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From Yoga Journal TOT – Himalaya Tour Blog #7
Adventure Tours, Buddhist, Myths & Legends, Yoga, Yoga travel
INCONVENIENCE REGRETTED from Yoga Journal Teachers on Tour published October 29, 2010 As our group gets ready to depart to North Sikkim, I am left wondering if I should have asked everyone to bring winter clothes and…
from Yoga Journal TOT – Himalaya Tour Blog #8
Adventure Tours, Buddhist, Myths & Legends, Yoga, YTT
PRESSING INTO PELLING _ HIMS THE VIEWS from Yoga Journal Teachers on Tour Unpublished November 2010 As the last stop in the Sikkim Himalayas, we journey to West Sikkim with some of the best views of the Kanchendzonga…
Autumn Aequinoctium – Equinox Health
Chinese, Chinese Medicine, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasons, Yoga
Autumn Season Element – Metal Colour – White Nature – New Yin Organs – Lung, Large Intestine Emotion – Grief/Courage Taste – Spicy Condition – Dry The Autumn Equinox marks the official end of summer. Nights become longer…
The Kingdom of Bhutan, Druk Yul – Land of Thunder Dragon
Adventure Tours, Bhutan, Buddhist, Myths & Legends, Yoga, Yoga travel
The Kingdom Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, is a magical place. A country where a handsome young Asian Elvis look-a-like became King, cigarettes are illegal, chillies are a staple, rice is red and giant protective penises…
Important Information for Himalaya Tour
Adventure Tours, Bhutan, Yoga, Yoga travel
PREPARATION FOR TRAVEL ON MAGICAL MYSTICAL YOGA TOUR – SIKKIM & BHUTAN: DOCUMENTS: You must have your passport and visa before you leave the US. India has now outsourced its visa issuing to Travisa (800-222-2589, http://www.travisa.com). You apply…
Sikkim Geography & Himalaya Packing List
Adventure Tours, Workshops & Intensives, Yoga
On our Magical Mystical Tour we will return to the Himalayas and the land of our Tibetan friends in Sikkim. We will travel to West Sikkim and visit Pelling, Gangtok, the capital and spend 3 nights in the…
Sikkim = Just Heaven… Call Me OM
Adventure Tours, Buddhist, Myths & Legends, Workshops & Intensives, Yoga
Sikkim …Just Heave Land of Mystery Nepalese call it Sukhirn – ‘The New Place’; and for Bhutias seeing endless tracts of paddy fields it was Demazong, ‘The Valley of Rice’. But the original inhabitants, the Lepchas understood it…
Between Earth and Sky… Late Summer Healing
Chinese, Chinese Medicine, Healthy Living, Seasonal Living, Seasons, Teacher Training
Seasons & Rhythms Chinese Medicine does not separate mind and body – life situations and emotions are all considered in a treatment plan for health. Excessive emotions are seen to adversely affect the organ systems responsible for the…
Sikkim, Is THIS the Last Shangri-La?
Adventure Tours, Buddhist, Myths & Legends, Yoga, Yoga travel
“British authour James Hilton in his novel, ‘LOST HORIZON’ introduces the concept of “SHANGRI-LA”,a mystical, harmonious valley, guided from a monastery. It has now become synonymous with an earthly paradise, particularly a mythical HImalayan Utopia—a permanently happy land,…
BKS Iyengar Advanced Restorative Sequence
Healthy Living, Teacher Training, Yoga, YTT
Rodney Yee was my first Yoga teacher and he showed me this sequence in the late 90s when we were teaching in Toronto, Canada. BKS Iyengar gave this class in Pune, India in the mid 90s and Rodney…