Innersearch Sri Lanka 2018 and 2019

The monks have been working hard to bring you our next travel-study program: to Sri Lanka, February 19 to March 1st, 2018! This is our formal announcement of a much-awaited event.

What is Innersearch?

Innersearch is Himalayan Academy's travel-study program and your opportunity to travel with the satguru and his monks on periodic journeys for personalized instruction in The Master Course. Twenty-five Innersearch travel-study programs have been held since 1967, taking hundreds of seekers to India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tahiti, Hawaii, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Russia, Switzerland, the Caribbean, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and dozens of other regions. You can be sure that Innersearch is not your typical tour but a travel experience that combines the mystical path of Indian spirituality with a superlative retreat from your day-to-day routine.

Each voyage is a pilgrimage to the divine and spectacular inside of you. The all-pervading beauty, color and grandeur of the outer voyage is but a reflection of the bliss and richness of the inner voyage as we delve the within together. A typical day includes morning classes exploring the esoterics of meditation and discussing how to live a spiritually dynamic life in a modern world. There are hatha yoga and meditation classes, question-and-answer sessions, instruction in Shum, Gurudeva's language of meditation, and lots of time for informal sharing with Bodhinatha and the swamis. Some of the most enriching moments are when we meet with Hindu communities, often joining in grand celebrations as they welcome us to the temples they have erected around the world.

The next Innersearch will be a two-week journey to northern Sri Lanka with fifty participants, scheduled to begin (as we said earlier) in Colombo February 19 and end March 1 of 2018. An identical program, also leaving in February, is planned for 2019. On both Innersearches there will be days of classes and visits to the temples and holy places associated with the Gurus of our Parampara. It's definitely not too early to begin planning such an adventure. Will you join us? Watch the Innersearch Travel-Study page on our website to see how the program planning is progressing and to submit your application

Gurudeva and the Innerearchers stand in front of Yogaswami\

s hut in Columbuthurai.'

The priest inside Yogaswami\

s hut next to the little shrine that holds Chellappaswami\'s sandals, which Yogaswami worshipped each morning.'

Markenduswami in his hut, regaling Innersearchers about Yogaswami\

s philosophy, which he knew better than almost anyone.'

Gurudeva is taken through the streets of Kopai.

The community tied two thick ropes to an Ambassador car and pulled it for miles through the villages.

Another parade with musicians greets the guru from America.

Close up of the chariot

Gurudeva speaks to school children about the greatness of their culture and religion.

Parades, so many parades.

Gurudeva spoke at the famed Saraswami Hall in Colombo (which we will visit).

Up, up and away, Gurudeva would say at the airport.

Along the country roads of Alaveddy.

And to Nallur Temple, which, as we will see, has changed significantly.

Off to a temple puja.

One evening we had initiations in a special pavilion built for us, and several musical offerings, including the most beautful Natchintanai ever heard, by Mrs. Nadabrahmananda.

Markenduswami in his hut, speaking always the words of his guru, Yogaswami, and not his own words.

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