Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Nainital, Kausani and Almora with a bunch of Yogis



On the way home we had another flat so the boys got busy and made a crappy fire on the side of the road.












This is Surya Prakash (sunlight) and Nitesh. They were the two students the Guru sent with me for the drive. We had our own personal vehicle. It's too bad the driver had to be a mad man.









The students got busy dancing and singing for hours and hours on the last night. And just when I thought it might be over the guy playing guitar decided to sing a song for everyone (about 50people) in the room. The song he chose for me was 'you look wonderful tonight' by Eric Clapton.









We were waiting for dinner so the students had another jam session.












This is one of the girls I shared a room with.













Here's a photo from behind the Temple around Almora.













This is me and my beautiful Yoga instructor Arpita.

















Here's a photo with me and the whole group outside a holy ashram. I can't remember the name of the Yogi who settled here while he was alive but it was a special place and the students put on a ceremony of chanting, singing and performing advanced asanas during our visit.







Big Hanuman! For those of you who are unaware, Hanuman is the monkey god of the Hindu faith. He's all over the place around here. He is the great devotional figure and is very strong.










This big board of Jesus with Hindi print was on the side of the road in Nainital. I love how Indians seems happy to embrace different religions. Here it seems as though devotion is what's important.








Here is a photo of me chilling on the side of the road in Nainital.











Outside our hotel in Nainital.













My Yoga teacher and the Guru. Hindu's have Guru's to help people on their spiritual path. This one reminds me a bit of Little Richard.











2 comments:

mike in motion said...

howdy!!
speaking of monkeys do you know I am called Anjaneya?? (amongst other things?)

is your spine nice and straight? Hope you are taking in all that you can! Say hi to the monkeys! I'm enjoying your pics!!
hugs!
mike

kamlesh mehta said...

oooooooooo nice dear ......ilove uttarakhand