Category: Spiritual Adventures
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The Grand Finale of our epic Spiritual Adventure
Day 10, 8th February 2015. Final post of January North Indian Spiritual Adventure. It is the last night of our spiritual adventure and the final post on this blog recapping the ten amazing days across North India with 27 bright souls. I conducted our final class in the morning in the beautiful ga...
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An evening with elephants in Rajasthan
Day 9, Samode, Rajasthan. 7th February 2015. After a day of deep study I took our group out on a surprise excursion. No information was shared about where we were going and after an hour drive into what seemed like the middle of nowhere we ended up in a beautiful former camp grounds of a…
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A Palace Dinner in Samode
Day 8: Dinner at Samode Palace. It’s not every day that one gets to dine in a real Palace. Though we were staying at the Maharaja’s summer retreat, his royal highness’s palace was only a 10-minute drive away. So on our second night in Samode I decided to take the group to the pa...
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Manifesting our Goals
We continue the recap of our recent Spiritual Adventure… Day 9, Samode, Rajasthan. 7th February 2015. We spent most of the day in class, diving deep into the practice of meditation and how to manifest what we want in our life. One of the keys in manifesting our goals in life is concentratio...
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Sun Rise at the Taj Mahal
Day 7: Feb 5 “The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.” ―Rabindranath Tagore In my opinion, the only way to see the Taj Mahal for the first time (or even the 10th time) is to wake up at dawn and watch the…
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Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary – A Haven of Life
After our very special morning witnessing the sun rise over the Taj Mahal we left Agra and headed west to Samode, a little know village in Rajasthan that would be our home for the next 3 nights. On the way there we made a brief stop at the Keoladeo National Park (formerly known as the…
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Experiential Learning – The Permanent Kind of Learning
Day 8 of our North Indian Spiritual Adventure… We arrived in Samode late in the evening the previous night, checked into our tents, had dinner and went to bed after 2 days of intense traveling. The tents at Samode Bagh were more like “glamping” (glamorous camping) than camping. ...
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The Train to the Taj Mahal
Day 6: Feb 4 We started our day with a sunrise Puja at the southern group of temples in Khajuraho dedicated to Lord Siva. I had the honor of performing the ritual of abhishekam, the bathing of the central deity with an offering of milk, yogurt, and flowers. The temple reverberated with the sac...
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