Roxanna Kopp Smith

Tag: Rishikesh

  • Join me in India

    I leave for India in less than a month.  I know how transformational India was for me the first time I went and that is what fueled my passion to bring people to this amazing and complex country.  We have 2 spots left for our trip next month to India.  We know you’re out there…

  • Intentional Travel

    It was a thrill to be interviewed on Melanie Scott’s podcast: “Intentional Conversations” about the transformational potency of traveling in India. Click HERE to hear the full conversation.   In our 48 minutes together, we share our love of India and travel as well as reminisce about our two trips to India together and some of…

  • Tuning In in India

    In India, I experience the gamut: giddy laughter, loving kindness from strangers, heart connection, unexpected friendships, communion with cows, encounters with monkeys, blaring horns, sublime sunsets. What I don’t think I have conveyed is the journey within to deep stillness – the Gift of Presence – that has been my India. Words really don’t do…

  • Find Me in India

    If I should die soon Tell my children to look for me in India. In the prayer bells Ringing out over the Ganges, In the tablas beating their rhythm over the loud speakers, As the red sun melts into purple sky. Look for me on the sand bar in Benares As the dogs creep closer…

  • Grandfather, India

    Grandfather, India I was twenty six years old when I saw the Himalayan Mountain range for the first time. I remember how abruptly it rose from the rice paddies like a row of hands signaling “STOP!” “You shall not pass here.” There is a reason the Hindus believe their gods reside in the these mountains.…

  • Find Me in India

    If I should die soon Tell my children to look for me in India. In the prayer bells Ringing out over the Ganges, In the tablas beating their rhythm over the loud speakers, As the red sun melts into purple sky. Look for me in the Varanasi sand bar As the dogs creep closer to…

  • Rishikesh – River of Love, part 2

    I wrote about bringing Lance’s ashes to Varanasi and how powerful that was for me to release them into the river. Now on to Rishikesh, a lotus of a place, nestled on the banks of the Ganges, in northern India.  The water is cool and clean, with sandy swaths of beach and many ashrams and temples…

  • Holy Water

    The rains last month were nothing short of epic. It might not have been 40 days, but 4 straight days of rain in Boulder felt biblical. I’ve never seen the ground so saturated. More than 2 weeks after the flooding happened here, there’s still standing water on my street: Although we were more fortunate than…