India is Calling - Eurythmy Therapy in Hostels and Other Projects - Liebe zur Erde... - Liebe zur Erde

And again an adventure is approaching. The interested reader can follow me on my travel blog, here is the address – I will do my best to write in both languages, German and English:
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Eurythmy therapy in India – how did it came to that?




On my long Trek 2007 (see the website at http://www.liebe-zur-erde.eu/lang1/trekking_in_ladakh.html) we had to cross about every 4 weeks the 450 km-long road from Leh to Manali and take a break from trekking to go on a shopping tour: because we ran out of food. So this was what happened after almost two months trek: quite exactly halfway between Leh and Manali, we came on the road in the middle of nowhere - there are about 200 km in both directions to the nearest settlement. Our Nomad Kunga remained for the care of our ponies, my Tibetan Ponyman Namgang set out to Leh to see the Dalai Lama and I went myself the next morning to the street to stop a vehicle. 200 km through the Himalayas, with over 5,000 m high passes - that does not sound like much, but it is almost a day's journey, no matter in which direction. There is not much traffic there - but on the other hand, not every driver will meet regularly in the nowhere at 4600 m altitude a single half wild female tourist. The first car that came was a small Indian car - with four well-fed Indians in there. The stopped immediately because they thought there might have happened an accident - and to see whether I might be a mirage. When they heard my story, they were really amazed, skidded along in the car and gave me very willingly a ride to Keylong. One of them was Dr Gaikwad, a pediatrician, with whom I am still in touch. He is an very active and committed person, who professionally helps at charities, organizes retreats and trainings. I have sent him to a seminar on Waldorf education, where he got some experience with the eurythmy. He got interested and wants me now there in Pune to see what the eurythmy therapy might be able to do. What a surprise..






There are a number of facilities in Pune. Dr. Gaikwad – or Jivak, as he is also called -  himself is working in one of the local hospitals. Additional he cares for two hostels from the Karuna Trust for very poor children (from the SC/ST groups: Scheduled Castes  and the Scheduled Tribes, more to that on Wikipedia), where the children live and can go to school. There is a Kindergarten within the slums and a project for children of sex workers.


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But everything will be in India - a country that has partially catapulted itself into the modern in incredible speed-, in the other hand, time seems still endless available,  hours have a different meaning to our standards in Germany, appointments take place at some point and everything can happen this way or that – or not at all. In this respect, this first visit will serve as an initial orientation - for me and the people there.





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21.1.2012

When I'm back home in Germany, there will be an benefiz-evening to India (German language) - who wants to participate may feel invited, please use the contact-form (http://www.liebe-zur-erde.eu/kontakt.html) or send directly an e-mail to me.
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