A complete slow-travel method and toolkit from Bodhih Training: choose by intention, budget in any currency, book in the right order, travel light and safe, and actually be there when you arrive.
The Mindful Traveller · Bodhih Pro Kits · 64 by Bodhih Training, trainers to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
Decide what the trip is for, stay at least three nights in each base, plan no more than two things a day, budget in one home currency with a cushion, and book only what is scarce. The Mindful Traveller kit from Bodhih Training gives you the method plus a multi-currency planner, journal, safety plan and countdown calendar.
Want the full free guide first? Read How to Plan a Slow Travel Trip: A Mindful Step-by-Step Guide.
Five cities in eleven days sounds generous until you count the moves. Each one eats most of a day in packing, queues and transfers. You see a lot and remember little.
Then four people eat three times a day in a currency you cannot do sums in. Most planners assume one currency, usually dollars. Real trips have three.
A passport that expires too soon, a visa that takes three weeks, a deadline for free cancellation that passed on Tuesday. None of it is hard. All of it is easy to miss without a tracker.
You cross an ocean and watch the sunset through a screen, with one eye on work email. Presence is a skill, and nobody packs for it.
Imagine the evening you open the Trip Planner for the first time. You type your home currency into the Settings sheet, add the rates for the places you are going, and watch every cost you enter turn into a number you understand. Within twenty minutes the Dashboard is showing something you have never had before a trip: a daily number you can simply carry in your head.
Picture the week before you leave. Because you followed the countdown in your calendar, the passports are checked, the first night is booked, the emergency card is printed and your sister has the itinerary sheet. You do a trial pack, the workbook says 6.4 kilograms, and you notice that you feel calm. That is what happens when you let the tools do the remembering.
Now picture day four. Nothing is booked, on purpose. You draw a prompt card at breakfast: 'Sit for ten minutes where local people sit.' You do, and an hour later you are being shown how a fishing boat is stitched together by a man whose name you will write in your journal that night. As you fill in three lines before sleep, you realise this is the day you will talk about for years.
And when you come home, you will not just say 'great, thanks'. You will have ten journal pages, real numbers for next time, and one small habit you decided to keep. Whether you start with the worksheet tonight or the workbook at the weekend, the trip gets better from the moment you begin.
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Thirteen linked sheets: multi-currency settings, destination scorecard, itinerary, budget, bookings, documents, packing weights, cost splitter and a live dashboard with your daily number.
Three fillable pages: decide what the trip is for, compare everyone's pace, and test your plan against the Three-Two-One rule before you book.
Ten fillable day pages, each with a different thread to follow: best ten minutes, senses, a sketch box, a new word and one line to remember.
Two fillable pages to print and carry: who to call, medical essentials, insurer and embassy details, and what to do first if something goes wrong.
A two-page fillable plan for solo travellers: arrival plan, check-in rhythm, code phrase, escalation steps for your contact and a daily check-in log.
Two fillable pages for the week you return: what you noticed, what you learned about how you like to live, the one thing you will keep, and notes for next time.
An editable Word template to send to someone at home: where you sleep each night, flights, contacts, check-in plan and what to do if they cannot reach you.
Fourteen short, polite emails to copy and adapt: guesthouses, drivers, guides, accessibility, dietary needs, families, changes, refunds and thank-yous.
One reference sheet with three climate lists side by side, the always-pack list, what to leave behind and what never goes in the hold.
A fridge-door timeline from 30 days out to departure, in three lanes: papers and money, health and safety, home and bag.
The six engines behind almost every travel scam, with typical versions, calm responses, money habits and four phrases to practise.
A printable colour deck of 24 presence prompts (Notice, Meet, Taste, Wander, Pause, Give) plus two fold-over wallet cards: four guest habits, your ten words, tread-lightly checklist and trip at a glance.
Thirty short daily tasks that import into Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, from passport check to departure day. Move the series so day 30 lands on your departure date.
Sixty packing items with category, quantity, typical weight in grams and climate, ready to paste into the Packing sheet or import into any list app.
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
Why coverage-style holidays vanish from memory and what pilgrims have always known about going slowly.
Count the days you lose to moving and meet the Three-Two-One pace rule: three nights, two anchors, one open day in four.
Start with an intention, filter by season, budget and pace, then rank your shortlist on a weighted scorecard.
Six buckets, a cushion, planning exchange rates and the one daily number that lets you stop doing sums at dinner.
Fix what is scarce, float what is plentiful, and book in the order that protects your money.
Passport validity, visas, the three kinds of travel insurance and health preparation four to six weeks ahead.
Pack for seven days and wash, weigh the bag, and leave a fifth of it empty.
Five habits for solo and women travellers, a check-in script, the six engines behind every scam, and looking after your mind.
The guest idea from the world's hospitality traditions, turned into four everyday habits.
The arrival pause, three lines a night, drawing badly, walking without a destination and a truce with your phone.
Planning for the slowest member: children, older parents and groups of friends.
Land softly, write it down, keep one thing and become a traveller in your own town.
The whole pre-trip month on one page.
Where to check rules and health advice, and when to get help straight away.
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
A small fishing village on a southern coast (it could be any of a dozen countries) has one narrow lane down to the harbour. At nine each morning a coach unloads forty people who walk down the lane, photograph a blue door, photograph an old woman shelling peas without asking her, buy nothing, and walk back up. The lane is somebody's street. The woman is somebody's grandmother. The blue door has a family behind it trying to have breakfast. By ten the coach has gone, the lane is quiet again, and the village has earned nothing from the visit except some litter and a faint feeling of having been looked at. Nobody on that coach is a bad person. They have simply forgotten a simple fact: you are not visiting an attraction. You are entering someone's home.
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Currency | One currency, usually US dollars, typed over by hand | Any home currency with a rate table; every cost converts by formula |
| Method | Blank itinerary boxes and a packing checklist | A taught method: intention, Three-Two-One pace, six buckets, fix or float |
| Documents | A text box for passport number | Expiry checked against your return date and the validity rule you set, per traveller |
| Groups | Not covered | Cost splitter for up to five people with per-item sharing and a who-owes-whom summary |
| Safety | A paragraph of generic tips | Fillable safety plan, check-in script, emergency card and scam spotter |
| Being present | Not covered | Journal pages, a 24-card prompt deck and a chapter on attention and phone boundaries |
Bodhih Training has designed and delivered corporate programmes since 2008. Bodhih Pro Kits package what works in those workshops into a guide plus the exact tools we use, so you can apply it the same day without a facilitator in the room.
Name, email and country. UPI, card or netbanking in India; international cards everywhere else. No account to create.
Your download page opens at once, with every file and a one-click ZIP. A permanent link lands in your inbox too.
Start with the quick-start chapter, then the main spreadsheet or planner. Most buyers use something from the kit the same day.
You already know the kind of trip you want: unhurried, well organised and fully lived. Open the worksheet tonight or the Trip Planner at the weekend, and let the first small step be the one that makes this trip different.
Personal licence for the buyer's own use (and use with your own team or clients where the kit says so). Please don't share or resell the files. Team and company licences: solutions@bodhih.com.
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Slow travel means spending your days in places, not between them. You can do it on a long weekend: choose one neighbourhood and stay put. The kit's Three-Two-One rule (three nights per base, two planned things a day, one open day in four) scales from four days to four months.
Yes. You enter your home currency once on the Settings sheet and add a planning rate for each currency you will meet. Every sheet then lets you type a cost in the currency it was quoted in and shows the home-currency amount by formula. The sample uses pounds, rupees and dirhams; replace them with yours.
Yes. The workbook uses standard formulas only, with no macros, and opens in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc. The fillable PDFs work in Acrobat Reader and in tablet apps such as GoodNotes and Notability, and they print cleanly on A4 or US Letter.
As a default, at least three nights, which gives you two full days. Every move between bases costs most of a day once you add packing, transfers and finding your feet. The e-book shows how to turn short stops into day trips or move them to a 'next time' list.
Yes. Chapter 7 and the Solo Safety Plan are practical and not fearful: arrival planning, a check-in rhythm with a code phrase, local norms, money habits and the six patterns behind most scams. It also covers looking after your mood on the road and when to seek help.
No, and no kit should. Entry and health rules change and depend on your passport and history. The kit teaches you what to check, when, and where: official government sites, and health sources such as CDC Travelers' Health, TravelHealthPro and the WHO, plus a travel clinic or doctor. The Documents sheet then tracks the dates for you.
No. The kit is educational self-help for planning and enjoying travel. It is not medical, legal, immigration, insurance or financial advice and it is not therapy. Check official sources and speak to a qualified professional about your own situation. In an emergency abroad, call the local emergency number.
Three AssessAll assessments pair well with the kit: the Everyday Wayfinding and Place Memory Assessment for Commuters, Drivers and Travellers, the Everyday Scam and Fraud Resistance Assessment for Consumers, and Estimation and Forecast Calibration, which shows how optimistic your cost and time estimates tend to be. Take one before you plan and use the result to decide where to add a margin.
Use the worksheet to set an intention, then the 30-day calendar to do one small task a day. If you want a goal-setting method to go with it, the Jobulary guide to the WOOP method (wish, outcome, obstacle, plan) is a good companion and turns 'I'd love to go' into a development plan with dates.
The licence is personal, so you can reuse every file for all your own trips: save a fresh copy of the workbook each time. Digital kits are non-refundable once downloaded, except for corrupted files not fixed within three working days, duplicate charges or failed delivery.
₹699 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $19 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
