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Slowtrotter
16th November 2010, 11:51 AM
Hello everybody,
I've made two teahouse treks lately in Annapurna region, and would like to try something slightly different, combining nice trek with some beginners level of yoga/meditation. What do you think about that - from the experience, please :). Can it be some meaningful trek - or better to make a trek and go for meditation somewhere else? And were to (e.g. Kopan is good ?)?

Thanks in advance...

Lars
22nd November 2010, 01:48 AM
Trekking is walking, often steep up and down. To me meditation is mostly done
sitting down in silence. Of course if you do some serious meditation for a while
and then go trekking you will be able to do some meditation while actually
walking.

There is a Vipassana meditation centre on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Go there
for a ten day intensive course before the trek!

Landfall38
22nd November 2010, 06:04 AM
for me, trekking is a kind of meditation

Panorama
22nd November 2010, 09:22 PM
There are Lama's you could visit and meditate with along your treks.
Like the 100RS Lama above Manang.
Just north of Rishikesh there was a sadhu in a cave that meditates,but his enlightenment comes from a chillum.
I'm sure I have met many more but that's all I can remember at the mo.

johnapril
5th December 2010, 08:15 PM
I spent time at Mahasi meditation centre in Rangoon and had a very good experience:

http://www.buddhanet.net/m_centre.htm