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Pilgrimage & Music Adventure
KERALA
I arrived in Kerala New Year's evening, just in time for Jai Uttal's Kirtan Camp celebration....
.. at the Somatheeram Ayurvedic Health Resort by the Arabian Sea near the Southern tip of India.
Honoring Neem Karoli Baba, the Guru and inspiration for many Western kirtan wallahs.
About 40 Bhakti yogis and students of Jai from around the world attended the 10-day Kirtan Camp.
See www.jaiuttal.com for details. Young Ezra Uttal learning to lead kirtan.
Jai, Daniel Paul and Nubia Teixeira, Jai’s wife, lead several camps per year in California, Brazil, Guatemala and India.
I arrived for the last days of Kirtan Camp and the Somatheeram Ayurvedic Beach Resort was full. So I stayed first at its annex...
.... in the village nearby. This gave me a chance to get familiar with the...
...local people...
....the village center.....
...village life...
...and the Christian church.
For my Ayurvedic week, I moved into one of the 3 sister resorts, interestingly,...
....two named Somatheeram and one named Manaltheeram http://www.somatheeram.in
Since all the cottages were full...
...a room was made for me in the Auyurvedic treatment center...
..which I called my “Ayurvedic hospital room”; exactly what I needed to recover from my New York exhaustion.
Nice, clean bathroom.
My room ceiling was open to the common thatched roof of the traditional Kerala building,....
..so the warm ayurvedic massage oils were wafting in the air and medicinal plants blooming outside my room.
Healing plants everywhere.....
.....many stairs...
..antiques...
.. hammocks for siesta time.
For my purification and rejuvenation program, I was attended to by 3 doctors and 2 therapists for 7 days.
Nice, clean treatment rooms.
The gardeners...
..and cottages...
....lush vegetation...
...morning mist from the Arabian Sea...
....view of the Arabian Sea.
Hatha Yoga, Meditation and a Nice new pool....
The pool opening party officiated by a catholic priest.
The restaurant
Good morning!
Nice spot for breakfast for one...
Delicious Ayurvedic buffet prescribed by the doctors.
Watch fishermen pulling nets while you eat.
A christian temple on the beach
The coast and...
....the Manaltheeram beach...
.....are lovely and uncrowded...
The Manaltheeram pool is also available.
Backwater boat trip
The boatman...
..still water...
...life on the banks...
A lagoon
Ayurvedic refreshments..
....served in the end of the trip ...
Good!
I love Kerala.
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