^{I AM A SPIRITUAL COWBOY}

I travel, I experience, I imbibe, I discover and most importantly—I SHARE!

This weeks “shared gem” is a new & amazing spiritual retreat Blue Mango in the Himalayas.

The site is www.bluemangohimalayas.com.

Here is what makes it MY PICK (over the others of course) :

(1) It's not a luxury hotel with some meditation classes thrown in, BUT they get the fact that one can need comfort while practicing spirituality.

(2) Love the fact that it's not a concrete building...closer to nature is so good. The promise is of super luxury tents. Nice!

(3) I travel a lot to India and love the Himalayas, but most of it is now getting too commercial for comfort. sadly, even Ladakh. but this retreat is in Spiti...lovely, secluded, serene Spiti!!

(4) The program is really "WHOLESOME" -- some great stuff and get to experience an ancient monastery, spend time with monks, eat food cooked by them etc. This is great!! Very different.

(5) LIVE MUSICIANS they promise. which retreat gives that?!! Wow, imagine mountains, meditation and live music. Can't get much better than that.

(6) I saved this one for the end coz it's the best part...well sort of...it's just about $3000 for 11 days and once u reach Delhi, they take care of EVERYTHING from there one. fly you to some place, road travel from there, food, acco, sightseeing, therapies blah blah...the whole shabang. I AM SO ON!!!

(7) CLOSE TO TIBET… really close and has the similar landscape, language and culture, but one can really breathe and explore spirituality without the communists playing Big Brother Nazis!

Oh oh...and the best part is that anyone can attend and 1 days is really do-able. And I also like the fact that it's not very "religion" centric which they have clearly aid on their site. They say religion is NOT spirituality and vice versa :) Amen!