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here's a photo taken just before the tour began - deva's family celebrating her very cool auntie klara's 90th birthday. deva's mom, viten, is standing center, and big sis ilonka is standing far right, being cuddled by her partner gerd.
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a rainbow show in nuremberg before we begin rehearsals
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viten, deva's mom, gave us her music room to rehearse for the tour.
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our first dates were up in scandinavia - here's sharon, our lighting director with her flags and translators.
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dancing for joy - nity is back where he belongs - on the road.
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spencer climbing slowly back in the saddle
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joby making notes
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detail of manose's station
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deva's secret song charts
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deva and our dear manager hannah preparing for the travels.
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a photo from nizhny novgorod - good to know the russian people make fun of their politicians, too!
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receiving a warm welcome from our promoters in nizhny novgorod - deepest russia, flowers, and such warm smiles!
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typical wooden-brick house in nizhny novgorod
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a chai before the concert
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we have been so lovingly welcomed by all our promoters - check out this banquet.
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and so many beautiful bouquets after the concerts
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manose and his helpers counting the donations for nepal - we have reached almost 100,000 euro since we began the tour. that green box (plus 5 others) travelled all over russia with us, courtesy of our moscow promoters, usha and veetmano.
slogan: help nepal. and so many of you did. thank you.
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joby's wife theresa joined us - here they are enjoying a backstage cuddle.
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spencer nods off while bill adds his ever-present support - backstage in berlin.
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singing karuna for the nepalese people
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backdrop detail - designed by our beautiful light fairy-director, sharon - and hand painted in usa.
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the great jocelyn b smith joined us on stage in berlin.
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whenever possible we take a walk in mother nature...here's an enchanted forest in hamburg.
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playing my friend atirup's beautiful lakewood guitar - accompanied by three kermits
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manose in full flight
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great shot of joby concentrating on his bow-ing technique during the sarveshaam mantra
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manose brings joy to us all
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namaste
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happy deva namaste
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receiving the love - how beautiful
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i can feel the wind in my wings...
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in our sangha hugging is very important
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a quiet moment in almere, holland
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grandson dylan at the london concert
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ahhhh...spring in siberia
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celebrating the beatles - they made it all the way to ekatarinburg in the heart of russia
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joby visits the steinway piano factory in hamburg
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knees up in amsterdam
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a real restaraunt in russia
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backstage at almere - just about to begin the concert - photo by rob vanhorst
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spencer in the steinway factory checking out the instruments - joby looks on in admiration
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go, joby
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i can feel the wind in my wings...! photo by rob vanhorst
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here comes your second chance!
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meeting friends after the concert in st. petersburg russia
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at the end of the evening - a wave and namaste!
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while taking in a stroll in ekatarinburg, we were suddenly approached by this young man who presented deva with a sweet bouquet of spring
flowers. "...i love your music!" he said. we had to take a photo of this sweet moment.
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arriving in cologne germany
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deva in cologne with our dear friend anama and her faithful dog, momo
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eating the ultimate in indian cuisine, created by our sweet, long time ashram friend, devapriya, in cologne.
what a feast - fit for osho himself!
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shining our light in moscow
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more hugging - sharon and nity
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making friends with the waitresses - we invited them to the concert
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joby and theresa - we love to travel by train when the chance arises...time for reflection and dreaming
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mantras in siberia!
...and such a warm welcome from our new friends at the novosibirsk airport!
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the amazing denis and nastya, who joined us on stage in st. petersburg, russia
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and finally, our great band.
(photo by rob verhorst)
namaste
thanks to you all!
meet the band and the crew: https://devapremalmiten.com/meet-dpms-tour-team/
