Category Archives: Yoga Yatra India 2018

When you lose something important to you, you search for it hoping to make it’s recovery. If it’s something of great importance, you look in every nook and cranny but when it’s importance is vital, you search far and wide. When she was 15 or 16 years old, a decade before we met, Cary traveledContinueContinue reading “Episode 9 – Taj Mahal”

So after enduring the hardships of Yatra in the Himalayas, I decided to check into the Leela Palace in New Delhi and have a bite to eat at a nice restaurant. It didn’t take much for the all too helpful staff at Le Cirque to persuade me to try their amazing tasting menu, it tookContinueContinue reading “Episode 8 – Leila Palace”

I wasn’t particularly eager to either walk or ride a horse down 18 km of concrete sidewalk so I put my name on the list to go down by helicopter but they told me it would be an hour which here in India means 3 to 5 hours. I was too cold and miserable andContinueContinue reading “Episode 7 – Down from Kedarnath”

So the path up to Kedarnath wasn’t anything like what I expected. It’s basically a concrete and stone sidewalk. I walked the first 5 or 6 km and wasn’t having any fun so I decided to hop a pony and it was a lot of fun, views of the Himalayas amazing, Kedarnath temple simply beautiful.ContinueContinue reading “Episode 6 – Kedarnath”

Himalayas, finally at Guptkashi base camp, 1500 meters elevation, ride here was harrowing, road is a mess, over 11 hours but beautiful views and this place is kind of adorable, we set out at 5:00 am for Kedarnath, highest Shiva temple in the world where we spend tomorrow night with an almost full moon, it’sContinueContinue reading “Episode 5 – Road to Kedarnath”

Ganga dip @ Parmarth Niketan Ashram Rishikesh

After a complicated lengthy check in at the Ashram, I got the nicest room with all amenities including filtered water from the machine just outside my door, 5:00 am came early so I skipped chai and went directly to the big tent for led primary with Sharat, then we were treated to a Ganesh HomaContinueContinue reading “Episode 3 – Rishikesh”

Monkeys, India Gate, ear doctors available no appointment needed, cows, spices, peacock feathers for sale, barber services on the sidewalk.

So 50 years after the Beatles blazed the trail in 1968, I’m off to Rishikesh, India for a week of yoga, pranayama and meditation under the guidance of Paramaguru R. Sharath Jois who will then lead us on Yatra (pilgrimage) into the Himalayas to visit ancient temples and bathe in tirthas (sacred mountain streams) Really,ContinueContinue reading “Episode 1 – Yoga Yatra”