Danielle Shines
Musings of a travelling writer, marketer, breath work and meditation teacher.
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What my second Hyrox taught me (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago I did my second Hyrox. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1200" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfnF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30df
Five Days Out (Again!) (opens the original)
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I’m five days out from my second HYROX. And I have a confession.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1815" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XWAZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.
Nobody's Coming to Chase You With a Toothbrush (opens the original)
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A student came to me recently with a question I hear more than almost any other:“I really want to be consistent in my practice. How do you stay consistent?”It’s such an earnest and precious question. And it’s almost always asked with a particular undercurrent — a quiet guilt, a sense of self-betrayal, the feeling that wanting it should be enough to make it happen. Like if the desire is real, the action should follow automatically, right? I asked in response: “Have you listened to Gurudev’s comme
The stat nobody put on a stage at Cannes Lions (opens the original)
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Cannes Lions is not calm. I’ve worked inside the global wellness and marketing industry for years, and I can tell you that behind every creator you saw on La Croisette this year there was a small army you didn’t — strategists, producers, editors, community managers — most of them running on four hours of sleep, caffeine, and that particular cocktail of adrenaline and creativity that comes with live activations. I know because I’ve been one of them, and work with teams of them. And nobody films t
Five Hundred Breaths Under Table Mountain (opens the original)
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There's a particular density of anticipation to the silence of a sunrise.Mountains hold the light differently, the whole of creation starts to glisten as the first golden rays of the sun pierce through the nip of a mid-winter dawn, and the air makes your nose hurt. Kirstenbosch felt like the right setting for what was about to unfold: hundreds of people, all arriving to mark the 12th International Day of Yoga together. It’s as if the garden filled the air with the gravitas that comes with being
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