A Global Odyssey
Barcelona is another home from home for me and it is always a pleasure to be in the company of Pau Gimeno, a genuinely beautiful soul and community builder extraordinaire. I arrived around lunchtime on the Thursday and Pau was still at work so I headed to The Parque de la Ciutadella for some chill... Continue Reading →
My last morning in LA was at the Expressive Therapies Summit along with Christine. We spent time in the evening prior mind-mapping Music Medicine protocols and tools to enhance the participant's manual. Watch this space. The conference presentation by Christine was on the four elements of Music Medicine and I got to be in the... Continue Reading →
7 hours after departure from Bogota I landed at LAX for the second time on my journey. This time I was going to stick around for a couple of weeks. My pal John Fitzgerald was there to greet me at the airport and shuttle me back to his place where I got to reconnect with... Continue Reading →
Bogotá is the capital and largest city in Colombia. A melting pot of people from around the country, it is diverse and multicultural, with a blend of modern and colonial architecture. The predominant colors in Bogotá are the green of the city’s many parks and the eastern mountains overlooking the sanctuaries of Monserrate and Guadalupe, and... Continue Reading →
The journey from Perth was epic in many different ways. The time spent in transit was close to 45 hours and I experienced jet lag, within my already jet lagged frame, at a whole other level. A long stop over in LA gave me a chance to book a bed in a local Travelodge and... Continue Reading →
India was now almost behind me as I left Bengaluru Airport en route to Singapore for a short stop and then a hop to Perth. All in all about 10 hours of travel. I landed at midnight but the immigration desk was poorly staffed and a good 90 minutes was spent queuing to get through.... Continue Reading →
After the epic road trip we landed in Bangalore early evening, ate, slept and jumped on a short flight to Pune and then a 2 hour drive to the Atmantan Wellness Resort where we would run a Music Medicne session and a Drum Jam circle for an organisation called RoundGlass. We had some interesting road... Continue Reading →
After the hugely successful Playshop and Community Drum Circle we headed out for food and then back to our Bangalore base for a nights rest before we hit the road into the West. We were heading for a quiet beach house location near Kundapura, where Roberto and Vasundhara had married a few years back. Whilst... Continue Reading →
After my day of exploring Bangalore's flower markets and the 8th cross district, we began our preparations for the India VMC Playshop. Rob and Vas had collected the fourth member of the VMC Global team for this training, our dear friend from Korea, Myoung-hun Song, at the airport the previous night after a wee problem with... Continue Reading →
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