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Our spiritual adventure begins
Our spiritual adventure began on January 27th but we’ve been without internet for 9 days now so have not been able to blog about the amazing journey we’ve been having. We’ll start to cover it in detail now so you can follow along. Photos in today’s post show us in Chennai, where we started our journey. From here we made our way south to Mamallapuram for a few hours then to the sacred town of Tiruvannamalai. Here are some photos from Day 2. (On another note, we’ve been focused on taking videos on this journey rather than photographs as we normally do so much of our journey will be shared later on when we’ve had time to upload video clips from our spiritual adventure).
Dandapani poses with Pam for a photo. It's Pam's second spiritual adventure with Vedic Odyssey.
We make our south from Chennai and spend a few hours in Mamallapuram exploring the ancient rock carvings. Lauren attracts lots of kids wherever she goes in India and here she is surrounded by a whole bunch who want to shake her hand.
Jo capturing on video the lovely smiles of these kids
Amy takes the opportunity to get an Indian top custom made for her in 2 hours. Only in India can you get this done on the spot and the tailor did a great job.
From Mamallapuram we head west inland to Tiruvannamalai. We stop on the way to stretch our legs and meet a few local ladies caring for some goats. Amy is overjoyed to be able to pick up a little one. We learnt a lot about a life of a goat herder in our brief encounter.
We continue on our drive and further along the road we come across a lorry (truck) being loaded with sugar cane. We pull over to see what is going on and ended up spending an amazing hour with a family of farmers.
They invited us into their home which was kept so clean and neat inside and out. Mud walls that were about 3 feet high framed the house with a thatched grass room that extended down about 3 feet off the ground. This forced you to almost crawl into the home but keeps the home very cool during the hot Indian summers. The floor of the home is thinly layered with cow dung that becomes hard like cement. We find out that cow dung is anti septic and keeps the floor of the home clean. No need to mop with modern detergents!
We’ll upload some videos of visit to this home soon.
Gary says hello to the very friendly farm dog.
The lady of the home is thrilled to see a video of herself on Jo's camera.
The dog follows us everywhere on the farm and here he says hello to Chris.
Amy gets to chew on some freshly harvested sugar cane. It was so deliciously sweet.
The trucks are loaded and now ready to be delivered and the sugar cane sold. It costs a little over Rs2000 (USD40) per tonne of sugar cane which is not very much for all the work that goes into producing and harvesting it.
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 and artist who now resides in the UK. A brave endeavor in my mind for her first film, J...
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200 Likes and off to India!
Our blog received its 200th “Like”s today as I make my way to India to begin our spiritual adventure this Friday. Thank you everyone for all the Likes. If you haven’t Liked it yet please do so. Participants on the adventure have already begun their journey making their way from ...
Read MoreA 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 adventure begins this Friday. You’ll see some changes in the blog in the coming ...
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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 service. I came across this video on Vimeo and it’s really well done showing the kitchen at the ...
Read MoreHow 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 massively after this…?” The best way to learn how to concentrate bette...
Read MoreNamaste 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 Burning Flag. The description of the video reads “A short montage featuring some of the ...
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