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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Introduction To Ayurveda Workshop with Sala @ Harmony Ahangama</image:title>
      <image:caption>Introduction to Ayurveda Return to Natural Harmony Discover the ancient science of life and the wisdom of balance through the lens of Ayurveda. This workshop helps you reconnect with your elemental constitution, remembering how to live in rhythm with nature by tuning into ancestral wisdom coded deep within. More info on my blog</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Restorative Yoga &amp;amp; Sound Journey - The Frequency of Union – Shiva &amp; Shakti with Sala &amp; Prashani Friday 20th March • 3.30PM Lotus Surf &amp; Wellness, Ahangama This restorative session is an invitation into peace, ease, and inner coherence — a space where opposing energies no longer compete but collaborate, giving rise to a new way of living, working, and creating. Guided by Sala through restorative yoga, breath, and deep rest, and supported by Prashani’s Tibetan bowl sound healing, the body is gently led into a state of surrender. From here, the nervous system settles, the mind quiets, and a deeper alignment can take place.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/sound-healing-training</loc>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Sound Healing certification &amp;amp; training for beginners - Sound Healing Training fr beginers Saturday 16th January • 11:30am Lotus Surf &amp; Wellness, Ahangama Sound has a way of reaching places words cannot. In this 4-hour beginner-friendly training, you’ll be guided into the foundations of sound healing as a practice of listening, regulation, and self-care — simple, embodied, and deeply grounding. Held by Prashani &amp; Jaliya, this workshop blends intuitive sound work with mindful awareness, creating a safe and supportive space to explore vibration as a tool for balance, clarity, and inner connection.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/restoratives-yoga-sound-journey-quanyin</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Restorative Yoga &amp;amp; Sound Journey - Quan Yin Frequency: Sound &amp; Restorative Journey Friday 16th January • 3.30PM Lotus Surf &amp; Wellness, Ahangama This restorative yoga and Tibetan bowl sound healing session is guided by the compassionate frequency of Quan Yin, the embodiment of mercy, listening, and unconditional love. Quan Yin teaches us that true strength is found in tenderness, and that deep transformation arises not from force, but from allowing. Through gentle restorative yoga postures, mantra, and immersive sound, the body is invited into profound rest.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/restoratives-yoga-sound-journey-ganesha</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Restorative Yoga &amp;amp; Sound Journey - The Wisdom of Ganesha Friday 27th March • 3.30PM Lotus Surf &amp; Wellness, Ahangama This restorative journey calls upon the steady, benevolent frequency of Ganesha — the remover of obstacles, the guardian of thresholds, the wisdom of beginning again. Through stillness, breath, mantra, and sound, we explore the wisdom of truth - the wisdom of surrender and the remembering that obstacles dissolve not through force or effort, but through sweet, seated surrender.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/introduction-to-ayurveda-arise-srilanka</loc>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Introduction To Ayurveda Workshop with Sala at Arise</image:title>
      <image:caption>Introduction to Ayurveda Return to Natural Harmony Discover the ancient science of life and the wisdom of balance through the lens of Ayurveda. This workshop helps you reconnect with your elemental constitution, remembering how to live in rhythm with nature by tuning into ancestral wisdom coded deep within. More info on my blog</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/restoratives-yoga-sound-journey-green-tara</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Restorative Yoga &amp;amp; Sound Journey - Green Tara Frequency Ceremony Friday 13th March • 03.30 PM Lotus Surf &amp; Wellness, Ahangama Guided Restorative Meditation &amp; Sound Healing Journey An intimate gathering inviting deep release, surrender, and inner realignment. We gather to align with the courageous tenderness of Green Tara, the frequency of fearless compassion and loving action. A sacred evening to regulate the nervous system, soften the body, awaken clarity, and anchor your year in devotion, truth, softness, joy, and power.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/live-flute-guide-meditation</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Live Flute Sound Journey &amp;amp; Guided Meditation - The Krishna Frequency: Opening the Heart to Love Friday 18th December • 4 PM Salasbananas Yoga &amp; Art Studio Thalpe Held through live flute sound and guided meditation, this evening invites the nervous system to soften, the heart to unclench, and the body to remember safety. Krishna’s flute is approached not as mythology or performance, but as breath moving through emptiness — a living metaphor for coherence, devotion, and surrender without collapse. The flute becomes breath. Breath becomes listening.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Restorative Yoga &amp;amp; Sound Journey - Medicine Buddha Restorative Yoga &amp; Sound Journey Friday 6th March • 03.30 PM Lotus Surf &amp; Wellness, Ahangama Guided Restorative Meditation &amp; Sound Healing Journey An intimate gathering inviting deep release, surrender, and inner realignment. Guided by Sala through meditative rest and the Medicine Buddha mantra, followed by a 16 Tibetan bowl sound activation by Prashani. This session supports nervous system regulation, embodied healing, and trust in the body’s natural intelligence.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/restoratives-yoga-sound-journey-healing-7glww</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Restorative Yoga &amp;amp; Sound Journey - Shedding old layers &amp; Anchoring the New Frequency Friday 5th December • 4 PM Lotus Surf &amp; Wellness, Ahangama As we move toward the dawn of a new year, the energy invites us to shed what no longer fits, soften the body’s armour, and drop gently into the frequency of ease, grace, and renewal. This event is a slow, deeply nourishing collaboration between Sala (restorative yoga) and Prashani (sound healing) — created to support the physical, emotional, and energetic release at the end of this 9 year.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/restoratives-yoga-sound-journey-healing</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Trusting Your Body — A Restorative Sound Journey - A Restorative Yoga, Guided Meditation &amp; Sound Journey Saturday 30th November 1:30pm to 3:30pm at Arise Hiriketiya Facilitators: Sala &amp; Prashani Investment: LKR 5,000 Your body has a wisdom far older than your thoughts. When life moves too fast, that wisdom fades beneath tension, noise, and survival patterns. This gathering is an invitation to return to safety, softness, and trust — gently, honestly, and without force.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/introduction-to-ayurveda-pycdc</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Introduction To Ayurveda Workshop with Sala @ Senses Yoga Midigama</image:title>
      <image:caption>Introduction to Ayurveda Return to Natural Harmony Discover the ancient science of life and the wisdom of balance through the lens of Ayurveda. This workshop helps you reconnect with your elemental constitution, remembering how to live in rhythm with nature by tuning into ancestral wisdom coded deep within. More info on my blog</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/decolonizing-yoga-workshop</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Decolonizing Yoga: A Conscious Conversation &amp;amp; Guided Workshopwith Sala - Yoga teachers… Ready to teach beyond the buzzwords? Let’s talk.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Yoga isn’t meant to bypass reality; it’s meant to liberate us from the systems that keep us small. This workshop is a bold, honest conversation for yoga teachers, healers, and facilitators who are ready to look beyond aesthetics, beyond asana, beyond the wellness industry’s comfort zone. Together, we’ll unpack the colonial narratives woven into modern yoga, explore the Sutras as a map out of harm, and remember the roots that so many have forgotten. Come curious. Come humble. Come ready to unlearn the stories that never belonged to yoga in the first place.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/deepawali-festival-of-lights</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Dīpāvalī: the Festival of Light. - Dīpāvalī: the Festival of Light. This Monday, 20 Oct | 5–8 PM, join us for a Dīpāvalī New Moon Ceremony – The Festival of Light  at Salasbananas Yoga &amp; Art Studio. We’ll gather for storytelling, intention setting, mantra, music, sweets &amp; tea — celebrating the light within us and all around us. The evening will unfold through storytelling, setting our intentions &amp; lighting our lamps together, followed by mantra, music, sharing sweets &amp; tea, and naturally flowing into a night of celebration and connection. ✨ Wear white or festive colours  Bring fruits or flowers to offer  Instruments welcome.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/shadow-integration-workshop</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - SHADOW INTEGRATION WORKSHOP - SHADOW INTEGRATION WORKSHOP This workshop is not for everyone. It’s for those who dare to meet themselves: fully and fiercely. Guided by the wisdom of Kālī Ma, we’ll explore how to transform through love… To face the darkness within and reclaim it as power. This is your initiation into radical self-responsibility and remembrance. Limited spots. Book and confirm your place at www.salasbananas.com or comment here to reserve your spot. Facilitated by Devie Jagesar &amp; Sala @salasbananas.yoga.art.studio Contribution: LKR 3000</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - YIN YOGA &amp;amp; SOUND HEALING: Chakra Healing for Nagula Chavithi - YIN YOGA &amp; SOUND HEALING : Chakra Healing for Nagula Chavithi Prashani, Catherine, and Sala invite you on a powerful journey this sacred day of Naga energy  — a time to honor the serpent deity and the Kundalini force resting within us all. Nagula Chavithi is a Vedic celebration of transformation, shedding, and renewal. As the serpent releases its old skin, we too are invited to release what no longer serves us and rise into new energy, clarity, and purpose. Only 8 spots available — booking is required. ️ Ticket: LKR 6,500  Salasbananas Yoga &amp; Art Studio, Talpe</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Full Moon Yin &amp;amp; Sound Bath - ✨ Full Moon Yin &amp; Sound Healing Ceremony ✨ October 6th | 4–6 PM | Salasbananas Yoga &amp; Art Studio This Full Moon, surrender into stillness and sound. ✨ Catherine will guide you through the gentle depths of Yin Yoga, inviting body and breath into release and renewal. Prashani will weave a sound journey with Tibetan bowls, harmonizing energy, calming the mind, and opening the heart. Together, they create a sacred space to let go of what no longer serves and receive the healing vibration of love and balance. Only 8 spots available — booking is required. ️ Ticket: LKR 6,500  Salasbananas Yoga &amp; Art Studio, Talpe</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/awakening-durga</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Awakening Durga - Join Devi Jagesar this October Full Moon at Salasbananas Yoga &amp; Arts Studio for Sacred Sovereignty &amp; Boundaries. Inspired by the story of Goddess Durga slaying Mahishasura, this workshop blends story, movement, and practice to help you honor your truth and reclaim your sacred power. Contribution LKR 3,000.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/radha-krishna-pooja</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Radha &amp; krishna Pooja - Radha-Krishna Pooja Love &amp; Co-regulation We are bringing Pooja back. A return to devotion, to prayer, to love made visible. Through story, music, movement, and shared silence — we gather to remember what it means to be held, seen, and cherished as divine.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/introduction-to-ayurveda-workshop-yxd7w</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>8 Limbs of Yoga Yoga is not only about asana — yoga is about life. This workshop is a deep dive into the eightfold path of yoga, an ancient map that guides the body, mind, and spirit into union. Together, we will journey through the limbs of yoga: from ethical foundations to breath, from focus to meditation, and into the expansiveness of liberation.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/events-workshops/ceremony-of-the-heart</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events &amp; workshops - Ceremony of the Heart - A full day in the embrace of Grandfather — a journey from sunrise to sunset, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Step into Ceremony of the Heart, a full-day retreat guided by Yonel &amp; Sala. Experience the intuitive heart opening medicine of the Grandfather in a safe, intimate space for deep healing, clarity, and renewal through song, silence, nature, prayer &amp; presence.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-17</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Introduction to Ayurveda Return to Natural Harmony Discover the ancient science of life and the wisdom of balance through the lens of Ayurveda. This workshop helps you reconnect with your elemental constitution, remembering how to live in rhythm with nature by tuning into ancestral wisdom coded deep within.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.salasbananas.com/salasbananas-blog</loc>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - Divine Feminine Activation Through Creation - Trust Is the New Calm</image:title>
      <image:caption>For a long time, we were taught that calm was the goal. Be steady. Be composed. Be regulated. Be acceptable. Calm became a badge of spiritual maturity, something to strive for and maintain, even when the body was quietly screaming for movement, expression, or release. But something is shifting. A new frequency is moving through the body, and it is not asking us to stay calm. It is asking us to trust. Trust is not passive. Trust is responsive. It listens to the body before the mind and moves when something inside says now, without waiting for certainty or permission.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - Divine Feminine Activation Through Creation - Creativity Is Why We Are Here</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is where the divine feminine awakens. Not as softness alone, and not as beauty for display, but as creative force, instinct, and embodied knowing. Creativity is not a luxury or an extra reserved for when everything else is taken care of. It is the original language of the soul and the reason we chose to incarnate. We asked for this body. We chose sensation, emotion, desire, friction, and intensity so that we could become creation itself. We inhabit this body by choice. It was not entered for duty or obedience, but for expression, movement, and truth. When creation is suppressed, coherence is lost.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - Divine Feminine Activation Through Creation - Internal Coherence Is Yoga</image:title>
      <image:caption>The divine feminine does not create to be productive or efficient. She creates to remain internally coherent, to stay aligned with what is alive within her. Internal coherence is yoga. It is not performance, discipline, or spiritual approval seeking. Yoga happens when the inside and the outside speak the same language. When movement arises because the body says now. When stillness comes because something has settled. When expression flows because it must.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - Divine Feminine Activation Through Creation - Desire Is Not the Problem</image:title>
      <image:caption>This frequency does not ask us to bypass emotion or transcend desire. It asks us to anchor desire. Desire itself is not the problem. Unconscious desire is. When desire drives us, we fragment. When desire anchors us, we become whole. Anchored desire gives direction without urgency. It allows creation without depletion. It brings clarity without force.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Liberation comes from releasing constant self-control. It comes from no longer needing to explain ourselves, justify our movements, or seek validation outside of our own knowing. The body already knows. The breath already knows. The pulse already knows. The divine feminine was not silenced because she was weak, but because she was uncontrollable. Now she rises through creation, through art, through movement, through voice, and through choosing trust over staying calm. This is not chaos. This is intelligence returning to the body. Let her speak. Let her move. Let her create. Jai Ma.!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>If this work speaks to your body, you are welcome to practice with me in live, embodied spaces. Morning Sadhana Monday to Saturday, 8:30 AM Lotus Surf &amp; Wellness, Ahangama Sign up or walk in Details &amp; Sign Up Evening Sadhana Tuesday &amp; Thursday, 4:00 PM Salasbananas Yoga &amp; Queer Art Studio, Talpe Sign-up required, no walk-ins Sign Up Here To stay connected beyond the studio, you are invited to join my newsletter and be the first to access my online yoga studio and temple. This includes monthly yoga sessions, meditations, online ceremonies, workshops, and inner alchemy work. Join the Newsletter The images accompanying each blog post are my own original artworks, created using AI as a creative tool. Selected pieces will be released as limited edition prints through my online shop. Subscribe for early access and first release notifications.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For a long time, I thought I needed balance. Balance sounded safe. Reasonable. Spiritual enough without being dangerous. Balance meant I could keep things measured. Contained. Controlled. But balance is static. Union is alive. Union is a conversation. A current. A dance between energies that are allowed to meet, clash, soften, retreat, return. I didn’t grow up learning union. I learned separation.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - Shiva &amp;amp; Shakti: Finding Sacred Union in a Queer Body - Learning to Separate in Order to Belong</image:title>
      <image:caption>As a gay man in a world that expected me to be straight, I learned early how to manage myself. How to edit my gestures. How to control my voice. How to perform masculinity in ways that felt acceptable enough to avoid harm. My femininity didn’t disappear. It went underground. My sensitivity, sensuality, emotional depth, and creative impulse became something to hide, even from myself. This split wasn’t theoretical. It lived in my body. My masculine learned how to survive. How to achieve. How to hold things together. My feminine learned how to wait. How to observe. How to express herself quietly, if at all. There was no union between them. Only tension. I confused productivity with power. Control with safety. Discipline with devotion. I thought if I could “balance” my masculine and feminine, everything would be okay. But balance kept them separate. Union asked them to touch. Union began when I stopped trying to correct myself and started listening.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When I allowed my sexuality to be felt instead of monitored or performed. When I let my body lead instead of forcing it to behave. When my creativity stopped asking for permission. When softness stopped being treated as a liability. Union didn’t erase polarity. It made it relational. My masculine didn’t disappear. It softened. It learned to listen. My feminine didn’t overpower. She gained trust. She stopped hiding. This is the difference. Balance is about keeping things even. Union is about allowing flow. Union is awareness moving through sensation. Union is structure that knows how to bend. Union is power that includes tenderness without apology. I see how many of us are still living split lives.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - Shiva &amp;amp; Shakti: Finding Sacred Union in a Queer Body - Union is the Bliss embracing our sexuality as the very embodiment of sacred divine union</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gay men who learned to survive by shrinking parts of themselves. Men who were taught that desire is dangerous and softness is weakness. Women who learned to mute their hunger, voice, or sensual intelligence to be acceptable. Humans who feel shame not because they are broken, but because they were never shown how to integrate what they feel. There is nothing wrong with your desire. There is nothing wrong with your expression. There is nothing wrong with the way energy wants to move through you. What hurts is interruption. Union is not something we think our way into. It is something we practice through the body, through honesty, through listening. Through movement that isn’t performative. Through voice that isn’t edited. Through journaling that tells the truth instead of keeping the peace. Through sound, breath, and stillness that allow sensation and awareness to meet. This is the work I live. This is the work I guide.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>If you want to begin exploring this in your own life, here are some questions to sit with gently and honestly, without rushing to answer. Before you begin, pause for a moment……Take a slow breath in through the nose and let it fall out of the body. Feel where you’re seated. Feel the weight of your body being held. Create a little ambience if it helps. Candlelight. Quiet. Music. Or simple stillness. There is no right way to do this. This journaling isn’t about insight or sounding wise. It’s not for sharing or impressing anyone. It’s an invitation to let truth move without editing. Write from sensation. From memory. From what feels alive. If words slow down, let them. If emotions rise, let them. Let the body lead. Let the pen follow.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Move slowly with these prompts. You don’t need to answer them all at once. Let the body lead. Pause when sensation or resistance arises. 1. Where did I first learn that parts of my sexuality were unsafe, unacceptable, or too much? What was happening around me. What did I feel in my body. What did I learn to hide or perform. 2. How did I learn to separate parts of myself in order to belong? Which expressions were encouraged. Which were discouraged. How did this shape my voice, posture, desire, or creativity. 3. Which part of me learned how to survive, and which part learned how to disappear? How do they move through the world. What do they protect. What do they long for. 4. How do I police my own expression today? Notice the subtle ways this shows up in my body, sexuality, voice, or desire. 5. Where do I confuse control with safety? In my body. In my relationships. In my sexuality. What would soften if I loosened that grip.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - Shiva &amp;amp; Shakti: Finding Sacred Union in a Queer Body - 6. How does my masculine energy behave when my feminine is not trusted? How does my feminine respond when it has not been welcomed . 7. What am I trying to balance that actually wants to be in relationship? Where am I keeping parts of myself separate instead of letting them meet. 8. Where in my sexuality do I seek permission instead of truth? What sensations or desires am I still monitoring instead of listening to. 9. When have I felt moments of union in my life, even briefly? In intimacy. In movement. In creativity. In stillness. What was present. What fell away. 10. What would it mean to let desire move through me without needing to justify it? What fear or excitement does that bring. 11. If my body could speak honestly about pleasure, power, and tenderness, what would it say right now? 12. What am I afraid would happen if my masculine and feminine were in true union? Union is not something to achieve. It is something the body remembers.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Union is not something we achieve. It is something we allow. It is the moment we stop managing ourselves and let life move through us honestly. In our bodies. In our sexuality. In our creativity. In our relationships. If this writing stirred something in you, you’re invited to keep exploring. My work is rooted in embodied union, not theory. It lives through sound, presence, and honest inquiry. You’re welcome to explore the spaces where this work continues to unfold. Explore further Sound Healing Rest the nervous system. Let vibration soften the places where separation still lives. Inner Alchemy One-on-one soul coaching for those ready to integrate desire, truth, power, and tenderness into lived union. Queer Wellness Sacred spaces for queer bodies to heal shame, reclaim expression, and remember belonging beyond binaries. You don’t need to fix yourself. You don’t need to balance yourself. You’re invited to come into relationship with yourself. And let union do the rest. If this speaks to you, comment “Sacred Union”  below to know more or reach out directly. Union is not a concept. It is a lived experience. And when it is embodied, life begins to move with grace.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We live in a world obsessed with smiles. Bright faces. Performances of “I’m fine.” Polished wellness. Glittering spirituality. But beneath every smile, there is a shadow. There are the silent places inside us that still ache. There is shame our bodies remember. There is guilt that shaped how we behave, love, react, and hide. There are fears we learned to suppress because they were never welcomed. The world has taught many of us to perform life instead of actually live it. And that is how this body of work has come to be.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I am not here to fix people. I am not here to cleanse darkness. I am not here to make anyone perfectly enlightened, endlessly positive, or spiritually tidy. Real yoga was never about escaping. It was never about smiling your way through pain. Real yoga is the art of meeting yourself honestly, shadow included. In my sessions we do not exile what hurts. We invite it in. We breathe with it. We let it speak. We give it a place at the table of our being instead of shutting it away in a locked room of the psyche. This is not avoidance. This is integration. This is radical love.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - Smiles and Shadows - Yoga Beyond Pretending - What Happens When We Make Space for the Shadow?</image:title>
      <image:caption>When we breathe with our shadow instead of fighting it, something sacred happens. The nervous system softens. The body sighs in relief. The spirit loosens its armor. The shadow no longer needs to scream for attention because it has finally been welcomed home. True yoga is not the fake smile covering pain. True yoga is the authentic smile that rises naturally when nothing inside you needs to hide anymore. That smile is not decoration. That smile is liberation. This is the Work We Do Together In my spaces, whether on the mat, in ceremony, or in community, we do not escape life. We learn to live it. Fully. Honestly. Tenderly. Courageously. We honor light. We honor shadow. We allow both to exist without shame. This is how we become whole. This is how we remember who we truly are. This is how we build a world where truth and tenderness matter more than performance.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Come breathe with me. Come move with me. Come remember yourself with me. Explore my world of yoga, art, queer healing, retreats, ritual, and soul work at www.salasbananas.com. I am also recording yoga sessions that guide you into this practice of shadow integration, emotional release, nervous system healing, and radical self acceptance. These will be available soon on Patreon. If you want to receive them first, comment LIGHT on my socials or reach out to me personally. We are not here to perform life. We are here to live it. Wildly. Tenderly. Truthfully. Shadow and smile together</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When we work with ancient practices, it matters how we name them, how we hold them, and how we relate to the cultures and lineages they come from. The Medicine Buddha and Tibetan sound practices do not belong to trend culture or modern wellness branding. They arise from deep streams of Buddhist wisdom, devotional practice, and lived spiritual discipline. This work is not about borrowing aesthetics. It is about listening to wisdom that has been carried carefully across centuries.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Medicine Buddha, known in Sanskrit as Bhaisajyaguru, is a central figure in Mahayana Buddhism and holds particular significance within Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He is revered as the embodiment of healing, compassion, and clarity. His presence represents the possibility of alleviating suffering through awareness, ethical living, and inner transformation. In Tibetan spirituality, the Medicine Buddha is not understood as an external savior. He is a mirror of our own potential for healing. His practice is rooted in the understanding that suffering arises from ignorance and disconnection, and that healing comes through insight, balance, and remembering our true nature. The Medicine Buddha mantra “Theyatha Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Randza Samudgate Soha” is a prayer and a sound practice. It is traditionally used to support healing of body and mind, to cultivate compassion, and to awaken wisdom. The mantra is transmitted through oral lineage and devotional practice, not as a tool for control, but as an offering to the mystery of healing itself. "May the many sentient beings who are sick quickly be freed from sickness. And may all the sicknesses of beings never arise again".  Spiritual and Practical Benefits  Purification of Karma: Regular chanting is believed to clear negative imprints from the past that manifest as present-day obstacles or health issues. Healing the "Three Poisons": The three repetitions of Bekandze are often said to target the root causes of all human suffering: ignorance, attachment, and hatred. Empowering Medicine: Tibetan doctors often chant the mantra 108 times over medicines or water to "bless" them and enhance their healing potency. Protection: Chanting or hearing the name of the Medicine Buddha is said to protect beings from being reborn in lower realms of existence.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sound has always been a sacred vehicle within Tibetan Buddhist practice. Chanting, bells, drums, and ritual instruments are used to support meditation, invoke presence, and dissolve the illusion of separation between body, mind, and spirit. Tibetan singing bowls, often referred to as Himalayan bowls, are traditionally made from metal alloys and were used in monasteries and spiritual households. Their tones are not meant to entertain or overwhelm. They are used to support contemplation, prayer, and states of meditative awareness. In Tibetan understanding, sound is not something we listen to from the outside. It is something that moves through us, reminding the body of its natural harmony. The bowls do not heal on their own. They create conditions where the system can remember balance.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>It is important to say this clearly. Working with the Medicine Buddha and Tibetan sound practices requires humility. These traditions are not ours to own, remix, or aestheticize. They are living wisdom streams that deserve respect, context, and care. To work with them ethically means acknowledging their origins, honoring their spiritual roots, and engaging them as practices of listening rather than mastery. It means understanding that healing does not come from techniques alone, but from relationship, intention, and integrity. In this work, we do not claim to represent Tibetan Buddhism, nor do we replace lineage holders or monastic practice. We engage these teachings as wisdom offerings that point us back to simplicity, presence, and reverence for life. Why This Matters Now In a time when spiritual practices are often consumed quickly and discarded just as fast, slowing down matters. Naming lineage matters. Remembering where wisdom comes from matters. The Medicine Buddha reminds us that healing is not something we extract from a tradition. It is something we enter into with respect. It requires patience, devotion, and the willingness to be changed by what we touch. As we approach a new year, this work becomes an invitation to recalibrate not only our nervous systems, but our relationship to wisdom itself. To move away from consumption and toward communion. To allow ancient teachings to inform our modern lives without being stripped of their depth. This is not about becoming Buddhist. It is about learning how to listen again.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When we gather for the Medicine Buddha transmission, we do so with reverence. With acknowledgment. With gratitude for the cultures and practitioners who have carried these teachings forward. We rest. We listen. We allow sound and mantra to guide us back into alignment, not as owners of wisdom, but as students of life. This is how healing remains alive. Through respect. Through humility. Through relationship.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This Medicine Buddha transmission can also be woven into retreats, private gatherings, or hosted at aligned spaces that value depth, reverence, and embodied healing. If you are holding a retreat, stewarding a wellness space, or feeling called to offer this journey to your community, we are open to co creating this experience with care and integrity. To inquire about hosting this event or including it within your retreat or program, please reach out directly. Contact Us</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>There are moments when life places us directly inside the fire, not to burn us, but to reveal who we have always been. Queerness and fatherhood arrived in my life not as two separate chapters, but as one intertwined initiation. A double initiation. My Earth initiations. They pushed me into manhood, into my humanity, and into a deeper recognition of the divine that had been waiting quietly inside me. The Illusion of Opposites I once believed these paths could not co-exist. That queerness lived on one side of my soul and fatherhood on the other, separated by an old story that never truly belonged to me. But life is a patient teacher and duality dissolves the moment we are brave enough to face ourselves honestly.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>These initiations were not soft. They arrived with the heat of shame, the sting of guilt, the discomfort of old wounds rising to the surface. Yet none of these were punishments. They were mirrors. They showed me where I was still hiding, even from myself. They revealed the man, the father, and the queer being I already was, waiting to be lived fully. Every fear became a portal. Every portal carried me deeper into love. Health is acceptance. Vitality is truth telling. Hiding is a sickness that drains the soul of its light.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Through these Earth initiations I learned that queerness and fatherhood were never in conflict. They were guiding me toward oneness. Toward freedom. Toward becoming the version of myself that had always been encoded in my bones. And as I stepped deeper into this truth, something awakened in me. A medicine that is uniquely queer. A medicine our elders carried quietly. A medicine our younger selves longed for. A medicine that lives in our bodies even when the world tries to silence it. The Birth of Queer Initiations This is the medicine I now offer back to the world through queer initiations. Guided online ceremonies of self acceptance. Trauma informed queer friendly spaces. Retreats and workshops that invite the queer soul, the artist, the mystic, and the child in us to breathe and to be freed. Spaces where we unlearn shame together and rise into the beauty of who we are becoming.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>To my queer community across the world, and especially here on our queer island Sri Lanka, this work is for you. This medicine is yours. It is time to recognise the sacred force we carry within us. Time to let it speak, heal, guide, and reshape the world through our rainbow bodies and remembering hearts. An Invitation to Ceremony If this speaks to you, you are already part of the circle. Join me next week for an online queer initiation and ceremony of self acceptance, a gathering of truth, tenderness, and rebirth. Comment “queer medicine” on my post to receive the details and the full link to join.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For those who feel called to go deeper, I offer Inner Alchemy sessions and one on one queer wellness journeys. These sessions are spaces of remembrance, self acceptance, and healing, where we dissolve old patterns, meet our shadows with compassion, and awaken the medicine already living inside us. If your soul feels the pull, reach out. Your path is already unfolding. A heartfelt thank you to Yonel for these powerful images and for witnessing and documenting my transformative journey through his art of photography and storytelling. If this message moves you, share it with your queer friends and allies and repost it in solidarity and love so this medicine can ripple through our communities and beyond. Click here to visit my soul consultation/ soul coaching page</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Across the world, classes are full, studios are thriving, and Instagram is overflowing with inspiration, yet something essential has been quietly slipping through our fingers. The yoga we inherited has been shaped by colonization, commercialization, and convenience, leaving many teachers unknowingly repeating narratives that were never part of the practice. This conversation is not about blame. It is about returning yoga to truth. It is about every teacher, healer, and facilitator reclaiming the depth, lineage, and liberation that the Sutras have always pointed toward. When we choose to teach yoga, we also choose responsibility. And the world does not need more choreography. It needs conscious educators willing to look deeper, unlearn bravely, and teach with integrity.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>योगश् चित्त-वृत्ति-निरोधः Yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ — Yoga stills the fluctuations of the mind. Every yoga teacher knows this Sutra. Few ever consider what noise we’re actually quieting. Because beneath the playlists and pranayama, beneath the sun salutations and the soft lighting, there are stories we were taught — and stories we were not taught. Stories shaped by colonization. Stories shaped by erasure. Stories shaped by the wellness industry, not by the wisdom of the Sutras. When the mind truly becomes still, we start hearing the truths modern yoga has been trying to drown out. Yoga teachers… ready to hear what your TT skipped? This is where the real conversation begins.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>अविद्या अस्मिता राग द्वेष अभिनिवेशाः क्लेशाः Avidyā asmitā rāga dveṣa abhiniveśāḥ kleśāḥ — The root afflictions. Patanjali didn’t just describe inner suffering. He described the psychological architecture of every system that distorts truth — including colonization. Avidyā — forgetting the roots. Asmita — attaching to the identity of “teacher” or “expert.” Raga — clinging to Western aesthetics. Dveṣa — avoiding uncomfortable truths. Abhiniveśa — fear of losing what the system gave us. These kleshas live not only in individuals, but in yoga culture itself. This is the part where things get uncomfortable — and where transformation starts to taste real. Don’t worry — we’re unlearning together. No gold stars needed. This work isn’t about blame or shame. It’s about clarity. Integrity. Return.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>तपः स्वाध्यायेश्वरप्रणिधानानि क्रियायोगः Tapaḥ svādhyāyēśvara-praṇidhānāni kriyā-yogaḥ — The path of action. Tapas — the fire. Svadhyaya — the mirror. Ishvara pranidhana — the surrender. This is the yoga that cracks you open. Not performance. Not aesthetics. Not the curated “yogi identity.” This is the yoga that asks: Who am I when the narratives fall away? What am I carrying that isn’t mine? What am I teaching that isn’t true? This is where teachers become students again. Where practice becomes honesty. Where lineage becomes living. Spoiler: this work is spicier than your favourite vinyasa. But oh, what freedom it brings.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Because yoga has become global — but not always in ways that honour its roots. Because silent harm is still harm. Because teachers shape culture, and culture shapes consciousness. And because yoga deserves better than “good vibes only.” If we want yoga to remain a path of liberation, we must be willing to liberate our own teaching first. This is the moment. This is the work. This is the return. Work With Me If this stirred something in you — a spark, a cringe, a curiosity — then: ✨ Invite me to your studio or retreat to host this conscious conversation. ✨ Book a one-on-one private session to unlearn, heal, and deepen your understanding. ✨ Bring me into your YTT to teach the decolonial foundations your trainees won’t get anywhere else. Yoga teachers, healers, facilitators… Ready to teach beyond the buzzwords? Let’s talk.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Let’s get this out of the way first: Ayurveda is not your emergency hotline, your quick detox, your “fix me before Friday night” miracle treatment. It’s more like that honest aunty at family gatherings who looks straight at you and says, “Puthe (Son)… what are you doing with your life?” Ayurveda doesn’t rush in with band-aids. Ayurveda hands you a mirror. the kind with fluorescent lighting. so you can actually see what’s going on. If you want the 3-step glow-up hacks, there are hundreds of influencers with green juice. If you want truth, depth, and sustainable change… welcome. Keep reading.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This one question has started revolutions, spiritual awakenings, and a few identity crises. “Who am I?” Most people avoid it like it’s a message from an ex. But the magic is this….Once you understand what makes you you: our edges soften. Your patterns make sense. Transformation stops feeling like climbing a mountain in flip-flops. You suddenly realize you’ve been fighting shadows, not truth. And there are exactly three things you need to know about yourself before anything in your life starts to make sense. Let’s go.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Your entire cosmic fingerprint was decided at conception. Think about that, your body, your habits, your tendencies, your superpowers, your triggers… not random. Your Prakriti is your original design. The unedited, untraumatised, pre-Instagram version of you. It’s what your soul picked for this lifetime. Prakriti explains why: • some people run on fire, • some dissolve like water, • some float like air, • and some hold the ground like earth. If you’ve ever thought, “Why am I like this?” Prakriti smiles and says, “For very good reasons.” This is your key.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Here’s the truth nobody tells us in school: You are not a human “form.” You are a landscape. A climate. A whole planet with its own natural laws. Vata. Pitta. Kapha. These three form the weather system of your life. And because no two people have the same blend, you are literally a one-in-eight-billion ecosystem. Some are dry breeze deserts. Some are volcanic islands. Some are monsoon jungles. Some are all three depending on the drama of the day. And yes!, your inner climate explains everything.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ah… now the juicy part. When your elements go off-balance, your life starts acting out like a telenovela. Suddenly you’re deep-cleaning your house at 11pm, as if the President is visiting. Or scrolling Grindr like your thumb is training for the Olympics. (We’ve all been there. No shame.) Or attracting the same kind of heartbreak in a different pair of jeans. Or pushing away perfectly good love because - “it’s too much.” Or numbing out. Exploding. Shutting down. Self-sabotaging your most sacred intentions. Ayurveda reminds you: These behaviours aren’t character flaws. They are signals. Messages. Your body trying to talk to you in the only language it knows.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Let’s be real: This modern world is a circus. Performing for strangers, curating our lives like museum exhibits, pretending everything is fine while we crumble internally, it’s fucking exhausting. Of course the mind is slipping. And then Ayurveda walks in and says: “Here. Learn these three words.” Sattva. Rajas. Tamas. The gunas explain why some days you’re a peaceful monk, some days you’re a caffeinated squirrel, and some days you become the human version of a closed curtain. Understanding the gunas is like finally receiving the manual for your own mind. And yes — it’s wild.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Gunas reveal why you: • overthink every tiny thing, • spiral from a single text message, • shut down when life gets too loud, • chase intensity like it’s a personality trait, • sabotage the good stuff, • can’t relax even when you want to. This is not “just how you are.” This is how your mind operates without a map. Ayurveda hands you that map, gently, honestly, and without judgment.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Here’s where things get beautifully uncomfortable. Ayurveda isn’t interested in your mask. It’s interested in your truth. It will ask you the questions you avoid: What are you holding onto? What are you afraid to feel? What story about yourself needs retiring? Who would you be without the chaos? And then …..once you finally meet the real you. Ayurveda guides you to release the rest. Let go. Find balance. Return to joy. Not the Instagram kind: the real, steady, grounded, quietly powerful joy. If you’re tired of running… this is your place.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This workshop is not a lecture. It’s a conversation. A remembering. A homecoming. You’ll walk away with: • your dosha maps • your Prakriti insights • mind-body balance tools • lifestyle &amp; food notes • guided journal prompts • and a new respect for the miracle that is your body This is your starting point. Introduction to Ayurveda with Sala LKR 5,000 including workbook Reserve your spot: DM, comment “Ayubhowan”, or visit the Events &amp; workshops page on salasbananas.com Pay on arrival.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I was born on a small island with ancient memory in its soil. Sri Lanka raised me between tradition and silence, between the expectations placed on me and the quiet truth pulsing inside my chest. I grew up learning how to soften my edges, how to dim my colours, how to tuck away the parts of me that did not fit the script. For thirty years I hid my queerness. I hid my sensitivity. I hid my creativity. I hid the bright, wild, too much pieces of my spirit because I thought shrinking was the cost of belonging. I became an expert in disappearing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Her arrival cracked something open in me that could not be closed again. In that moment I understood a truth that felt older than my own body. I could not raise a child in honesty while still lying to myself. I could not teach her to stand in her light while I was still folding myself into shadows. That was my awakening. Not an explosion. Not a miracle. But a quiet decision. I will not abandon myself anymore. And like that, I began choosing myself after a lifetime of choosing silence.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Awakening is not one moment. It is the thousand small choices we make after the truth has already caught us. It is the courage to unclench old patterns. It is the willingness to meet the parts of ourselves we once buried. It is turning toward the ache instead of away from it. My journey became exactly that. A steady remembering. A returning. A re inhabiting of the man I had always been beneath the noise. I learned that healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about releasing everything that is not you. It is allowing the soul to breathe again.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I am moving through a powerful clearing. The old layers of fear, doubt, and inherited shame are losing their weight. My inner landscape is rearranging itself around devotion. I feel more grounded, more truthful, more unapologetic than I have ever been. There is a clarity rising within me; firm, alive, unmistakable!. I am learning to trust my own light. To stand in who I am without shrinking or explaining. To inhabit my queerness as medicine, my sensitivity as strength, my art as prayer. This season feels like a rewiring. A remembering. A return to myself after decades of trying to be someone else’s idea of a man.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I share this because every soul I meet carries a similar story. We all have rooms inside us we have not entered in years. We all have versions of ourselves waiting to be reclaimed. We all carry a truth that once felt too dangerous to live out loud. My work today is simple. I create spaces where people can come home to themselves. Through yoga, ritual, queer wellness, art, and soul work, I stand as a witness to what happens when a person stops running from who they really are. And I am still learning. Still choosing myself. Still becoming. If my story touches something inside you, may it be a reminder that your truth is never too much and your light is never too bright. The world needs the version of you that you have been afraid to become. And if you feel called to walk this path with me, my door is open. Always. If You Feel the Pull to Change Your Life If something inside you is stirring if a part of you is tired of carrying guilt, shame, regret if you are navigating a breakup or a heartbreak if you are wrestling with addiction especially cannabis or alcohol if you are learning to embrace your queerness as medicine or simply trying to remember who you are beneath the noise you do not have to walk this alone.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On my website I have opened a new space, a sanctuary for those who are ready to return to their light called Soul Consulting. It offers three paths three portals for those on a journey of remembering. Inner Alchemy: Personal sessions to uncover truth, restore balance, ignite purpose and gently bring you home to yourself. Queer Wellness: A safe space to embrace queerness as medicine to heal shame to soften the armour to breathe again to live in your own light with freedom. Soul Business Consultancy: For creators, space holders, and leaders who want to align vision with strategy and grow a business that is rooted in - soul, integrity and truth.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hatha, the sacred union of sun and moon, strength and softness, teaches us how to hold a posture and be held by it in return. In every pose we breathe through the effort, sit with the sensation, and gently witness the mind as it tries to run away. This is why I love Hatha Yoga. It invites us to pause, feel, and listen. It is not performance. It is presence.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is the first post in my new blog series on Hatha Yoga. In the weeks ahead, I will share the deeper meaning behind foundational postures — how they align energy, open the body, and mirror the lessons of life. We will explore asanas like Tadasana, Virabhadrasana, Balasana, and more, not just in form, but in spirit.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>If your body is calling for stillness If your breath is asking to be heard If your heart is tired of running Come to the mat with me Join a class at Lotus or Salasbananas Book a private session Or simply visit the bookings page and choose your way in The posture is waiting The breath is waiting Your body already knows</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I offer weekly Hatha Yoga classes where we slow down and sit inside the wisdom of the body. Lotus Yoga Shala, Ahangama - Morning classes where the ocean breeze meets breath and discipline turns into devotion Salasbananas Yoga and Art Studio, Talpe - My home space — soft light, open sky, and a community that breathes together like one heart. One Bhakthi Ahangama - A place where you can show up as you are, honor your story, and celebrate our shared humanity. Arise Hiriketiya - A community and yoga space in the heart of the Hiriketiya jungle overlooking a village temple Each class is an invitation to breathe deeper, feel more, and remember that the body is a prayer. Click here to sign up</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For those who want to go deeper into alignment, breath, healing, or personal transformation, you can book a private session with me. These sessions are tailored to your body, your rhythm, your story. Whether you are a beginner, working through emotional or physical blocks, or simply wish to deepen your practice, this is sacred space held just for you. You can explore available sessions and book directly - click here</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A breakup is not just the end of a relationship. It is: The death of who we were in that love The death of the future we imagined together The death of the story we held onto in our minds and bodies And grief lives in the body first. The night it ended, my hands wouldn’t stop sweating, my breath got stuck somewhere between my ribs and my throat, and my head was spinning like the whole world was collapsing from inside my chest. That was the moment I realised, this is not just sadness. This is death. This is rebirth. Love Doesn’t Die. It Transforms. Love doesn’t always disappear. It just stops being ours. Sometimes it becomes memory. Gratitude. A quiet prayer wished from afar. Love doesn’t always stay as “we.” Sometimes love becomes “you and I”, as individuals walking different paths but honoring that once, our hearts knew each other.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Seven truths, inspired by Jay Shetty but rewritten through my own cracked heart. Let go of the fantasy. It was beautiful, but not the whole truth. Stop the obsession spiral. Their silence is not your sentence. Release the guilt script. Shame keeps us stuck. Responsibility sets us free. Create your own closure. Write it. Burn it. Pray it. Ritual is medicine. Pain doesn’t mean you were meant to be. Pain only means you loved fully. Redirect your energy. Into art, breath, body, prayer — into being someone you can trust. Don’t wait to feel ready. Healing begins when you choose not to abandon yourself again. Journal Prompts for Your Healing What part of me died with this breakup and what part is being born? What did I love about them, and what did I only love in my imagination? Where in my body does grief live today? Can I sit with it, without fixing it? What would closure look like if I stopped waiting for them to give it to me? What does love mean to me now, without ownership or expectation?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - When Love Changes, But Doesn’t Die - Yoga is how I return to myself.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Not performative yoga, but heart-based, breath-led, devotional movement. The kind that asks you to soften your ribs, open your chest, and let your heart stretch without breaking. Some heart-healing poses I share in my practice: Anahatasana (Melting Heart) — surrender and trust Supported Fish Pose — receiving support, opening gently Camel Pose (Ustrasana) — the courage to be seen Bridge / Wheel — expanding the heart skyward Wild Thing — grief turning into freedom If your heart is aching, you can move with me on my YouTube channel. I’ve shared a free Heart-Opening Yoga Practice to breathe into the chest, release heaviness, and remind the heart it is safe to receive again. Because healing is not only thinking differently. It’s breathing differently. Moving differently. Creating differently. Tuning the heart like an antenna back into love.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - When Love Changes, But Doesn’t Die - Cutting Chords Ceremony</image:title>
      <image:caption>Weddings have ceremonies for beginnings. Endings deserve sacredness too. I hold a Cutting Chords Ceremony: online or in-person at Salasbananas in Sri Lanka, for anyone ready to release with love, not bitterness. In this ceremony, we: Write the truths we never spoke Honour what was real — not perfect Call upon Shiva (endings, liberation) and Shakti (creation, life force) Use breath, thread, or fire to symbolically release — not to erase love, but to free it If your heart feels called to join, or if you need a private ritual, you can reach out or book a session through Inner Alchemy. my one-to-one heart and soul guidance. Or book a private one on one session for soul led guidance on navigating your break up consciously, with integrity and love at the heart - click here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - When Love Changes, But Doesn’t Die - Art is my alchemy.</image:title>
      <image:caption>When I create art, I give my grief a place to breathe. Colours hold what language cannot. Shapes become prayers. These artworks you see in this post were created by me, born from love, from heartbreak, from the fire we walked through together. They are not just images, but relics of a love I will always honour. From this journey, a new creation began—my Queer Lovers Art Project—a celebration of queer love, intimacy, devotion, and truth. It was inspired by us, by what we shared, and by what still lives beyond us. I share it with the world—not to reopen the wound, but to show how love, even when it changes shape, can still become art. A offering, a memory, a blessing. scroll await my shop and the full gallery soon on this website.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Salas Blog - When Love Changes, But Doesn’t Die - I’d Love to Hear From You</image:title>
      <image:caption>Have you ever created your own breakup ritual? Burned a letter? Placed flowers in the ocean? Cut your hair? Would you join a Cutting Chords Ceremony — online or here in Sri Lanka? Share below. Your story might be medicine for someone else. A Closing Ritual for You Place your hand on your heart. Take a slow breath in. Let it go. Whisper to yourself: “I release what no longer stays. I honour what once was. I am still worthy of love.” Stay. Take one more breath. Whisper - “This too is healing.” Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>To be our best self isn’t to escape our “worst” parts — it’s to bring them home. Anger may be the doorway to passion Shame may be the longing to be seen as we truly are Fear often guards what we love most Grief is proof that we cared deeply When we stop dividing ourselves into good or bad, holy or broken, we return to something true. Wholeness isn’t fixing — it’s embracing. It’s allowing every part of us to serve love.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The body is our first altar. It whispers before the mind shouts. It speaks through: Breath Sensation Tightness and softening Pulse and rhythm Tears and trembling It knows when to rest. It knows when to create. It knows when it’s time to let go. To heal — is to listen.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1. Shadow Letter Write to a part of you you’ve rejected. Don’t fix it. Just say: I see you. I’m listening. 2. Body Scan + Breath One hand on your heart, one on your belly. Ten slow breaths. Ask: What is here right now? 3. Movement as Medicine Play a song that stirs something inside you. Let the body respond. No choreography. Just truth in motion. 4. The “And” Practice Not I am strong or broken, but I am strong and broken and still becoming.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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