Camino Pilgrimage inspired by Shirley MacLaine

Every Full Moon brings its own unique aura, offering us a powerful energetic opening to birth our intentions of new possibilities, of surrendering patterns that do not serve us and of making closures to old stagnant beliefs. Do not miss this powerful invitation. We held our monthly Open circle of Meditation and Chanting. As a bonus, I took the opportunity to attend a Gong bath at Sikh missionary society (held every Sunday at 6pm) which felt like it had sealed within me the full moon's cosmic bath. Staying in the gratitude for these beautiful vibrations and sharing subliminally with one and all. Love and Light

In May 2014, I decided to partake in the holy pilgrimage around the Kailesh mountain and Mansarovar river. This can be done via both sides, Tibet or India but because of my Indian passport, I chose to trek via Tibet. The excursion took 15 days mostly on foot ( a vehicle is only used when the terrain means it is no longer safe to walk). You do a circumambulation around the river and the holy mountain staying in rustic places along the way. I can only describe this experience as the 'embodiment of Shiva' meaning there is everything in nothingness. I chose to swim in the Mansarovar river, the purest form of water ( -1°C) which was a true spiritual awakening. As I was walking most of the time, I was able to connect with myself beyond my comfort zone. Finally seeing the mountain sparkle at Sunrise (5am) as pictured above was well deserved after the long journey.

I worked for Etihad airline as the manager of operations administration for ... years, during my time in the office I realised that most of my colleagues suffered from work related stress and they also thought it was only possible to unwind properly when they changed their environment. My strength has always been connecting with the heart and others and I decided to share my experience with them to improve their feelings and work-style. I started doing sessions, these included chair and laughter yoga and a day of values (values they believe they exemplify, that they could enact and share). For example, as my strength/value was connecting to the heart and I taught the group 'namaste' and how to connect and bow down to your divinity. These sessions were not only fun, but were effective at creating a great sense of camaraderie. The response I had was that my team-mates felt much lighter and found that working together was easier. I also felt that the atmosphere greatly improved and everyone had a better understanding of one another. Since leaving this line of work, I have been running office yoga sessions on behalf of clients. I have ran sessions for *PUT EXAMPLE HERE*. Please feel free to contact me if you want to improve your office working environment or to teach you and your colleagues some work-related meditation techniques.

In October 2018 for the whole month, I ran yoga and meditation sessions for the in-house guests and private sessions for the guests on request at the Gaya Island Resort. This was a non-monetary exchange as I got to stay in ultimate luxury at the resort. Whilst I was there, I also ran a partner yoga session fora couple on their honey-moon. It can only be described as paradise, I was completely in touch with mother nature and I felt very grateful to stay here. During my stay I had the opportunity to do a range of different activities including; Jungle trekking, water sports – kayaking, snorkelling, scuba diving , in house cultural activities etc. Full details of the resort are at the following address: https://www.gayaislandresort.com/index.html

During the Afghanistan war, through the art of living community page, I cam across Edwina, an American lady who was doing some work there and I decided to join her. It was a moment of truth for me, my birthday was coming up and I'd had so many lovely days but this year I wanted to do something different and loved worked with children. Edwina did initially dissuade me for security reasons; the war had just ended and me being with an Indian passport at the time because of safety and implications of red tape. However I felt a strong sense of longing which overpowered my fear and collected clothes and money for the children and flew out. As I was flying with emirates, they decided to cover the story in the India corporate newsletter. I stayed at the humanitarian centre which was in a half bombed-dilapated state and was challenging. However I taught stress management in Orphanages and refugee camps to children, they were all strangers to one another between the ages of 5 and 18. I used a translator to interact with them (they spoke pushtu) and how honestly they were listening, smiling and engaged moved me. They were beautiful children in tragic conditions. On my birthday, I managed to get a proper birthday cake from the American residential community, the handicapped children danced and sang and I gave out chocolates from my layover in Dubai. After 15 days left,I didn’t want to leave them, I wanted to take them with me, I loved them. They said it was so lovely to have you here, they’ve never seen a cake before and there were tears and hugging, I was overwhelmed. Every now and again I look back on this experience and I feel truly grateful to have met and helped these children.