Category: Travel
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Pottery Square friendship
By the recommendation of a friend made in Goa I visited a spot in Pottery Square in Bhaktapur. Sajan and Srijan invited me to have chai and we slipped easily into a nourishing conversation on healing, the strength of community, flow of life, visions and past life regression, living meditation and the gurus we love.…
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Fire puja in India
Riwo Sangcho by Machig Rinpoche. Magical. Rice grains, milk, honey were poured one scoop at a time into flames. Leaves, branches and barks of trees fueled the fire. By the river we sat in silence. We had woken up before 5am, took a bus running through dusty roads and sleeping towns, walked in darkness around…
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2017 reflections
2017 you’ve been a year of surprises! My resolutions for you were to save hellav money, get fit and fab, deepen yoga studies. I did none of those. Instead, upon the urging of @maharamckay I booked a last-minute flight to New Zealand for three months to teach yoga at her studio in Dunedin. Took a little visa…
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Are you happy now?
I first was asked this question on a bonfire night by the sea on Cook Islands. Susann, a young, vibrant and beautiful German, suddenly popped this question at everyone. We all had to answer her, one at a time. Some of us stuttered and started, “yea but…” She interjected and insisted, “no, now. Are you…
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I hitchhiked for the first time!
I hitchhiked for the first time! I had a bus ride waiting for me. But I would’ve missed it if not for Mary, a local living in Oamaru. Mary looked to be over 65 years old — peppered bob hair, lean with small wrists, delicate spectacles sitting on the tip of her nose, pink flushed cheeks taut…
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Vegetarian meals in Ubud, Bali
Cafes near yoga studios Garden Kafe, within Yoga Barn Easy! Garden Kafe is located within Yoga Barn itself (second outpost: KAFE on Jl. Hanoman No. 44B). Have a cup of Chai Masala and a slice of banana bread — it’s my staple, ask anyone. At times I’d do a shot of wheatgrass essence. It’s electrifying! On the…
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Yoga everyday in Ubud, Bali
GET CLASS PACKAGES AT YOGA BARN You may be in Ubud for just a couple of days — as long as you’re here for the yoga, get a class pack. It’s almost impossible to stop at one. Yoga Barn has a colourful team of teachers, each bringing their special, unique styles to the mat. I’d say…
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Magical alone
But somehow, the world gets much more magical when I am alone. When we are alone we are quieter. We observe better, we linger a little longer, move a bit closer, feel a whole lot deeper. Or maybe, maybe, as I would prefer to believe, the Universe sprinkles tiny presents in the forms of wonderful…
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