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Costa Rica- The Samasati Nature Retreat

hi friends
here is a slideshow of our holiday destination for may 2007.
it may take a while to load, but it's worth the wait.
the samasati nature retreat is beautiful, as you'll see.
you'll be spending seven days there, beginning and ending every day with a
chanting satsang, along with the choice of various excursions during the
day.
we'll have more details and booking info up on the home page soon.
meanwhile, you may like to check these pages for a closer look at samasati.
www.samasati.com
www.samasati.com/revlinks.htm
see you there!
love,
miten

Kripalu sacred pulse festival part two

deva meets some new friends as the room fills for the evening concert... this is hailee..

..and this cute little yogi/yogini and mom, whose names we just cannot remember...(would love to know!)

here's ben he came to the voice w/shop wearing a john lennon t-shirt so he caught my eye straight away. after the session, he and i got together to play some beatle songs. ben and his band are just about to record with billy joel's sax player producing...he's got a bright future ahead of him.

the evening concert was a wild affair...and so beautiful. along with our reggae version of chidananda, we also played the old gospel/blues song - you gotta move. manose surprised everyone by playing the blues on his bamboo flute (we knew he could do it!!) ...rock on manoseji

we said goodbye early the following morning and headed for europe....

Kripalu sacred pulse festival part one

kripalu sacred pulse festival, featured mickey hart, tabla rasa, wah!, girish, akim funk buddha...

we opened the festival with a concert...here are a few pics of anthony ward performing with us. anthony is a great dancer who has a passion for flowers. here he is dancing/arranging while we chanted the tibetan mantra 'om tare tuttare' which we dedicated to his holiness the dalai lama and the tibetan people.

 

this evening, we honoured deva’s father, wolfgang, who left his body a year ago today..he would've loved to have played with mickey hart!

go with god, wolfgang

the next morning we shared a sufi dance

ya azim el allahu

mickey's session. unfortunately for us, we had to leave the festival before he arrived, so we are grateful to manose for these pics

manose was in great demand - here he is playing for mickey...

....and rehearsing with tabla rasa

here's jim, tim and thomas (sitar) of tabla rasa, soundchecking for the evening concert

deva relaxing with wah! and record producer friend, paul, before the concert

the sound guys - definitely feeling no pain...matt and bob...

..and jeff...

Living Buddha

just wanted to share this beautiful picture with you. manose never met osho, but has come to love him in his own way during his time with us. this picture was taken at the cologne festival in may.

From ocean to forest

saying good bye to bimini

we flew north...over miami...

13 hours later, as the sun went down, we began our descent into albany...

..this tour has taken us from the deserts of arizona...

... to the turquoise waters of the bamamain ocean...

and finally, to the green forests of new england

Impressions - wildquest 2006

Bimini - the ride home

nicola with some treasures from the deep

bimini blues...

..and then the storm came up...

..and up...

ready for more...

..here it comes..waves are coming in...

..and with bob marley on the stereo, we danced our way home..

Bimini

yesterday was a good day. the morning was full of promise...

we began with a singing circle..

and took to the ocean

dolphins...a family, ready to party!

here we go...(new album cover?)

we spent around an hour with them...

some great underwater shots...

 

 

and this is how it felt...

From the desert to the ocean

arriving in florida, we meet some of the participants

..board the plane for bimini...

and we’re back in bimini again...so amazing to leave the desert for the ocean..what an incredibly beautiful planet we live on.

this is atmo – first mate and ashram friend...this is our boat for the next 6 days..

..and this is the group house, over-looking the ocean..

Scottsdale

the concert venue – the scottsdale center for the performing arts

our biggest concert of the tour

we’re trying to encourage manose to sing – he has a beautiful voice, but he’s still a bit shy...believe it or not.

here’s deva catching up on some sleep at phoenix airport.
we were up at 5 am the morning following to catch an early morning flight to miami...where we’ll meet the dolphin swimming group, bound for bimini.