Given that the minimum practice period at The Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute is 1-month, it behooves most students who come to Mysore to find lodging at a home rather than a hotel. Fortunately, for those...
Spider Plant (Cleome gynandra)—also known as African cabbage, spider wisp, and cat’s whiskers—is a wild green leafy vegetable that grows all over tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The African native most likely originated in Eastern...
Recently a friend of mine made an amazing Indian meal that featured a dish made with chick peas. It was a wonderful amalgam of spices, chick peas and vegetables. The chick pea of...
By Jade Scully on January 4, 2011 in Asia, China, Dubai, Featured, India, Japan, Middle East, Photos, South Korea, United Arab Emirates
Do you remember Raccoon City from the first Resident Evil movie? It was built deep underground and for all its snazzy technology things went wrong and everyone died, horribly. Well, Russian architectural firm Ab Elise...
So, this one time I’m in Munich catching up on some browsing in and around the Bavarian capital. I sense a certain je ne sais quoi in the air, as well as, a steady swell...
Food is undeniably the best part of travel. There is nothing in the U.S. like the amazing street food you can get in Mexico, India, Spain, or Asia. The freshness of the produce and...
For a better part of the year, Bateshwar, some 70 odd kilometers from Agra, remains a dusty little place, ignored and overcome by sloth, as is the nature of small-town Uttar Pradesh.
Dating back to the...
Yoga, meditation and spirituality: The 2010 version
Photo courtesy of Dave Bouskill, PictureThePlanet.com
One of the top 10 Google searches in India in 2010 was “how to meditate.” While the debate in the west, especially in the...
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