Category - Buddhist
From Yoga Journal TOT – Himalaya Tour Blog #6
Adventure Tours, Buddhist, Myths & Legends, Yoga, Yoga travel
RAINBOW OVER RUMTEK from Yoga Journal Teachers on Tour Blog published October 6, 2010 In this part of the world, all seems magical and sometimes it challenges your view and viewpoint. There is a statue of Guru Rinpoche,…
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PRESSING INTO PELLING _ HIMS THE VIEWS from Yoga Journal Teachers on Tour Unpublished November 2010 As the last stop in the Sikkim Himalayas, we journey to West Sikkim with some of the best views of the Kanchendzonga…
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…
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…
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,…
Moon in May is Buddha Day
Buddhist, Myths & Legends, Prayer, Seasonal Living, Stories and Tales, Teacher Training
Full Moon of May The Moon in May is Buddha’s Day. Growing up in a traditional Chinese household, we had many cultural celebrations and paid respect to ancestors by lighting lanterns and candles, offerings flowers, incense and fruit…
ShantiDeva’s Prayer
Buddhist, Prayer, Teacher Training, Yoga, YTT
May all beings everywhere, Plagued by sufferings of body and mind, Obtain an ocean of happiness and joy By virtue of my merits. May no living creature suffer, Commit evil or ever fall ill. May no one be…
Bhutan Travel Tips & Flix
Adventure Tours, Bhutan, Buddhist, Yoga travel
I am getting ready for another Magical Mystical Tourto the Himalayas and doing groundwork for our guests and students The trip will be amazing, absolutely a breathtaking itinerary…it has been put together with a great deal of love…
7xSeven Sacred Surprises…
Buddhist, Healthy Living, Myths & Legends, Yoga
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. – French Proverb Sacred Number Seven Seven is commonly thought of as a mystic or sacred number. It is four and three, which were …