In 2006, I received an email by the organizers of a big spiritual festival in Sweden, the ‘No Mind Festival’ in Angsbacka. They asked whether I would be interested in giving workshops in their festival in that year, which was, if I remember correctly, the tenth anniversary of them organizing it.
The year before, a friend of mind in Denmark, had told me about it. He mentioned how great it would be if I would come along – and then had the idea that I could actually offer workshops there as well. I replied that I would consider that if they invited me. I believe he then contacted the organizers and suggested that they did exactly that. And I got their email and invitation.
After having talked about the basics – when and where it would be, that I would get accommodations and food, that they would pay my travelling fare and so on – I agreed on coming, together with my brother Yashendu, one Indian musician and one Western musician. It was for two weeks and while Yashendu had to leave after one week to give workshops in our International Yoga Teacher Training, I was going to give lectures and workshops there for the complete festival time.
That’s how I arrived in Sweden for the first time in my life. The festival took place on a very big area. The organizers had a retreat center, I believe, in which they had their offices and the workshop leaders had their private accommodations. It also had some area of land in front of the buildings and there was some extra land on which they had built huge tents for the workshops, areas for making fire, eating, cooking as well as a kind of camping place for the visitors who had come and had brought their tents.
It was really an amazing setup, there were eight hundred to thousand visitors who had all booked several days of participation, including stay and food as well as access to all workshops. As it was a spiritual festival, the public was a very colourful mix of old and young. Old hippies who had not changed their lifestyle or were reminded of the good old days, young people from all over Europe who want to live something else than the exhausting and stressful modern business life, who are interested in natural living, in living their dreams, in making small changes in their lives to make the world a better place as whole.
This was the kind of people we met there – and I can tell you that it seems to me that these people can really enjoy life! I was very busy in those two weeks, giving lectures, workshops and single sessions but whenever I was free, we were sitting around the fire, dancing to joyful live music, listening to wonderful singers or musicians or telling stories and laughing!
I thoroughly enjoyed the time there, seeing a whole lot of new things, meeting so many people and making many new friends!
Next week, I will tell you more about my time there!
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