Photos: Lars Kastilan
Stillpoint Zone opens a view into a space where time seems to pause.
Not by searching, but by forgetting what’s unnecessary.
Not more advice, accomplishments or ultimate truths –
but small pauses into moments where peace, joy and simplicity
are no longer things to reach for, but something we remember.
At its heart, it’s not even about happiness –
but about what begins to happen when we stop asking how to find it.
My name is Mikko Seppinen.
I studied yoga and its philosophy for decades, and spent nearly as long teaching silence, presence, and embodied movement.
Years of practice and travel left their imprint –
but in the end, the only direction left was toward letting go.
Less knowledge. Less seeking. Less doing.
More space.
Nothing was truly resolved – but that no longer seemed to matter.
Stillpoint Zone is slowly emerging from this space.
Not as a solution, but as a reminder.
Not as a teaching, but as a landscape you’re welcome to linger in.
For now, it consists of slowly forming reflections on being human –
and on something quieter that lives beneath the noise.
I write more as a fellow traveler than a teacher.
And perhaps, through words, something may be glimpsed that words can never fully reach.
I now live with my family in Turku, on the southwest coast of Finland.
I write, read, walk, seek silence –
and practice the most demanding form of teaching I’ve met: parenthood.
I’m also a Star Trek fan.
You can read my full story here.