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The group spends three days
in Bhaktapur after back from Pokhara where they
will be meeting some extraordinary shamans: Raj Kumar Newar( Newari Ajima
Shaman) and Hari Bahadur Khadka ( Chetri Shaman) who is known as ‘an egg
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As you arrieve in
you will be accommodated in one of
hotel in Thamel area followed by a group welcome Nepali dinner. All the mornings
are devoted visiting the religious and cultural centers and power places and the
evenings are devoted to experiential workshops and learning from various master
shamans. Having spent three-four days in the Kathmandu valley, the group heads
for Pokhara, a lake city with lush green hills
and terraces. The group stay for three days in Pokhara where the participants
will have time to participate in the healing rituals and get healings from three
Tibetan shamans whom the organizers know since 1990. A short walk to
Sarangkot, White pagoda visit and boat ride in
Fewa Lake are the other highlights.
While in the valley the
participants will visit all the three durbar squares; Dakhin Kali Temple; Vajra
Jogini, Pashupati Nath temple; Boudha Nath; Budhanilakantha; the temple of Jala
Ganesha where the singles are rewarded with partners; etc. All the visits to
these sacred places are accompanied by the organizers who also facilitate in
participating in some of the temple prayers and ceremonies and sometimes some
ceremonies are sponsored for the peace and prosperity of the planet.
The final days will be spent
in Kathmandu when the master shamans give initiations in a Nepali traditional
way. In this initiation ceremony, the participants will have an opportunity to
dance and sing with the ‘invisible' which may actually bring an unexpected
results in the near future.
"He is a being who goes
into trance and at that time voices speak through his body which allow him to
diagnose illnesses and sometimes to cure them, to give advice concerning the
future and to clarify present facts in the light of the evidence which took
place in the past. He is, therefore, at the same time a privileged intermediary
between spirits (which give and cure sicknesses) and men; between the past,
present and the future; between life and death and, in another perspective,
between the individual and a certain social mythology. He can, it seems, be of
any jat (caste) and he can take as pupil, in order to trans-mit to him his
knowledge and his techniques, a person of any other jat”.
(A.W. Macdonald: Essays on
the Ethnology of Nepal and South Asia, Kathmandu,1983).
Itinerary
Please contact us for 10 days
tour.
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