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Travel Day 940 – Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, INDIA It was the second day of the IAM Technique class and we were once more learning more about Amma’s meditation style… The main advantage of following closely the guided steps was apparently that the technique was developed and blessed by a realized master and thus could significantly […]
Travel Day 939 – Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, INDIA Great, my finger was infected, I had pain in my hand and I couldn’t do Seva or practice Tabla any more, but despite all that I was already off to better things… I had signed up for a two-day class to learn the IAM Technique, the Integrated […]
Travel Day 938 – Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, INDIA Today was Tuesday, a holiday at the ashram where Amma apparently hosted a meditation session, a teaching and a ceremonial serving of the lunch… Initially we were told that the meditation with Amma would happen in the temple, but as the crowds had grown, the session had […]
Travel Day 937 – Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, INDIA Today I actually managed to get up a bit earlier and so I finally found myself at the beach by 6.30am for the morning meditation… Unfortunately it turned out to be not the guided meditation that I had expected and the few people who had bothered to […]
Travel Day 936 – Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, INDIA After my quite disappointing and somewhat mechanical hugging experience yesterday, today was finally my day of getting involved and doing my Seva at the compost plant… Again I didn’t make it out of bed for the early morning program, because I ended up watching Amma doing her […]
Travel Day 935 – Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, INDIA After a good night of rest while skipping the entire morning program, the world looked different again and I decided to give this Ashram a real chance… For me personally giving the ashram a chance meant staying for a little while longer, getting involved in the community […]
Travel Day 934 – Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, INDIA Today was quite an Active Travel Day, but it was also an Arrival Day and in this case I was arriving at the Amma Ashram in Amritapuri, officially called Mata Amritanandamayi Math… After enjoying the nice climate of Bangalore for a couple of days, I was seriously […]
Travel Day 933 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA While I had initially gone to Bangalore to see my Tabla teacher and to listen to some classical Indian music, in the end I also got to enjoy something else: a lot of really good home-made food… : ) I actually had to say that I felt a […]
Travel Day 932 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA While my walk around MG Road and UB City Mall yesterday had not felt like actually being in India, at least one other aspect of Bangalore felt like India, the classical Indian music… From Kochi I had really only come north to Bangalore to see my Tabla teacher […]
Travel Day 931 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA When I was walking around to find the British colonial architecture yesterday, I couldn’t help but finding something else as in Bangalore: extremely modern architecture… When I crossed Cubbon Park towards the east side to walk along MG road, I first reached an area that seemed to want […]
Travel Day 930 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA After seeing some of the historical sites in Bangalore yesterday, today I focused more on seeing buildings form the British colonial area… The British had initially arrived in Bangalore in 1809 and by 1831 they made the city their administrative base for the region. Obviously along with the […]
Travel Day 929 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA My 12 hour overnight train ride had been pretty uneventful and after some decent sleep I arrived in Bangalore in the morning… Luckily this time around the train had arrived to a decent hour as well and Bangalore had been the last stop, so everything was pretty smooth […]
Travel Day 928 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA After realizing how captivating Fort Cochin had become for me over the last two weeks, today it was finally time to say good-bye to this place with its nice colonial architecture… It was funny, but I was almost feeling a bit sentimental about leaving Fort Cochin. […]