Aarti bowl of flowers and oil votive I floated on the Ganga |
Devi music ashram where I studied harmonium & kirtan |
Crossing Ram Jhula bridge |
View from Ram Jhula |
Offering incense during the nightly Ganga puja |
Hanuman Chalisa on the banks of the Ganga |
Offering fire after the Hanuman Chalisa |
Shakti and Shiva: me & Steven had a beautiful connection |
With a Shiva devotee at Neelkanth temple |
Darshan plates to offer at the Shiva temple |
Steven takes a dip in the Ganga after our temple trip |
Me and 'Mush' the puppy at the guesthouse |
Krissy, one of the beautiful souls I met in Rishikesh |
Shakti energy: three dunks in Mother Ganga |
The deserted ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh yogi |
Steve on top of one of the turrets of the Maharishi Mahesh yogi ashram |
Rishikesh was full of cheeky monkeys |
Steve meditating in one of the Vasishta caves |
Me and Krissy on the banks of the Ganga |
Sophie Sophie Sophie... so brilliant... the universe is really in love with you! love your writing... looking forward to reading more :)
ReplyDeleteAh my lovely! Thank you for your kind words.. So good to hear. Sign up for email updates and keep watching this space...Vipassana is the next installment! Hope you're doing well now that it has all sunk in. Sending love and light and Om Namah Shivaya xx
ReplyDeleteSophie, thank you for your wonderfull blog! Lots of love and hugs, Roos (Rishikesh, Namaste Cafe and a Hello To The Queen)
ReplyDeleteHello Sophie! It was nice to read your interesting story about "Rishikesh". I am looking forward to read your thoughts about vipassana. I am happily back in Finland. It was great to meet you and share Sadhana and vipassana-course! Be happy and keep on writing! Saija
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ReplyDeleteSo wonderful to hear from you and thanks for the feedback! It was lovely and unexpected. I hoe that you are enjoying your time back home now and making the changes that you wanted. Our Hello to the Queen was certainly the healthiest I have had in India...I tried a Hello to the King in Bhagsu, Dharamsala, which had Bhagsu cake 9a kind of caramelly millionaire's shortbread) instead of biscuit base. Deadly! xx
Hello Saija
ReplyDeleteThank you for your thoughtful comments, which mean a lot from a fellow writer. How was your one day encounter post vipassana? I'm afraid to say that I got dumped by my suitor to be on the Indian / Nepalese border before I had even got to meet him. But vipass helped me to deal with it... equanimity and annicha and all that!
I'm now in Nepal, having had to deal with high dramas on the border - being caught in the midst of political demonstrations. So I am now processing and integrating it all - the vip blog will be up in a couple of days time. Send me links to any of your writing if it is in English! xx
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