Franklin Feb 14, 2019 4 min Escapades in Bodhgaya, India -- Where Buddha Reached Enlightenment. Encounters with Buddhist monks, the Bodhi tree, peaceful retreats,and temples upon temples. ONE: Visiting the Totoro banyan tree, on the...
Franklin Feb 10, 2019 5 min Varanasi, India: Wrestling at Dawn and Cruising the Ganges by Twilight. Some favorite memories from one of the oldest cities in the world Varanasi is one of those cities you either come to love or hate -- I...
Franklin Feb 7, 2019 4 min The One Memory From Haridwar That Will Stay With Me. Red and yellow bracelets, cable cars, and an amusement park temple. Haridwar is another holy city in India, downstream on the Ganges...
Donna Feb 6, 2019 4 min Vegan Epicenters of India It’s not too much of a challenge finding vegan food in restaurants all over India - even egg is seen as non-veg to many vegetarians here,...
Franklin Feb 4, 2019 4 min Where is The Best Yoga in Rishikesh? And Other Explorations in This Indian Himalayan Town. “Where is the best yoga in Rishikesh?” I asked 4 Indians this question, and got 4 different and very complex answers. As Rishikesh has a...
Donna Jan 25, 2019 3 min What Happened to the Beatles Ashram? A step back in time. A place for revelations, inspiration, and connection with one of the greatest bands of the 20th century. After we...
Franklin Jan 18, 2019 3 min Ecotopia Found! Tat Tvam Asi Organic Coffee Estate in Karnataka, India. After five months of travelling the world, we’ve finally found an Ecotopia. In all honesty, we haven’t been searching that hard, as a...
Franklin Jan 16, 2019 3 min Varkala, Kerala. The Small Indian Beach Town with a Big Heart. How we ended 2018 and began 2019. It was 4 am in the morning after a night of New Yeara festivities, and we were getting ready to jump...
Donna Dec 31, 2018 3 min What I Learned During My 10-day Yoga Intensive in Tamil Nadu, India Especially -- What My Yoga Practice was Missing For my whole life I have been practicing one-sided #yoga. I've toyed with #meditation and...
Franklin Dec 30, 2018 4 min Tiruvanamali: What I Did at the Spiritual Axis of the World Four magical days in Tamil Nadu that felt like four months Tiruvanamalai is home to Arunachala, a holy mountain for Hindus, said to...
