What does it mean to travel? What does it mean to live? Without getting too existential, travel-living is about questioning those two concepts to find a wholistic balance of travel and life that aren’t...
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To some it’s known as clarified butter, to others the golden elixir of healing—ghee is a staple ingredient in Indian cooking and Ayurvedic healing known for its versatility, great taste, and many...
Sadar Patrappa Road is commonly abbreviated to S.P. Road, nice and short for those wanting to save some time saying the extra syllables. This is Bangalore after all—the hub of India’s fast-paced...
Just as we develop social habits such as smoking or arguing, our body develops habits such as poor posture and tension. Feldenkrais is a method of somatic...
In 1987, I started a two-year course on Ancient Egyptian Mysteries from Nadia K. Eagles sharing what she and 17 generations of initiates had been taught secretly for centuries. I learned that just by...
If you’re a foodie wanting to clean your system out, but can’t stand the thought of a strict fast, try eating some kitchari. Ayurvedic doctors swear by this hearty dish...
U Shein Sayargyi has been using the centuries old tradition of alchemy to produce Gold Ash Powder, a remedy that he claims “is able to improve significantly or even heal serious diseases like...
A few hundred steps into the Sri Pada pilgrimage route the path steepens. I stick to the far left of the path as I go up, greatly outnumbered by the flood of people...
Iqbal ended up on the streets of Delhi at the age of five. Now he’s off the street and in his last year of high school, working as a tour guide for Salaam Baalak Trust and thinking about one day...
The Carrot Common courtyard is an inviting patch of public space between tightly packed storefronts on Toronto's Danforth Avenue. I stroll through the courtyard...
"Attention. At ease. Hats off,” a teenage girl shouts orders in her school’s courtyard, which until a moment ago was filled with child’s...
James Swartz, author of How to Attain Enlightenment: The Vision of Nonduality, teaches Vedanta, the ancient Indian science of self-inquiry, across America, Europe and India. The Mindful Word...
Network Spinal Analysis (NSA), also known as Network Chiropractic or Network Care, is an innovative approach to chiropractic. Where its traditional counterpart...
Art enhances the cultural environment and clean technology improves the physical environment. It’s inevitable that the two were to...
“It’s such a good vibration. It’s such a swee-eet sensation,” erupts from 100 plus boomboxes, engulfing me in a 360° field of crackly lo-fi sound. I’m one of three...
Fifty monks sit cross-legged in long rows. Their prayer books, narrow strips of thick paper bound by string, sit open in front of them. They chant the Buddhist sutras...
Humankind is stuck. We haven’t acted with conviction on climate change. We haven’t devoted the less than one percent of income needed to eradicate...
Two Muslim women in traditional attire walk past a group of Buddhist monks dressed in maroon robes. Stupas, Buddhist religious monuments...
Dazzling hues of pink and orange light up the slowly drifting clouds. The setting sun illuminates the mountain in front of me, casting an orange glow on the...
Wham. I just landed a foot-high bounce off the back seat of the bus. I’m on a 10-hour coccyx-crunching...
Armed with binoculars and cameras, more than 40 bird watching enthusiasts gather at Colonel Sam Smith Park for a free monthly bird walk hosted by ...
What is happiness? To one person it means owning eight cars. To another it means being in a great relationship. To a third it’s...
The location is Leh, the main city in India’s northernmost frontier of Ladakh, the semi-autonomous region within the conflict-ridden Jammu and...
I’d always struggled with the concept of work in my life. In the quest to find fulfilling work, I’d never...
