Hey, thanks for tracking my journey here. With 36 hours before leavin' on a jet plane, I'm feeling prepared and excited. Volunteering for Mindful Medicine Worldwide requires a pre-trip "Mindfulness Retreat", which I completed yesterday. I stayed in the very hermitage at the Portiuncula Retreat Center that I retreated to six years ago after quitting the music business not knowing what was to come next. My routine involved Qi Gong, meditation, journaling, reading, mindful deep breathing walks through the woods, walking a labyrinth with a mantra, Spiritual Direction with Father Terry and kneeling to pray in a tiny 200 year-old chapel. On day two of my retreat I awoke to find that my flight to Nepal (48 hours away) had been canceled. I'm convinced that the aforementioned routine had prepared me to roll with it, not worry, and deal with it when I completed the retreat. Sure enough, I was able to rebook a flight with a shorter layover time, earlier arriva
A document of Derek Becker's time in Kathmandu, Nepal as a volunteer for Mindful Medicine Worldwide (Feb 17 - Apr 10, 2020).
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