There's a number of Dharma
yatras each year. All the walking is done in
silence, there are daily sitting meditation
periods (some silent, some guided), meditation
instructions, a guided basic yoga practice,
meetings in small discussion groups and dharma
teachings. We usually sleep in tents, there's
cooks (but we give them a hand), and there's a
support vehicle which takes bags from one campsite
to the next, so all you have to take is a daypack.
The daily walking is usually between eight and
sixteen kilometres per day but it varies,
depending on the yatra. Also on the Dharma yatras
we generally have a day of silence where we stay
in the one place, there's a meditation retreat
schedule and people are free to participate in the
whole schedule or not, as they choose.
Here's
some photos (and poems, and a story) from past
yatras:
2006 Nightcap - Mebbin (NSW)
2007
Nightcap - Wollumbin Caldera (NSW)
2008
Nightcap Circuit (NSW)
2009 Walking Man (NSW)
2009
Larapinta (NT)
2009 Nightcap
Circuit (NSW)
2010 Walking Man
(Qld)
2010
Mimosa Rocks - Gulaga (NSW)
2010
Lamington-Springbrook (Qld)
2011 Mimosa
Rocks - Gulaga (NSW)
2011 Nightcap
Circuit (NSW)
2012
Mimosa Rocks - Gulaga (NSW)
2012
Moreton Island (Qld)
2013
Blue Tier (Tas)
2013
Nightcap Circuit (NSW)
2014
Tasman Peninsula (Tas)
2014
Lamington - Springbrook (Qld)
2015
North West Highlands (Tas)
2015
Wollumbin - Cape Byron (NSW)
Photos from more recent yatras
are on the yatra
website.
Yatras have led to various
creative endeavours. One has been a story based on
the 2010 Lamington Springbrook Yatra. That story
appears as the second half of the book Mountains Belong to the
People Who Live Them by Lesley Synge.
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