"If we instinctively seek a paradisiacal and special place on earth, it is because we know in our inmost hearts that the earth was given to us in order that we might find meaning, order, truth and salvation in it."

    -- Thomas Merton

     "When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world--which is the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time they destroy each other. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world."

    -- "Shambhala: The Sacred path of the Warrior" by Chogyam Trungpa

Around the world there are places known for their inherent beauty and power. Many of these Places of Power have been honored for thousands of years. People once built pyramids, fortresses and churches in such places and would set forth on a pilgrimage to meet the Divine Power. But in the very beginning, miracles happened before there were any special signs or structures built in such places. Miracles happened in Nature, when people were able to directly connect to pure Universal elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space.

    Dr. Elena Loboda leads her students to meet Mother Nature and to reconnect with Core of existence. The spiritual pilgrimage goes from ancient structures of the Yucatan in Mexico to the pure land of Fire in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia; to the pure land of Water at Lake Baikal, Russia; to the very heart of Mother Earth in the Altai Mountains, Russia.