Nitsa Citrine is a Creative Director, Artist, and Alchemist.
She shares with us her daily flow and reflections during this time of personal space in quarantine that we all are experiencing together.
Self-care flow
Tuning inwards, finding pleasure and gratitude in the everyday, cherishing my personal and family's health and my community’s safety, rooting into self care and creative projects , surrendering to and trusting the cosmos!
Movement
Daily walks in the neighborhood, restorative yoga, holistic cooking, spontaneous solo dance parties…also - cleaning the house - a good vacuum can make all the difference!
I particularly love Elena Brower’s yoga classes these days - you can take / find them on glo.com along with many other great yoga classes.
Cooking! Baking! Fermenting! Pickling!
I started “Quickling” (my recently invented term for Quick Pickling) my veggies and finally got around to making my own ferments - in the past I have been too lazy to do it but if ever there was a time to start it is NOW!
Favorite Products
A few favorite products you can’t live without right now:
Package free shop’s cotton biodegradable scrunchies (they are super soft and as my hair is constantly getting tangled and these make all the difference) and Hand rolled copal and palo santo incense from Incausa - clears energy, purifies the air, and smells earthy and heavenly!
Osea’s Hyaluronic Serum - to keep skin dewy, bright and hydrated
Fresh CSA boxes form our local California farmers
Biodynamic wine from my dear friend Barbara at Cooper Mountain Wines - her pinot noir is divine!
Mental and Spiritual Practice
Feeling Gratitude for whatever presents itself each day.
I find that staying rooted in the frequency of gratitude helps me to keep an open mind and heart. First thing when I wake up I articulate my gratitude that morning - for my health, family, friends, partner, creative projects - whatever surfaces in the moment.
This, along with daily seated meditation, tea ceremony and breathwork help me to stay balanced. I recently took a couple weeks off IG and that was amazing and really cleared up some mental space.... I want to make it a habit to get offline regularly.
Most essentially, giving myself permission to slow down and rest in the unknown. There is an overload of information and energy circulating at this time and it feels important (to me) to utilize this moment to be gentle with myself and others - and trust that we can learn and grow, with love and compassion, from this global crisis.
photo credit: clare huntsberger
Connect with Nitsa: @nitsacitrine