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Grandmothers University – A perspective from Ladakh on globalisation
Ladakh's uniqueness has been calling people from all over the world - the mountain lovers, the seekers, the bikers, the culturally curious as well as the ethnographers. Ladakh has only been "opened" to tourists [...]
Why Does Travel Transform Us So Powerfully?
Has your status quo got you nailed to the cross you call your life? That life you created as you followed a normal path of growing up, getting an education and finding a career? [...]
16 Inspiring and Conscious Festivals From Around The World
We're big fans of conscious festivals here at OTIJ. We know they can't be perfect and some valid criticisms have been made. However, at their best they can provide us with a glimpse of what [...]
What Do Travel, Tragedy and Illness All Have In Common?
Angry Lion! You’re surrounded by an angry pride of wild lions protecting their newly born cubs. It’s dark. You're in an open game viewing vehicle. It has just broken down. There is no [...]
Forget doctors! Why You Should Trust Mother Nature To Be Your Greatest Healer.
'There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift [...]
An Ayahuasca Experience – Handling Expectations
The Rainforest jungle of Peru is where I participated in a week long Ayahuasca retreat last month. I had taken Ayahuasca about four years ago in a Community Hall in Brixton, London, shoulder to shoulder [...]
Seven Reasons to Travel with a Group (for Spiritually-Minded People)
‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’, Aristotle If you consider yourself a spiritual kind of person and you're keen to discover and experience some of the most sacred places around [...]
Who Is Our Tribe at OTIJ?
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.” - Richard [...]
Shrinking My Dragons for my 23 Day Peru Odyssey
So I have all my dragons in a row - I can see the little blighters, their fierce bright eyes glaring at me, rivalling each other for my attention. An occasional snort accompanies a [...]
White Lions – Stranger Than Fiction?
What creature could captivate our hearts more than Simba in Disney’s The Lion King? But what if this lion cub was an extraordinarily pure white? What if he was considered an angelic messenger from [...]
Sacred Power Places – The Seven Most Powerful Places on Earth
Ever visited a house and somehow ‘knew’ the place wasn’t right, only to discover something appalling had happened there once? Or a sacred site and got a tingling on the crown of your head? [...]
