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Yoga, Spiritual & Cultural Tour, India

Your Journey

Your journey will start with an introduction to Delhi. A tale of 2 cities – Old and New with its’ monuments, history, chaos and fabulous shopping.

Help and make new lifelong friends and have conversations with Tibetan Refugees and learn about Tibetan culture and food.

Learn about what local and international NGO’s are doing in the area.

Engage with local people and learn about their lives, culture and traditions.

Have an audience with HH17th Karmapa (schedules permitting).

Learn Tibetan/Indian cooking

Enjoy morning and evening yoga/meditation sessions.

Visit local monasteries and temples

Optional day trekking trip into the Himalayas

Come and enjoy this unforgettable adventure that will change your life.

Visit the Taj Mahal and Red Fort in Agra

Seda Kervanoglu has been supporting the education project of Tong-Len by supporting an Indian girl for 7 years. You can also opt for giving a better future to one of the under-priviledged kids that Tong-Len is trying to find a sponsor for.

As part of your cost a US$100 donation will be given to Tong-Len to continue to work with underprivileged children in Dharamsala, India

Bookings will be taken by Seda Kervanoğlu and local arrangements made by Ekno Experience (an Australian & Indian based company)

A US$500 deposit will secure your place with the balance to be payable 60 days prior to departure (15 August 2012)

If you are interested please contact Seda Kervanoğlu at seda@suryaturkey.com

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YOUR ITINERARY

Day 1: 30 Oct 2012 Arrive Delhi International Airport in the morning. Rest and meet for lunch together at 2:00pm. Rest of afternoon for local sightseeing. Overnight New Delhi

Day 2: 31 Oct 2012 Sightseeing tour around Delhi. Tour Old and New Delhi by private car. You will visit landmarks including India Gate, the mausoleum of Emperor Humayun, Lakshmi Narayan Hindu temple, Jama Masjid and the shopping and entertainment hub of Connaught Place. Overnight train to Pathankot

Day 3: 1 Nov 2012 Arrive in Pathankot and take taxi to McLeod Ganj. Arrive late morning and check in to your Guest House. After acclimatizing yourself to the sights, sounds and culture, You will be briefed by your trip leader about what to expect over the next 10 days. Afternoon visit to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Temple and Museum. Overnight PemaThang Guest House, McLeod Ganj

Day 4: 2 Nov 2012 7:30-09:00 Yoga with Seda. After breakfast visit the Tibetan Children’s village this morning. The Village is a thriving, educational community for Tibetan Children in Exile. Walk around Dal Lake and an afternoon visit to TIPA, the Tibetan Performing Arts. Evening Activity. Overnight Pema Thang Guest House, McLeod Ganj

Day 5: 3 Nov 2012 07:30-09:00 Yoga with Seda. Today’s highlight is a group audience with the 17th Karmapa (his schedule permitting). After visit Norbulingka Institute with a guided tour of the workshops to see traditional Tibetan art and the preservation of Tibetan culture. Late afternoon a lamp lighting ceremony with the Nuns of Dolma Ling Nunnery. Overnight Pema Thang Guest House, McLeod Ganj

Day 6: 4 Nov 2012 07:30-09:00 Yoga with Seda. Visit to Tong-Len Hostel in Sarah (just outside McLeod Ganj). Spend time with the children. We’ll take our presents to the kids at Tong-Len hostel (ask Seda for ideas what to take for kids). Evening Guest Speaker. Overnight Pema Thang Guest House, McLeod Ganj

Day 7: 5 Nov 2012 07:30-09:00 Yoga with Seda.

After breakfast visit the Tibetan Government in Exile Campus and Library. We have lunch in the local town of Dharamsala and its market. Overnight Pema Thang Guest House.

Day 8 : 6 Nov 2012 07:30-09:00 Yoga with guest teacher. Spend the day with a local NGO (or Charity Organisation). Opportunity to teach an English language class and afternoon conversation classes with a conversation partners. Evening activity. Overnight Pema Thang Guest House

Day 9: 7 Nov 2012 07:30-09:00 Yoga with Seda. Rest of the day at leisure or a one day trek to Triund (at the base of the Himalayas. This trek takes approximately 7-8 hours to complete). Overnight Pema Thang Guest House, McLeod Ganj

Day 10: 8 Nov 2012 07:30-09:00 Yoga with Seda. Later in the morning learn how to make the ‘momo’s’ (the famous Tibetan dumplings) at your Tibetan cooking class. You can also take an Indian cooking class instead. Afternoon we visit the nearby village of Bagshu. Evening Guest Speaker. Overnight Pema Thang Guest House.

Day 11: 9 Nov 2012 07:30-09:00 Yoga with Seda. Leave your Guest House after breakfast for the drive to Pathankot to the afternoon train to Delhi. Arrive Delhi approx. 9pm. Overnight Delhi

Day 12: 10 Nov 2012 Take a day trip by car to Agra to visit the amazing Taj Mahal and Red Fort. Return to Delhi late afternoon. Overnight Delhi

Day 13: 9 Nov 2012 Last minute shopping in Delhi and a farewell dinner. Overnight Delhi

Day 14: 12 Nov 2012 Prepare for your international flight home.

COST US$2,250 (from Delhi), USD$1,950 for Early Bird discount - payable by 15 June 2012

Includes

• Fully escorted tour by Seda Kervanoğlu

• You will be met by a representative of Ekno Experience at New Delhi

• Comfortable accommodation for the duration of the trip.

• All transfers and travel by A/C train and private vehicles

• Breakfast and dinner

• Meditations and Yoga

Excludes

• Airfares to and from India

• Indian visas *

• Travel Insurance (compulsory)

• All attractions and entrance fees as per itinerary

• Occasional optional items not identified in itinerary description

• Tipping and personal expenses

• Bottled water and other beverages not included with meals

Audience with 17th Karmapa

Participate in conversation classes with local Tibetans

Make friends with local monks

Your Tour Leader

Seda Shambhavi Kervanoğlu started yoga in İstanbul at Ananda Marga Yoga centre in 1985 during her University years. Since then yoga has always been in her life with its different limbs at different density and even though she tried different disciplines like Tai Chi or T.M. afterwards she settled down with yoga as a life style since 1998 and decided to live her life around yoga.

She practised Iyengar tradition of Hatha Yoga at East London Iyengar Yoga centre and was introduced to Donna Holeman's principles of yoga by Sharon Matarazzo and Angelika Grohmann

at Bodywise in London. She practised Integral yoga with Shri Aurobindo influenced Sama Fabien who is the founder of Aurolab. She did one year intensive TTC run by Aurolab. She studied Therevada Buddhism and Vipassana at Suan Mokhe in Thailand and Tibetan Buddhism with the renowned Lamas including H.H. Dalai Lama the 14th in McLeod Ganj, Dharamasala, India. She has completed her yoga teacher training at Sivananda Yoga Academy in Madurai Ashram in India. During her long stay in Mc Leod Ganj she self-studied ayurveda and received ayurvedic treatments which lead her afterwards to obtain her certificate in Ayurvedic Massage and Panchakarma Therapy from Dr.M. Sathyanandan - S.M. Ayurveda, Panchakarma and Yoga Therapy Centre, Varkala and a Certificate in Kalari Massage from Dr.Shaji -E.P.V. Kalari

Centre, Palai in India. She has participated to some seminars and workshops to contribute to the Ayurvedic Healing Course with Dr. David Frawley, Vedic Institute in Holland.

On one of her long Indian trips, she met the right person, Dudiji for her Reiki initiation level I and years later she received the second level from Fadime Emir in 2009. She’s also done the Yoga and Anatomy and Yin Yoga intensive workshop with the revolutionary Yoga anatomy teacher Paul Grilley at Triyoga in London. She’s been studying Tantra since 2002 and did a Tantra workshop for Couples and got initiated for Cobra Breath with Hanna & Martin, Transcendence; Authentic Tantra just before she founded and opened Surya Yoga in Datça, Turkey in 2005.

Seda completed first three levels of Transformational Breathing Technique Course developed by Dr. Judith Kravitz and lead by Nevşah Fidan in 2006. Seda has trained to be an Osho Active Meditation Teacher at Osho Meditation Centre in Pune, India and received a title for Surya as Osho Meditation Activity Centre in January 2008. During her stay at Osho Meditation Centre, she also had the opportunity to do the AcuEnergetics Workshop run by Kevin Farrow. She shares her knowledge and experience of Tantra, AcuEnergetics and Osho Active Meditations with her students in and out of her lessons during her intensive workshops/retreats.

In 2010 she organised a Yoga Therapy course for yoga teachers in co-operation with Paramanand Institute in Indore, India. The director and the teacher of yoga therapy, Babaom delivered the course facilitated by Seda at Surya Yoga. Seda has found the opportunity to complement her knowledge of Ayurveda and Yoga with this particular course and started practising yoga therapy a means of healing her students and seekers.

As she believes in on-going self-development and professional training, she keeps taking workshops on yoga, breath, healing and ayurveda. Recently she’s started a two year Homeopathy diploma course run by Homeopathy Association in İstanbul in co-operation with Greek Homeopathy School and Ass., which she believes is the right asset for her healing and curing profession complementery to her yoga therapy and ayurvedic healing knowledge and experience.

Supporting Tong-Len, Dharamsala India

Tong-Len's mission is to help displaced communities

in North India achieve a secure and sustainable future

by addressing the root causes of their poverty and

ill-health through a range of education and health-based

projects.

Displaced families from some of the poorest areas of India have come to the Kangra Valley in Himachal Pradesh. Here there are a large number of communities of up to 600 people struggling to survive in flimsy make-shift shelters which offer only minimal protection against the harsh climatic conditions. Disease is rife and this is exacerbated by severe malnutrition. Children, like their parents, have little or no opportunities for education and many spend their days scavenging and begging.