An ayurvedic rejuvenation massage in Varkala, India is a greasy, Hoover®-like experience which bares your body and your bathing practices to the masseuse.
My masseuse, who had three years of training and three years of experience, was a petite young woman who had been told by both the ayurvedic doctor, Dr. Manoj of Sanjeevani Ayurveda Hospital, [...]
Archive for January, 2009
An ayurvedic massage experience
Posted in My Travels on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kerala’s backwaters – pictures
Posted in My Travels, tagged backwater tours, Kerala backwaters, Quilon canoe trips on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The backwaters of Kerala on India’s southwest coast appears on almost all of the country’s “tourist must sees” list. Palm tree encrusted narrow and wide canals which wend their way around and through remote villages and blue net shrouded prawn farms and pass by locals going about their daily business whether that be watching [...]
Why Madurai TTC is the best choice
Posted in Yoga, tagged Madurai TTC, Neyyar Dam, Sivananda TTC in India, Sivananda yoga trainings, yoga teachers courses in India on January 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
For those not interested in learning more about places to learn how to teach yoga in India, then you can just skip this entry. For those who found this blog and are wondering whether they should study at Sivananda yoga style at Madurai or Neyyar Dam, I hope this blog entry might be of [...]
Trivandrum – 24 hours in the real world
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a night train from Madurai which took me even further from Bodhi Zendo, I spent almost exactly 24 hours in Kerala’s capital city of Trivandrum. In that short time span, I posed for five artists for sketches, posed with four civil engineers for their camera phones, took pictures of fake alligators in zoo [...]
Bodhi Zendo – a koan story
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for not writing for a while. No surprise to those who know me, I did end up talking more with fellow residents and reading library books like an overeater who was about to go on a diet. No time to write when I was also trying to fit in yoga in the [...]
Bohdi Zendo – a mountain retreat
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In India, a journey from Hindu/yoga ashram to a Zen Buddhist center takes about five hours and about $11. A single en suite room with three tasty meals in a peacefully idyllic mountain-top religious retreat? Priceless is a cliché but true. Reality is better yet, only $5 a day!
Everywhere you turn in [...]
The yogic diet
Posted in Yoga, tagged sattvic diet, yogic diet on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Warning: This blog entry is to be read solely for educational purposes and is way too general – just a different perspective.
I’m going to summarize and/or blatantly copy material from lectures or from the Sivananda Yoga Teachers Training Manual about how yoga philosophy views proper food and nutrition for body and mind. [...]
The students and pics of the ashram
Posted in Yoga, tagged ashram living, sivanda yoga trainings, yoga in India on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So, who would choose to do a Yoga Teachers Training Course in Madurai, India for much of December with barely time to squeak back home by New Year’s eve? Sixty-five fellow students from 18 different countries chose to do so but for a wide variety of reasons.
Some did so because the holiday season is [...]
Overview of the Sivananda Yoga Teachers’ Training Course Schedule
Posted in Yoga, tagged ashrams in India, Sivananda yoga trainings, yoga in India, Yoga teacher training in India on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Penny Ohana for taking all these photos in the ashram related blogs and for letting me use them!
After reviewing the daily schedule and my editorial comments, you will quickly understand blogging just wasn’t possible from November 30 to December 28. I hope this overview and subsequent entries help fill in the gaps [...]
