Tomorrow is New Year’s Day, and I plan to Retreat. I come from a long line of Retreaters, so a few excellent strategies were passed down in my genes. I’ve picked up a few more along the way. I tend to Retreat on a regular basis, whenever I have a sense that my life is running away [...]
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The Power of Retreat
Posted in Herbs, Itinerary, Retreat, Vision, tagged New Year's, Resolutions, Retreat, Transition, Vision on December 31, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Pooram & Prayers
Posted in History, India, Itinerary, Puja, Temple, tagged Elephant, Kerala, Pooram, Sivananda, Thrissur on June 3, 2011 | 8 Comments »
When our week in Fort Kochi was up, Emily and I reluctantly took the ferry back across the waterway to the train station and bid our sweet community goodbye. We had begun to feel like regulars in town, with people recognizing us on the street after seeing us in a store. We had found the [...]
Returning
Posted in India, Itinerary, Travel, tagged Bangalore, Fort Cochin on May 27, 2011 | 13 Comments »
After three and a half weeks away, I returned to Vaidyagrama on Tuesday night. As I had hoped, it felt like a sweet homecoming. Returning as a patient now with all of our classes and travel completed, I have a very different mindset, focused on rest, integration and rejuvenation. I can feel my mind and [...]
Rishikesh – A Partial Report…
Posted in Ayurveda, India, Itinerary, Temple, Travel, tagged Ganga, Neelkanth Mandir, Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, Vashishtha on March 3, 2011 | 11 Comments »
We have had an amazing voyage. We left Rishikesh last Wednesday with our minds full of new ideas, our bodies well exercised, our eyes imprinted with new visions, and our bags bursting with souvenirs – and dirty laundry. It’s taken me a full week to get caught up enough in my daily life here to [...]
The Land of the Yogis
Posted in Ayurveda, India, Itinerary, Travel, Yoga, tagged Ayurveda, Ganges, Rishikesh on February 12, 2011 | 11 Comments »
We’re going to Rishikesh! We just found out yesterday, and we fly out tomorrow – for ten enormous days. We are beset with laundry and packing pandemonium, interspersed with incredulous laughter and open-mouthed amazement at our good fortune. Some fairy godmother must be in charge around here. I mentioned in a recent post that Vaidyagrama’s [...]
A very full weekend
Posted in India, Itinerary, Temple, Travel, Uncategorized on January 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Turns out I know even more people in this enormous, anonymous city than I thought. Sunday afternoon I took a taxi from Daniel’s apartment in to Mumbai proper, about a 45 minute drive south, to meet up with my friend Aditya’s parents. As my 18 month old niece Koruna says, I felt like a Big [...]
India on the Horizon
Posted in Ayurveda, Herbs, India, Itinerary, Vaidyagrama on January 1, 2011 | 7 Comments »
It is now less than a week to my departure, seven days until I am in India. After a few years of studying Ayurveda and a decade of studying yoga, I am eager to be in the mother land of these deep wells of wisdom and tradition from which I have begun to sip. I [...]
Jai Ganesha!
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