These Feet Can Take Us Anywhere

It was time to leave our beloved Barcelona for our permaculture job in France.

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We left our story with an abbreviated mention of our arrival in Haridwar en route to Rishekesh…but here’s a deeper look into our lovely time there.  [read on]

Riding into the desert on the train was something from a movie.  Through the open window everything came through: the smell of the sand and the camels, seeing the dust settle on your pack, your clothes, your hair, your eyelids! Now THIS is the desert!

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Leaving the deserts of Jaisalmer behind, we rode our sleeper train through the night to awake in Delhi for a daylong layover. [read on]

Since our last posting, Christine and I’ve been busy wrapping up our Sadhana experience. Our apologies for not posting something sooner.

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The history of Pondicherry, a local city only 3km away from us, is an interesting and somewhat confusing one. We refer to the city as Pondicherry but that’s a bit of a misnomer. [read on]

About two years ago the seed of an idea was planted in my head about Vipassana Meditation.  I first heard about it from a friend in Oregon who told me about a 10 day retreat he’d been on in California and how transformative it had been.  It was called Vipassana and it aimed to release the mind from the grips of the ego for once and for all.  Wow!  [read on]

by Jonathan 

This is monsoon season here in Auroville, from Oct.-Dec. and there’s always the chance of a tropical storm called a cyclone which is basically a hurricane. [read on]

We had been drawn to the idea of visiting India from the start, but it wasn’t until we found out about the Sadhana Forest project that our idea took on purpose. [read on]

You may have heard of Bollywood, India’s giant film industry based in Bombay (Mumbai)? [read on]