Road To Dharma: A New TV Series!
By Chad Woodford
Creator-director Adam Schomer’s new TV series The Road to Dharma has something for everyone: beautiful scenery, exotic locations, motorcycles, friendship, love, conflict, despair, courting death, and redemption. Over the course of ten episodes, we follow eight riders of wildly varying motorcycle proficiency, and their eight passengers, as they ride the highest roads in the world to visit four holy Himalayan peaks and learn what they can about what it means to live lives of true freedom.
Although the riders and passengers are the real stars of this series, our guide throughout is Anand Mehrotra, the Himalayan yoga master of Schomer’s prior feature-length film The Highest Pass. Mehrotra is the Gandalf to our Frodo, the Master Po to our Caine, except that he doesn’t tell us we will be ready when we can snatch the pebble from his hand, but when we can ride a motorcycle through flooded dirt roads between a truck and a bus at 13,000 feet around a sheer cliff.
For fans of Schomer’s Highest Pass, Road to Dharma is a rewarding follow-up that offers us more of Anand’s wisdom than we got in Highest Pass, but also more of the intense, nail-biting motorcycling through the high Himalayas, plus the interpersonal dynamics of the riders, which gives Anand an opportunity to tie it all back to yoga and to riding, and gives us the chance to see what each rider takes away from the trip. There is likely a rider or passenger for everyone to relate to in this series.
One of Schomer’s greatest feats here is making us forget, almost immediately, that he had a crew going to great lengths to film this rapidly unfolding motorcycle journey. It’s the best kind of fly-on-the-wall docuseries.
Most relevant to this readership, the series exposes the viewer to the core teachings of yoga in unexpected ways, filtered through the unique perspectives on dharma, tapaha, and fearlessness offered by master teacher Anand Mehtrotra as they traverse these majestic peaks. It’s a motorcycle adventure movie about yoga. And that’s what makes it uniquely rewarding.
Not everyone has the courage or resources to ride a motorcycle across the high Himalayas of India, nor the opportunity to do so alongside a biker yogi master. This series offers a taste of what that experience must have been like for these sixteen brave souls, many of whom were not experienced riders or yogis.
In short, this series will make you believe in the power of the human spirit. What else can you ask for in a TV show?
Road to Dharma premieres February 20th, where you can also take part in an online course designed to help you go deeper into the exploration of your own true freedom. Learn more HERE!
