What to Bring to IndiaThe best packing tip I know: Once you’ve stuffed everything you think you need into your…
Travel
13 April 2011
People For Animals: A Little Goes A Long Way
$5–it will buy you a latte and leave a little extra for a tip or a tube of toothpaste or…
12 April 2011
Phouka Sitting
Phouka is a three-month old Langur monkey who was rescued as a newborn by Goa’s International Animal Rescue when his…
16 March 2011
Star of Mysore
When my rickshaw driver, Guru, stopped at the first newspaper stand this evening and today’s Star of Mysore was sold…
14 March 2011
Jumping Ship and Other Meditations from Mysore
Today I switched my yoga practice from the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute, the mother ship of Ashtanga yoga,…
7 March 2011
Gulmarg, Kashmir: Heaven on Earth
The flight from Delhi to Srinigar, Kashmir, departed almost on time. I sat with a couple and their baby. I…
5 March 2011
Top 10 Yoga Destinations in the World
1. Mysore (Gokulam), India 2. Goa, India 3. Encinitas, California 4. New York City, New York 5. Nelson, New Zealand 6. Oslo, Norway…
19 February 2011
MySore Knees
In the traditional Mysore Ashtanga method, teacher gives each student the yoga postures in a specific sequence when the teacher…
18 February 2011
Club Mysore
Perhaps it’s the palm and coconut trees. Or the noisy Americans partying late into the night. Or the Spanish girls…
9 August 2008
From the Subcontinent to the Continent
I’ve endured a long hiatus between travels.