allow yourself to have what your true nature craves and the rest will enfold naturally… In the midst of a pandemic can we allow ourselves to have what our adventurous soul is craving? YES. Absolutley, but only if we don’t let......
Are you listening to your calling? What is your adventurous soul telling you? Autumn is a great time for hiking, reflection and listening. It just seems to be another feeling of stillness. This calls for a change in lifestyle rutines as the days here in......
Right now, it can be a challenge for all of us to connect and focus during a global crisis. Where are you? We are all in different situations. Many of us are worried about our family, friends, humanity and the world. What will happen? Some......
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ~Francis of Assisi When I am approached by overseas friends and aquantances for tips on where to visit and the best hikes, my immediate response is, “You have to come to......
“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.” – Hippocrates How is it for you? Do you feel better after a run, walk or a hike? I certainly do! It’s true. Hiking,......
Have you thought about how to kick off your 2020. No matter how small or big – doing what’s important for you makes a big difference. I have not yet made any plans for 2020. However, I had a long subconscious list of hikes and......
…to welcome new perspectives & goals into your life, with ease – embracing those cravings. O LA LA … we are already in the latter part of 2019. It’s time to set the tone for 2020. Do you feel the vibe? Allow it to unfold, just......
Nature is my greatest source of inspiration. What about you? Benefits of nature Nature has a calming effect on the nervous system in a healing way. It is soothing and makes us more relaxed and at ease. We also know that it has positive effects......
Energy of compassion & loving kindness to self and others … This is the Himalayan vibe! I was so moved by what my friend Javid told me. It reminded me of how crucial it is to express gratitude and goodness towards the people who cares......
Welcome on a guided walk – called Kora – around His Holiness Dalai Lama’s temple … There are a few reasons for sharing this video with you. The Kora is one of the first things I do when I get to Mc Leod Ganj, Dharamsala......
The moment to nourish yourself is now … THE P A T H of a free mind has no attachments. However, it means that we can allow ourselves to flow with the divine grace and enjoy all blessings bestowed upon us, including material wealth. Although,......
The IT. Isn’t it amazing? Being able to listen to our intuition and feel our energy helps us to use our inner wisdom to make decisions and create the life we want. And not only that, listening to the chaos and frustration will allow you......
Hello there … Have you noticed whether your energy is expanding or contracting? This is telling us something. What feels good and what doesn’t. To know exactly what we must listen deeply and catch it in the moment. Don’t worry if you haven’t. It takes......
The IT I am referring to, is your energy. What is it telling you? It is providing us with information all the time. In the video below I give you some examples and insight into how you can become more aware of what your energy......
Open your mind to new horizons, experiences and possibilities. Give yourself the permission to try new things and new doors will open that enrich your life with peace, confidence and happiness. Open mindedness and movement allow new things to happen naturally. Invite something new into your......
Empower yourself. What a way to start the year with a full moon that represents a new cycle of beginnings. Do you trust your intuition? In this video I share more ways to help you stay even more grounded and connected, so you can let......
Welcome the new energy. I want you to feel empowered and reassured that you are more than capable of getting the life you want and even beyond that! LET YOURSELF BE INSPIRED. What is important for you to focus on – right now? Over the......
Do you feel restless? If the answer is yes … Don’t worry! There are many ways to take advantage of this energy in a positive way. I know. This implies that restlessness is negative. But is it always negative? I am sure your answer is......
On his visit to Bergen, Rinpoche kindly share some tips on how we can focus our mind and connect more deeply with ourselves – so we can deal more confidently with difficult situation and feel more at peace and in harmony. Meditation Rinpoche asks......
Are you ready for a rare event in Bergen 28 & 29. June, 2018? Don’t miss this opportunity to experience something new and different. In the spirit of summer solstice, it is with great honour to introduce Rinpoche – a Tibetan Buddhist Master from the......
Hello ! It’s great to connect with you again. What can you do today to make a difference to you? To make yourself feel good and connect more with who you are. What is important? If we haven’t done this for a long time or......
I took the above picture from my tiny balcony in Bergen a couple of nights ago (11 p.m.). Look at the picture and magine that you are watching your entire life. What do you see? What do you focus on? This inspiration came to me......
Are you ready for a challenge? I unexpectedly met this stranger and his friend on my hike to Ulriken this evening (Bergen’s highest mountaintop). Well this guy has thrown his shoes and is walking / hiking barefoot. In India, YES! But in Norway, NO!. I must......
Frustration is a common emotional response that comes when we experience opposition or conflict within ourselves or in relation to others. As part of frustration, we may feel disappointed, irritable, annoyed or even angry. It can come as a result of not achieving what we......
Travelling takes us out of our comfort zone in unexpected ways and into the unknown. We learn to understand and know ourselves. To see and accept the dark corners of the room hidden deep in our psyche. Experiences open our heart as we witness more......
Focus on taking one step at the time, and your greater vision is nurtured in your heart. As part of practicing awareness — take note of and observe what you are focusing on. Are you focusing on what is working or not working? Either way......
Coming back to India this time in November 2016 — Roti making has become Love Making and I love it… I call it the bliss of Roti Yoga… Namaste!...
Namaste! This is my first blog post in a long time and the first one on my updated website. Welcome to my online ‘home’. Please make yourself at home. This is a place where I want you to connect more with yourself and experience inner......
C O N N E C T. F O C U S. F L O W. This is so wonderful. We all have a belly button. We all have a place of peace. We all breathe. Big or small. Now it is time to connect......
Boost Your Immune System: Managing Stress | Womens Health S T R E S S E D? S T O P. L I S T E N. R E S T. Great tips on how to boost your immune system....
A Navy SEAL’s Morning Routine To Stay Focused & Feel Great All Day This is a great routine. I do something similar and now it’s part of my life and on my daily morning schedule. And of course I am a Yoga lover. I can’t......
W O R L D Y O G A D A Y I N S P I R A T I O N Happy International Yoga day everyone. Yoga is so much more than just physical exercise. It has a meditative and spiritual dimension that......
Travelling takes us out of our comfort zone in unexpected ways. Experiences open our heart as we witness more and more that the universe has a plan beyond the expectations of the mind. As soon as we realise this, we are not concerned about what......
It happened again! I got the familiar feeling of Walking Into It again when I was invited to be an honored guest speaker at the Int Conference on Yoga – Science & Education at Banaras Hindu University. I met so many wonderful people and new......
I love the magic of synchronicity. I met Dr Anju when I was invited to do a guest lecture at Banaras Hindu University on my book, Walking Into It. And this morning I am teaching Yoga with Dr Anju to this wonderful group of young Americans......
YES, it is my fourth day back from a silent 10-day Vipassana retreat. It’s time to integrate the practice into my life. It is another step. Before I did the silent retreat I invited people to come with me. But it’s not too late to......
Yea! I am a chapatti / roti lover. And this time around in India I have learnt how to make the best roots and making sabji (vegetables) with all the wonderful medicinal spices. One of the great things about traveling is to experience the amazing......
Yeah! I am a chapatti / roti lover. It took some time but I can now make the best chapatti’s (roti) and making sabji (vegetables) with all the wonderful medicinal spices. I call it R O T I Y O G A. And the best......
CREATING A DAILY ROUTINE — that feeds our being and purifies our mind takes determination, patience and perseverance. But when we do it, slowly and steadily, the rewards are great. To avoid being hocked into the distractions I do my healthy routine first thing in......
IT IS TIME FOR ME TO…Just repeat this over and over in your mind until it is done…then move on to next ‘thing’, and in the end we realise that there is always something more that drives us towards the ultimate state of being or......
What a great joy and surprise it was to meet with these wonderful students from the Institute of Radio and Television in Gorakhpur, India. It was an honor to speak about Connect • Focus • Flow™ and my journey in the Himalayas described in my book......
In action! An honour and great joy to contribute with Connect • Focus • Flow™ for Indian rural women. This is part of the Yoga Day Camp in Vashisthnagar, Gorakhpur, India. And the most amazing thing is that we don’t usually see any women out in......
RIGHT NOW…CONTINOUS TO BE BRAND NEW IN EVERY SINGLE SECOND AND MOMENT AWARENESS. Something happened today to mark the ‘new’ for me. Read below and reflect over what you can do to symbolically mark that ‘new’ thing or feeling that can be an anchor for......
A surprise visit and special ceremony and blessings by Mother Ganga and Aarti in presence of Pujya Swamiji at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. ....
WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? What do we want to focus on? Christmas is a wonderful time to connect more deeply to who we are, focus and flow with the universal love of celebration. Here is an inspirational message from Sri Swami Sivananda, Rishikesh Ashram in......
We know that meditation enhances our well being…Why are we not doing it? Or are we doing it without being aware of it? Any time we are at peace with our inner self in harmony and balance — I believe we are in a natural......
‘Sadness cries in longing for the meaningful — Joy is found in connection with our true nature.’ ~ From Walking Into It. “I have just started to read Borghild’s book, ‘Walking Into It’ and after completing the first chapter, I want to walk the Camino......
A surprise visit to Rishikesh this week…enjoying the serene moments celebrating life on the banks of Mother Ganga. This is a taste from the Ganga Aarti (a ceremony of song, chanting, inspiration and lights at sunset) by Pujya Swamiji at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, India....
This is a video of the Himalayan journey that inspired me to write the Walking Into It. It is the most significant journey so far in my life. One single journey can change out life! One single moment can change out life! That’s why I......
KEEP WALKING. This a short video from part II of my newest book, Walking Into It. Lamayuru is an amazing place and after six days in and around Leh this is where the 21-day trekking journey across the wild and isolated Himalayan mountain kingdom started.......
This is part of the trekking adventure described in my book Walking Into It: A Pilgrimage through Foreign Lands to Inner Worlds. It started with the Camino de Santiago and continued on to the Himalayas in northern India. This particular video is from Lingshed Monastery,......
This is where and how the journey started that changed my life. Gradually, by walking, walking and walking, I learnt to trust and enjoy the process of connecting with who I am. Only in hindsight could I begin to comprehend the significance of what it......
Invitasjon til boklansering av Walking Into It med Borghild Bø Bli med forfatteren på et inspirerende foredrag på norsk om hva som kan skje når vi tar oss tid til å lytte til vår intuisjon og går inn i det ukjente. Litteraturhuset, Bergen, torsdag 5. november, 2015 18:30 til......
SLOW DOWN — COME BACK TO THE MOMENT — AND… “Connect. Breathe. Relax. Focus. Flow with what is. Stay connected to the earth and the sky. Be present.” — Walking Into It Connect • Focus • Flow™ Self-awareness Practice...
Walking Into It: A Pilgrimage through Foreign Lands to Inner Worlds is now available on borghildbo.com as a digital version, a signed copy can be ordered, Amazon, and selected bookstores in Bergen, and Os Libris (my home town) and in selected bookstores in Varanasi, India......
AUM ARUNACHALA AUMARUNACHALA AUM ARUNACHALA It was a great honor to walk around Mt Arunachala (18 km) with thousands of others (in the city of Tiruvannamalai) on the full moon pilgrimage on the night of 31st July, 2015. This mountain has a great spiritual significance......
HAPPY NAVRATRI! Celebrating Navratri (one of the holiest Hindu festivals where people worship different avatars of Goddess Durga for 9 days). Went to a temple early this morning and then made a delicious Indian dish called Halwa (made of Lotus nuts) and Bael fruit juice…YAM......
India is my breath of living spirituality. It teaches me about higher awareness to just be in flow. Every experience, whatever we face, whether unpleasant or pleasant takes us to higher awareness. It is all part of our personal evolution. We just need to be......
It’s early, yet many are up to worship Mother Ganga and get her blessings. Some are still sleeping and during the hot summer months sleeping by the Ganges must be the best place....
Hello, Borghild. I just got the urge to write to you and tell you how much your book, Walking Into It, gives me. I am now at Day 5–KhardungLa Pass and I have read it over and over many times to take in the deeper......
Walking Into I t has now arrived in bookstores in Varanasi, India. And to my Indian friends it is also available on Amazon.in. For others it is available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. In Norway it is available from the author, Os Libris bookstore (in my......
I have just started to read Borghild’s book, ‘Walking Into It’ and after completing the first chapter, I want to walk the Camino in Spain. Maybe I will ask a girlfriend to come with me. ABF...
It is with great joy that Connect • Focus • Flow™ Awareness Program has made it to a rural village in India. Celebrating the International Yoga Day (Sunday June 21, 2015) with a program in Vashisthnagar (Saunkhor), Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. We tried to create......
It is great to be back in the holy city of Banaras and to participate in the Yoga Program they offer at Assi Ghat every morning. Every moment is a surprise!...
Infinite Light by Borghild Bø Oil painting on canvas. Here you can see a part of the painitng progress. When I started to paint in 2011, the impossible came possible. It was totally unthinkable and something I had never dreamt I could do. It makes......
For me this is the most precious place on earth. I loved growing up on a farm. At a very early age we happily took part in all duties. 🙂...
It is time, finally, to celebrate and share my book, Walking Into It—to let it fly like a leaf in the world, into the hands of anyone who wants to pick it up and let it whisper…...
Happy spring, happy day, happy living in the moment, happy to just be, happy blooming, happy shining in the light, happy radiating its beauty on us all, happy to let us admire it for what it is…that is the nature of a beautiful blossoming tree—a......
Feel the energy of spring and let yourself blossom with blissful joy… Let yourself bloom. Why not? What is the risk of letting go? What is the function of holding on so tightly to the pain of what we don’t want in our life? And,......
Connect • Focus • Flow™ in Action. I am truly grateful to be a witness to the transformation experienced by the wonderful and beautiful women who joined me for the Self-Awareness practice workshop in Bergen, Norway. What a joy!...
Doing Yoga this morning I caught myself not remembering which pose I had just done. I realized that I was in another world other than the present moment. I stop, I breathe and reconnect, I observe and refocus, I accept where I am and I......
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I love Indian food. Thank you for all your delicious food Sangita. And for making me countless cups of Chi tea....
Life by the Ganges in Varanasi. Here they practice daily worship to Mother Ganga. Living a divine reality. Surrendering—again and again—we will receive our heart’s true desire....
I arrived in Varanasi (after my journey to Perth, Bali and Nepal) and had the great pleasure to give Guruji a copy of my artbook, Fire of Creation: Painting Visions of Energy. To my surprise he had invited the press and a few people from......
Yesterday was a holiday here in India where people bathed in the sacred Ganga, fasted and didn’t speak. It was a celebration of the dark moon, symbolising new beginnings where the intention was on right speech, and a reminder to use less speech, simple words......
A lovely morning at the monkey temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. This is also called Swayambhu and it is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites for Tibetan Buddhists after Boudha. You can enter two ways. If you choose to climb the 365 steps, you will face......
WHAT A JOURNEY… As opposed to my return from the Himalayan mountains in Nepal (in January 2015) getting there was easy (22 December 2014). As you can see from the pictures taken as I hiked to Jhong the landscape is majestic and has the power......
I didn’t know if I was going to get to this magic place in Mustang in Nepal before christmas 2014. But the weather cleared up and I was lucky to catch the flight from Pokhara to Jomsom after seven days of it being cancelled. I......
When I came to Nepal this time, my intention was to paint. How it was going to happen, I didn’t know. And it happened! In a beautiful way that I could not have imagined. I met beautiful people that you will read in a later......
Anything can happen in the Valley of Achievements … I love it when this happens! I am in this beautifully quiet, tiny village about an hour’s drive from Kathmandu for a few days. Apart from me and the staff who manage the place, there is......
From one world to another—here I am again in Nepal, Kathmandu. At Boudha stupa, the world’s largest....
In my magic outdoor shower here in Ubud, Bali, I had an epiphany this morning. “As soon as I realised that I am nothing, I knew that I didn’t have to be anything. Without any self-imposed expectations or judgments of who I have to be,......
A beautiful day in Ubud — started off with yoga by the beautiful garden where I am staying. Then I hopped on my scooter and went to one of my favourite cafe’s (Atman) where I had the usual ‘mixed berry lassi’. Late morning a lovely......
Immersed in the creative Bali inspiration, in Ubud. Making my own first ever Batik....
It is all about who we are — and how we choose to live our life…Like this fruit called durian, it does not worry about what it wants to do. It just grows and evolves naturally. Ultimately, that is what we all do. Right? What......
In response to the video about Inspiration for Meditation, a friend wrote: “You said it took ‘years’ to find out what meditation is/was. I would like some tips about some short cuts. I am old you know.” First of all thank you to my friend......
Bø in its spectacular autumn magic… My paradise on Earth…...
A spectacular hike to the king of Hardangervidda in Norway—Hårteigen (1690 m). It’s a two day hike from Hjølme—Hadlaskard—Hårteigen. In total it’s a three day hike. It was a six hour hike from Hjølme to Hadlaskard. All in all 63 km return. Fantastic view in......
Destination — Flatbrehytta, Norway (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)...
I finally did this hike I had been wanting to do for a long time. From Bergen it’s a 5 hour drive to where the hike starts. The hike to Flatbrehytta in Norway takes about 3 hours. It’s truly a magical and beautiful place where......
What is a good reason for you to smile…? Or even better, we don’t need to know why—we just love to see you smile… 🙂...
In love with the beauty of summer…and the infinite sky of possibilities…...
Having seen, felt, touched and heard these children, I know they are still smiling, even if their feet get wet when they get out of bed. Guatemala: Most children in Vista Hermosa attend a school run by a British education foundation in Jocotenango. On Monday,......
Namaste! From the Indian Ocean in Perth, Australia and Bali, I love being in Nepal. These pictures are from the early morning rituals and prayers at Durbar Square, Kathmandu....
In the river of flow—we can’t possible plan where it goes. If we try to force it to go a particular way, the flow is disturbed and creates havoc…...
After an amazing stay in the Himalayas at about 4000 m, I was transported back to Kathmandu by the river of seamless flow…The only one picked up by a jeep when the buss broke down, the first day of good weather for my first flight,......
Friend: Hello Borghild!! Long time, no talk or see. I am just so curious about you!! It seems you are perpetually travelling and I wonder how this is? It looks wonderful and what a life woman, but really how do you travel so much? Hope......
On my way back to the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal where the majestic mountains take my breath away, I am inspired to share one of my experiences in Durbar Square, Kathmandu (when I was there last time). Guruji whom I had stayed with for two......
On my way back to the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal where the majestic mountains take my breath away, I am inspired to share one of my experiences in Durbar Square, Kathmandu (when I was there last time). Guruji whom I had stayed with for two......
‘Beyond the physical eyes, I looked into the divine third eye of the living goddess. She is the symbol of the living deity innate within everyone. Opening up to the source of the divine mind of higher consciousness, the living goddess is the symbol of......
As part of my own preparation for the four day Volcanic Challenge (to climb three volcanos) I was participating in with the Education for the Children Foundation in Guatemala to help raise emergency crisis funds for the poorest children in Guatemala, I set out on......
Sometimes it can feel like life may not be turning out the way we want it to. We all have a great capacity to change, yet there can be forces that keep our lives from ‘going anywhere’ and turn weeks and months into memories with......
Do you ever find yourself wanting things or experiences to be different to what they actually are? Well, walking onto the beach at 6 a.m. in San Pedro, Belize, one morning, I caught myself thinking that I wanted the sunrise to be a particular way......