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The Pink City: Jaipur, India

December 10, 2024 January 20, 2025 Randi

Namaste! I’m back with another post to talk about the second-to-last destination we visited during our recent trip to India: Jaipur.

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An extended weekend in Puducherry (Pondicherry), India

December 2, 2024 January 20, 2025 Randi

When I asked Ryan if there was anywhere he wanted to check out during our India trip, he didn’t hesitate at all to request a few days in Puducherry (Pondicherry).

*A quick note: The town is now formally called Puducherry, but is still widely known as Pondicherry and is known to locals as “Pondy,” so I’ll refer to it as all three interchangeably in the following post.

After we wrapped up our time in Anjuna, Goa, Ryan and I caught a flight to Chennai, and then took a taxi ride to Pondicherry.

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The shortest and laziest two days in Anjuna (Goa, India)

November 27, 2024 January 20, 2025 Randi

So… if you haven’t been following along, I just wrapped up four incredible weeks at my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program in Rishikesh, India.

It was a wonderful experience, but it was intense! It was basically non-stop 16-hour days of learning, which my middle-aged brain hasn’t really had to do in quite some time.

Which led me to a beach. In Goa.

But only after the worst airport layover experience I have ever had in my entire life.

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RYT 500! Graduation from my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training program in Rishikesh, India

November 25, 2024 January 27, 2025 Randi

And just like that, my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program in Rishikesh, India, is over.

I’m an Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) 500 now!

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One last week at the ashram: Finishing my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training program in Rishikesh, India

November 21, 2024 January 25, 2025 Randi

The days have been long, but the month has been so, so short.

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Week 3 of my Yoga Teacher Training program in Rishikesh, India (and a day off spent in town)

November 18, 2024 January 20, 2025 Randi

Let’s address the space-time continuum* for a quick second. In the real world, I wrapped up my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program at Rishikesh Yogpeeth’s Abhayaranya ashram in the Himalayas of northern India’s Uttarakhand state on Saturday, but over here on the internet, I’m way behind on posting.

*I actually don’t really understand the space-time continuum, so please take this with a grain of salt

I originally planned on writing a post detailing my last two weeks at the ashram, but it started getting pretty lengthy and the photo uploads were taking forever, so I’m just here with a little recap of my third week at the ashram.

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It’s United States Election Day… GO VOTE!

November 5, 2024 November 5, 2024 Randi

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Happy Diwali! Celebrations at our Indian ashram

November 4, 2024 January 20, 2025 Randi

Happy (belated) Diwali from my ashram here in northern India!

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Check-in from India! Halfway through my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training program at House of Om’s Rishikesh Yogpeeth (Abhayaranya Ashram)

November 2, 2024 January 20, 2025 Randi

Time is flying!

It’s been about three weeks since I left the U.S., and a little more than two weeks since I started my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program in northern India’s Uttarakhand state.

My program is four weeks long with graduation planned for Nov. 16, which means I’m just about halfway through.

Time feels like it’s flying by — but at the same time, it feels like it was years ago that I first hiked my way up the mountain to get here and caught my first glimpse of this little paradise hidden away in the Himalayas.

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Welcome to my ashram in the Himalayas of northern India! A week into my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Rishikesh Yogpeeth’s Abhayaranya

October 22, 2024 January 20, 2025 Randi2 comments

Namaste friends!

I can’t believe it’s already been a week since I arrived at my ashram in India’s Uttarakhand state.

I’m situated up in the Himalayan foothills, just outside of Rishikesh at Rishikesh Yogpeeth’s Abhayaranya ashram.

It’s such a gorgeous and spiritual and amazing place, and I’m so lucky I get to spend the next several weeks living and studying here as I work to obtain my 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) certification.

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Randi M. Shaffer

Hi! I'm Randi. I spend my days working in forestry and wildfire, my nights instructing yoga and my weekends exploring northern Arizona (and beyond). I'm a former journalist, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and a Midwest native. Welcome!

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