Travel
The following are excerpts taken from articles about Travel.
A Hundred Voices, A Thousand Steps Pilgrimage to India
A Hundred Voices, A Thousand Steps Ramesh Avadhani writes about his pilgrimage to Marudhamalai in Southern India and the incredible hike to the temple of Murugan
“One thousand and fifty,” the temple official says in answer to my question, and points behind. Some hundred yards away stands a pavilion-like structure, a tall rectangle crowned by sculpted figures from Hindu mythology. The thousand and fifty steps begin there and trail up steeply to disappear into a thicket. Beyond rises a hill, vibrantly green and gently contoured, not very high yet challenging. This…
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Kindred Spirit Retreats - True Listening in Hamburg Retreat/ Workshop
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True Listening in Hamburg
Author Menna van Praag…
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Travel News: British splendour
British splendour
You don’t have to venture too far if you decide to discover the delights of the UK this autumn
Glastonbury Abbey
There are…
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The Way of the Pilgrim
The Way of the Pilgrim
An ancient route that meanders through the North Downs is the ideal place to go for a walking meditation. CJ Stone walks the Pilgrim’s Way
There are many words for walking. We amble. We stroll. We march. We trudge. We perambulate. Best of all, perhaps: we saunter. This last word is from the French, “Saint Terre” meaning “Holy Land”. It derives from the Middle Ages, when pilgrimage was…
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Retreats to revive you
Scaravelli-inspired yoga teacher, Marc Woolford, has been running retreats for over six years, all over the world from Marsh House in dreamy Dorset to tropical Thailand. For Marc a yoga retreat is more than just a hardcore asana session, it’s sacred. ‘I think most people are aware that regular yoga practise is good for you on several levels - physically, mentally and emotionally. Like anything else in life, if we do something that makes us feel good for long…
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Lands of Light
In her travels, Sandra Straw has always felt the sacred feminine energy most powerfully in the South American countries working with the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Peru and Chile. Here, we can discover great teachings of wise ones and the natural laws. They continue to teach us as Moses and many great prophets have done down through the ages, that there is a ‘Spiritual Code’ for our existence. It is in these lands that the great initiators of the future will emerge. Enjoy Sandra's account of her…
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Mud, Sweat and Cheers
Former Kindred Spirit staffer Nicola Cameron left the UK for a new life in New Zealand with her partner and a baby on the way. She sends a postcard home about the challenges she has faced living near a town nestling amongst the sub-tropical greenery of the mountains and surrounded by 100 beaches, learning to live the dream in the land of the long white cloud. Moving to New Zealand hasn’t been without its trials and tribulations. I came here because of my Kiwi…
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Bewitched by the Bay
A million backpackers pass through Australia’s Byron Bay, known simply as ‘the Bay’, every year. The first time Sarah Dawson visited Byron she was smitten by the lentil burgers, alfalfa sprouts and the crystal and healing shops. Byron fitted her like a psychedelic kid glove but now, revisiting 14 years later, would her rose-tinted bubble be burst? If you ask around any dinner table most people will have heard of Byron Bay – and doubtless have a story to…
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Island of Myth and Legend
Anna Maria Espsäter and her friend found themselves stranded in Tahiti for a bit longer than intended, en route to Easter Island. The unsettling start to their journey only added to the mystery that surrounds their remote destination Easter Island lies like a speck in the vast Pacific Ocean, some four hours plane journey from the Chilean mainland to the east and almost as far away from Tahiti to the west. The journey there is part of the adventure and although I’d heard much about this far-fl ung outpost and its famous moai, or stone statues, before my visit, nothing had quite…
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Beyond the Bush - The Paradox of Zen
Just 50 minutes by plane from Nairobi and we (a party of four South Africans, two Americans and a British family of four – all members of the African Geographic expedition) found urselves in an animal paradise, a place of endless space and beauty, a place where one can leave behind all worldly cares and submerge oneself in the unfolding of daily life in the African bush. Dr Sibis Mouton, surrounded…
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New Zealand - the Blueprint for Global Change
With just four million people in a land of green surrounded by the blue Pacific Ocean, I’ve come to believe we are small enough and contained enough to create effective and exceptional change in terms of finding new solutions and new ways of living – a virtual living blueprint of a new kind of world that could eventually be shared with other countries. Kimberley Paterson puts forth her case for the ‘Land of the Long White Cloud’ as the example of a community living from the heart and a country thriving, economically, ecologically – and above all, spiritually.…
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A Better Way to Holiday
From eco lodges to living in an Ashram, travel journalist Sarah Dawson shows us how to navigate our way through alluring southern India by road and rail – and return with a clear environmental conscience. Ever since a yoga holiday in Goa where I practised yoga on a podium surrounded by exotic birds, swaying palm trees and brightly coloured butterflies I have longed to return to this spiritually pulsating sub-continent. I also wanted to make as low an environmental impact as possible which meant…
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Arvika - A Co-Creative Community
Anna Maria Espsäter travels to Sweden to find out more about the extraordinary sense of community that makes Arvika such an interesting place to visit and such a success story in terms of creative pursuits and lifestyle. Some 30 minutes from the Norwegian border, Arvika lies along the shores of a crystal clear lake, Glafsfj orden glittering in the autumn sunlight with immense quiet forests encroaching upon it on three sides. Despite its small size, around 15,000 in the town itself, 27,000 in the borough,…
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Forest of Broceliande
Throughout the tales of the Arthurian cycle, the marvels of the Otherworld are never far away, and nowhere more so than in the wild places of the great forests. Paul Brannan takes us to France to explore the treasures among the tress.These ancient forestss are not to be found on any map, although they have their counterparts in our world; one such place is the forest of Paimpont in Brittany, a link to the legendary forest of Broceliande. Today, this forest of oak, beech and pine trees covers around 16,000…
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Stealing of the Sampo
Heroic tales, ancient rites, shamanic rituals, amazing wildlife and thriving traditions are just some of the delights enjoyed by Anna Maria Espäster as she ventured to Kuhmo in Finland to share in the riches of the Kalevala – a national treasure of epic proportions The small town of Kuhmo, with just 10,000 souls to its name, lies nestled in the midst of lakes and forests a stone’s throw from the Russian border on Lake Lammasjarvi, in deepest Finnish Karelia. The area of Karelia has long been a bridge between East and West and it was one of the regions that in the 1830s…
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