An expert trainer and teacher of Adobe Creative Suite applications, Sandee Cohen, meets with Bodhinatha after having given a group of monks 3 hours of training each morning for two days.

Sandee was teaching in Honolulu, and she generously accepted an invitation to come teach for just the cost of a plane ticket and lodging on Kauai.

To find out more check out her resume on the web.

Everyone is gathered to hear revelations about key workflows and magical tips in InDesign, which is the program we use to do the page layout of our many publications.

Sandee is also experienced in building interactive PDFs, and she gave us a lot of pointers on additions we can make to the Hinduism Today Digital Edition.

A mid-morning break… and trip to see San Marga sites.

Sandee is a bright, energetic, outspoken, gentle-hearted and most importantly, a super effective teacher. She solved a number of knotty problems and offered new solutions for our work in publications that only a good teacher can do.

Even the most obscure work flows suddenly become clear and memorable after Sandee shows you how to tackle them.

She is of course a Macintosh wizard as well.

Paramacharya Palaniswami gives her some gifts and honors her with a shawl at the end of today’s session before she left for New York.

Thank you, Sandee! You are truly a marvelous teacher!

A beautiful statue of Lord Ganesha that greets visitors at the Banyan Mandapam…

The April 1st Ganesha Homa at our center in Mauritius was largely attended by devotees who came early to have not only a place close to the deity but also to find a good parking. With the large number of vehicles coming at the Park, it is not easy to find parking space on both sides of the road.

Devotees, mostly ladies sit inside…

In the mean time time other devotees are coming with offerings to be offered to Lord Ganapati!

Our professional guest singer from Plaines Wilhems is more than happy to entertain us on these occasions with uplifting Ganesha songs.

Meanwhile devotees outside enjoy the songs being aired on loudspeakers…

All shady spots are occupied…

A large group of devotees are worshipping at the small Ganesha shrine where the coconuts are broken.

Members and students are there to give a helping hand, taking the trays from devotees and placing the offerings at the Feet of Lord Ganapati.

A view of the amount of devotees at this small shine ….

The Ganesha Mandapam …….

On the left side of the Mandapam….

The Homa is going on and as usual hundreds of prayers are being burnt.

This gentleman has composed a poem on Lord Ganapati which he is sharing with everyone present.

Kulapati Manon Mardemootoo giving a talk from an insight page of Hinduism Today.

Everyone listens in silence.

Devotees stand up for the final arati.

One of our membership youth offering the sacred flame to devotees.

The ceremony is over. Kumaren is taking care of the PA system equipment.

How do we count the crowd? Easy: 2,000 plates of prashadam were served.