Spiritual Exploration of South India with Chandni

Spiritual Explorations of South India

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Mission Statement

To create extraordinary, experiential journeys that engage all the senses in a deep and spiritual manner.

To offer an elegant and

refined cultural immersion with elements of spirituality, wellness, adventure and sensuality, all combined in a luxury trip of high value.

To craft a transformative and enlightening experience. To ignite the inner seeker and adventurer within each guest.

Chandni is the friend who is also the guide to her homeland, the messenger who is present to overcome cultural and language

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barriers so that space is created for a deeper and richer understanding of India.

When I moved to the West fifteen years ago, I spoke endlessly about my beautiful homeland to my new friends and realized how much I missed it. My friends responded with great interest and a deep desire to experience India at a personal level. This grew in me a desire to be the one to share the beauty and magnificence of India with them. “ACARA Awakening� was born.

This is India, my homeland.

I won’t take you on a tour of superficiality I won’t take you on a trip you’ll someday forget

This journey is for those who want to resound with India, to tap into her deep springs of knowledge

Enlightenment and truth

To bathe in her beauty and emerge anew Taking a sliver of her and holding it in your hand.

Each place you go you’ll take India with you.

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In a country that has 1.2 billion people and as many Gods and Gurus, spirituality is omnipresent and infused in the culture and the hearts of the people. You can feel this deeply spiritual nature of India as you walk down the bustling streets, as you mingle with people in their homes, as you stand in front of the sunset at the beaches, and as you watch temple elephants swing along the crowded temple streets.

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Day 1-2-3

Rest & explore • • • • • •

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Beach Resort Yoga Massage Shore Temple Artist Village Cultural Show

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iscover Ancient India

Shore Temple

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Enjoy the Cuisine

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Experience

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hopping & Touring

• Shopping • City Tour of Chennai

Rich in texture

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ondicherry

The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity – in diversity. Today Auroville is recognized as the first and only internationally endorsed ongoing experiment in human unity and transformation of consciousness, and is also concerned with sustainable living and the future cultural, environmental social and spiritual needs of mankind.

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Matri Mandir Workshop Cultural Show Shopping Explore French Colonial City

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he Dream The Dream

There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of goodwill, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme Truth; a place of peace, concord, harmony, where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his suffering and misery, to surmount his weakness and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the care for progress would get precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the seeking for pleasures and material enjoyments.

In this place, children would be able to grow and develop integrally without losing contact with their soul. Education would be given, not with a view to passing examinations and getting certificates and posts, but for enriching the existing faculties and bringing forth new ones. In this place titles and positions would be supplanted by opportunities to serve and organize. The needs of the body will be provided for equally in the case of each and everyone. In the general organisation intellectual, moral and spiritual superiority will find expression not in the enhancement of the pleasures and powers of life but in the increase of duties and responsibilities.

Artistic beauty in all forms, painting, sculpture, music, literature, will be available equally to all, the opportunity to share in the joys they bring being limited solely by each one's capacities and not by social or financial position.

For in this ideal place money would be no more the sovereign lord. Individual merit will have a greater importance than the value due to material wealth and social position. Work would not be there as the means of gaining one's livelihood, it would be the means whereby to express oneself, develop one's capacities and possibilities, while doing at the same time service to the whole group, which on its side would provide for each one's subsistence and for the field of his work.

In brief, it would be a place where the relations among human beings, usually based almost exclusively upon competition and strife, would be replaced by relations of emulation for doing better, for collaboration, relations of real brotherhood. - by The Mother Chandana12/CC 3.0

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Isha Yoga 4 days Link

Inner Engineering

Inner Engineering course has empowered millions of people to live their lives beyond boundaries, making the world a more beautiful and peaceful place to live.

Day 6-7-8-9 • Inner Engineering Course

Empower

Virtual Tour Isha Yoga Center

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editation, Breathwork & Contemplation

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ouse Boating on Lake Vembanad Day 10-11

Houseboats called 'Kettuvallams' are a must have experience for every traveler to Kerala.

Kettuvallam literally means "bundle" or "package" boat (Kettu means tied with ropes, and vallam means boat. A house boat is about 60 to 70 feet in length and has a width of around 15 feet in the middle. The boat is made of wooden planks joined together using coconut fiber ropes. The roof covering is made of bamboo poles and palm leaves. The outside of the boat is coated with cashew nut oil, which acts as a protective coating. During the time when road and rail transportation was expensive or unavailable, traders used Kettuvallams as a form of transportation in the inland waterways. These boatmen were also famous for the folk songs they sang while rowing the boat and for their style of cooking which they developed for the conditions inside the boat.

The new generation houseboats are renovated versions of the original Kettuvallams. These house boat have all the comforts of a hotel with well-furnished bedrooms, modern hygienic toilets, cosy living rooms, dining areas, beautiful kitchen and in some cases even a balcony for angling.

Kumarakom is an unbelievably beautiful paradise of mangrove forests, emerald green paddy fields and coconut grooves interspersed with enchanting waterways & canals adorned with white lilies.

Bird Sanctuary

Beach Resort

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Yoga Ayurvedic Massage Elephant Ride Fine Dining

Day 12

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Elephant Ride Ayurvedic Message

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Kumarakom oconut Lagoon • Beach Resort • Relax • Fine Dining

Day 13

The resort is a reconstruction of a nearly 200 year old traditional ‘Illom’ house, and follows the ‘Nalukettu’ design – featuring an open roof courtyard within the basic structure.

Heavily influenced by 'Thachu Shastra', a traditional principle of architecture, the resort is an exotic concoction of ethnic design and modern day comforts.

The accommodation at Coconut Lagoon consists of individual cottages called tharavads, the traditional wooden houses of Kerala....where life goes by at a leisurely pace.

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• “Art of Living” Course

Day 14-15-16 7:30-9:30 -Early Morning • Rudra Puja

The Art of Living Course at the Ashram

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• Depart India

Trip Includes Guaranteed departure - Tours, Transfers, Flights, Meals, Fees where indicated as per the itinerary - Local and international traveler assistance during your tour - Specialised and personalised services Trip Excludes Tips - Laundry beverages unless noted - Optional extras - Visas insurance

alcoholic explicitly activities/ Vacation

Price $4999. Individual $9499. Couple

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Trip Terms, Conditions & Payments •

Your deposit is due immediately on booking (30% of program price). The balance is due 30 days prior to departure. We accept payment certified check, cash or money order.

• Tour quotes do not include international air fare to/from the trip start point unless noted on the itinerary • Cost increases in currency exchange, government fees, taxes, surcharges or hotel/lodge tariff increases between quote date and start date are payable by the client.

• We will exercise best efforts to book hotels per the itinerary, however, in busy seasons and with client bookings made within 90 days of tour date we may be forced to offer substitutes.

• Cancellations of confirmed bookings 90 days or more prior to departure will receive full refund minus a $350 (per person) administrative fee and any non-refundable paid fees (e.g. non-refundable airfare, cruise or hotel deposits). 29 days or less will be subject to 100% of program price.

• Payment of the program price constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions set out at www.acaraawakening.com • Living Standards and practices at destination may differ from those in North America with respect to provisions of utilities, services and accommodation. * CAD per person based on double occupancy. Custom designed personal tour. Prices subject to change.