Becoming Enlightened from Varanasi and Bodh Gaya

Written by Alanna Hello Parents, family, friends, and strangers about to read this blog post, hope you’re all well and wonderful. This is an update from the Shiva Group, we’re all lovely and fine. We spent the last week in Varanasi, waking up at 5 in the morning for yoga classes with a wonderful teacher, starting to take classes to learn beginner Hindi, being daring enough to try the local… Read More

India Bound!

Namaste Shiva Community, Welcome to the Spring 2016 Shiva Student Blog! This is James and Avy, your future Overseas Educators. We are sitting here in Portland, sipping chai and getting stoked for our upcoming adventures. India is dear to both of our hearts and we cannot wait to explore it’s vast culture, diversity, and landscape with each of you. To the Shiva student crew: we’re thrilled to meet you and… Read More

The journey has just begun

The other night we said farewell to seven misty eyed (and let’s be honest, two similarly fogged up OE’s) students in the Delhi airport. As strange as it is to know and feel that our three month adventure together has come and passed, we can all understand it better now that we have talked and argued and meditated upon the now familiar idea that everything is impermanent (see: Truth, Noble… Read More

And they’re off

The Shiva group has successfully gathered together at the San Francisco airport. They’ve gone through security and they are off to board their plane. We wish them luck as they get ready to traverse the many landscapes India has to offer… We will update the blog again once they land safely in Delhi, from there stay tuned for updates directly from the crew! – Mike and the HQ team… Read More

Namaste Shiva

Welcome to the Fall 2015 Shiva Blog. We look forward to sharing our thoughts, pictures and experiences with you as our India journey unfolds in the days to come. We have been busy planning our itinerary, connecting with our in country contacts and dreaming of the journey we are about to embark on. All of the overseas educators just returned from a training adventure. We camped by Trillium Lake near… Read More

Shiva group farewell

Shiva group Fall 2014 has safely made it to the airport and are boarding their plane. After some time travel and many miles they will be back home. It’s hard to believe that 12 weeks have past already, it feels like yesterday we were all meeting and playing games and naming our pinkies at SFO. We spent our last day together relaxing in Delhi and all enjoyed one last Bollywood… Read More

Happy time, all time, long time

After four glorious days of camping with Carpe family (and two good cleanings), Jeremy and Audrey hit the streets of Portland for exploration, scavenger hunt madness, and conspirings of a beautiful India adventure to be. The adventure began with coffee at Anna Bananas coffee shop. Once (de)caffeinated Jeremy and Audrey enjoyed delicious Thai food and tasty ice cream, they biked all around sharing stories and enjoying the sights and sounds… Read More