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Dandapani’s Blog

Welcome! Sharing my reflections on the spiritual path.
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Feb 4, 2015

Enstasy: A Meditation Confluence in Kerala, India 2016

I’ve spoken at and attended many inspiring events, where I am given so much great new information only to return home and have many of these ideas forgotten in a notebook. I realized the problem is that there’s no time provided at these events to reflect and integrate the teachings into my life before diving back into reality. So I decided to create a meditation conference where we do things a l...

Feb 3, 2015
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Day 5: Varanasi to Khajuraho: Temples of Beauty

Day 5: Feb 3 Our last morning in Varanasi was so very special. The group engaged in a vigorous yoga asana practice in the morning with Robin and then I led everyone through a meditation continuing to focus on the intent that each person brought with them on the trip and on ma
Feb 2, 2015
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Day 4: Unwavering Focus on Life's Purpose

Day 4 and our spiritual adventure continues. The group started their day with yoga asana practice at sunrise on the steps right along the Ganges River, followed by meditation and chanting. We have been working on developing unwavering focus in our meditation practice by visuali
Feb 1, 2015
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Day 3 - Yoga, Meditation and Priest Training School

Day 3 : February 1st Some say that a visit to Varanasi is an experience of self-discovery and eternal oneness of body and soul. However this magical city affects you, it has been agreed that Varanasi offers everyone a unique and breathtaking experience.The past two days we spen
Jan 30, 2015
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Varanasi: The doorway between worlds...

Day 2: January 31 We got up early this morning and headed to the airport to fly west from Kolkata to the ancient and beautiful city of Varanasi. There are many ways to get to Varanasi but flying is definitely the quickest and easiest. We arrived safely and ventured into town
Jan 29, 2015

Our Spiritual Adventure Begins!

The day has finally come. Our Meditation and Yoga Retreat across North India begins in the enigmatic city of Kolkata, India. 27 beautiful souls will travel with me across India on a 11-day spiritual adventure. Our first event was an orientation meeting held at the Taj Bengal whe
Jan 29, 2015

A Royal Bengal Dinner

For the first night of our spiritual adventure our participants were treated to a lavish Bengali dinner that was held in the Mandarin room at the luxurious Taj Bengal hotel in Kolkata, India. Here are images from this evenings' dinner.