It seems everywhere I turned this week, someone was announcing the arrival of Transition. On Friday we passed the autumnal Equinox when the sun appears to cross the equator from north to south heralding the first day of fall. Even in Texas, recent days have brought a palpable change in the temperature and the quality … Continue reading Transition Time… Again
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 … Continue reading Returning
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 … Continue reading Rishikesh – A Partial Report…
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 … Continue reading The Land of the Yogis
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
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
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