Oh my. Truly, we may be the luckiest people on this earth. From the moment we stepped off the airplane onto the tarmac in Coimbatore, we could tell everything was different. There was only a small handful of people waiting for passengers to arrive, and our driver clearly didn’t have to guess which people he … Continue reading Vaidyagrama, the healing village
Category: India
Farewell Mumbai
One thing that makes Mumbai so challenging, I find, is the juxtaposition of order and chaos, glamour and poverty, development and rubble. It prevents you from making easy judgments or putting things in tidy boxes – or from averting your eyes. There is luxury and excess to be found here on par with any western … Continue reading Farewell Mumbai
A very full weekend
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 … Continue reading A very full weekend
India on the Horizon
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 … Continue reading India on the Horizon
Ivy Ingram, MA, AP 