Travel & Yoga Blog of an Indian Yoga Teacher
On our walk with the elephants through a Bodo village this woman stepped out of her home and made an announcement in Assamese, her hands gesturing all over to drive home the point. Not knowing a word of Assamese, I thought she was trying to shoo us away (these damn tourists) but luckily…
An illustrated map I made to help visitors orient themselves on this many-splendored island. Seemed fitting to pay an artistic tribute to such an artistic island. Distances mentioned are from Garamur Junction as the start point. Rented cycles from Majuli...
If I had to pick one travel resolution for 2019 it would be to travel s-l-o-w and slower than ever. And in the time-honoured tradition of new year resolutions, I did break it before the first week was up....
While flamenco is embedded in Andalusian folk culture, not many know that its origin is traced to gypsies from India who wandered into Spain a few centuries ago. This history finds a prominent mention in the Museum of Sacromonte (Museo Cuevas...
A Picturesque Corner of Italy’s Lake District Painted from a moment I captured on Lake Maggiore two years ago on a two-month trip in northern Italy. One of the most interesting places I’ve ever been. Off the standard tourist circuit and...
One of Europe’s most visited cities, Barcelona got its name from the Romans who named it Iulia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino. The name evolved to Barcinona in the Middle Ages and later to the current Barcelona. To break it down,...
Small-town tranquility needs to be bottled and sold as a mood. Back to my busy days now, it feels surreal to look back on these mountain villages where no one’s ever in a hurry. I had no idea that after...
Mid-July this year I began my 6-week Spain trip, my first stop being the Barcelona Yoga Conference as one of its official bloggers. A week full of various interpretations of Yoga, great live music, eating my weight in vegan gelato,...
At the Bali Spirit Festival this year I had the honour of meeting Mark Whitwell, author of Yoga of Heart, and a travelling Yoga teacher spreading the rare message of claiming your own direct intimacy with life and not pedestalizing anyone....
A cluster of diverse and dramatic natural spectacles huddled on three islands within hopping distance of one another is pretty much nature’s way of saying: Knock yourself out, kid. And that’s what drew us to Nusa Penida, Nusa Ceningan &...
A 16th-century town whose cobbled past stands preserved despite all present-day intrusions. A Spanish colonial town in central Cuba, Trinidad is both a slow dance with yesterday and a reggaeton party between stalactites and bats hiding from said reggaeton (thanks...
The most neglected part of modern Yoga seems to be the philosophy underlying it, the core of Yoga as expressed in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. As it turns out, profound aphorisms that delve into the nature of the mind...
With three weeks spent in Cuba this February, I gleaned a bunch of travel tips that will be useful for anyone considering a trip to this one-of-a-kind island. Here goes! My 3-Week Itinerary: The first 4 days I spent exploring...
