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  • Body and Mind

    I strongly believe in the connection of body and mind. They are the two parts of a whole. I started getting interested in this topic about ten years ago as a consequence of my life story and my dancing. I used to have a lot of body tension and rigidity back then. I was painstakingly…

  • Airports

    I just brought my mom to the airport. We said goodbye. Is this the last time? This time she walked towards the security control and I turned back to go to the exit. We had just dropped off her luggage. She had a little carry on in her hand that she wanted to take into…

  • Rebirth

    I have been reading a lot about values lately. I wanted to better understand what they exactly are, how they are formed and what they do to us. Ultimately, I wanted to see what values are important to me and how they guide me in my life. To that end, I read two different books…

  • Cyclic

    Life repeats itself. Six years ago I was saying goodbye to my home and everything in it, bit by bit, day by day and I had said I will never do this again. Little did I know that life repeats itself. It was a tough experience, much more so than I had ever anticipated. I…

  • Growing Up While Dancing

    I was born into music. My dad’s biggest passion was classical music. He would know every composer, every note, every symphony, he would read books, take notes. He would breath classical music. Every morning we would wake up to some beautiful recording he had started to play immediately after he woke up as the earliest…

  • Highly Sensitive Person

    Are you often times feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information that comes at you? The moods of people, the energy in the room, the sounds, the smells that you know many others do not realize. Are you distressed by crowds, jammed streets and places, clubs, loud music, large parties, contentless small talk? Are you…

  • The Other Way Around

    Two weeks ago I turned 46. Almost half a century old. So I am grown up enough, one would say. For my mom I am still her child, and in return she is mine. In July she is turning 80. I really don’t know how to express my feelings about this new reality, except that…

  • Covid Bittersweet Friend

    Two years ago almost about this time, I was sitting in the plane from Buenos Aires to Zurich, wearing a mask, fully confused, almost scared and hoping to reach “home” safely. I had been in Buenos Aires only for three days before I got on that plane. My shortest stay there ever. That was when…

  • Back to the Sky

    On January 18th my aunt flew back to her beloved skies. She was my second mother. She has been fighting cancer for the last six years and despite being the bravest warrior, she surrendered. I am grateful she did not suffer too long, She was a stewardess at Turkish Airlines. I learned so much from…

  • Responsible AI to Guide Us in a World After COVID19

    We are going through unprecedented times. Coronavirus has each one of us in the grip. At best we are quarantined at home, at worst we are fighting for our life, or for saving someone else’s life. We are dependent on technology more than ever: to be able to work so as to sustain the global…