Partying Yogi. Is ‘turmoil’ too strong a word?
That’s the point I find myself and dare I add, ‘yet again’. I’ve been partaking in the practice of yoga, at least the Asana or posture ‘limb’ for fifteen years now and it has indeed brought on profound...
View ArticleVisiting India? How to Avoid Delhi Belly
The qualification for daring to write such a blog is that we recently spent three weeks travelling through Southern India on dirty, sardine packed buses, on trains that were so unclean that even the...
View ArticleKino MacGregor – Bad Girl Yogi
It had to happen and it has. The holier that thou brigade have fired their angry arrows at the rock star of Yoga, Kino Macgregor, and they’ve thrown these white hot coals because Kino, in their...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher – teacher of Compassion
Margaret Thatcher is dead. The resulting vitriol that has welcomed and celebrated her death is jaw dropping, and even for me, unexpected. The ‘Ding dong, the witch is dead’ song from the Wizard of Oz...
View ArticleYoga Biking
As I understand things, all spiritual teachings are taught, essentially, to allow one to strive for one thing, stillness of mind. Yoga Asanas are there, as just one limb of eight, to prepare the body...
View ArticleI am not a Buddhist – McLeod Ganj
following on from http://kevollier.com/2014/05/10/delhi-to-mcleod-ganj/ ‘I am not a Buddhist’ were words I heard myself uttering at the end of our three day stay in the home of the Dalai Lama – the...
View ArticleBodh Gaya – The Buddhist Theme Park
There are four places which are important and the ultimate pilgrimages for Buddhists. There is his birthplace which is Lumbini in Nepal, his death place at Kushinigar, India, his first sermon at...
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