About The Studio Journal
The Studio Journal was born during a sabbatical that became something much deeper, a turning point.
What began as a pause from routine turned into a journey of unlearning, rediscovery, and reconnection. I wandered, I listened, I wrote. I stepped into unfamiliar places, both on the map and within myself.
This journal is a space to share what I’ve gathered along the way. It holds reflections from the road, questions from the quiet moments, and the stories that shape how we travel, live, and grow. You’ll find pieces of my journey here, but also prompts, insights, and encouragement for your own.
Because transformation doesn’t happen all at once. It happens in the in-between. And this is a place for that.
What You May Experience Through Luontopolku — Back to Your Senses® method
✔ A renewed connection to your own nature
✔ Greater clarity about what truly matters now
✔ Deeper trust in your direction and inner guidance
✔ Courage to move forward with alignment and intention
When Nature Becomes a Mirror: A Reflective Walk on the Ruta Ecológica in Benissa
Ruta Ecológica coastal trail in Benissa, Spain, with wooden railing overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and pine-covered cliffs on the Costa Blanca, a peaceful setting for reflective nature walks guided by The Journey Studio.
Have you paused lately, I mean truly paused, taking yourself out not to perform, achieve, or respond, but simply to listen within?
On the Ruta Ecológica in Benissa, the landscape quietly reminds us how time reshapes everything.
Walking along the cliffs, you pass old sandstone quarries. Places where stone was once extracted and landscapes were capitalized on. Today they are protected nature areas. We walk through them gently, observing rather than taking.
Time has shifted their purpose.
Small yellow flowers grow through dry soil and rocky ground. Fragile yet persistent, they slowly reclaim the terrain. Spring approaches quietly here. Nature does not rush, but it always finds its way forward.
Watching this, it becomes difficult not to reflect on our own inner landscapes.
Just like the land, our inner nature also moves in cycles. Some seasons are productive and outward-facing. Others ask for restoration, protection, and listening.
We have learned to protect natural environments: to leave them as they are given to us.
Perhaps we need to offer the same care to ourselves.
Pausing, keeping ourselves close, staying in conversation with our inner voice. Noticing what might be quietly sprouting within us again; an idea, a direction, a courage that had been waiting for the right season.
Nature has a remarkable way of reflecting what we carry inside.
When we walk slowly and intentionally, the landscape begins to mirror our own thoughts. A question carried quietly in the mind often finds unexpected clarity along the path.
This is the foundation of my Luontopolku® reflective walk practice: creating space where nature becomes both guide and mirror.
Along the Ruta Ecológica in Benissa we slow down, observe, and listen, not only to the sea breeze, the pine trees, and the rhythm of the waves, but also to what is stirring within.
You may arrive with a question, a transition, or simply the feeling that it is time to pause.
Nature has a way of answering in its own quiet language.
I offer guided reflective walks at the Ruta Ecológica in Benissa for individuals and small groups through The Journey Studio.
If you feel the need to pause, listen, and reconnect with your own direction, you are welcome to walk with me.
Reflective Walk Experiences
📍 Ruta Ecológica, Benissa – Costa Blanca
Solo sessions or small groups
Read more and book your walk through The Journey Studio.
Alma de Verano
Welcome to my sunny corner in Spain 🌞
A cozy white sofa, golden light streaming in, and Alma de Verano blooming on the wall—this is where slow mornings begin. The doors are open, coffee is hot, and there's a seat waiting for you at the table.
Come join me for a cup and a soul-nourishing conversation.
How we find our way.
Traveling solo is often easier to begin when you have a destination, a program, or a friend to meet.
At least for me, it was a kind of crazy idea to drive to see my friend now residing in Mijas while traveling through Spain during my sabbatical. It’s a bit of a drive from Oliva, Valencia, where I was staying—trailing the mountains and seaside, basking in Mediterranean November.
Excited to get on the road, I planned my route to reach my dwellings by nightfall, stopping to see places and visit cities along the way. Anxious about the highways at first in my tiny stick-shift Fiat, I gradually settled into road trip mode—lunching, navigating parallel parking in narrow streets, and staying in small hotels.
Walking alone at the beach on the third morning in Nerja, I noticed people smiling at me. Sitting down with a coffee and churros, I realized it was me smiling wide while strolling along—attracting smiles in return.
The Detour That Wasn’t
That afternoon, I navigated my way to Kristi’s panoramic villa.
We had been colleagues-turned-friends for over a decade, and there was the typical laughter, memories, and reflections on where we both were in life. But there was something more.
The two days we spent walking, sharing meals, or simply sitting and gazing at the sunset over the sea became a turning point in the trip for me. Without realizing it, I kept repeating something—which she gently asked back to me. Hugging each other warmly, I continued my journey toward another destination: a hike at Caminito del Rey, reflecting on our conversation in the back of my mind.
My road led me to Alhambra in Granada by accident, and the walk there felt as meant to be as the earlier legs of my journey—each grounding the pebble stones under my feet, helping me carry on. As I grabbed the wheel and drove back to the Montgó mountainside, I felt I needed to continue being here.
By the time I returned to Oliva, I had one day left for sightings yet to be seen.
Coming Full Circle
Now developing my own transformative travel coaching services for travelers and destinations, I come across the same limiting beliefs I also once carried.
I see the dreams, the aspirations, the urge to do something—to live the life we are called to lead. But we often carry a backpack full of unresolved issues that quietly weigh us down.
I now notice others repeating themselves—and I gently ask their words back to them, just as she once did for me last November.
The journey is always traveled a step at a time, without knowing the destination.
There are transportive moments along the way—moments that bring you back to yourself.
Alma de Verano
Next to me now hangs Alma de Verano, a painting I ordered from my mentor Kirsti.
It did its own winding journey, trailing through Estonian and Spanish post offices, before I finally collected it at the Denia post point and had it locally framed.
My gaze turns toward the light shining above the flowers.
Begin Your Journey
Follow your soul’s calling—whether it’s faint or banging loud—and begin taking steps toward your inner self.
Empowering solo journeys grow on you, leading you to bold decisions when the time is right.
And before that? It’s a good idea to travel to a friend and vocalize your aspirations.
Sometimes, it’s not the closest ones you say them to first.
Sometimes, it’s the person you’ll spend the rest of your life with—yourself.
Because you, too, deserve happiness.
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