Leila Yuliyah

What if you could taste life in all it’s flavours? Experience with all your senses, grow every day and contribute to the world around you. Is this the way to perfect self-expression? Can we experience life as adults in the same way as children can? Feel the feeling intensely, for 3 minutes, then move on to the next sensation. I think this is a nice ideal, but we can’t go bam-ba-bam, experience…

Today was full of me. I was full of myself. Can this be said in a good way? I wish to say more. At the same time I want to protect my secret. I need some time to breed it properly. Is it a new start in old clothes? Is it a drawback? A stupid idea that I will get over soon? My dream was so real and so important. It changed everything internally but will it make an impact on the world outside of…

I had a dream. A life dream. A dream about my life. A dream that answered the questions Who I am. Who I want to be. It was messy. And excentric. Colorful. And bold. Like me! It is neither the starting point nor the climax. It is just another day. And it will be every day. I am so much more than plans and appointments. I am even more than a writer. I am so much more than all of this. And it…

As I mentioned previously, I have started to write poems that should someday turn into songs. For now there is nothing much I could tell about it, except that it is great fun and I enjoy it a lot. My poems might be bad, but I think with more exposure to lyrics of other songs for example, I will get the gist of it and be able to create my own. The funniest thing that I tried was to ask ChatGPT to…

It’s important to go small steps, this is the first rule of creativity, I get it, but what if you have too many steps to go again and again? Because the second rule of creativity is to repeat and repeat and repeat. Practise makes perfect. Obviously I learned this in Dance Schools, but not only there. It’s inherent in all creative processes: writing, singing, playing an instrument, drawing,…

This year I started the habit of setting weekly goals for myself. I have identified some categories which are priorities for me and I am setting small goals in each of these categories. This should enable me to make at least a small progress in all areas that are important for me. Monthly goals seem not to work so well for me. But a week is a good period of time to overlook. It is not too long…

I have decided that I want to revive the habit of daily blogging. Not sure if I will do it in the morning or in the evenings, from the phone or from my laptop, but I definitely need to come out of my shell and share more with the world again. Not that I do it for the world. I do it for myself primarily. I love to read my old blogposts, look at pictures and videos from past times. Maybe my life…

The One (Rea Garvey, VIZE) – Song of the Day

A Single Shade of Grey – The best times are over?

It is not easy. It has never been. But this year came with so many bad surprises that I can hardly believe it really happened. I am grateful that those did not affect my personal life too much although I felt kind of involved in everything. I learned to distance myself from the bad news and it helped a great deal. Of course I am not really a princess and I don’t even dream of it anymore. My…

Wrapping up 2021 – Planning for 2022

This year was more or less a quiet year without many great changes. Artistically I made only very small progress. Yes, it was possible to perform again and I spent the first half of the year creating videos. I still have many that I didn’t publish yet. I kind of got back into dancing, at least a little bit. What was my artistic highlight of the year? There were many great things. First of all I…

Artistic Break aka. Working on other Projects

It has been quiet on this blog and I would like to tell you Why. I made a brainstorming about my brand Leila Yuliyah. I had been thinking about changing my focus and wanted to start posting different content. Reflecting my brand or persona has however given me another idea: I don’t want Leila Yuliyah to become one of the many persons on the internet that give advice. Mainly because Leila…

Arcade (Duncan Laurence) – Song of the Day

All I know all I know loving you is a losing game

The first 33 years of childhood are always the hardest

My birthday party was a total blast and a great success! I enjoyed it so much that I completely forgot to take pictures. Everything was perfect. All my friends were there. Everyone was talking, drinking and having fun. Now I am starting into a new year of my life. I believe that this year will be full of change. The past years I was working on getting back my old shape, but now I am ready for…

Plan a motto party – Week 3 – The Artist Date Challenge

This week is going to be way more fun than the last week. We will plan a motto party! Yes, just plan it. You don’t necessarily have to really organise a party on such a short notice. But think about topics that appeal to you, costumes that you’d like to create, decorations you would use, maybe even a playlist? Please use the hashtag #artistdatechallenge and link to this blogpost to…

The graveyard in the neighbourhood

This week’s artist date was to visit a graveyard. And so I did. I must say that it was not a very pleasant experience. Maybe I should have expected that. The graveyard was completely deserted. I didn’t see a single person. It was very beautiful in autumn colors and the crows that seemed everywhere created a deadly atmosphere. It made me really sad and I regretted that I came there in the first…