Eco Health and Wellbeing: Tours, Events, Workshops.
The value of connecting with other cultures is that it gives us the opportunity to, by comparison, examine our life and the assumptions we make about it from another viewpoint. It is as if, by encountering another way of being, we have the chance to stand outside our customary life and view it from a fresh perspective. This gives us expanded self-knowledge that we could not gain in any other way.
Connecting Cultures does this in many ways. We offer tours and workshops that bring us directly into contact with the very essence of other cultures, traditions, and ways of life.
Our tours are lead by people who are intimately familiar with the region, its history, and its physical, social and cultural environment. This ensures that you will not only see the things that make the locale unique, you will have explained to you the significance of what you’ve seen. By the time you leave that region you will know how it is, and you’ll understand how it came to be that way.
Your tour leaders are there to ensure that you travel in comfort and safety while not missing an opportunity to engage with the local lifestyle. Our aim is to have you return from your tour rested, refreshed, re-invigorated and knowing much more about yourself and the region you’ve just visited.
Our workshops are similarly designed to enhance your personal ‘Journey of Discovery’. Whether it’s another culture, another belief system, or simply glimpses at another way of being who you are in the life you already lead, our presenters are the people to assist you as you travel along your path. They are experienced in the subjects on which they present so you can be assured you are not encountering some empty theoretical concept, but rather an experience that has been lived, understood and assimilated.
For instance we bring you Tibetan Healing Australia on a Tour of Victoria with International Healer Thinley Tsering who for over 22 years was a monk in Tibet and learnt the art of meditation and healing through high lamas. Along with wife his wife & NLP Therapist Doria, Thinley brings much wisdom and authentic teachings that come from ancient healing traditions to guide you on how to be more at peace, healthier and reduce the stress of modern life.
In India and Bali we work with Tour & holiday operators that have authentic experiences that take you to places that are not on the normal tourist route. Our partners have a sense of community and responsibility back to people in communities where you get to travel to.
For instance our South India Eco Tours partners Holistic Journeys is a company co founded by Pratheesh Martin Jacob, who's native village is in the beautiful green state of Kerela in the South of India where an orphanage is located. Through Holsitic Journeys we contribute funds to the orphanage that house and educate children that for one reason or another have had an unfortunate early life and ended up separated from their families. Pratheesh has over a decade been heading a team of dedicated tour guides to really look after their guests in a way that you dont get with other tours companies.
On our tours in both Bali & India we choose quality authentic accommodation that is set in as natural & peaceful surroundings as we can find. Acommodation can be in a homestay, a small or larger health resort, eco retreat or even a houseboat that is fully decked out like a home away from home! We ami to serve locally sourced food and where ever possible its organic in nature.
Our resorts and accommodation places care about how they and their visitors have an impact on the local environment and local people and aim to have business practices that are gentle on earth and locals. For instance acommodation that has used local materials in the building that have minimal impact on nature (in Kerela South India the Houseboats are built using local coconut fibre in the framework ropes and local wood that has been passed as low impact materials. In Victoria, Australia we have mud brick solar powered luxury quality homesteads and cottages that also have water saving principles in place.
There is no compromise to your comfort, in fact we go out of our way to ensure that you have a wonderful experience, one that you will remember and cherish for a long time and tell all your friends about in the process!
EXPERIENCE OUR TOURS, HOLIDAYS, WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
YOUR HEART WILL SING AND YOUR SOUL WITH SOAR!
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