by Gayle | Apr 5, 2020 | My Journey, Personal Odyssey
I hear the neighborhood children just past my tall, shards-of-glass covered mega cement wall playing cricket, with shouts and screams and wailings, occasionally punctuated by sharp, staccato reprimands of an adult. (When I hear the wailing, I say a little prayer just...
by Gayle | Apr 2, 2020 | My Journey, Personal Odyssey
India is enforcing the harshest and most extensive COVID-19 lockdown in the world. On March 24, 2020, with just a short four-hour notice, India – all of India – was in lockdown, stay-in-your-house-and-don’t-you-dare-come-out kind of lockdown....
by Gayle | Mar 18, 2020 | Personal Odyssey
Throughout the night, in drifting consciousness, the whizzing dopplers of freeway traffic outside my window kept mingling with the rote memory recalls of newly learned asana, pranayama, mantras and shuddhi kriya techniques. In a way that only dreams can....
by Gayle | Apr 28, 2019 | My Journey, Personal Odyssey
Up early to catch the 8:30 Allahabad Jaipur SF Express. Allahabad has changed its name to Prayagraj, but the train hasn’t changed its name. Arriving just around 1 pm I made my way to the Jaipur Hotel New, down a wholesale pharmaceutical alleyway,...
by Gayle | Jun 20, 2018 | Personal Odyssey
Local Vrindavan vocalist, Southern California music producer and worldwide acclaimed kirtan rock band team up to create a magical Maha Mantra music video montage for World Music Day, June 21, 2018 Sunrise on Kesi Ghats, Yamuna, Vrindavan, India World Music Day is...
by Gayle | May 29, 2018 | Personal Odyssey
In the foothills just outside of Jaipur at Dhamma Thali. “The enlightened man seeks universal truths.” Experiential truths become part of you forever. Why do I keep coming to Vipassana? I believe in the concepts; the spirit is willing,...
