Author Archives: Cheta Urmila

Two Days in Bangkok

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Having the weekend off after a busy time, Graham and I were contemplating what to do. Hearing on short notice that my sister was visiting Bangkok, Graham started telling me how fascinating this city is ...

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Morning Blues

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It’s 6am and I lie awake in bed. Have been awake for some time. Thoughts are flying through my head. I feel dreadful, stressed, tired, my head is spinning, tears are stinging in my eyes. SO many things to do, to think off, to handle; there’s taxes and money issues, keep an eye ...

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I Play To Create Win-Win

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This weekend I attended Clinton Swaine’s Play to Win in Melbourne. This free seminar focuses on building confidence and certainty in developing businesses and business ideas, using experiential learning and personal development that enables financial growth and success. Very different in many ways to what I have attended so far. ...

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My Skydive (2008)

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A few days ago I was seaching my harddisk for a file, and I came across this video of  my skydive. I had just left Namale in Fiji after 2 months there as crew and logistics manager (as a volunteer) at Anthony Robbin's Life Mastery and I felt ...

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Meet Cheta Urmila, the 2010-model

2009 felt like an enormous spin. After plenty of ups and downs, going through fears and failures, smoothing out massive uncertainty regarding how to go about spreading my message with comfort eating, it ...

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The Life of an Earth Pilgrim

The splendour of the world we live in today never ceases to amaze me. Being flexible and using what is available to your advantage is key to our lifestyle. For instance take what we did Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

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Travel is NOT in my Blood

Having read Graham’s post “Travel is in my Blood” some of you might think: easy for HIM to be an Earth Pilgrim, with such a background! Do realize that Graham’s story depicts an extreme. Mine is very different.

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My Decade

On New Year’s Eve 2009 I was sitting up in Southbank, Brisbane, waiting for the fireworks at midnight. And I started reflecting on some of the magic moments of 2009. What an amazing year this has been!

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Champagne on Christmas Day 25/12/2009

See my fabulous - first ever self edited - video on how much fun we had on the beach! Glad to say that our "white christmas" referred to nothing less then the foam of the champagne!

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Migrating with the Birds

The last weeks of October, we stayed in this lovely apartment on the border of a lake in the north of the Netherlands. Overlooking the water, there were the typically heavy clouds, some showers, some sun and beautiful dramatic sunrises and sunsets. And every evening, sitting at the dining table, we would see flocks of birds gathering ...

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