Nature’s work of art is in full display with landscapes featuring sharp peaks, deep ravines and volcanic craters of the Anaga Rural Park

There is a magic in the mountains that is unique. The stillness and rawness of the environment creates space within your mind. Your reality expands. My imagination and creativity expands with each deep lungful of unpolluted air.

Thinking about running as a slow, meditative practice provides more benefits than viewing it as a sport.

I run because I can!

On the outside it can appear turbulent, fierce, chaotic, with moments of calm. Beneath the surface, there is stillness, life, an underwater inner kingdom that is majestic and vast. A kingdom mostly undiscovered and unknown.

When I step into the water, I return to my nature and it’s wildly exhilarating. Reclaiming what is always there. Presence and freedom, a return to self. The ocean and the incomprehensible vastness of it, that is my reset button.

33 Creative living ideas and experiences list. New experiences are awakening. They challenge you and they require you to focus and tune in. They shift energy and revitalise the soul.