It is time for me to leave Mysore, and in a few short days I leave India all together. I get on the train to Chennai and I smile to myself: A long time ago, in Auroville, one of the other guests had been travelling for a while. She had bought a train ticket, one of those with a designated seat. There was such a crowd in the train station and even though she had help from one of the station workers, she had a hard time getting on her train. People were actually...

Mysore is a town in the state of Karnataka, famous for it's Maharajah Palace, the colourful Devaraja market, ashtanga yoga, silk and sandalwood incense. I am lucky enough be designed a spare bed in the apartment that Tracy (TJ) is sharing with Jessica and Lillie; they're all studying yoga, and they get up at 3 AM to get to their morning practice! We hang out with some of the other yogis, and one should think that after more than a week of listening to them talk a...

In Auroville I take part in a three day cycling tour, and with the other 14 members of the group I visit an ecological farm, an organic processing unit, meet Martin that explains the vision behind Auroville, the radio station and more. What makes the strongest impression on me though, is the visit we make to a school run by an Indian woman who is a resident in Auroville. The school was initially started by a Brazilian woman that saw the desperate need to help the...

I left the ashram and took the plane from Trivandrum to Chennai. It felt like a luxury to take the plane instead of the train or the bus, but the price wasn't too bad and the thought of so many hours travelling wasn't so tempting either. I truly enjoyed getting to my destination in no-time, and I spent the waiting time in the airport catching up with my mother on the phone. My seat in the plane was next to an elderly woman, and just the fact that she was on the p...

I arrived at Amritapuri the day before Christmas Eve. I was feeling a tiny bit homesick and also very excited about this place and curious about what it would be like. I ended up spending ten days here. India is full of ashrams and going to one is just a part of the experience,and I meet four familiar faces from my travels in India thus far. When I first arrived I had to find the international office and sign in. It turned out that the ashram is very big, with...