That moment- I’m not back home yet

Plane lands touch down, I’m not in India anymore, but I’m also not back home. I walk down the terminal and the sign reads “Welcome To Narita.” I finally made it to my next detestation Japan! After spending 10 hours at the New Delhi airport after my flight had been delayed, I left a country that I had called home for the past month. However, yoga has taught me that life is a journey, and this journey around Asia was not over yet!

I spent time around Japan with my travel partner and lovely girlfriend, visiting sights in Tokyo, Kamakura, Kyoto and Hakone. I appreciated the beautiful shrines Japan had to offer, especially the ones in Kyoto that were all over. Japan is an absolutely beautiful country that has a culture that is incredibly fascinating. I continued the quest by visiting “The Great Buddha of Karmakura” outside of Tokyo. A fantastic huge bronze statue of the Buddha sitting in his meditation pose with his mudra is one of Japan’s most famous icons.

Before I know it my time to leave Asia is here, but I take with me my experience from this journey and my new skills and knowledge as a yoga teacher back to the States. If there is anything I’ve learned from traveling for long periods of time where I find myself at different train/bus stations, coffee shops and bars, couches at friends homes or hiking is that “every few hundred feet the world changes.”