Welcome to Enthusiastically Spiritual. I'm your host Theresa Shants. I am an enthusiastic soul passionate about the spiritual part of life.

Spirituality today is like an indulgent dessert buffet filled to the brim with unique offerings

and services from amazing souls around the world.

Join me and chowing down on some mini morsel bites to satisfy your spiritual sweet tooth, starting now. As souls there are times in our lives in our life where things within us stirs to explore life deeper.

Have you ever felt that inner stirring? How about

they yearn to travel to a foreign land? Perhaps many others who are living a life that

may seem primitive, yet exotic and unique. My guest today had this

inner yearning set off on a journey and she is here to share with us her explorations through

her adventure in Zanskar. In 1983, 21-year-old Amy Edelstein set out on a 500

kilometer journey in Zanskar, India, the highest valley in the world.

She walked alone by foot, crossing passes above 16,000 feet,

sleeping in caves, meeting high lamas, and exploring a culture that had remained virtually the same for thousands of years,

a culture that was out to change irrevocably.

Drawn by the Secret Crest for Wisdom, what Amy found shaped her life.

Amy is the author of six books including the award winning The Conscious Classroom,

founder of the nonprofit inner strength education and a recipient of a Philadelphia

Social Innovators Award, Amy's work has empowered 15,000 teens in under-resourced

schools with mindful and systems thinking.

Welcome, Amy.

Thanks so much.

It's a pleasure to be here.

I'm looking forward to our dialogue today.

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