SIMONA KUPETIENE

Mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, counsellor, guide and creator of her life. Everything I have is only because I once thought of it and channeled my energy and action there. In this life, I am learning to create beauty all around me - in relationships, at home, in space.

Conscious journeys have been with me literally since 2015, and the search for a conscious life has gone hand in hand with me in parallel and probably since childhood. I was not an "easy and comfortable" child, but I was very independent and curious. When India touched my every cell - I was less than 10 years old - the Bhagavad Gita was always in my house, touched, felt, but then it smelled of mysticism and of things that I did not understand, but which always attracted and fascinated me.

Youth

A tumultuous adolescence, unhappy love, alcohol, nightclubs and bars were my life. I hated philosophy lectures at university (paradoxically, I ended up becoming a philosopher myself), but I always had a book in which I wrote down beautiful, wise sayings. Of course, at that time they were just words in my book and nothing more. When I was quite young, I was moving up the career ladder rapidly, but I did not find happiness in money and luxury offices and new cars.

Family, relationships

Relationships are the most important theme in my life and today I have a lot to share with others. My husband and I have been together since 2007, we got married in 2008 after a year and a half of friendship. We have been through a lot together and we have created a lot together. But this journey has also brought many lessons and experiences that we are learning. We are now building a conscious connection and relationship, but it was not always like this. It is the relationship that has pushed me to turn inwards and has been a strong motivation for the inner transformation.

I got married and right after the wedding I felt the call to have a child. The desire was apparently so strong that I received a double gift from above - twins. After I got pregnant, I realised that life could be lived in a different way - in a more peaceful and beautiful way, and I began to consciously search for myself. While I was pregnant with the twins, I started to attend yoga and meditation intensively. After one very strong practice in the pool in the sixth month of pregnancy, I gave birth at 27 weeks.... It was a shock for me: I didn't want to live anymore, I didn't want to do anything anymore, I was crushed and broken. But it was not enough for me to understand the messages that were being sent to me - REFUSE. It took me a good year to recover, but during that time I kept my interest in ecology, and my husband and I took courses on child-rearing. A year later, a business based on awareness was born - selling wooden toys. Those years were not easy - I was angry, irritable, unhappy, and sought happiness in home repairs and short trips or outings. The children were sick all the time - how could it be otherwise when my own energy was at a critical point, and the health of the children is directly linked to the emotional well-being of the mother - a mother is very much connected to her child energetically up to the age of 8 years. I went back to yoga several times, but I didn't find the teacher I needed at that time, who could not only stretch my body but touch my soul.

Now that our children are teenagers, it is good to grow together and see the fruits of our labor. I have never considered myself a perfect mother, wife or woman, but I have always had a great curiosity, a desire to know more, to learn, which has given me invaluable experience not to be locked in my own limited convictions and patterns of behaviour from my parents and my environment.

Thailand

Life was stable - my husband and I lived "like most", i.e. work-home-weekend routine. Inside I felt that it was possible to live differently, but I didn't know how yet, and the more I went on, the more I came across articles about families travelling the world. Until one day I said to myself - I MUST DO SOMETHING NOW. My husband Tom didn't support the idea right away, because we live a "normal" life, we earn well, we have a business, a home, but my feminine intuition and my heart told me that it was time to change. Feminine wisdom and cunning prevailed, finally my husband said YES to my idea and we were off to get ready for our big trip. At the time I thought it was just a trip to Thailand, but I gave a big and precious bonus - a trip to myself. And with it, many challenges.

We moved to Thailand in 2015, and our "Crazy Journey" or "Big Life Project" started here, and it gave us so much. We have accompanied or planned trips for some of the country's most important politicians, actors, influencers, artists, businessmen and ordinary people - and we are happy to say that we have been trusted by more than 10 000 people!

This project did not come about because we thought of creating another business, but because of demand - travellers themselves created this business for us by asking for new services.

Wake up

Well, in Thailand, my path to self-discovery was already taking giant leaps - sometimes my perceptions were beyond my physical capacity to integrate them into my life. At first, yoga and meditation slowly came back into my life. When I saw that a friend in Lithuania was organising "some kind of training", I very casually invited her to join me on a trip to Thailand. the "some training" was an emotional release and after this trip together something seemed to come out of me - I started to cleanse myself strongly from the blocks, beliefs, limitations, fears that were bothering me, I started to understand the meaning of gratitude and forgiveness. After 10 days of the camp, I felt much lighter - where was I before? It was as if the cellulite had fallen off my brain and everything continued to roll along as if in a fast-motion cinema - yoga, meditation, courses, trainings, teachers were everywhere I went - I met them on the plane, on the street, and sometimes something would happen. Thailand has broadened my consciousness a lot, bringing many unseen experiences and many perceived ones. And at the same time... a big test in our relationship, which we have successfully overcome, we have grown up together and apart and can now build a relationship based on respect, trust and love. There was a time when we were looking for a way not to be together, and now we are happy and grateful that we did not make a final stand at that time and close the door on each other.

Guidance

I remember lying in bed, unhappy, sad, lost, hard to even get out of bed, and a friend calls and says, "I'm giving you a ticket to the Thai Yoga Festival tomorrow. So what - I get out of bed and go. When I get to the festival I meet another friend and she asks me if I have a ticket for a few days. I say to one. And she extends her hand to me and says please give me a 3-day ticket. Or in India, on the last day, the teacher calls me one of the group and says - I didn't want to do this in front of the group, so that the others don't feel they have got less, but I feel that I would like to give you my two books. Another teacher before the last day - tomorrow we finish at 1pm and I will ask Simona to stay a couple of hours longer. I stay - and he gives me a private session and a lesson and a big discount on his other courses. All I have to do is to let go of the resistance and follow the path of the soul, guided by the invisible hand. And so in every course!

Today I know that my mission in this life is to SHARE. To share by experiencing and living what I share. That is why the theme of each camp is strongly felt, lived and experienced by myself.

Gausa

I have been sharing my experiences since 2018, but there was more to experience: to leave everything and be left behind, to lose and be lost, to let go and be let go, to re-create everything, first of all, in my own mind, to be able to say - yes, today I am living my life in total abundance, peace and love. And today I know how to create my life, how to change it and how to be guided. It is easier and simpler than you think. Where there is thought there is energy, where there is energy there is action, where there is action there is result. I realise now that I created both the unhappy and the happy parts of my life in my own head. If we can create adversity, we can create the kind of life we want and dream of.

Our fruit is not only our two beautiful children, but also the homestead, a space for experiences called "Madre tierra - the house of love", which was established in 2023.

Training

During these years I have tried many different practices, and I have discovered my own path, which is the best for me. My greatest teachers are always by my side - my husband, my children, my parents. I guide others on a path based on mindfulness, tantric, kundalini, free movement and emotional release practices, which have had the greatest impact on my own inner transformation, and I am also a reiki practitioner (level 2). I am grateful to my course teachers in Thailand, India, Bali and Mexico who encouraged me to find my own path and to teach only what I believe and have experienced, rather than following dogma.

For those who care about diplomas and mind certifications, I got my diplomas and certifications from Satyam Shivam Sundaram Meditation School with Shiva Girish and Dev OM at Meditation Ashram & Happiness Commune - Meditation Coach Course 2018, Yoga Essence Rishikesh Kundalini Meditation Course 2018, and Bliss Tribe Studio Reiki Course 2017-2018, "Plum Village mindfulness initiation in Thailand 2019, Mindfulness trainer course and Life coach course at New Skills academy 2019, I am studying at Mahasiddha yoga tantra school at Aman yoga federation since 2018 and I enrolled in the tantra teacher trainer course in 2024 which will last for two years. I had the opportunity to experience the power of shamanic practices and herbal medicine in Mexico, where I received a wealth of insight and knowledge. I completed my massage studies at the Alytus Vocational Training Centre in 2022, the sound therapy course at the Divine Healers Society in 2022, and another guided meditation course at Souversity's Dev Om teacher training programme in 2023, so that today I am able to touch and heal the human mind, soul and body, with the knowledge and experience I need.