Just got back from a visit to a village outside of Bikaner, where my mother-in-law’s family is from. In the middle of the desert, but still filled with life. We visited local ponds, schools that the family had built (and of which my husband’s grandfather is very proud), ate watermelons and other produce from the [...]
Entries from September 2008
Yatra to Diyatra
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: culture · rural india
In honor of Rosh Hashanah
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments
There were once 5,000 Jews living in this teeming port city, but today there are fewer than 35. Israel, 38 with a thin beard, is the youngest by nearly 25 years.
Israel lives inside the only place left where Jews aren’t a minority – the Jewish cemetery. He cares for the graves of his father, his [...]
What Isha is not
September 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Willow has a wonderfully written post on her experience of volunteering for Sadhguru’s open talk in Tampa, FL.
He spoke intensely about what he does NOT want for Isha….that he did not want Isha to become another cult or religion, but that our purpose should be to have an impact on those we introduced to it. [...]
Tags: activism · me · spirituality
I’m not the only woman writer in Jaipur!
September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
The Jaipur Times today has an article called ‘Penning their way to freedom’:
Determined to find their own expression, women in Jaipur are increasingly taking up writing as a serious pursuit. Despite cultural challenges and family responsibilities, they are living their passion as successful authors. Today, most of them have to their credit, several books on [...]
Tags: culture
Yoga is…
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Excerpt from one of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s discourses (Feb 13th, 2007), posted on the facebook Isha yoga group:
“When we say ‘yoga’, probably for many of you it means some physical postures: twisting yourself into some impossible postures. That is not what we are referring to as yoga.
Yoga means to be in perfect tune. Your body, [...]
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