Explorations & Tools
A collection of proposals - how to play with the garden, connect into the place and engage with situation?
Experimental page - try it in your garden.
These are also practices to find back the source of aliveness.
I would like to keep this list of practices alive and resourceful.
1. Make a commitment to the garden
Something that is easiest and also the most difficult. To commit. To commit is the first place. The first decision one takes about the place.
You said - I want to commit - this is your rooting, your seed - all grows from this practice.
We all commited from various sources. But it is always a first step.
Commitment can be very simple and just ask you a time investment.
But it should be kept alive if you want the practice to flourish. If you engage.
For example, I commit to visiting the Garden every Monday.
Simple, you said it.
But with every visit you will notice the change (naturally) of your relationship with the place. You will notice new smells; new details, angles and arrangements - the Garden will change, reflecting back your own change, inviting you to think of the nature of time, of cycles of impermanence (mujo (無常) ).
Every visit will then become a living conversation, a possibility to learn more, to become more curious.
It is very simple. But as I said, before you make this decision to commit - nothing will really change for you in this Garden.
The Garden, your place will become a memory, a fiction, an imagine in time - today, for example, the leaves are gone, the wines became longer, wild garlic burst up and the snow covered it (writing it in mid-February, all those events noticed in one day, 2 weeks after previous visit - can you feel the flesh of the landscape?) .
Place is not unrelated to time.
Place is related to time.
Place is landscapes and cycles of change - and time is not linear, every second it changed - every second, something gets lost, but nevermind. The Garden shows you something of its cycles if you commit.
Without time and commitment, landscape cannot become place.
The Garden cannot exist.
15.02.2026
2. Slow down
It is easy to say
But not so easy to actually live -
Slowing down is multifaceted:
It is about creating the space around doing, spaciousness in the actions and decisions
It is about learning to do nothing - the most useful skill a human could learn - please, do master it, learn to do nothing, to dwell in the present, not to race in the thoughts, not to get yourself busy with tasks and agenda, hiding from anxiety - but just: Do. Nothing.
To feel the sweetness of this present moment.
It is about finding a slower rhythm, listening to longer pauses, less noise, listening more precisely -
Let your fauvorite dances be slow dances, listening to the inner flow
Let your favourite music be desert blues (listen to Fulani by Nile project) - slow, delicious, spacious - slowness permitting the intricate rhythm layers and changes in the mood
It is about the details - for example, as you slowwalk - noticing the plants on the road side, noticing the faces, the shape of a little stone, the sky, the colour of the clouds, the sounds, the smells, - and environment starts speaking to you - as you notice.
Details are possible with the slow rhythm, with open attention, with undirected mind, with slowing down the brain waves …
Spaces. Slowing down. Details. Nuances. Deeper awareness. Magic of life.
2.01.2026
3. Being camera
On a rainy December day we went to play with camera in the Garden. We danced, camera danced with us, we explored, and camera observed with curiosity.
Here is raw and unedited talmost psychodelic) Secret Garden - still alive, still unfolding...
(click on the eye to see, it is a secret, psst...).
Filmed on 6.12.2026
