Ananta, Padma and Kumar, Su Gandha, Anadi and Pari, Indradhanu
Ananta also paid a visit to Corfu. By chance we met her in my favourite café on the cliff while sipping a freshly pressed orange juice in the company of Vasanti. I had not seen her since 2002 when we were neighbours in Tilopa, the pyramid with the little Zen bridge in the courtyard. She has been going back to Pune regularly in winter, participating in the programs of the Multiversity. She knows Corfu from 20 years ago, when many of the houses in Arillas were not yet built, and San Stefanos was just a beach with a hotel or two. Ananta is just back from the Far East where she gave a series of workshops about the chakras, a process the Mystery School used to call the ‘stream’. For five extended weekends the participants explored each chakra at a time then, back at daily life, they could integrate what they had experienced. Next she is off to Athens where she is going to meet some sannyasins and intends to tell them all about Corfu and its potential. Then on to Sedona, Arizona, where she wants to visit Kavisha’s ‘ ‘Temple of Love’ and meet old friends. www.jivanananta.com
October has seen the taillights of a Swiss car from Zurich. Passengers were Padma and Kumar who spent over two months in Arillas. They used to live most months in India and then come over to Europe to visit family and friends in summer. With the new Indian visa regulation, permitting only a maximum stay of 90 days, their lifestyle needs to change. They are now looking for a place which will suit both of them. Kumar likes a tight commune life with much work and interaction, while Padma prefers more freedom, although within a Buddhafield. They came to check out Corfu which would suit them energetically, but Kumar would need a money making job, which did not materialise here. We all wish them good luck on their search! The car is heading towards Italy, Switzerland and England for family visits and then they fly off to India for part of the winter.
Su Gandha, originally from the French part of Switzerland, is one of the regulars here and has been living in Corfu for the last 15 years. She gives individual sessions in Osteo & Thai massage, and classes and workshops in Yoga Touch (a combination of yoga and massage, partner yoga and deep relaxing touch). She is now headed towards the mainland: Gstaad in Switzerland and Vienna in Austria – to visit friends over the winter. One or two of them might even benefit from one of her sessions! (In the past she would go as far as Byron Bay and New Zealand to avoid the rainy winters of this island.) www.thai-yoga-massage.info
At the beginning of the month I finally met Anadi and Pari from the Alexis Zorbas, the renowned holiday and workshop centre here in Corfu. I was lucky to share some of their time just a week before they left for Germany for the winter. The season was good, despite the economic downturn. “People are not going to save on their physical and spiritual wellbeing!” they said. See you next year! www.alexiszorbas.com
And just before everyone left for the cold winters in the north (leaving behind some of us in the mild but stormy weather of the island), Indradhanu inaugurated her house with a celebration where it was named ‘Shambala’. After some nerve-wrecking months to get everything perfectly right she can now relax and call Corfu even more one of her homes – as she has done so for the past ten years. A hurray to building master Loki and ‘assistant’ Vimal. craniosacral-resonanz.de
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