A lot more than a year ago There is a term now for people who practice yoga alone at home. It’s ‘home practitioner.’ Sounds straightforward, if you forget that once upon a time, a large number of people who practiced yoga in India did this, and there wasn’t a term for it at all. It …
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Rationalizing revisiting The first time you visit a place, you know it by sensory perception – it feels like concrete, smells like grass, tastes like fermented fruit. The second time is like eating the entire fruit, pips and all, the hard skin, the bitter seeds, the juicy bits that disappear so quickly. Then it seems …
Escape When I was nineteen, I made my first non-familial trips out into the world that was accessible with an overnight bus or train from Bangalore. Gokarna was the second place I visited, during that time. That first cutting of the thread, or cord, is one of the most miraculous things that happened in my …
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