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Sacred Service in Nepal: Sindhupalchok

Program Dates:

October 6 - 20th, 2025

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SINDHUPALCHOK Program

Highlights:

Experience Nepal’s regal Himalayan range, home to some of the world’s tallest peaks.
Immersion in shamanic-based healing community with opportunities to learn from the local medicine keepers.
Trek through pristine rhododendron forests, dipping into waterfalls and visiting sacred mountain temples.
An opportunity to have a consultation with a Tibetan doctor and have your pulses listened to the way doctors have been doing it for thousands of years.
Visit monasteries, museums, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites including serving at a temple hospice center.
Expand your reach by contributing to life-changing global healthcare and education.
Learn about earthquakes including their environmental, political, and economic impact.
And so much more!

SINDHUPALCHOK Program

Objectives:

Create strong relationships with the Tamang and Sherpa communities to better understand their needs.
Bring vital supplies as well as herbal and allopathic medicine to dispense and/or store in Inner Ocean's clinics.
Offer integrative healthcare and education to the Indigenous Tamang and Sherpa communities.
Evacuate, refer and follow up with patients who present red flag physical or mental health concerns.
Learn about the rich ecosystems of the Himalayan range, native plant medicine and wildlife.

Immersion into village life...

*You do not need to be a healthcare practitioner to join our service immersion programs. We welcome non-healthcare volunteers to join us during each program with an approximate 1-4 ratio.

Your Guides

Mindi K. Counts, MA, LAc. (she/her)

Lead Guide and founder of the Inner Ocean Empowerment Project, Mindi has been leading trips to Nepal since 2014.

She will be guiding you on your journey of both inner and outer transformation as you step into the vast and deep territory of world service & wisdom exchange.

As the founder of Inner Ocean Empowerment Project, she has been engaged in life-changing world service in Nepal, India, Thailand/Burma, and in disaster areas in the US since 2012.

Being of true and genuine service is her life’s passion and she is more than delighted to share this experience with a community of incredible healers, practitioners, and heart-full service workers.

Mindi is a graduate of Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychology program and holds a Masters degree in Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. She is a Wilderness First Responder and she lives with her family and rescued pit bulls in the foothills of Colorado.

Beebal Singh Limbu (he/him)

Founder of Into The Wild guiding company, Beebal is a true adventurer. His love for Mother Nature and the outdoors has led him into guiding people from all walks of life through the vast Himalayas for over a decade.

As a humanitarian, he has been providing direct aid and support to the victims of the devastating earthquake of 2015. Beebal has been supervising medical clinics and leading sponsored charity treks in the Sindhupalchok district, one amongst the most affected regions in the country.

Beebal has been co-leading trips with the Inner Ocean Empowerment Project since 2015. He continues to bring supplies into IOEP’s eight Himalayan medical clinics and conduct trainings for the Mothers in Wilderness First Aid and CPR.

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