PANAJI: For a decade or two, the dense, soothing shade of a 90-year-old banyan tree in Girkavaddo, Arambol, had been where several foreign visitors, most of them unknown to each other, had built a community. Lovingly called ‘The Source’, visitors connected at this quiet spot over informal sessions of yoga, meditation and dance, be it day or night. 

Being located only around 500m from the beach, the sound of the lapping waves made the space under this banyan tree perfect to find solace

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