Are you ready for a spiritual adventure in the Himalayas?
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For two decades Yana Castle, PhD has been offering private individual and group pilgrimages to Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. In 2017, Yana will be leading three exciting tours. Hope you will join us!
Yana Castle's tours are suited to
those who prefer a private pilgrimage for themselves or to travel on a guided pilgrimage with their family, friends or with a small like-minded group. 
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Upcoming tours for 2017
Healing Wisdom Tour, Nepal Mandala Tour and Skydancer Pilgrimage Dates Tours are offered annually — August through December.
Healing Wisdom Tour: August 20th — 29th, 2017 Nepal Mandala Tour: September 14th — 23rd, 2017 Skydancer Pilgrimage: October 1st — 10th, 2017 Cost $2950, $500 deposit holds your space. Space is limited to six individuals minimum. Please contact Yana if you are interested in a private tour for yourself. Call 510 990-1711 for more information or feel free to use the contact form. Activities Please see individual tour descriptions. 
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What is a pilgrimage?
A pilgrimage is a heart opening sacred journey. Its purpose is to broaden our perspectives and to invite transformational experiences that often lead to cathartic shifts in consciousness, healing and deeper understandings of ourselves and our interconnection with others and the environment. Upon return from a pilgrimage, life is seen through different eyes. A sense of renewal and the wisdom gained from a pilgrimage experience enhances our lives greatly.
Healing Wisdom Tour
This highly specialized pilgrimage tour concentrates on your healing with instruction and practice in:
• Alternative Eastern healing methods (Ayurvedic, Tibetan and shamanic) • Evaluations and optional treatments • Indigenous methods (meet with folk healers, shamans, kumaris (living goddesses) • A master class in sound healing • A Vedic medical astrology chart and reading • Yoga instruction • A two day meditation retreat in a spectacular mountainous setting • A class on holistic nutrition • Guided tours to sites with a focus on healing throughout Kathmandu Valley For more details, see individual tour page This tour is recommended for medical professionals, alternative health practitioners and those with a serious interest in Eastern healing methods. Some participants choose this tour in search of alternatives to conventional Western healing modalities to facilitate their own personal healing. Thank you for this tour, Yana. The trip was quite the adventure and it definitely gave me what I was looking for in many aspects so I thank you again for setting this all up for me! It was worth every cent! |
Nepal Mandala Tour
This pilgrimage tour is a general overview of Himalayan arts, spiritual traditions and culture in the Kathmandu Valley. We will:
• Visit shrines and temples to gods and goddesses of the Buddhist, Hindu and indigenous Newari traditions throughout Kathmandu Valley • Experience a sacred Charya dance lesson (once considered a highly secretive prayer) • Visit with shamanic healers • Learn about the iconography and architecture, rituals and other practices of the peoples of this Himalayan region Artists, historians, students, retirees, those with a deep curiosity of the East and the Himalayan culture are encouraged to join this tour. My time in Nepal with Yana was mind-expanding and magical. Nepal’s soulful, ancient culture taught me a lot about myself. It enriched me. As a result, I left Kathmandu feeling empowered and renewed. Thank you so very much for trusting your calling, your intuition bringing us all here on this very important journey that will no doubt change all of our lives. |
Skydancer Pilgrimage
This tour focuses on Tibetan Buddhist temple and shrine iconography and ritualistic practices of the dakinis (skydancers) and female deities of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition (Tara, Vajrayogini, Vajravarahi, Kurukulla, Simhamukha (lion-headed dakini) and Yeshe Tsogyal (Queen of the dakinis),
You will receive: • Meditation instruction and dharma practices in a mountainous retreat setting is included in this tour • Dream yoga and Tsa Lung instruction (yoga of the ancient Bon tradition) • Private audiences with yoginis and female spiritual practitioners • A lecture on the peaceful and wrathful dakinis in a beautiful setting in Boudhanath • Guided tours to sacred sites throughout the Kathmandu Valley on the sacred feminine Recommended for beginning and advanced practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, healers and those interested in the divine feminine and Eastern spirituality. My first visit to Nepal, guided by Yana Castle, was a journey of both heart and soul. Yana's knowledge of Kathmandu and the Sacred Feminine provided a special foundation for exploration and inquiry of Nepal, as well as for my own spiritual unfolding. I greatly appreciated Yana's contagious passion for this magical land and her people. |
