Hello everyone! I live in Brookline, MA. I have two adult children. One is a Dragons instructor who led the Mekong semester this past fall and encouraged me to join this program. I am originally from Denmark, but at this point I have spent 35+ years......Read More
Oh my goodness! I’m leaving for Nepal in a week! I’m at the stage where I’m less excited and more nervous. This means I’ll be leaving my family and going out on my own for the first time since I got married and had......Read More
Hello, nice to meet you all! My name is Lina, and I’ll be traveling from Los Angeles, CA. I was born in Iraq and lived in England before moving to the United States. Because I don’t have the privilege of finding “home” in the......Read More
Namaste (meaning; the God in me bows down to the God in you) I am Rishi Bhandari, a human being born and raised in this land called Nepal. I was born in the western mountains of Nepal, moved to the southern plains and raised in the central......Read More
A heartfelt namaste from a fresh cold morning in Nepal! My name is Claire, I am originally from the UK although I have for many years called Kathmandu home, and I have the great privilege of being one of your instructors for this wonderful journey......Read More
Dear Ashrams and Artisans 2018 participants, Welcome to the Dragons community and your course’s Yak Board! You can think of your Yak Board as an online group journal and virtual bulletin board. Pre-course, your instructors will use the board to......Read More
We came across this painted sign in Panauti as we completed a day hike from Namobuddha through small villages and rice fields. Gratitude is what I feel during these final days in Nepal. Gratitude for so many things… Mark and I both saying......Read More
On our last morning in Nepal, in ancient Bhaktapur, our carved wooden oval window looks over a scene of deeply rooted patterns and a rhythm of life that’s as unfamiliar to us as it is automatic to Newari’s here. How profoundly their or......Read More
Yesterday I went downtown to do a little local traveling as if I were on a Dragons trip; part of my re-entry plan! There’s so much of DC I simply haven’t explored. Under bright blue skies, I ended up at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial,......Read More
So, I returned last Sunday, along with Darrel, sadly leaving the rest of our group and beautiful Nepal behind. Ashrams and Artisans was a breathtaking, beautiful, inspiring and challenging trip. Our days were so richly full that I am still......Read More
A week after our Artisans And Ashrams group graduated and our adventures ended, Caroline and I are still in Nepal extending and assimilating what we learned with our fellow Dragons. We are eating dal bhat as well as global foods. I am wearing my......Read More
Each of us on this trip almost didn’t come. It was a detour from our normal flow. But we plunged in anyway and every day has held unexpected great adventures like a first run on a complex and fascinating river. We’ve used the metaphor of......Read More
I love Nepal as much for the incredible ice melting grins and faces lined with life spirit as for it’s top of the world mountains. Cameras don’t do justice. A joke, a toothy ear to ear grin or just deep lines of life like rings on an......Read More
Often times Nepal is just plain beautiful. No words. Except maybe a gasp and ‘very good’ – Ektam Ramro....Read More
I’m so appreciative of my fellow Dragons on this trip! As years pass, I’m generally more aware of the fascinating & unique fruit of which each human being seems to consist once they are peeled to whats deeper and beneath. It’s......Read More
We can barely believe that our time at the ashram has already nearly come to an end. We have meditated, chanted and practiced yoga. We have learned about subjects as diverse as philosophy, organic farming and Nepali dancing. We have avidly discussed......Read More
