About the Book

About The Book

Introduction: "It is said that the teacher appears when the student is ready…" ~ Felia Salim
The best places were the intervals where we took our time; sharing moments with people we crossed paths with. Ah, at times, I felt they must have been saints or men of wisdom. Dropping little hints, showing the way and giving guidance for the journey of observation and education that we found ourselves on. Isn’t this always the case in life? It is said that the teacher appears when the student is ready…
The Book: Getting ready to go to my simple dormitory I asked her: “At what time do we wake up for meditation and what is the program of the day?” As she lifted her kind face she smiled sweetly and said: “There is no program, you do as I said and you remain inside your room all day and only go outside to your corridor when you need to walk. Don’t lift your eyes and don’t pay attention to anyone else. Keep your eyes to yourself. Just observe, no need to meditate”.
What? I thought. No meditation? No meeting all together to learn from the guru? No seeing monks around the Monastery? In any case, where was the Monastery? I wasn’t even sure that I had arrived at the right place. I had come all this way with the sole intention of furthering my meditation skills. But this was clearly something else.
Anies Baswedan: A Note from Anies Baswedan
~ Rector Paramadina University, Jakarta
Hints’ doesn’t explicitly take religion as a theme but indeed the overriding content is about the essence of religion-about Man’s spirituality.
… this book reveals to us that what needed to emerge will come to fore. It suggests spirituality is making Itself known. The emergence is timely if not predestined.
Peter Young: Foreword ~ Peter Young
~ Beshara School, Chisholme House, Scotland
It is a book about transformation. Our colours and histories can be removed. And removed they must be if we are to realise what we really are.
And so, it also becomes a book about an education towards what we already are, an education of change and transformation from one side, and the unfolding, uncovering of that essential and special beauty from the other.

About the Book

Yoga

Hints is a voice in pursuit of self-knowledge - an expression of todays yearning for spirituality. Through a unique collaboration, three individuals from different nationalities, professional backgrounds and religious faiths came together to search for union in man, nature and God.

Hints is a dialogue that is captured in personal anecdotes, poetic verses, aphorisms and photography. The beautiful photographs with Yoga poses were taken in striking natural landscapes of Indonesia. Yoga here is used as a tool to draw parallels with the journey into self-knowledge.

What started as a plan to put together a practical pictorial yoga book, took a completely different turn, metamorphosed into something else.

No longer can we claim this to be a yoga book.
This book, like yoga, is about our relationship to God, to Nature and to Ourselves.

It is also about a love that reaches into the heart of our numbness, confusion and isolation.

Inez, Desi and Felia travelled throughout parts of Indonesia for a period of three years in pursuit of self-knowledge.

The best part of it was crossing paths and sharing moments with people who offered little 'hints' showing the way and giving guidance.