The following year, 1990, I travelled to India together with my boyfriend, and stayed for three months, visiting Mumbay, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. This was one of the happiest times of my life, and I loved being in India. It was like coming home. Life felt so easy and simple, and anything seemed possible, especially the spiritual life that i had been missing in Europe.

The main purpose of the trip for me, apart from visiting friends and see the country, was to study yoga and become a yoga teacher. Unfortunately the yoga teacher training was fully booked, so we visited different yoga teachers and gurus, searching for the right path and the meaning of life.

We visited Sai Baba in Puttapatti and Amma in Amritapuri amongst others. Sivananda Ashram in Neyyar Dam was a very beautiful place we stayed at, and the founder Swami Vishnu Devananda was there at the time, just on the way to leave his body. He was white haired with radiant eyes and sat in his wheelchair in his orange robes.