New Year’s Celebration- Shambhala- Zipolite, Oaxaca Mexico

I have been.
I've been blessed.
That is how I felt after attending this truly beautiful ceremony. It touched my heart, my soul. I was so blessed my child and I could attend together. Even more blessed to know Gloria and Shambhala.

I am missing it tonight. I makes me sad. I know the momentous task that they all take on every year preparing the flowers, crowns, the decorations, food and just everything that goes into preparing this and on very little funds. I seriously do not know how Gloria makes it happen every year. She is AMAZING! 

It's magic. Miracles make it happen or maybe we should say it's a MIRACLE! After you have been, that's what it feels like...like you have been blessed with miracles.

Every year I plan to get back but it isn't happening tonight...
As I write this from Kitsilano, Vancouver Canada,  the snow is really coming down.

So I send you love and light and pray that next year I will join you and that 2017 is a beautiful year, with love and many victories for peace and the environment. 

And for you, I ask that you take a moment and send back the love they are generating tonight and let's heal this cRaZy mixed up world...for our children, and our children's children. 

Happy New Year!!
Sending out love, light and peace!
Thank you Gloria!! Thank you!!


Shambhala New Years Ceremony from Thinking Eye on Vimeo.
Text from video:
shambhalavision.org
http://shambhalavision.blogspot.com

New Year’s Celebration

Our celebration consists of a ceremony to CLEAN OUR SPIRITS. Our true being is a pure spirit and this night we will try to give total expression to our humanity, united in LOVE AND PEACE. This is an offering to God: The Divine Intelligence.

We have chosen the essence of each philosophy and religion of the world. Because each of them has his own truth we respect.

The symbol of our soul is the flower, and we bring it to the fire with all the negativity that we have inside us in the form of a tree of life that we will construct during celebration.

Celebración de Año Nuevo

Nuestra celebración es una hermosa ceremonia de limpia espiritual.



Nuestro verdadero ser es un espíritu puro y en esta noche tratamos de dar su expresión total en una hermandad, unidos en amor y paz.

Esta es una ofrenda a DIOS: La Inteligencia Divina.

Hemos elegido la esencia de cada filosofía y religión del mundo, pues cada una de ellas tiene su verdad la cual respetamos.

El símbolo de nuestra alma es una flor y la entregamos al fuego con todo lo negativo que llevamos dentro en forma de árbol de la vida que construiremos en la celebración.

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Photos by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2009

Valley of Flowers

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Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011

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Oh my gosh this looks like a great book, I'm going to have to check it out. I have always wanted to go to Tibet & India and the Himalayas, that whole area. I want to take Angel there, I know we would grow so much. There's so much I want to go and discover there.

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Chris Collins

@CollChris Thailand

Itinerant traveler (Asia), author of the Indian Himalayan novel: Valley of Flowers

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Valley of Flowers- A Himalayan Story of Discovery

Valley of Flowers-Chris Collins

Here’s a short video of the Valley of Flowers, in Uttarakhand, India. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

From Wikipedia:
Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park, Nestled high in West Himalaya, is renowned for its meadows of endemic alpine flowers and outstanding natural beauty.


‘It is located in Uttarakhand state. This richly diverse area is also home to rare and endangered animals, including the Asiatic black bear, snow leopard, brown bear and blue sheep. ’

The gentle landscape of the Valley of Flowers National Park complements the rugged mountain wilderness of Nanda Devi National Park. Together they encompass a unique transition zone between the mountain ranges of the Zanskar and Great Himalaya. The park stretches over an expanse of 87.50 km².

The Valley of Flowers is an outstandingly beautiful high-altitude Himalayan valley that has been acknowledged as such by renowned mountaineers and botanists in literature for over a century and in Hindu mythology for much longer. Its ‘gentle’ landscape, breathtakingly beautiful meadows of alpine flowers and ease of access complement the rugged, mountain wilderness for which the inner basin of Nanda Devi National Park is renowned.

Valley of Flowers is splashed with colour as it bloomed with hundreds different beautiful flowers, taking on various shades of colours as time progressed. Valley was declared a national park in 1982, and now it is a World Heritage Site. The locals, of course, always knew of the existence of the valley, and believed that it was inhabited by fairies.

The place had disappeared from the tourist map due to its inaccessible approach but in 1931 when Frank S. Smythe a British mountaineer lost his way while returning from a successful expedition to Mt.Kamet and he reached this valley which was full of flowers.

He was so attracted towards the beauty of the place he named it as “Valley of Flowers”.He authored a book called “The Valley of Flowers” which unveiled the beauty and floral splendours of the valley and thus threw open the doors of this verdant jewel to nature-enthusiasts all over the world.

Read More Here!! http://nicolaskumar.com/2011/01/a-short-video-of-the-area/ 

Check this out, you can read it for free here. I might do that, but I prefer to read books.
http://www.freado.com/read/8977/valley-of-flowers

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