Summer sprint

Summer is in full swing, those 4-6 weeks are the busiest in Estonia. As I wrote already before, there are all kind of festivals, concerts and other events going on. People are strolling from north to south and east to west to get as much as possible out of that time. As it is impossible to clone yourself, you need to make difficult decisions every Friday. I have been pretty quiet compared my previous summers, just some events, little tenting and cruising around Tallinn.
Few weeks ago went to the beer festival in Tallinn. Not that I like that festival, it is super crowded and queues everywhere -to get inside the area, to get a beer, to get some food, to get to toilet etc.etc. But they have improved cultural side of the festival and this year was there  Pet Shop Boys. PSB is one my favourite  bands back to teenage years, so I wanted to see, are they still as good as before. I have to admit that they are! The show was great - great music, lights, all really good quality -  10 points.
Another notable activity was my trip to Muhu and Saaremaa. Saaremaa is the biggest island in Estonia and Muhu is one tiny and peaceful island on the way to Saaremaa. My friends have summer cottage in Muhu. The  idea was to go there, stay one day and then go with my friend to Saaremaa, stay on the beach, pick wild strawberries, chanterelles, stay a night in tent and just relax. Not that my life is so stressful that I need desperately relax again but she has been busy last years with babies and preferred to do something in nature, so nobody is screaming or chatting endlessly.. I can be quiet and  I never say no for staying in nature (ok, I may say "no" in winter..).. so we did it.
First I got to Muhu by motorcycle (on the back seat of course), spent nice afternoon with my goddaughter and her twin sister and next morning our mission "escape from reality" started.

Around our motorbike are cute mini vehicles on the way to exhibition:

Our intention was to stay on Harilaid, it is a beautiful peninsula in west side of the island. But as it was impossible to get close to tenting area by car and we were comfort loving and lazy ladies, then we just did nice hike and several nude swimming. Why nude? I know it sounds like weird explanation but if water is chilly then it feels much better to swim without bikinis. If there is no strangers on the beach, it is pretty common to swim naked, officially it is forbidden here as well  to stay naked in public :-)

Next morning was very womanish - yoga, painting, massage with hot stones (no, we unfortunately did`nt find any handsome masseurs, did it to each other) and of course wild strawberries, wild strawberries and wild strawberries...and some blueberries too. And some icecream and rom cakes as soon as we got back to civilization.. On the way back got also one close look with elk..of course by that time my camera and phone batteries were empty, so best pictures staying in my mind.

A big awakening

Despite economic slump, increasing prices and decreasing incomes seems to be one sector doing amazingly well. Actually it is kind of explosion what I can see this summer in that area.. well, already few years there is boom of all kind of spiritual practices everywhere in the world but this summer seems to be boom of the boom in Estonia :)
So all trainers who have been focusing on all kind of business training,  now it is I guess a bit late to catch that train and refocus.. Companies have reduced their budgets and probably only some multinationals bother to train their stuff. But stuff is training themselves to find new meaning of life, heal their stress and find solutions to their problems. Seems like new revolution after singing revolution back in 1988. Don`t get me wrong, I am not ironic about spirituality, I´m reiki healer and  trying all kind of different things but if I look how many camps and festivals are during 4 weeks (yeah, thats our summer) in Estonia, where is 1.2mln people, then it looks a bit funny.
5.-7.July   International tantrafestival (85.-eur)
5.-7. July  Reiki Summer camp (60eur)
9.-11 July Veet Mano summer camp (did`nt know about this dude as I have`nt been watching TV last 2 years but seems to be nice guy and very popular) ( 275eur)
There are also some Veet Manos one day seminars available in Tallinn.
12.-14 July Festival of labyrinths (35eur)
20.-21.July  Yoga festival (  35eur)
25.-28 July Indians camp (this is actually already very old event, has been here  I guess 10 years) (200eur)
There gonna be also one Raw Food Festival 10.-11 August. This is just overview of bigger events, same time is happening small workshops all the time!
 I have to admit, I wanted to volunteer at tantra festival but there was no more need for volunteers and as I´m still unemployed, then no tantra for me this summer. Lets see maybe yoga will fit to my empty event calendar.. But ... there is still time to start with new festival idea for next summer, your suggestions are welcome :)
Namaste!