Hello ! I'm a 25 years old french girl named Léa and I'm travelling in England at the moment.
I got involved in this project because I believed that I could help Emily in the visual communication part of her new company. I may not be an expert in anything but I have some technical skills that can be useful and on top of everything I'm motivated to make things pleasant and clear to look at.

When I think about the word "wellbeing", I directly picture a person doing yoga and eating super healthy in a zen atmosphere. From my point of view, wellbeing refers to happiness.
The feeling of total fulfillment you can have at one specific moment where you think "I'm at the right place at the right time, I don't need anything more". I can recall a few moments like that in my life. It's like taking some distance from what is happening in front of your eyes, what you are experiencing and when you go back to it you enjoy it fully until it ends.

Once I was in Finland and I was doing this sauna tradition. As you may know, Finland has lots of lakes. Most of finnish families, in addition of their regular house or apartment, owns a wood cabin where they go for holidays. I was living in one of those for a few weeks many summers ago. The sauna is a huge part of the finnish culture so they usually have saunas in their home (it doesn't matter if it's an apartment in the city center or a house in the country side).
As I understood, when you go to the sauna ; you should be naked and alternate swimming in the lake and sitting in the sauna. So that's what I did several times few days in a row. And one day, I don't know why that day in particular, I felt so good. I came out of the sauna, looked at the amazing surroundings, the air temperature was perfect, the lake temperature was perfect, everything felt right, I felt relaxed and in total harmony with the nature and everything around me.

My name is Miguel Angel Romero, currently 22 years old, born and raised in México, a marketing guy who, for now, has become a traveller of the world. If you ask me about wellbeing, it wouldn't take me little time to answer, because I think that the answer changes from head to head, nevertheless I would go simply with the harmony between the body, mind and spirit. As a personal little anecdote, I came across my balance definition first as I was practicing kung fu a couple of years ago, my teacher (Shifu as I called him) taught me that life is all about balance; if you can't find balance in your personal life, how are you supposed to be great at your work, hobbies, social life or when the time for a fight comes? Your mind has to be in sync with your body and by having your spirit clean you can enter in a mind state of calm. As the years passed I left behind the kung-fu and entered in yet another Martial Art, changed the millennial chinese teaching for the brazilian joyful rhytim of capoeira, way different and strangely similar to the vibe of the harmonic idea of the wellbeing as kung fu. When it comes to capoeira, it is all about how your body moves with rhythm and grace, but even before that happens, you need to be calm in your mind and the whole process will eventually "lift" your spirit and move freely and have fun. As you may reckon by my stories, everywhere in the world from China to Brasil, the people try to achieve wellbeing in different ways or methods, thats why I took part in the team of O-Wellbeing, because the concept of feeling good and achieving balance that they have, goes well with mine, so whether you do yoga, capoeira, self-massage or anything to achieve a healty body, mind and spirit, you will be in sync with us! Miguel

With the arrival of Lea and Miguel came the sun, and boy has it decided to settle. This past week we have taken full advantage with massages in the sunshine! Lea is a french lady from Lille, whilst Miguel is from Mexico. They arrived almost two weeks ago to help me start up, and I honestly don't know what I would have done without them. My social media would be almost non existent, I wouldn't have had half the flyering achieved, and my YouTube video, coming this Saturday, would most likely be me sitting in front of a webcam. So first and foremost a huge thank you to Lea and Miguel!

'This week at O' gives all you lovely lot reading this blog an insight into whats happening at O-HQ. It will be published weekly (no way!), and will keep the O experience personal. I want you to watch us grow, watch us stumble, and watch us get back up again. I want to inspire anyone who is fed up with working for someone else, who has an idea of their own, to get up and get motivated! Or for you curious souls who want to know the backstage details. So as always, I encourage comments and feedback. Get involved!

This past week we have been busy busy busy! And what a range of things we've been doing. Flyering, filming, blogging, brainstorming, snapping, singing, and massaging. I am elated and grateful that the flyering, which we started yesterday, has already started to bring in business, and I am so excited to start meeting clients tomorrow! After all our efforts, our social media is up and running so keep an eye out for sneak peaks, videos, articles, and tutorials, as well as other things we think may keep you happy, interested, and entertained.

Lea has been working hard on filming and editing the very first in a series of self massage tutorials, and this will be on our YouTube channel this Saturday. A stimulating yet relaxing head massage, so keep a lookout for that! I have written up the very first blog post, and am writing the very first 'This week at O' blog post, and on Sunday we will upload the very first 'Travellers Wellbeing' blogpost. This post will talk about the ideas of wellbeing and travel, and what they mean to different people. Miguel will be our first, speaking of Kung-fu and Capoeira, and what wellbeing means to him.

Apart from that keep a check on our Facebook for a video on Flying Shiatsu and other interesting and entertaining articles. Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoy our journey, and don't forget to get involved!

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"When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” 

The first time I heard that infamous quote by John Lennon, I was slightly confused and incredibly inspired. The first thought that ran through my mind was, 'What a rebel!'. His lateral thinking made so much sense and was so simple, and yet it was an answer I had never thought to give when asked that question. I, like most others, automatically thought of the career I was going to pave for myself after going through school. At that point I was going to be an actress. Unlike my peers who were thinking of going to uni once they'd done their A-Levels, I was going to drama school. But life inevitably got in the way. I dropped out of college, started working, and carried on taking acting classes when I could. By the time I was 18 and applying for drama school I no longer had the support of my old theatre school, and my confidence levels dropped. By the time I had found the support I needed from a wonderful amateur theatre, The Questors in Ealing Broadway, I had a job giving Indian Head Massage at events and exhibitions and I fell utterly in love with it.

Am I happy? Yes. I didn't choose this path, but I wouldn't change it.

I think everyone has the opportunity to truly and deeply enjoy life, to be happy. Sometimes the choices that take us there are difficult, uncomfortable, and can be painful, but it is our responsibility to make the changes in our lives that will take us to where we want to be. This is where O-Wellbeing comes in. I created O as a place to help people reach their potential within, to learn to unlock the happiness inside of them. Through tutorials and ideas of small daily changes, inspiring pictures and videos, and massages in the forest, I hope that I can bring a bit of happiness to your life.

I encourage you to comment and give feedback, please vocalise what you are interested in reading, watching and learning.

Peace&Love
Emily@O-Wellbeing