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	1 Oct '25	7mo	1 May '26	1 May '26 1 Oct '25	Krasnaya Polyana	Russia
🏔️ The Caucasus and What Comes Next 🏔️ After returning to Russia, I went to the Caucasus. I lived in Krasnaya Polyana and traveled to Abkhazia. I’ve loved the mountains for a long time — and the time I spent among them turned out to be truly unforgettable. They are vast, quiet, ancient. There’s something in them that words can’t quite catch: you stand at their feet and feel your own scale fall back into place. Mountains don’t press down on you — they return you to proportion. 🌊 From time to time, I would come down to the sea. The Black Sea is, of course, not Southeast Asia — a different water, a different air, a different density of life. But it has its own quiet charm, especially when you return to it after weeks in the mountains. The contrast between altitude and coastline became a practice of its own: up — toward silence, down — toward the open horizon. 🗺️ Now I’m looking further ahead. I want to travel through Europe — Spain, Portugal. These countries have been calling me for a long time, with their ocean, their light, their unhurried pace, their particular culture of living. And at the same time, I deeply want to return to Southeast Asia — to Thailand, which has already become part of me, and to finally visit Vietnam, a country I’ve been drawn to for a while. ✨ But honestly — I’m grateful for any journey and for what it opens up. The road has long stopped being just movement between points. It’s a way of staying alive, staying receptive, of continuing to meet the world and myself with curiosity — again and again.
2022
	8 Dec '22	3y	15 Jul '25	15 Jul '25 8 Dec '22	Phuket 27°C 80°F	Thailand
🌴 Three Years in Thailand 🏝️ Three years of my life unfolded in Thailand. I spent most of that time in Phuket — it became my home, my anchor, the place I kept returning to between journeys. Seven months I lived on Koh Phangan — an island many know as a place of power: the silence of the jungle, the ocean, and that particular density of people searching for themselves. Phangan gave me depth. Phuket gave me rhythm and stability. 🌊 Phangan turned out to be a truly unusual place for me. I practiced breathwork and led breathing sessions for others. I went to ecstatic dance — where the body becomes the primary language, and movement reveals what words can’t reach. 💃 I traveled across the island, made trips to neighboring Koh Samui. There I met many friends — people from different nationalities and cultures, and that turned out to be deeply valuable for me: even though I’m an introvert, I’m genuinely drawn to people, to their inner worlds, to the different ways they inhabit reality. 🏔️ I traveled through the north of the country — Chiang Mai, mountain villages, the slower and more contemplative side of Thailand. I lived for a while in Bangkok — a completely different world: dense, loud, layered. 🌆 A megacity where you learn to stay collected inside the chaos. 🔄 Over these years I moved through several important cycles. There was the experience of starting a business with friends — with all the challenges that come when you build something with close people in a foreign country. There was a relationship that began here and ended here — and that too became part of the path, part of growing up. I found new friends — people with whom real contact formed, not just the usual expat scene. 🧠 It was on the island that I found a new profession — and a new sense of meaning. It’s a profession that lives at the intersection of neurophysiology, psychology, quantum mechanics, and cybernetics — where the workings of the brain, the psyche, the nature of consciousness, and the principles of feedback in living systems meet. 🌀 Alongside life by the ocean, I studied online and trained in the Open Dialogue method — a practice of group and individual process work in which, through honest contact, presence, and attention to the body, people return to themselves and find a way out of difficult states. The method rests on the principle of health as conscious communication — with your own body, with others, with reality itself. It became a rare combination: the Thai environment, the ocean, the silence — and serious inner work that I immersed myself in day after day. 🕊️ I began leading groups, intensives, and one-on-one sessions — online with participants from different countries, and offline with those who happened to be nearby. ₿ In parallel, since 2022, I’ve been working with crypto — another important channel that helped me live, earn, and remain free to choose where to be and what to do. 🗺️ I kept discovering new places — both on Phuket itself, which turned out to be far deeper than its tourist surface, and across the country. Every trip was less a movement through space and more a way of expanding my inner map. 🍜 I tried new food — Thai cuisine became its own form of art for me. I learned to cook it myself, experimented. 🙏 I spent time with Thai people, picked up the local dialect at a conversational level, learned the key words that open doors and hearts. In parallel, I worked on my English — most of my communication was with an international, English-speaking audience, and that became a natural school of the language. ✨ Three years in Thailand isn’t the story of a tourist, and it isn’t the story of an emigrant. It’s the story of a person who came here to search — and found a new profession, new people, a new language of body and perception, and a new relationship with himself.