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Finding Your Tribe

 If you're here it's probably because, like us, at some stage you found yourself searching for a little somethin' somethin' more out of this life. As spiritual teacher Ram Dass explained to a crowd in San Francisco over forty years ago, sometimes this thing happens [...]

By |February 18th, 2016|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Finding Your Tribe

The Salty Souls Experience: What Was it Really Like ?

It has become a habit of mine to embark on long trips to distant places, simply to displace myself, to uproot myself from home. I used to think that I left to escape, but now I realize that sometimes I just need to leave, to [...]

By |January 26th, 2016|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on The Salty Souls Experience: What Was it Really Like ?

Ninja Tricks: Travel Hacks!

Booking the flight Airlines track when you're interested in a flight, so if they see you going back to it a few times they'll keep bumping up the prices. Cause they're slippery little snakes. Beat the system and always search for flights in incognito or private browsing mode to [...]

By |January 13th, 2016|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on Ninja Tricks: Travel Hacks!

MAROC: Tomber follement amoureuse

Photos par Michael Warchild prisent en 35mm J’ai voyagé dans plus de 25 pays différents dans les dernières années. J’ai eu la chance de vivre des expériences différentes et plus enrichissantes les unes que les autres. De me [...]

By |January 4th, 2016|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on MAROC: Tomber follement amoureuse

2016: Dancing with the Divine

"Gifts come to us when we open ourselves to the single greatest truth that those before us knew: there is a larger world behind the one we see around us every day. That larger world loves us more than we can possibly imagine, and it [...]

By |January 2nd, 2016|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on 2016: Dancing with the Divine

Shame Resilience: A Vulnerability Hangover Cure

“I love being horribly straightforward. I love sending reckless text messages (because how reckless can a form of digitized communication be?) and telling people I love them and telling people they are absolutely magical humans and I cannot believe they really exist. I love saying, [...]

By |December 17th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Shame Resilience: A Vulnerability Hangover Cure

F*ck Boundaries / End of Semester (Or How to Stay Creative)

When we were younger, we were comfortable pushing boundaries. It was like a rite of passage. We'd push our parents for later curfews, push our teachers patience while giggling in class with our friends (remember how when you weren't allowed to laugh, it just made [...]

By |December 10th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on F*ck Boundaries / End of Semester (Or How to Stay Creative)

Why Kate’s Killing It

Kate Dawson: Marine scientist, researcher, traveller, shark lover, photographer, videographer, surfer. Interview by Caitlin Creeper The girl who got her scuba diving licence at thirteen, pulled a new passion out of a brutal surfing encounter at fifteen and at twenty-two has already contributed to important marine research here [...]

By |November 18th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Why Kate’s Killing It

Damn Hippies

Why Yoga, Meditation, Surfing, Travelling or Following a Spiritual Path doesn't make you a Hippie, but someone in the state of a major awakening.   I think I essentially started my spiritual path when I was seventeen. The thing was, back then I didn't even [...]

By |November 16th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Damn Hippies

I Destroyed this House I Built

I built it because I wanted to belong. I wanted to protect myself. I wanted to be someone to the world. I say I built it as if I was the only one laying the foundation and cementing each brick. The truth is, I didn’t [...]

By |November 8th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on I Destroyed this House I Built

Let’s Talk Instragram – The Essena O’Neill Storm & How To Use IG Positively

If you've been online anywhere in the Western World this week chances are you've heard of Essena O'Neill. Otherwise known in the mainstream media as the famous young Instagram model who doused her career in gasoline, set it on fire and danced around the flames [...]

By |November 5th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Let’s Talk Instragram – The Essena O’Neill Storm & How To Use IG Positively

Take Control of your Dreams

Have you ever asked yourself what was your reason for existence? Why you were put on this earth? Who you were meant to be? Well, these days, those questions seem to haunt me. Ever since I was a child, I was told I had to [...]

By |October 26th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Take Control of your Dreams

5 Reasons Crazy Girls Do It Better

There's a certain little word that likes to be tacked on to women who choose to live outside a certain accepted norm. And this label is "crazy". Not only does it put negative connotations to those who actually are living with a mental illness (not [...]

By |October 26th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on 5 Reasons Crazy Girls Do It Better

Compétition de Kitesurf – Le Come-Back

Un come-back, si je fais juste me l’imaginer comme ça dans ma tête, c’est toujours un peu Rocky-style : la musique triomphante, la foule en délire,  le poing levé… dans ma tête, un come-back, c’est glorieux. Mais un come-back d’une blessure dont la période de rémission [...]

By |October 22nd, 2015|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Compétition de Kitesurf – Le Come-Back

6 Months of Mondays in Paradise – The Truth

Half a year living on the beautiful island of Bali. 174 days to be really precise. That’s 27 Mondays where I’ve woken up to a bright blue sky and the freedom to manage my schedule. And it’s also a big fat total of 0 days [...]

By |October 21st, 2015|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on 6 Months of Mondays in Paradise – The Truth

How to Turn Your Mood Up in 10 Seconds Flat

Wheatgrass Shots for the Soul In a world where people are valued for their productivity it is all too easy to tell ourselves we're too busy for something as recreational and self indulgent as "happiness". We like to think of happiness as this far-off utopia [...]

By |October 17th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on How to Turn Your Mood Up in 10 Seconds Flat

Want to Get Rich Quick? Try These 3 Easy Steps.

What if I told you I have found a tried-and-tested get rich quick scheme that will instantly make you the richest person in the world? I'm not going to ask you to whip out your credit card or provide you with a link to some [...]

By |October 13th, 2015|Categories: Life hacks|Comments Off on Want to Get Rich Quick? Try These 3 Easy Steps.

Why 1 + 1 Doesn’t Always = More

The second we learnt that one plus one equals two we assumed it gospel that adding always equals more. Tom has one car and buys one more: how many does he have? James has one car but has to sell one: how many does he [...]

By |October 2nd, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Why 1 + 1 Doesn’t Always = More

Your Permission Slip to the Epic Life

Here at Salty we're about chasing the epic life. And chances are if you've landed here you share a similar yearning for a more fulfilling life but are awaiting some sort of sign or permission slip to get cracking.  Consider this your permission slip. Salty [...]

By |September 26th, 2015|Categories: Adventure, Empowerment|Comments Off on Your Permission Slip to the Epic Life

Who’s Steering Your Ship? Ego versus Self

What if I told you that there's been someone else beside you, whispering in your ear since the day you were born? She was there with you in kindergarden when you snatched the paintbrush from that little boy, convincing you that you needed the instrument [...]

By |September 14th, 2015|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on Who’s Steering Your Ship? Ego versus Self

Yoga Teacher Training in Bali ~ Experience Wrap-Up

https://soundcloud.com/easy-kirtan/jai-mata-kali-jai-mata-durge ⇪ MAXIMIZE THE EXPERIENCE, READ WHILE LISTENING TO THIS TUNE ⇪ 1 month after the end my intensive 33-day Yoga Teacher Training, it is still hard to wrap my mind around what happened during this special experience. It is hard to write about it even [...]

By |July 29th, 2015|Categories: Yoga|Comments Off on Yoga Teacher Training in Bali ~ Experience Wrap-Up

Road-Tripping Solo in Australia

THE LONELY ROAD Indonesia and all its magic already felt like a simple daydream when I landed in Australia. I was on my way to meet a friend in Byron Bay and I had planed to stay there for a month. It was my second [...]

By |February 9th, 2015|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Road-Tripping Solo in Australia

Why Do We Really Travel? (Hint: It’s Not What You Think)

On the outside, it looked like I was living the dream. But on the inside, I was falling apart. 4 months ago, in the midst of building 2 businesses, prepping my first TEDx talk, and working on countless other projects… I started to break down. [...]

By |September 5th, 2014|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Why Do We Really Travel? (Hint: It’s Not What You Think)

Letting Go

“Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past. Stop planning the future. Stop figuring out precisely how we feel. Stop deciding exactly what we want and just see what happens.” When I jumped on the plane to Indonesia, my first goal was to get lost [...]

By |August 31st, 2014|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on Letting Go

Ubud – A Sweet Surrender

Yesterday, for the first time ever since I do yoga, I felt like crying at the end of my practice. I was not sad. I was actually feeling wonderfully relieved! Truly, what I felt is harder to describe… I have to admit I was confused [...]

By |July 13th, 2014|Categories: Adventure, Yoga|Comments Off on Ubud – A Sweet Surrender

I say JUMP !

This story is about being exactly where you want to be, every day of your life. A few weeks ago, I told you about my constant and haunting desire to dive into a new adventure, travel the world as if I was on a never-ending [...]

By |June 20th, 2014|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on I say JUMP !

L’Insoutenable (et Récurrente) Envie de Partir

« Partir » : le plus beau mot de la langue française. Vous savez que vous êtes prêt à l’employer. « Partons. » « Il faut partir. ». Vos bagages sont faits, et vous savez que le passé n’est qu’un amas confus posé derrière vous qu’il faut tenter d’oublier, puisque vous êtes [...]

By |April 8th, 2014|Categories: Adventure|Comments Off on L’Insoutenable (et Récurrente) Envie de Partir