Hello all,

My name is Edith Haenel. I too am in private practice as a clinical social worker, seeing children and adults. I have also traveled a good bit but never to India. I arrive at 11:30 pm on Jan. 31 in Delhi, flying out of NYC to Amsterdam to Delhi. (Helen, we are close together in arrival. Only two hours apart. I could certainly wait, esp. if it meant having a buddy to venture into Delhi with instead of going it alone!).

I have studied at BCBS for 15 years, I have been meditating about that same length of time. I am very excited about this trip. Also nervous! After India I head to visit family in Uzbekistan so I am excited/nervous about that as well.

My other big Buddhist excitement for the year was hosting Andy Olendzki for a five day class in Iowa in July on The Psychology of Experience: Buddhist Maps of the Mind. In the middle of rural Iowa we were completely full with 35 students. It was an excellent class. We are repeating it this year in July in Iowa with Andy teaching a class roughly (still to be finalized) on Buddhist Ethics and the Path of Transformation. I will send you all a flyer!

I look forward to 'meeting' each of you on this blog and also in person!

Edith