6th - 9th - Yoga Center

Our client Isha Vidhya, under organization Isha Fundation, recommended us to go through Inner Engineering program to better understand what is behind  Isha Fundation.

The program consisted for 3,5 days activities like massage, hiking, swimming in water falls, ball games and mainly intensive yoga practice and theoretical introduction to yoga science. The program was facilitated by volunteers who provided excellent support in all aspects. - simply "willing to do" and "have to do" is different :-) Even we had even drum alarm at 5am in the morning it was interesting experience and where else to learn yoga than in India? :-) During all days we could also experience kind of distance learning which we plan to recommend as one scenario for our partner. So it was beneficial to come her.

During all days we had no internet access so it was also challenging for all of us - IT people :)

As seen many times, motorbike is family vehicle here:)

And lot of things can be loaded there

Our accommodation place

Local farm

Hiking

Waterfalls

Butterflies are big here:)

Lunch time

Exciting dinner surrounded by candle lights

Nice surprise by facilitators - hot water for our legs

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Each day we have some surprise

 So far, we face at least 1 kind of surprise each day. Either we find new info about our client, we taste new food or learn new local habit. More and more I'm meeting strong Czech footprint - every day I can see few Skoda cars, Bata shops etc. And for my surprise also in the down town.
 

Bollywood movies are everywhere

Motobike is used more than car

Small temple in the street

Why not?:)

Bata shoes are very popular, just in Coimbatore there are several Bata shops

We checked one of the biggest shopping centers

Customer care is visible here

Would like to have party dress?:)

Afternoons bring amazing heaven

Dinner with whole team

A bit of everything - this was non veg food

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God dolls festival

On Monday 3rd we were invited to the house of partner of my colleague where we could taste and see local culture event - god dolls. In the house were dozens of them, simply amazing :-) There was prepared also small dancing event. It was very interesting to see how people differs country to country - by values, believes and traditions. Soon I plan to add video from this event.

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Trip to Topslip

Even our assignment consists of 29 days, we have 3 weekends which all of us plan to use on max. First weekend we spend by acclimatization and local area discovery. For second weekend we wanted to have something big so we called  our logistic focal point - Professor Alagasar with whom we organized trip to are of wild animals - TopSlip. It was great trip - we've seen lot of animals like wide elephants, black bears, monkeys, alligator etc. Many pictures were taken by all participants. Here are just few of them.

On the way visited local temple...

As tradition in India - river maybe used in many ways:)

 After 2 hours we reached wild animal park:

 

Some animals haven't been seen this year

Unfortunately elephant ride was sold out

  

Local school for kids of families working in the park

 

Park itself is very large

7 of 10 our team members and professor Alagasar

 

Biggest teak around, more info on next photo

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