In the sanctum of a sacred temple
We look today at day 3 of our journey where we spent the morning within the sanctum of the Arunachaleswar temple in Tiruvannamalai, South India. The temple is thousands of years old and radiates a…
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Live from Kuala Lumpur
We gather with thousands of Hindus outside the Mariamman temple in Downtown Kuala Lumpur awaiting the departure of the silver chariot carrying Muruga, God of yoga and the spiritual path, to Batu…
Selamat Datang
That's Malay for welcome. We arrive in Kuala Lumpur and make the hour long drive from the airport to the hotel. Our travelers are looking forward to exploring Kuala Lumpur plus attending the grand…
Our spiritual adventure begins
Our spiritual adventure began on January 27th but we've been without internet for 9 days now so have not been able to blog about the amazing journey we've been having. We'll start to cover it in…
200 Likes and off to India!
Our blog received its 200th "Like"s today as I make my way to India to begin our spiritual adventure this Friday. Thank you everyone for all the Likes. If you haven't Liked it yet please do so.
Watching Water - the insight on surfing
I wanted to share with you a movie I watched recently called "Watching Water". It was filmed and edited by my dear friend Jo Tyrrell. Jo, originally from South Africa, is a film maker, photographer…
A Hiatus from Blogging
We've been doing some work on our blog to improve it over the last couple of weeks and hence I have not been blogging. But I'll resume blogging now that I am on the road again and our next spiritual…
Kitchen of Compassion
The Golden Temple in Amritsar is one of my favorite places for so many reasons. One major reason is that they selflessly feed tens of thousands of people every day. What an act of compassion and…
How do I concentrate better?
Today's question on meditation comes in from Louise from the Philippines who asks "How do I concentrate better - I manage a good quality 5 mins at most with minor drifting but then my mind wonders…
Namaste India
As we get ready for our two upcoming spiritual adventures at the end of January and February to India we share with you this inspiring video we came across on Vimeo. It's titled Namaste India from…
Fantastic video and sounds from Bhutan
This is a remix of sights and sounds recorded around Bhutan. It is a creation of an artist that goes by the name of Pogo. The video is called Kadinchey which in Bhutanese means "Thank you".
How do you know a meditation technique is good or not?
On the 7th of January I was asked "what are the techniques of meditation" and responded to that on the blog. The natural next question to follow from that was asked...which was "How do you know a…
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