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…
7 March 2011
Book Artist Louise Naomi Best
I met Louise at a writers group in my new ‘hood in Gokulam and felt immediately drawn to her. Her…
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…
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2 March 2011
The Daily Grind
It’s nearly three weeks since my arrival in Gokulam, a Brahmin neighborhood in Mysore, where life centers mainly around several yoga…
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.