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My notion of luxury…

        🌿Three things are essential to me in order to live : space, light and order.
And of course, I find them in NATURE !

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The creative void

        🌿The void, except for the beautiful and perfect necessities, is conducive to my feeling of peace. It leaves room for my spirit to develop there, to find a source of inspiration. The creative void. Emptiness calls for light to fill it. There would be no beauty without the existence of emptiness, because then everything takes on real meaning. This is the real luxury for me.
From then on, the essential, the vital can take on another dimension, much deeper and allows me to access a richer life.

Only what is essential

        🌿Abundance, as our materialistic society conceives it, brings neither grace nor elegance. But, it imprisons the soul and destroys it.
Simplicity, on the other hand, is to possess little, but beautiful, to leave the way clear to the essential and the quintessence of things, revealing all their wonders to us. It is the perfect union of what is beautiful with what is appropriate to the place, without any frills. It is also creating harmony between very few objects, but the only ones that are really essential to bring value and style to our lives.

Dedicate our life to order and beauty…

        🌿True luxury is the one in which we settle because it gives us immeasurable well-being. False luxury is the one you buy to hoard and because it’s “trendy” without taking into account your true aspirations.
True luxury is living in the elegance of natural perfection and only accepting what satisfies our senses.
So yes, quality is paid for, because it can only be produced in small quantities, thus generating the notion of luxury. But it brings lifelong satisfaction and pleasure every time we look at it.
You don’t have to be financially very rich, you just have to be patient, and dedicate your life to order and beauty.

Excerpt from “Japanese pruning, zen in the garden” © – my first book published in 2009 by Souffle d’Or Editions

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Frederique DUMAS – Your coach/therapist/mentor/trainer/writer
Nature digital nomad
Specialist of “Nature” professions and retraining
Mediation by nature (Niwadō© – Niwatherapy© – Shinrin yoku 森林浴 et Forest-therapy)
Training for ceation of Japanese gardens “Reflection of nature©” – Abundance catalyst gardens
‘Sublime SUKIYA’ Academy
www.frederique-dumas.com

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Nature digital nomad, my new life…

        🌿Since January 2021, I have been little present on this beloved blog. Yet he speaks of a subject that is so close to my heart !
Yet, it is of course a question of helping the greatest number of you to leave this urban life and/or this food job which makes them suffer so much… To accompany you to return to this magnificence from which we all come – the Nature. The goal is to create a life of satisfaction, fullness and fulfillment in cooperation with her, in total respect.
But, it must be said that Life has hit me hard. Well, not everything is settled yet… but on the other hand, my new life as a Nature digital nomad is starting to take shape, little by little.

Totally immobilized

        🌿I never broke anything in the first 55 years of my life. But, I very strangely and painfully started the month of January 2021 !
Just like nature under the snow, I suddenly found myself snuggled up under a thick, cozy and warm blanket. My right wrist, bruised by a double fracture, was enclosed in a plaster gutter and carefully bandaged.

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I was forced to be in total rest, lying for 2 1/2 months on my couch. And so I had time to think a lot. Because I know that, there is never chance and my body spoke to me…
And the event had gone as far as the fracture, because it was something very deeply rooted in my cellular memory. And I had trouble hearing it.
Initially, I very quickly perceived that it was about torment, criticism, harassment… But also abuse, deprivation, dispossession, causing me to be numb with grief. It was heavy, very heavy… and it was extremely painful, following the emergence of algodystrophy – a complex pain syndrome. The pain was so intense that I even dreamed twice that my arm was amputated in order to find some relief !
But I accepted all the same, because I knew that my healing would have to go through this acceptance, this recognition of my suffering.

My Nature professional activity called into question

        🌿When I was a teenager, I dreamed of becoming a landscaper. I have always revered nature, I loved trees and other plants. I have always loved playing with water and minerals, creating with them.
So, to learn, after my agricultural baccalaureate, I had to leave the town where I lived and go to boarding school. My father found himself unemployed that year, it was too expensive. So I stayed in the establishment where I was and I took training in arboriculture.
20 years later the situation finally presented itself to me. After creating many authentic Japanese gardens with my students for ten years, in 2017, I finally created my landscape gardening activity with my son. I made gardens for clients for five years.

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And then I broke my right wrist…! We have therefore completed the work we had in progress and since I have not (still) recovered the use of my hand, I had to put an end to this activity at December 2021.
It is indisputable that the garden is my Way, there is no doubt for me. But I had to realize that, whatever I decide, the universe has always had other plans for me in the way of expressing it…

A more aligned future

        🌿Yes, from the start, joy has always been at the heart of my motivation in the development of my professional activity. And for some time now, the joy was gone!
Today, I refuse to sacrifice my energy, my inspiration, and the impact that I can have in the lives of others, by reserving them for a privileged few (some not always able, moreover, to appreciate how much I I go out of my way to help them achieve their Nature dreams !).
This project could therefore not continue to exist in this form. I have at heart to achieve my dreams, but to pursue them, I must find meaning in them. I loved the beginning of this adventure, but my mission now takes me elsewhere. To be able to help more people return to nature… and to their nature !

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Joy, enthusiasm, positive energy, my small team, your trust, is what allows me to have a flourishing activity, an aligned, fulfilled and free life.
Knowing how to start a dream is magnificent, knowing how to evolve the adventure is just as much.
At the ‘Sublime SUKIYA’ Academy, we welcome this decision. It took me months, and painfully charged events and among others, this fracture in the right wrist followed by algodystrophy, it’s true, before things rose in consciousness. But, I finally managed to make this decision. And that’s what’s important, is that this evolution takes place.
Today, the ‘Sublime SUKIYA’ Academy, my small team and I are happily looking towards a more aligned future !

Nature digital nomad

        🌿Developing a business means accepting to ride a roller coaster… But it’s exhilarating!
It is certainly not to remain static. It is to start new things, it is also to stop or transform them. Life is a constant alternation of creations and destructions.
For my part, it is rare that I throw away, I rather transform. Because for me, everything we did before has a purpose, it helps us for what follows.
Today I am happy. I have a light heart when announcing that all the training I offer now exists online, and that I will gradually put an end to face-to-face training.

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There will only be a few meetings left in this context, scheduled at key times of the year.
This wonderful adventure, started in 2006, continues to evolve to become more financially and physically accessible to students, more adaptable to their life constraints, their family or other obligations, their pace of learning, their desire for professional retraining… And then , avoid unnecessary travel to preserve above all Mother-Nature !
More in accord also with my own nature, unveiled by the ceaseless study of my genetic Structure, existing to support the great Purpose of my life, my reason for being. Always more freedom, too… I’m going to a life of digital nomad Nature.
And by the end of 2022 I think, I will close this face-to-face book.

        🌿So here I am back on this blog, where I hope to be able to converse with you again through the comments and bring you lots of resources to help you change your life… See you soon !

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Frederique DUMAS – Your coach/therapist/mentor/trainer/writer
Nature digital nomad
Specialist of “Nature” professions and retraining
Mediation by nature (Niwadō© – Niwatherapy© – Shinrin yoku 森林浴 et Forest-therapy)
Training for ceation of Japanese gardens “Reflection of nature©” – Abundance catalyst gardens
‘Sublime SUKIYA’ Academy
www.frederique-dumas.com

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