New Year’s Day sunrise over Bai Tu Long Bay, Vietnam

JANUARY:

-Travel: returned from our December 2015 visit to Vietnam

-Began RYT300 (Int / Adv) yoga teacher training at Amrutha Bindu Yoga

Taken at Kesava Temple in Somanathapura with the RYT300 class

FEBRUARY:

– RYT300 course continued

Teaching yoga at Socare

Learning to cook Indian food at Manju’s Cooking School

MARCH:

-Completed the RYT300 course to obtain my RYT500 certification

The RYT300 Class at Fireflies Ashram to learn Shatkarma

APRIL:

-Traveled to Varkala and Amritsar

-Taught a two-week Kids Camp at a1000 Yoga, Kormangala

Lilla in Varkala, Kerala in early April

Lilla at the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), Amritsar

MAY: 

-Travel: Thailand, Zambia, and Dubai

-Completed the Muay Thai 2 (Int.) at The Muay Thai Institute in Rangsit, Thailand

With MTI teachers and students after a successful fight by a German student (shirtless)

Zebra at the Chaminuka Game Reserve near Lusaka

Lilla and I amid the dunes in the UAE near Dubai

JUNE:

-Between travels and trainings, a quiet month in Bangalore

Back again with the kids at Socare

JULY:

-Travel: Kolkata and into Jammu & Kashmir for our August travels

I’m afraid you can’t jam more Kolkata (Calcutta) into a photo than this

AUGUST:

-Travel: Jammu & Kashmir (Srinagar, Sonamarg, Great Lakes Trek, Leh, Nubra Valley, and Pangong Tso) and into Chennai for the beginning of my Vipassana Meditation course

Lilla (green hoodie) on our first night camp site on the Kashmiri Great Lakes trek

Lilla and Eeyore in Leh

Lilla and I at the (reputed) highest motorable pass in the world

SEPTEMBER:

-Travel: 2 trips to Chennai; the first for my 10-day Vipassana Mediation Course, and the second for a wedding

Chennai (Madras)

Lilla henna’d and bangled for the wedding

OCTOBER:

-Travel: rainy season in Goa

-Anniversary month (22 yrs.)

-Took the 5th level test at Kalari Academy but promptly threw my back out–an injury from which I’m still recovering (although it’s down to a mild leg tingle) [I wouldn’t mention it but I think I’m obligated to by the rules of year-end / Christmas letters to mention any health issues.]

Lilla in front of the Se Cathedral in Old Goa (Velha Goa)

NOVEMBER:

-Travel: Singapore

Lilla in front of the Marina Bay Sands

DECEMBER:

-Travel: We’ll be in Hungary (fingers crossed) in the latter half of the month

-Finished a draft of the novel. I don’t know what version this counts as, but it’s the only one so far even close to having an ending that I can tolerate.

-I’ll probably have read about 100 books by the end of the year.

Here’s a pic from another winter trip to Budapest:

Budapest a few years back

A more recent Budapest winter pic; this was our most recent winter visit-i.e. 2014