Tour Day 7 “Golden Deserts, Diamond Skies”

This winter day in the Himalayas was cold and snowy. It was great for the few who ventured into the Solan Valley, the source of the Vyaas River. There they played in new-falling pure Himalayan snow, and drank tea at a rustic chai shop.

Back at the hotel, I taught private one-to-one classes all day long. It was an excellent day of connecting with each person in an intimate and real way.

We had had plans to go on a  walk or adventure around more, but in the end, the weather insisted that we lay low, take it easy, and experience what is a more authentic mountain winter day in the back regions of an ancient country.

In the evening, we gathered in the warm bar room, and were treated to a concert of north-Indian musicians. Three masters, in Tabla, in wooden flute, the Bansuri, and in Sitar, played for us two long traditional “Ragas.”It was pure, sublime magic to simply sit and open our ears to the refined, subtle and transcendental melodies and nuances of master musicians.