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29/11/2021 0 Comments

Heart Route 42 in Gava -Growing Your Community

Longing for connection
With like minded souls 
A shared ride
Of compassion
Creativity
And love

I surrendered 
Closed my eyes 
And rode inwards
Re-emerging in clarity

To those who read these words
Thank you
My soul family 
You are not alone
We ride through life together 
Follow your heart

Cycle Your Heart Out for... Community!

​Separated from loved ones, relocating to a new area, yearning for community. If you have experienced any of this recently and sensed a feeling of loneliness, then this heart route is for you. 


Location

I decided to create a heart route in the peaceful town of Gavà, 20 kilometers south of Barcelona, and only 10 minutes from the Airport. Gava is known for it’s beautiful 4km beach promenade, pine forests and sand dunes.

Heart Route

Length: 8.23km (mostly flat)
Click here to view the route on Strava.

Cycle Your Heart Out

Highlights:
- Ama Yoga Loft  for beautiful heart centred classes

- Huertos De Ocio - Farm to grow your own organic fruits and vegetables 
- Horse riding school (Gavamar Ecuestre) you can learn to ride a horse along the beach here
- Kauai Gavà Mar Restaurant for their amazing paella
- Gava beach for sunrise, siesta and sunset

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To help give back to my heartful community, I decided to give a copy of my book to 
Ama’s Yoga Loft. 
Amarilis started the studio to help you connect with your essential nature and authentic wisdom, so your spirit is reborn with clarity and balance. A beautiful heart centred space directly on the heart route!
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20/9/2021 0 Comments

Heart Route 41 in Loughton, The Reunion

The Reunion
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Scrabble 
Night Time
Golden milk by my side
Loved ones competing to win 
Reminiscing, laughing 
Silence outside 
Just the odd passing car
Content, cosy, happy
Surrounded by family
Soaked in love
Follow your heart: 
A heart route to celebrate my long awaited family reunion! 

Location:
Loughton, a cute ancient village in Milton Keynes England, and the city where I first gave birth to Cycle Your Heart Out over a decade ago! It's  also one of my favourite areas in the city to find some peace and walk the dog.

Heart Route:
It was thanks to my amazing sister's that we managed to come up with this short but beautiful 4.78km ride in Loughton! The route is also part of the 12km Millennium cycle route around Milton Keynes, a quiet picturesque ride that takes you past the river Ouzel, the Grand Union Canal, ancient villages and the famous concrete cows!

Cycle Your Heart Out:
Meet my mum, she hadn't rode a bike in ages, and had pretty much lost all confidence. She would stop and walk the bike to cross a small road, avoid adjusting the seat to the correct height in case she fell off, and rode the same speed as someone walking. 

But little by little with the help of me and my sister, her confidence bloomed as we rode along peaceful paths, canals and lakes. No rush, nowhere to be, just us and our bikes. We stopped to pick freshly fallen plums, pick juicy blackberries, and to simply admire the horses. The more we rode, the more her fear faded and her smile grew! We celebrated our ride with some delicious Victoria sponge cake and tea at the Grumpy Cook.  

If you have someone you love who is a little hesitant to get back on their bike, here are 2 tips from my mum that helped her get over her fear of cycling:

1. Walk and cycle... Like when you start running, you walk/jog/build up a few mins at a time... 
2. Avoid cycling on hills or in bad weather until more confident 

Spread the love:
To help spread the love around Milton Keynes I gifted a copy of my new book to the wonderful Alchemise Yoga Studio in Newport Pagnell.  Ran by the lovely Wendy, it was thanks to her amazing classes that I first fell in love with yoga over a decade ago. Thanks Nicole for reading my poems in your relaxing cello classes.  
"Building community, bringing art from the heart, a perfect offering.
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Thank you so much for bringing your wonderful poetry into the world and sharing your book with us!"

- Wendy  Loughlan - Founder of Alchemise Yoga Studio
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9/8/2021 0 Comments

My Debut Book 'Cycle Your Heart Out: Around Your Inner World' is now out!

Celebrating 10 years of Cycle Your Heart Out, and the birth of my new book with loved ones in the beautiful Jardin de Hara in Barcelona. I couldn't have wished for better way to celebrate. Reading my poetry to an audience is only something I've started to do recently, and I've just discovered how much I enjoy it! 

To be able to share my heart & help you feel less alone in this crazy world was the reason I decided to publish this poetry book. 
If you're tired of people pleasing, toxic relationships, ashamed of your sensitivity, & sick to death of not following your own heart, I hope my words can help comfort you and ride you back down the right path.
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Thanks so much to all of you who've supported me and my project over the last 10 yrs, and everyone I’ve had the pleasure of cycling my heart out with! All my family and friends for always supporting & reminding me to never give up on my dreams, regardless of how crazy and unrealistic they seemed. Thank you also to those who knowingly, and unknowingly shaped some of my poems! To David and Maya, my beautiful poem that came true. Thank you for all the days and nights you took care of me while I was drowning in a sea of writers block and procrastination, I love you.

My editors Jacqueline Suskin, Katia Ariel, and poet Tanya Markul I’m so happy I found you all. Thank you for helping me bring this book into the world, and making me believe it was worth publishing.
Now available worldwide on Amazon as paperback!
Click below to look inside and get a copy for 
yourself or a loved one.

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"Beautiful poetry, I love the concept of heart shaped cycling and its therapeutic and mindful effect! I absolutely recommend the book to anyone who is sensitive, observant, and in search of inner world expressions."

​- Magdalena Grucza
​Psychologist & Career consultant


“I highly recommend this book, even if you have never been or intend to get on a bicycle the journey through the poems will inspire and touch your heart”.

- Kathy Ward
WHO Mindfulness Consultant, TEDx Speaker
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6/4/2021 0 Comments

Heart Route 40 in Barcelona for ... My NEW Book!

Healed

You were unplanned
You kissed my open wounds
Route by route
You pieced me back together

Pedal by pedal
You kept me breathing
You kept me riding
Year after year

Continuing to share through the pain
Continuing to share despite the pain
And in the end 
An open book because of it all

Follow Your Heart
This is a pretty special month, not only is April 30 Days Of Biking, but it's also National Poetry Month! A beautiful combination and a lovely way to share with you some exciting news!

Over the last few years I've been working hard on creating something special, something I hope will inspire you to travel deeper into your inner world and follow your heart. Yesterday I cycled my 40th heart route to share with you my big news... I've written a book!

Location 
Barcelona

Heart Route
A flat 11.9km route

Cycle Your Heart Out
Highlights

- El Born
- Bogatell & Barceloneta beach
-Parc de la Ciutadella
- Arc de Triomf
- Sagrada Familia
- Poblenou

Spread the Love
For the whole of April I'll be cycling my heart out in Barcelona and sharing poems along the way, two of my favourite things all rolled into one! So if you also love bikes and poetry, why don’t you join in with me? 

Click here for my top heart making tips!

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3/9/2020 0 Comments

Heart Route 39 in  Delta del Ebro, Spain

Offline 

Inside my Cancerian shell
Cooking up a feast

A feast full of love, dreams and ambition
A feast full of drinks, overflowing with gratitude,
A feast ending so sweetly
Reminding me what was missing from all the other meals
High in courage and free from self-comparison

A feast so delicious I invite you
To travel
To this VIP location
Inside yourself
For the most rewarding meal of your life

Then once you're full
Feel free to invite others
Follow your heart

Cycle your heart out ... offline

Location
Delta del Ebro, Spain
Accommodation: ​Camping Ampolla Playa

Heart route
5.16km, all flat
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Highlights:
Watching the sunrise at Platja de l'Arenal
Seeing Flamingos!
Sketching Maya and David sleeping like babies
Taking Maya Kayaking for the 1st time!
Delicious Paella for lunch at
 Lo Goleró
The sunset at  Mirador norte de la bassa de les Olles

Celebrating our 2 year anniversary at Restaurant La Barraca and seeing a blood moon!!

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If you would like to disconnect and create your own heart route, click here to learn my top 5 steps!

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5/6/2020 0 Comments

Cycle your heart out with Mindful Maya - Heart Route 38

Follow your heart

Mindful Maya here! Sarah's let me take over her blog today and I'm super happy to share with you my first heart route! But first let me share a little bit about me... I was born on Valentine's day and my name means love in Nepali, my favourite snack is broccoli and I'm obsessed with chasing pigeons. People seem to think I'm a small bear or cat sometimes... but I'm sure I'm a Pomeranian dog.

Location
El Poblenou, Barcelona in Spain

Heart route
1.64km 

Cycle your heart out
​One minute I'm chasing pigeons, sniffing grass and finding a good spot to roll around in, the next minute Sarah picks me up and puts me in some sort of flying bed. It's strange but kind of cosy cause she's put my favourite blanket inside. Not sure why she's put me here...

Wow I'm super high up, I miss the floor let me outta here! Ok escape fail, she's harnessed me in...
​My fur feels sort of strange, it's like she's blow drying me after a shower,  except it's nice and cool.
So many humans keep staring at me, everything's moving around me so fast,

Hold on a minute... I recognise it all, its my favourite walking route in Parc Diagonal!

I recognise the smells and the trees, those purple flowers on the floor, this is the park full of dogs that always want to sniff me. Ok we’ve stopped, Sarah is giving me lots of hugs and doing that strange high pitch voice, the same as whenever I’ve peed on the grass or sit down.

I think I’ve done something she likes as she’s just given me my FAVOURITE BONE! Nothing else matters right now, just me and my bone, the cool blow dryer on my fur.

Sarah just told me we've rode a heart route, maybe that's why she called me Maya! I like this flying bed, I could get used to this. But for now I’ve got some serious chewing to do.

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Would you like to create a heart route with your favourite human?
I highly suggest checking out Sarah's top tips!
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