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…
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Teachings on awareness, energy, and purpose — alongside the retreats, talks, and travels that fill the rest of the journey. Drawn from ten years as a Hindu monk and decades of teaching, written to be applied to your life today.
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…
An island's majestic temple
One evening, on our upcoming Festivals & Temples spiritual adventure to South India and Malaysia, we'll board an overnight train and make the long journey south east to the coast and cross the Indira…
What are the techniques of meditation?
I received a question on email from Rupa in DC who asked "What are the techniques of meditation?"
A Spiritual Adventure to South India
Our festivals and temples tour of South India and Malaysia begins on Jan 27th and there is still space for those wishing to join the journey.
What is the purpose of meditation?
Somebody asked me in a class recently a question that I have never been asked before. The question was “What is the purpose of meditation?” Strange, I thought at that very instant I heard the…
Arunachala - hill of fire
Arunachala hill, in the pilgrimage town of Tiruvannamalai in South India, has long been a sacred place for Saivite Hindus. The 800m tall hill is located about 100 miles away from Tamil Nadu's…
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