My second stop will take me into India to experience yoga, meditation, and ayuverdic medicine. I can honestly say this stop was not inspired by the “Eat, Pray, Love” movement, as I’ve never read the book and failed to finish watching the movie in its entirety. I’m told that this part of my journey is a growing trend among western women as they were inspired by the book or movie, which gives me some hope as something really good must result from her time in India! In actuality this stop on my trip was inspired by Steve Jobs, whose biography I read last year while in Peru, through which I felt a connection with his personality and work style.
I was first inspired by Steve Jobs because of his unshakable self confidence, his ability to stick to his guns despite numerous critics and be unfazed by failure, something that I know I struggle with. When reading his biography I was intrigued by his travels to India at a young age, spending 7 months there in search of spiritual enlightenment. He believed that trip to India to have had a “Lasting impact” on his life, allowing him to learn techniques to silence the mind to become more intuned to his intuition, to be aware of the present moment and see the world and its subtlies in a way that is missed by most people in the chatter of their thoughts. This awareness and expansion of the mind allowing for creation and implementation of things that others couldn’t even dream of or would think possible. In his 2005 Stanford Commencement speech, he talks about the importance of following your intuition and how we may not understand why we are doing things looking forward, but we will come to a point where we can look back and all the dots will connect (see – Steve Jobs). I figure if a find about 1/100th of what he found in India, I will be doing pretty good as 1/100th of being a billionaire is still being a millionaire. I can live with that.
I will be traveling straight to the foothills of the Himalayans to a Rishikesh, a city considered to be the spiritual capital of India and will spend the first month of my time there learning yoga in a 200hr teacher training course and afterwards just letting my intuition guide me on what to do in India next. Through learning and practicing yoga, meditation, chanting, and ayuvedic medicine I hope to be able to find the silence in my mind that will allow me to find not only peace within myself, but also to find a direction forward career wise in my life. If anything, at least after 200hrs of yoga training I should be in better shape!
India Blogs
1. I Could be on a Beach Somewhere
3. Satsangs and the Uber Spiritual
4. All Paths Lead to the Same Place
5. Pickup Lines and Translations of the “Enlightened”
7. Food For Thought
8. When it’s Time to Leave the Classroom
9. Keep it Simple Stupid
10. India Time
Spirit Healing Adventures 