After three intense trips to India with students from the North Okanagan-Shuswap School District, the organizers are offering a 16-day adventure for adults this November.
While the student trip traversed India from west to east, the adult trip will be more concentrated with less travelling. And unlike the student trip, it will be focused on personal self-discovery.
“Using the deep stimulation and overwhelming presence of India with its spiritual and cultural richness, the November trip will include dynamic exercises in mindfullness and healing,” said Calvin White, one of the organizers and a former Armstrong school counsellor.
“India is a natural place to go in order to work through personal trials or past traumas, and at the same time attain a newer and fuller sense of identity.”
The other organizer, Michael Donaldson, is a tour guide who has lived part-time in India for seven years.
The trip will begin in Delhi, move west to the Thar Desert and then back across to the centre of northern India and the ancient city of Varanasi.
Participants will enjoy such activities as a camel trek, traditional Rajasthani and classical Indian music concerts, a sunrise boat trip on the Ganges, and visits to Jain, Sikh, and Hindu temples, Muslim mosques, Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination site, and many other attractions as well as have opportunities to explore.
“Indian train travel itself is a step into the exotic,” said White.
There are only spaces for 15 participants. The trip cost is all-inclusive.
Those interested in obtaining more information and details should phone White at 250-832-6682 or e-mail calvinwhite@hotmail.com.
“Through personal and group sessions designed to open the heart and mind, the participants will develop confidence, confront unresolved personal issues, and emerge with a clearer understanding of themselves and what it means to be human,” said White.
